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1505 In England
Events from the year 1505 in England. Incumbents * Monarch – Henry VII * Lord Chancellor – William Warham * Lord Privy Seal – Richard Foxe * Secretary of State – Thomas Ruthall Events *28 June – planned marriage of Henry Tudor and Catherine of Aragon postponed when the dowry fails to arrive from Spain. *Christ's College, Cambridge is granted a royal charter at the instigation of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the King's mother, refounding it under its present name. Births * William Cavendish, courtier (died 1557) * Philip Hoby, politician (died 1558) * Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, politician (died 1550) *Thomas Tallis, composer (died 1585) *Christopher Tye, composer and organist (died 1572) Deaths * George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, nobleman and soldier (born 1554) * Robert Wydow, poet and church musician (born 1446) * Sir Richard Pole, courtier (born 1462) * William Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London (born 1451 Year 1451 ( MCDLI) was a common year starting on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1505
__NOTOC__ Year 1505 ( MDV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * June 6 – The M8.2–8.8 Lo Mustang earthquake strikes Nepal, causing severe damage in Kathmandu, western Nepal, and some parts of the Indo-Gangetic plain. * June 19 – Zhengde Emperor ascends the throne of Ming Dynasty China. * June 27 – The future King Henry VIII of England repudiates his engagement to Catherine of Aragon, at his father's command. July–December * July 2 – Martin Luther, aged 22, vows to become a monk in a moment of terror, as a result of a close lightning strike during a thunderstorm, near the village of Stotternheim. * July – The Kalmar Bloodbath takes place in Kalmar, Sweden. * July 17 – Luther enters the monastic life, at an Augustinian cloister in Erfurt. * July 24 – Travelling to India, a group of Portuguese explorers sack the city-state of Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Hoby
Sir Philip Hoby (also Hobby or Hobbye) Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC (1505 – 31 May 1558) was a 16th-century English people, English Ambassador to the Holy Roman Empire and Flanders. Early life He was born probably at Leominster, England, the son of William Hoby of Leominster by his first wife, Catherine Forster. He was the elder half-brother of Sir Thomas Hoby, father of Edward Hoby, Edward and Thomas Posthumous Hoby. Hoby became a diplomat, largely thanks to the support he gave to the Protestant Reformation during the reign of Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII. Career He travelled to Spain and Portugal in the royal service. On 10 March 1538 he arrived at Brussels with the painter Hans Holbein the younger. Thomas Cromwell had sent them to make a portrait of Christina of Denmark, Christina, Duchess of Milan for Henry VIII. The English resident in Brussels, John Hutton, had already obtained a portrait, but realising this portrait was not as perfect as one made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1462 In England
Events from the 1460s in England. Incumbents * Monarch – Henry VI (until 4 March 1461), then Edward IV * Parliament – 22nd of King Henry VI (starting 7 October 1460, until c. 4 March 1461), 1st of King Edward IV (starting 4 November 1461, until 6 May 1462), 2nd of King Edward IV (starting 29 April 1463, until 28 March 1465), 3rd of King Edward IV (starting 3 June 1467, until 7 June 1468) Events * 1460 ** 15 January – Wars of the Roses: Yorkists raid Sandwich, Kent and capture the royal fleet during the Battle of Sandwich. ** 26 June – Wars of the Roses: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and Edward, Earl of March (eldest son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York) land at Sandwich with an army and march on London. Here the Earl of Salisbury remains and, with the support of the citizens, besieges the Tower of London whose Lancastrian commander, Lord Scales, on 4 July turns its weapons against the city. ** 10 July – Wars of the Roses: At the Battle of Northampton, Ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Pole
Sir Richard Pole, KG (1462 – October 1504) was a supporter and first cousin of King Henry VII of England. He was created a Knight of the Garter and was married to Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, a member of the Plantagenet dynasty: a marriage which reinforced the Tudor alliance between the houses of Lancaster and York. Family A descendant of an ancient Welsh family, Sir Richard was a landed gentleman of Buckinghamshire, the son of Geoffrey Pole, Esquire of Worrell, Cheshire, and of Wythurn in Medmenham, Buckinghamshire (1431 – 1474 / 4 January 1479, interred in Bisham Abbey). His mother was Edith St John, daughter of Sir Oliver St John of Bletso, Bedfordshire (d. 1437) and the half-sister of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII. They shared the same mother, Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso, who had married three times; this made Richard a first cousin of the half blood to Henry VII. Sir Richard was thus first cousin of Alice St John, wife of Henry Parke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1446 In England
Events from the 1440s in England. Incumbents *Monarch – Henry VI Events * 1440 ** 7 July – Hundred Years' War: John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury recaptures Harfleur from the French. ** 12 September – King Henry VI founds Eton College. * 1441 ** 2 April – King Henry VI founds King's College, Cambridge. ** 19 September – Hundred Years' War: French capture Pontoise and Île-de-France. * 1442 ** 19 January – Eleanor Cobham, wife of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, convicted of treason and witchcraft. ** 11 June – Hundred Years' War: France invades Gascony. * 1443 ** 23 April – perpetual truce signed with Burgundy. ** 13 May – John Stafford enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury. ** August – Hundred Years' War: 8,000 strong expeditionary force under John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset lands at Cherbourg. * 1444 ** 22 May – the Treaty of Tours, signed between England and France, secures a truce in the Hundred Years' War for 5 years and includes an arrangement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
