Curated category
15th-century English nobility
- Anne HooAnne Hoo entered the world in 1424 as the sole child of Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings. Her mother was Elizabeth Wychingham, a union that produced only…
- Henry VIIIHenry VIII once dressed all in yellow, with a white feather in his bonnet, the day after he learned that Catherine of Aragon had died.
- Elizabeth Cheney (1422–1473)Elizabeth Cheney was born in Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire in April 1422, the eldest daughter of a High Sheriff. She would live for fifty-one years, marry…
- Elizabeth of YorkElizabeth entered the world on the 11th of February 1466 at the Palace of Westminster. Her christening took place in Westminster Abbey, sponsored by her…
- Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of SurreyElizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey, died on the 4th of April 1497 without knowing that two of her granddaughters would one day become queens of England.
- Frederick TilneyFrederick Tilney died in 1445, leaving behind a daughter so young she had not yet come of age, a manor in Norfolk, and a bloodline that would reshape English…
- Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of NorfolkThomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was born on the 10th of March 1473 and died on the 25th of August 1554, outliving four of the six wives of King Henry…
- John Howard, 1st Duke of NorfolkJohn Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, rode into the Battle of Bosworth Field on the 22nd of August 1485 knowing something was wrong.
- Henry Percy, 5th Earl of NorthumberlandHenry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, died in debt at Wressle Castle on the 19th of May 1527 - yet he ranked among the richest magnates in…
- Arthur, Prince of WalesArthur, Prince of Wales was born on the night of the 19th-the 20th of September 1486 at about one in the morning, and he was dead before he turned sixteen.