Hi, I am working on a novel set in 1495. I have a couple of questions that would help me work out a couple of plot details. First, I read ...

Trying to find information on The Barge Incident, an attempt on the life of Elizabeth I. I found this: "Be of good cheer, for you wi...

I have heard that Henry VIII really admired the works of St. Augustine and that Augustine was his favourite theologian. Is there any evidenc...

Rome was sacked by Charles V's troops in 1527, around the time Henry VIII was promising himself to Anne Boleyn. Would some (perhaps incl...

How and where did people at court go to the bathroom in Tudor England? There were apparently large crowds of people at court with very comp...

I am a Roman Catholic Benedictine monk and priest. I am researching very specific questions for which I have not been able to locate materia...

Hi! I have a couple questions about abeyance and inheritance of titles/lands in Elizabeth's reign. The short story is, I need a fema...

My questions concern Anne Boleyn/Henry VIII/Thomas Cromwell. Researching this time period has become a hobby of sorts for me. There is a l...

Hello, my name is Audreanna and I recently got a part in a renaissance festival as Anna von Kleve, or as she is more widely known, Anne of C...

Hi, I'm sure I read somewhere that Catherine of Aragon preferred Cloth of Silver and as less of this fabric was produced it ultimately w...

Hello all! I'm still working on my project and hoped that some of you out there could answer some more questions for me and help me doub...

Hi everybody! I am looking for people who were in Henry Viii's coronation procession. My mother-in-law and I are working on a project as...

Hi I am researching a novel set in 1495. In it my MC and his son are Grooms and Ushers to the King which would be Henry 7th. Its a fictional...

Most online resources list 1504 as the birth year of Ursula Pole, but Hazel Pierce's biography of Margaret Pole states that Ursula was b...

What are some reliable secondary sources, such as books and journal articles, that cover what children drank in 16th century England? For a ...

I'm writing an essay on the Tudor dynasty and need to know how England asserted itself as the dominant power in Europe during the Tudor ...

Where did the story that Kat Ashley allowed Elizabeth unaccompanied go to a party on the Thames?thanks for any answers.

How important was virginity before marriage for noblewomen? If a nobleman discovered on his wedding night that his wife was not a virgin, ho...

In several Tudor historical fiction books I have read, I have seen the governesses of Henry VIII's children, Margaret Bryan and Margaret...

Were people being burned for heresy in the first half of Henry VIII's reign (until 1527/8)? If so, what heresies were they being execute...

In the 1400s at what age would someone begin training to become a Lawyer at Lincoln's Inn and how long would the training take. Likewi...

Is it true that when Catherine Parr caught her husband embracing Elizabeth, he said that she had bewitched him and that Elizabeth is the sam...

I am studying Henry VIII's book, "Assertion septem sacramentorum". It was translated by an American named Rev. Louis ODonovan....

Does anyone know anything about a book Henry VIII is said to have written, "Litterarum quibus respondit ad quondam epistolam"? Has...

I'm looking for information on the apparent Elizabeth Tilney that was in the tower of London with Jane and apparently a niece of Agnes H...