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1500s 1500s in England Events from the 1500s in England.-Incumbents:Monarch – Henry VII of England , Henry VIII of England-Events:*1500**Publication of This is the Boke of Cokery, the first known printed cookbook in English.*1501...  | 1510s 1510s in England Events from the 1510s in England.-Events:* 1510** 21 January - Parliament grants Henry VIII generous tax subsidies.** 31 January - Catherine of Aragon gives birth to her first child, a stillborn daughter....  | 1520s | 1530s 1530s in England Events from the 1530s in England.-Events:* 1530** 26 January - Thomas Boleyn becomes Keeper of the Privy Seal.** 6 February - Charles Brandon becomes Lord President of the Council.** May - William Tyndale's Bible publicly burned as heretical....  | 1540s 1540s in England Events from the 1540s in England.-Incumbents:Monarch - King Henry VIII , King Edward VI-Events:* 1540** January - Dunstable Priory closed down as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries....

Events

• 1520
  • 26 May–31 May - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
    Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
    Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.As...
    
     visits King Henry VIII
    Henry VIII of England
    Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...
    
     at Dover
    Dover
    Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings...
    
     and Canterbury
    Canterbury
    Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour....
    
    .
  • 7 June–24 June - King Henry VIII and King Francis I of France
    Francis I of France
    Francis I was King of France from 1515 until his death. During his reign, huge cultural changes took place in France and he has been called France's original Renaissance monarch...
    
     meet at the Field of the Cloth of Gold
    Field of the Cloth of Gold
    The Field of Cloth of Gold is the name given to a place in Balinghem, between Guînes and Ardres, in France, near Calais. It was the site of a meeting that took place from 7 June to 24 June 1520, between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France. The meeting was arranged to increase...
    
    .
• 1521
  • 17 May - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
    Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
    Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, KG was an English nobleman. He was the son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and the former Lady Catherine Woodville, daughter of the 1st Earl Rivers and sister-in-law of King Edward IV.-Early life:Stafford was born at Brecknock Castle in Wales...
    
    , is executed for treason
    Treason
    In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife. Treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a...
    
    .
  • 25 September - Secret Treaty of Bruges signed by Emperor Charles V and Cardinal Wolsey agreeing to declare war on France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
    
     in 1523.
  • 11 October - Pope Leo X
    Pope Leo X
    Pope Leo X , born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, was the Pope from 1513 to his death in 1521. He was the last non-priest to be elected Pope. He is known for granting indulgences for those who donated to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica and his challenging of Martin Luther's 95 Theses...
    
     bestows Henry VIII with the title Defender of the Faith
    Fidei defensor
    Fidei defensor is a Latin title which translates to Defender of the Faith in English and Défenseur de la Foi in French...
    
    for his work Assertio Septem Sacramentorum (The Assertion of the Seven Sacraments) attacking the teachings of Martin Luther
    Martin Luther
    Martin Luther was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517...
    
    .
• 1522
  • May - England declares war on France and Scotland
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
    
    .
  • 19 June - Charles V visits England and signs the Treaty of Windsor pledging a joint invasion of France.
• 1523
  • April - Thomas More
    Thomas More
    Sir Thomas More , also known by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and, for three years toward the end of his life, Lord Chancellor...
    
     elected Speaker of the House of Commons
    Speaker of the British House of Commons
    The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the United Kingdom's lower chamber of Parliament. The current Speaker is John Bercow, who was elected on 22 June 2009, following the resignation of Michael Martin...
    
    .
  • Thomas Howard
    Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
    Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, KG, Earl Marshal was a prominent Tudor politician. He was uncle to Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, two of the wives of King Henry VIII, and played a major role in the machinations behind these marriages...
    
     raids Scotland, sacking Kelso and Jedburgh
    Jedburgh
    Jedburgh is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and historically in Roxburghshire.-Location:Jedburgh lies on the Jed Water, a tributary of the River Teviot, it is only ten miles from the border with England and is dominated by the substantial ruins of Jedburgh Abbey...
    
    .
  • Anthony Fitzherbert
    Anthony Fitzherbert
    Sir Anthony Fitzherbert was an English judge, scholar and legal author, particularly known for his treatise on English law, New Natura Brevium .-Biography:...
    
     publishes Diversité de courtz et leur jurisdictions, The Boke of Surveyinge and Improvements and The Boke of Husbandrie (the first work on agriculture
    Agriculture
    Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
    
     published in England).
• 1524
  • 25 May - Henry VIII and Charles V form an alliance to support Charles III, Duke of Bourbon
    Charles III, Duke of Bourbon
    Charles III, Duke of Bourbon was a French military leader, the Count of Montpensier and Dauphin of Auvergne. He commanded the Imperial troops of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in what became known as the Sack of Rome in 1527, where he was killed.-Biography:Charles was born at Montpensier...
    
     in his dispute with Francis I of France.
• 1525
  • June - The Amicable Loan, a form of poll tax
    Poll tax
    A poll tax is a tax of a portioned, fixed amount per individual in accordance with the census . When a corvée is commuted for cash payment, in effect it becomes a poll tax...
    
     imposed without the consent of Parliament, abandoned.
  • June - Cardinal Wolsey gives Henry the lease of Hampton Court.
  • 16 June - Henry VIII creates his 6-year old illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy
    Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
    Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset was the son of King Henry VIII of England and his teenage mistress, Elizabeth Blount, the only illegitimate offspring whom Henry acknowledged.-Childhood:...
    
     Duke of Richmond
    Duke of Richmond
    The title Duke of Richmond is named after Richmond and its surrounding district of Richmondshire, and has been created several times in the Peerage of England for members of the royal Tudor and Stuart families...
    
     and Somerset
    Duke of Somerset
    Duke of Somerset is a title in the peerage of England that has been created several times. Derived from Somerset, it is particularly associated with two families; the Beauforts who held the title from the creation of 1448 and the Seymours, from the creation of 1547 and in whose name the title is...
    
    .
  • 14 August - Peace is agreed between England and France.
  • The New Testament
    New Testament
    The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
    
     translated into English by William Tyndale
    William Tyndale
    William Tyndale was an English scholar and translator who became a leading figure in Protestant reformism towards the end of his life. He was influenced by the work of Desiderius Erasmus, who made the Greek New Testament available in Europe, and by Martin Luther...
    
    .
  • Wolsey founds Cardinal College, Oxford
    Christ Church, Oxford
    Christ Church or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England...
    
    .
  • Hops
    Hops
    Hops are the female flower clusters , of a hop species, Humulus lupulus. They are used primarily as a flavoring and stability agent in beer, to which they impart a bitter, tangy flavor, though hops are also used for various purposes in other beverages and herbal medicine...
    
     first cultivated in Kent
    Kent
    Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
    
    .
• 1526
  • The first of several debasement
    Debasement
    Debasement is the practice of lowering the value of currency. It is particularly used in connection with commodity money such as gold or silver coins...
    
    s of coinage, reducing the size of silver coins, and raising the value of the gold sovereign
    Sovereign (English coin)
    The English gold sovereign was a gold coin of the Kingdom of England first issued in 1489 under King Henry VII. While the coin typically had a nominal value of one pound sterling, or twenty shillings, the sovereign was primarily an official piece of bullion and had no mark of value on its face...
    
    .
  • William Tyndale's English translation of the Bible, printed in Germany, reaches England.
  • German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
    
     artist Hans Holbein the Younger
    Hans Holbein the Younger
    Hans Holbein the Younger was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history...
    
     visits England.
• 1527
  • 30 April - By the Treaty of Westminster, Cardinal Wolsey signs an alliance between England and France.
  • 17 May - Archbishop William Warham
    William Warham
    William Warham , Archbishop of Canterbury, belonged to a Hampshire family, and was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, afterwards practising and teaching law both in London and Oxford....
    
     holds a secret inquiry into the legality of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon
    Catherine of Aragon
    Catherine of Aragon , also known as Katherine or Katharine, was Queen consort of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII of England and Princess of Wales as the wife to Arthur, Prince of Wales...
    
    .
  • Bishop Vesey's Grammar School
    Bishop Vesey's Grammar School
    Bishop Vesey's Grammar School is a selective state grammar school in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. Founded in 1527, it is one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom. The school was a day and boarding school until the 1880s, and retained a small number of boarders in the mid-20th century...
    
    , Sutton Coldfield
    Sutton Coldfield
    Sutton Coldfield is a suburb of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Sutton is located about from central Birmingham but has borders with Erdington and Kingstanding. Sutton is in the northeast of Birmingham, with a population of 105,000 recorded in the 2001 census...
    
    , is founded by Bishop John Vesey
    John Vesey
    John Vesey or Veysey was an English bishop.-Life:He was born John Harman, probably about 1462, the son of a yeoman farmer, in a farmhouse now known as Moor Hall Farm, Sutton Coldfield...
    
    .
• 1528
  • 22 January - Henry VIII and Francis I of France declare war on Emperor Charles V.
  • March - Trade suspended between England and the Netherlands because of the war with the Holy Roman Empire
    Holy Roman Empire
    The Holy Roman Empire was a realm that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe.It was ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor. Its character changed during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, when the power of the emperor gradually weakened in favour of the princes...
    
    .
  • June - Unrest in England caused by economic difficulties due to the war forces the government to seek a truce with the Empire.
  • July - Major outbreak of sweating sickness
    Sweating sickness
    Sweating sickness, also known as "English sweating sickness" or "English sweate" , was a mysterious and highly virulent disease that struck England, and later continental Europe, in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485. The last outbreak occurred in 1551, after which the disease apparently...
    
     in London.
  • St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
    St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
    St George's Chapel is the place of worship at Windsor Castle in England, United Kingdom. It is both a royal peculiar and the chapel of the Order of the Garter...
    
    , completed.
  • The King's School, Ipswich
    Ipswich School
    Ipswich School is a co-educational public school for girls and boys aged 3 to 18. Situated in Suffolk, England in the town of Ipswich, it was founded in its current form as The King's School, Ipswich by Thomas Wolsey in 1528....
    
    , is founded by Cardinal Wolsey.
• 1529
  • May to July - Wolsey presides over a legatine court at Blackfriars, London to rule on the legality of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
  • 27 August - Henry VIII accedes to the Treaty of Cambrai.
  • 26 October - Cardinal Wolsey falls from power due to his failure to prevent Habsburg
    Habsburg
    The House of Habsburg , also found as Hapsburg, and also known as House of Austria is one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1438 and 1740, as well as rulers of the Austrian Empire and...
    
     expansion in Europe and obtain a divorce for Henry VIII. Thomas More
    Thomas More
    Sir Thomas More , also known by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and, for three years toward the end of his life, Lord Chancellor...
    
     succeeds him as Lord Chancellor
    Lord Chancellor
    The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom. He is the second highest ranking of the Great Officers of State, ranking only after the Lord High Steward. The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the Sovereign...
    
    .
  • 4 November–17 December - First sitting of the Reformation Parliament.
  • Aylesbury
    Aylesbury
    Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire in South East England. However the town also falls into a geographical region known as the South Midlands an area that ecompasses the north of the South East, and the southern extremities of the East Midlands...
    
     is made the county town
    County town
    A county town is a county's administrative centre in the United Kingdom or Ireland. County towns are usually the location of administrative or judicial functions, or established over time as the de facto main town of a county. The concept of a county town eventually became detached from its...
    
     of Buckinghamshire
    Buckinghamshire
    Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....
    
     by the King.

Births

• 1520
  • 13 September - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
    William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
    William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley , KG was an English statesman, the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State and Lord High Treasurer from 1572...
    
    , statesman (died 1598)
• 1521
  • Anne Askew
    Anne Askew
    Anne Askew was an English poet and Protestant who was condemned as a heretic...
    
    , Protestant martyr (died 1546)
  • John Aylmer
    John Aylmer (English constitutionalist)
    John Aylmer was an English bishop, constitutionalist and a Greek scholar.-Early life and career:He was born at Aylmer Hall, Tilney St. Lawrence, Norfolk...
    
    , divine (died 1594)
  • Thomas Chaloner
    Thomas Chaloner (statesman)
    Sir Thomas Chaloner was an English statesman and poet.-Life:He was the son of Roger Chaloner, mercer of London, a descendant of the Denbighshire Chaloners...
    
