Curated playlist
1490s births
- Elizabeth Howard, Duchess of NorfolkElizabeth Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, reportedly hid letters to Queen Catherine of Aragon in oranges.
- Lucas HorenboutA miniature long taken for Holbein's self-portrait is now attributed to Lucas Horenbout.
- Gregório LopesGregório Lopes was a Portuguese painter who lived from about 1490 to 1550, and in 1520 a prince made him a knight. Prince Jorge de Lencastre conferred the honor, and with it Lopes entered the Order of Santiago. That is an unusual…
- António GalvãoAntónio Galvão died in a Lisbon hospital in 1557, poor and forgotten.
- Mary BoleynMary Boleyn married a penniless soldier, and her sister the queen disowned her. She was banished from court in 1534.
- Nicholas Carew (Henry VIII courtier)Sir Nicholas Carew grew up inside the royal household, placed there at the age of six to share the education of the future King Henry VIII. For three decades he would remain one of the most recognizable figures at the Tudor court, a knight…
- James Butler, 9th Earl of OrmondJames Butler, Earl of Ormond, was poisoned at a London dinner in 1546. No poisoner was ever identified.
- Hans Holbein the YoungerHans Holbein the Younger painted Henry VIII so forcefully that no later image replaced it. His grave site is unknown.
- William TyndaleWilliam Tyndale's last words asked God to open the King of England's eyes.
- Juan Boscán AlmogáverA Venetian ambassador talked Juan Boscán into abandoning Spain's old eight-syllable verse.