Curated category
1470s births
- Vasco Fernandes (artist)No document records the birth of Vasco Fernandes, known as Grão Vasco. Local tradition places his origin in the area around Viseu, but silence surrounds his…
- Thomas WolseyThomas Wolsey was born in about 1473, the son of Robert Wolsey of Ipswich and his wife, Joan Daundy. Widespread traditions identify his father as a butcher…
- William KingstonWilliam Kingston appeared as a yeoman of the guard before June 1509. He served under Sir Richard Wingfield at the French court early in 1520.
- Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of WiltshireHe was born in about 1477 at Hever Castle in Kent. His father Sir William Boleyn had purchased Blickling Hall in Norfolk from his own father Sir Geoffrey…