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1558 deaths
- Elizabeth Howard, Duchess of NorfolkLady Elizabeth Stafford entered the world around 1497 as the eldest daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.
- Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of ExeterGertrude Blount entered the world around 1499 or 1502 as the daughter of William Blount, the fourth Baron Mountjoy. Her mother was Elisabeth Say, a coheiress…
- Charles V, Holy Roman EmperorThe year 1500 marked the arrival of Charles in the Prinsenhof of Ghent, a Flemish city within the Habsburg Netherlands. A poet at the court reported that…
- Mary I of EnglandMary Tudor entered the world on the 18th of February 1516 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich. She was the only child of King Henry VIII and his first…
- Reginald PoleReginald Pole entered the world at Stourton Castle in Staffordshire on the 12th of March 1500. He was the third son of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole…