The Routledge Companion to the Tudor Age (Routledge Companions to History)

By Rosemary O'Day

This new better half is a useful consultant to 1 of the main vibrant classes in background. overlaying every thing from the Reformation, controversies over the succession and the prayer booklet to literature, the kinfolk and schooling, this hugely obtainable reference instrument comprises observation at the key occasions within the reigns of the 5 Tudor monarchs from Henry VII to Elizabeth I.

Opening with a basic advent, it contains a wealth of chronologies, biographies, facts, and maps, in addition to a word list and a consultant to the foremost works within the box. subject matters lined include:

    • The institution of the Tudor dynasty; monarchs and their consorts; rebellions opposed to the Tudors
    • The criminal approach- principal and ecclesiastical courts
    • Government- relevant and native; the Monarchy and Parliament
    • The Church – constitution and alterations all through this tumultuous period
    • Ireland- timeline of key events
    • Population- numbers and distribution
    • The global of studying- schooling; literature; religion
    • The key debates within the field.

This ebook could be crucial interpreting for all people with an curiosity within the Tudor Age.

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Of Richard & Jane (Heckington) Cecil; served in Henry VIII’s loved ones; attended either Stamford & Grantham GS; 1535: adm. St John’s collage Cambr; 1541: adm. Gray’s lodge; eight Aug. 1541: m. (i) sister of Sir John Cheke (q. v. ); may perhaps 1542: Thomas (q. v. ) b. 1547–61: custos brevium, court docket of universal Pleas; 21 Dec. 1545: m. (ii) Mildred Co(o)ke (q. v. ); 1547: M. P. for Stamford; 1549: Secretary to Somerset (q. v. ) & impr. in Tower on his fall; 1550–53: Secretary of kingdom; 1551: knighted; 1553: started development Burghley condominium & Wimbledon apartment; 1553–58: in Mary I’s carrier; 1555: M. P. Lincs; 1558–72: Secretary of kingdom; 1559: M. P. Lincs; 1559: Chancellor, Cambr. Uni. ; 1560: envoy to Scotland; 1561: grasp of court docket of Wards; 1562: M. P. Northants; contention betw. Cecil & Leicester factions at courtroom; 1570: organised brokers to search out conspiracies v. Elizabeth; 1572: coordinated Elizabeth’s notebook, supervised the Exchequer & court docket of Wards & controlled Parliament. After this date Sir Francis Walsingham (q. v. ) assumed a few of this function, particularly in international relations. See bankruptcy 1: basic chronology for extra info. A. G. R. Smith (ed. ), M. Hickes, The ‘Anonymous existence’ of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 1990. CECILY OF YORK (1469–1507) Viscountess Welles: second surviving dau. of Edward IV &, from 1486, Henry VII’s eldest sister-in-law; 20 Mar. 1469: b. dau. of Edward IV & Elizabeth (Woodville); Apr. 1483 to at least one Mar. 1484: in sanctuary at Westminster; from Sept. 1485: in short in family of woman Margaret Beaufort (q. v. ); m. (i) Ralph Scrope yet m. dissolved 1486; 1487: m. (ii) Viscount Welles, half-brother of Margaret Beaufort; daus; nine Feb. 1499: wid. ; 1502: m. (iii) Thomas Kyme of Friskney with no royal permission, banished from courtroom & King seized her property; 1503: Margaret Beaufort, who sheltered the couple, intervened to accomplish payment for Cecily; 24 Aug. 1507: d. at Hatfield, Herts. Michael okay. Jones and 149 BI OGRAPHI CAL I N D E X Malcolm G. Underwood, The King’s mom, girl Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, Cambridge, 1992. CHADERTON, Laurence (c. 1536–1640): hugely influential university head, biblical pupil and theologian, Presbyterian, preacher and instructor – dubbed ‘the pope of Cambridge puritanism’ via Patrick Collinson; b. s. of Lancashire gentleman Thomas Chaderton & h. w. Joan (Tetloe) at Oldham; edu. privately by means of Laurence Vaux, after which, from his midtwenties, at Christ’s collage, Cambr. ; switched over to Protestantism via Edward Dering; 1568: BA; 1568–76: Fellow of Christ’s collage, Cambr. , the place he designed a curriculum for the learning of preaching ministers; c. 1568–1618: preacher at St Clement’s Cambr. ; c. 1576: m. Cecily Culverwell, whose brother-in-law was once William Whitaker (q. v. ); one dau. Elizabeth; 1579: pr. at Paul’s go; 1585–1622: 1st grasp of Emmanuel collage, ‘a seminary of godly preachers’; 1590s: defended Calvinist orthodoxy v. William Barrett and Peter Baro; 1604: Puritan spokesman at James I’s Hampton courtroom convention; thirteen Nov. 1640: d. CHANCELLOR Richard (d. 1556): navigator who sailed to the Levant in 1550 & visited Archangel & Moscow in 1554 & 1555.

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