    , statesman and poet (died 1565)
  • Philippe de Monte
    Philippe de Monte
    Philippe de Monte , sometimes known as Philippus de Monte, was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the 3rd generation madrigalists and wrote more madrigals than any other composer of the time...
    
    , composer (died 1603)
  • Thomas Wyatt the younger
    Thomas Wyatt the younger
    Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger was a rebel leader during the reign of Queen Mary I of England; his rising is traditionally called "Wyatt's rebellion".-Birth and career:...
    
    , rebel (died 1554)
• 1522
  • 24 May - John Jewel
    John Jewel
    John Jewel was an English bishop of Salisbury.-Life:He was the son of John Jewel of Buden, Devon, was educated under his uncle John Bellamy, rector of Hampton, and other private tutors until his matriculation at Merton College, Oxford, in July 1535.There he was taught by John Parkhurst,...
    
    , bishop (died 1571)
• 1523
  • Richard Edwards, poet (died 1566)
• 1524
  • Thomas Tusser
    Thomas Tusser
    Thomas Tusser was an English poet and farmer, best known for his instructional poem Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, published in 1557. It contains the lines...
    
    , poet and farmer (died 1580)
• 1525
  • 25 September - Steven Borough
    Steven Borough
    Steven Borough , English navigator, was born at Northam, Devon.In 1553 he took part in the expedition which was dispatched from the Thames under Sir Hugh Willoughby to look for a northern passage to Cathay and India, serving as master of the Edward Bonaventure, on which Richard Chancellor sailed as...
    
    , explorer (died 1584)
  • Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley
    Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley
    Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley was an English nobleman and soldier. Contemporary sources also refer to him as Sir Edward Dudley.-Life:...
    
     (died 1586)
• 1526
  • 4 March - Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
    Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
    Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, of Hunsdon was an English nobleman.He was the son of Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne Boleyn and also the mistress to King Henry VIII of England...
    
     (died 1596)
  • Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland
    Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland
    Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, 14th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KG was the son of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland. He also held the title of 14th Baron de Ros of Hamlake, a title to which he acceded in 1543....
    
    , Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (died 1563)
• 1527
  • 13 July - John Dee
    John Dee (mathematician)
    John Dee was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator, imperialist and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy....
    
    , mathematician, astronomer, and geographer (died 1608)
  • Lawrence Humphrey
    Lawrence Humphrey
    Lawrence Humphrey was an English theologian, who was president of Magdalen College, Oxford, and dean successively of Gloucester and Winchester.-Biography:...
    
    , clergyman and educator (died 1590)
• 1528
  • George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
    George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
    George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, 6th Earl of Waterford, 12th Baron Talbot, KG, Earl Marshal was a 16th century English statesman.-Life:...
    
    , statesman (died 1590)
  • John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick
    John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick
    John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick, KG, KB was an English nobleman and the heir of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, leading minister and de facto ruler under Edward VI of England from 1550–1553. As his father's career progressed, John Dudley respectively assumed his father's former...
    
     (died 1554)
• 1529
  • Henry Sidney
    Henry Sidney
    Sir Henry Sidney , Lord Deputy of Ireland was the eldest son of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst, a prominent politician and courtier during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, from both of whom he received extensive grants of land, including the manor of Penshurst in Kent, which became the...
    
    , lord deputy of Ireland (died 1586)

Deaths

• 1521
  • 17 May - Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
    Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
    Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, KG was an English nobleman. He was the son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and the former Lady Catherine Woodville, daughter of the 1st Earl Rivers and sister-in-law of King Edward IV.-Early life:Stafford was born at Brecknock Castle in Wales...
    
     (executed) (born 1478)
  • Edward Poyning, Lord Deputy to King Henry VII of England
    Henry VII of England
    Henry VII was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizing the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the House of Tudor....
    
     (born 1459)
  • Stephen Hawes
    Stephen Hawes
    Stephen Hawes was a popular English poet during the Tudor period who is now little known. He was probably born in Suffolk owing to the commonness of the name in that area and, if his own statement of his age may be trusted, was born about 1474. It has been suggested that he was an illegitimate...
    
