31
May
31 MAY 1495
Death of Cecily Neville (mother of Edward IV and Richard III) at Berkhamstead Castle, Hertfordshire. She was buried with her husband Richard and son Edmund at St Mary and All Saints Church, Fotheringhay.
3
Jun
3 JUNE 1162
Thomas Becket consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Tags: Church
31
May
31 MAY 1443
Birth of Margaret Beaufort, daughter and heir of John Beaufort, duke of Somerset (1404–1444), and Margaret (d. 1482), daughter of Sir John Beauchamp of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire.
She was an influential supporter of her son Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII after defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth.
Tags: Henry Tudor, Margaret Beaufort
30
May
30 MAY 1445
Coronation of Margaret of Anjou in Westminster Abbey. The ceremony was performed by the archbishop of Canterbury, John Stafford.
Source: ODNB on Margaret of Anjou
Tags: Margaret of Anjou
27
May
27 MAY 1541
Margaret Pole is executed at the Tower of London. Margaret was the daughter of George, duke of Clarence, and thus Richard III’s niece.
She was born on 14 August 1473 at Farleigh Castle, Somerset. She lost her mother when she was three years old and her father two years later. She and her brother Edward were then in the care of her uncles, first Edward IV and then Richard III. While her brother was executed in 1499, she was married to Sir Richard Pole and they had five children. She and her children remained steadfast Catholics during the Reformation. In December 1886, Pope Leo XIII beatified her, her feast day is celebrated on 28 May.
Tags: George of Clarence, Henry VIII
26
May
26 MAY 1465
Coronation of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV.
Tags: Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville
24
May
24 MAY 1487
A young man is crowned as Edward VI in Dublin. The Tudor government identified him later as Lambert Simnel, though it is not sure who he actually was.
Bibliography: Smith, G, ‘Lambert Simnel and the King from Dublin’. The Ricardian, Vol. X, No.135 (December 1996), pp.498-536.
Tags: Family
24
May
24 MAY 1444
Proxy marriage of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou.
Tags: Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou
23
May
23 MAY 1533
Marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon is annulled.
Tags: Tudors
23
May
23 MAY 1482
Death of Mary of York, second daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, at Greenwich Palace, London, buried at St Georges Chapel, Windsor
Tags: Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Family
