Category: The Dudley Family

Mary Becomes Queen

19/7/2018

On this day in 1553, Mary, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon was proclaimed queen of England, Jane Grey, who had been placed on the throne by her father in law John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland was sent along with him to the Tower of London.

In the June of that year the Devise for the Succession of King Edward VI was signed, and on Edward's death on the 6th July, Jane Grey became queen.

Never crowned, she reigned for just nine days.

Jane's story is a tragic one, she along with her husband, Guildford Dudley were tried for treason in November 1553 and executed on the 12th of February 1554.

You can read more about that here:

meanderingthroughtime.weebly.com/history-blog/death-of-lady-jane-grey

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Marriage of Jane Grey to Guildford Dudley

25/5/2018

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On this day in 1553, the marriage of Jane Grey, the daughter of Henry Grey and Francis Brandon and Guildford Dudley, the son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and Jane Guildford.

During the first few months of 1553, Edward VI, under the influence of the Duke of Northumberland, had made an amendment to his Devise for the Succession in which he disinherited his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth and named Jane his heir. By the May of that year and as part of his master plan Northumberland arranged the marriage of his son Guildford to Jane.
Two months later, the boy king was dead and Jane was proclaimed queen and in a surprising act of defiance refused to allow Guildford to be named king, therefore scuppering Northumberland's plans to control both Jane, Guildford and England. Soon after events took a downturn with surprising speed. By July Jane was deposed, by November she had been tried and found guilty and by the beginning of February, she was awaiting the day of her execution.

You can see the couple played here by Helena Bonham Carter and Cary Elwes in the 1986 film Lady Jane (which I quite liked but many didn't)

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Robert Dudley: Imprisonment and Porcupines

19/7/2017

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In the July of 1553, Robert Dudley, along with his father and brothers were imprisoned in the Tower of London for his part in the attempted capture of the future Mary I and the burning of Sawston Hall in Norfolk.

For eighteen months Dudley would remain in prison, but because he was one of the leading nobles of the realm his incarceration was not as horrendous as you might think. High ranking men such as Robert Dudley had servants and were allowed to purchase certain luxuries.

One of Dudley's pleasures was the permission to visit the Towers menagerie, it was here that he developed a fondness for the porcupines.

Dudley's household accounts show payments for the purchase of apples, brought 'at sundry times for the porpontyes"

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History is so interesting isn't it? Do you love the story of King Alfred's unsuccessful afternoon in the kitchen or King Cnut unsuccessful attempt not to get his feet wet? Maybe you're interested in when the Normans landing on our shores or the stories of an era closer to our time?

Personally I love anything medieval especially the period that covers the War of the Roses and my favorite king Richard III

Mary Becomes Queen

Marriage of Jane Grey to Guildford Dudley

Robert Dudley: Imprisonment and Porcupines

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