    , poet (born 1502)
• 1522
  • 25 February - William Lilye
    William Lilye
    William Lily was an English classical grammarian and scholar. He was an author of the most widely used Latin grammar textbook in England and was the first headmaster of St Paul's School, London.-Life:...
    
    , classical scholar (born c. 1468)
  • Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
    Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
    Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire was an English nobleman.Henry, born in Brecknock Castle, Wales, was the younger son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and of Catherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham and Bedford, and thus a nephew of King Edward IV of England...
    
    , nobleman (born 1479)
• 1523
  • 24 May - Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney
    Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney
    Henry Marney, 1st Baron Marney was a politician of the Tudor period in England. He started the building of Layer Marney Tower in Layer Marney, in 1515; this was not finished before his death and passed to his son....
    
    , politician (born 1447)
  • October - William Cornysh
    William Cornysh
    William Cornysh the Younger was an English composer, dramatist, actor, and poet.-Life:...
    
    , composer (born 1465)
• 1524
  • 21 May - Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
    Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
    Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, KG, Earl Marshal , styled Earl of Surrey from 1483 to 1514, was the only son of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk by his first wife, Katherine Moleyns...
    
    , soldier and statesman (born 1443)
  • 24 August - William Scott of Scott's Hall
    William Scott of Scott's Hall
    Sir William Scott of Scott's Hall, Brabourne, Kent was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.Scott rose to favour following the seizure of the throne by Henry VII. Within a few years he had been appointed to the Privy Council, appointed Comptroller of the Household and in 1489 was created a Companion of...
    
    , Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (year of birth unknown)
  • 20 December - Thomas Linacre
    Thomas Linacre
    Thomas Linacre was a humanist scholar and physician, after whom Linacre College, Oxford and Linacre House The King's School, Canterbury are named....
    
    , humanist and physician (born 1460)
• 1525
  • 24 February - Richard de la Pole
    Richard de la Pole
    Richard de la Pole was a pretender to the English crown. Commonly nicknamed White Rose, he was the last member of the House of York to actively and openly seek the crown of England...
    
    , last Yorkist claimant to the throne (killed in battle) (year of birth unknown)
  • 22 July - Richard Wingfield
    Richard Wingfield
    Sir Richard Wingfield, of Kimbolton Castle was an influential courtier and diplomat in the early years of the Tudor dynasty of England.-Life:...
    
    , diplomat (born c. 1456)
• 1526
  • 1 February - Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester
    Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester
    Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester was the legitimised son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset and Joan Hill.-Biography:He was born around 1460 to Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset and Joan Hill...
    
     (born 1460)
• 1527
  • May - Thomas Docwra
    Thomas Docwra
    Thomas Docwra was Grand Prior of the English Knights Hospitaller.Thomas was admitted to the Knights Hospitallers at the age of 16, spending about four years as a novitiate. In 1480 he was in Rhodes with Sir Thomas Greene during the unsuccessful Turkish siege of the island. He later became...
    
    , Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitaller (born 1458)
  • 15 November- Catherine of York
    Catherine of York
    Catherine or Katherine of York was the ninth child and sixth daughter of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville. From birth to death, she was daughter to Edward IV, sister to Edward V, niece to Richard III, sister-in-law to Henry VII and aunt to Henry VIII.-Early life:She was born in Eltham...
    
     Aunt of Henry VIII (born 1479)
  • Jane Shore
    Jane Shore
    Elizabeth "Jane" Shore was one of the many mistresses of King Edward IV of England, the first of the three whom he described respectively as "the merriest, the wiliest, and the holiest harlots" in his realm...
    
    , mistress of King Edward IV of England
    Edward IV of England
    Edward IV was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death. He was the first Yorkist King of England...
    
     (born c. 1445)
• 1528
  • 5 October - Richard Foxe
    Richard Foxe
    Richard Foxe was an English churchman, successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, Lord Privy Seal, and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.-Life:...
    
    , churchman (born c. 1448)
• 1529
  • 21 June - John Skelton
    John Skelton
    John Skelton, also known as John Shelton , possibly born in Diss, Norfolk, was an English poet.-Education:...
    
    , English poet (born c. 1460)