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3 unusual facts about Tudor period


Bruton Abbey

The building was once within the deerpark of the Abbey and was adapted by the monks from a gabled Tudor tower.

Delaval

This was extended in Tudor and Jacobean times to form a rambling manor house of considerable size.

Gentleman Usher

They were regularly found in the households of Tudor noblemen, and were prescribed by Richard Brathwait, in his Household of an Earle, as one of the "officers and Servants the state of an Earle requireth to have".


Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, their Presence, Status and Origins

Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, their Presence, Status and Origins written by Onyeka, is a 2013 book about the African population present in England during the Tudor period.

Donnington Castle

It was founded by Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder in 1386 and was bought by Thomas Chaucer before the castle was taken under royal control during the Tudor period.

Il castello di Kenilworth

This opera was the first of Donizetti's excursions into the Tudor period of English history, and it was followed in 1830 by Anna Bolena, (which was based on the life of Ann Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII), then by Maria Stuarda (named for Mary, Queen of Scots) which appeared in different forms in 1834 and 1835.

Iron industry of Ashdown Forest

The industry reached its peak in the two periods when the Weald was the main iron-producing region of Britain, namely in the first 200 years of the Roman occupation (1st to 3rd centuries AD) and during Tudor and early Stuart times.

John Seymour Lucas

Inspired by van Dyck and particularly Diego Velázquez, he excelled in depicting scenes from the English 16th- to 18th-century Tudor and Stuart periods, including in particular the Spanish Armada, the English Civil War and the Jacobite rebellions.

Maria Stuarda

The opera is one of a number of operas by Donizetti which deal with the Tudor period in English history, including Anna Bolena (named for Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn), Roberto Devereux (named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England) and Il castello di Kenilworth.

Mercantilism

Mercantilist policies were also embraced throughout much of the Tudor and Stuart periods, with Robert Walpole being another major proponent.

St Augustine's Tower Hackney

In Tudor times, many members of the court used the church, including Ralph Sadleir (Bryck Place), Thomas Sutton (The Tan House), Thomas Cromwell and the Earl of Northumberland (Brooke House).

Stowey

About 1558 (former date on a fireplace) Bess of Hardwick and her second husband, Sir William St. Loe, added a north-east wing with a parlour and chapel, which includes Tudor buttresses.

The Complaint of Roderick Mors

The Complaint (or Complaynt) of Roderick (or Roderyck) Mors (c. 1542), by Henry Brinklow, is a well-known example of 'complaint literature' from the 'commonwealth men' of the mid-Tudor period.


see also

Genealogical Office

The office was constituted on 1 April 1943 as successor to the Ulster King of Arms, established during the Tudor period of the Kingdom of Ireland in 1552.

Gong farmer

Despite being well-rewarded, the gong farmer's job was considered by historians on The Worst Jobs in History television series to be one of the worst of the Tudor period.