1. The Tudor period is the period between 1485 and 1603. This was when the Tudors were the ruling family in England.
2. The first Tudor monarch was King Henry VII who claimed the throne when his forces defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. He ruled until his death in 1509.
3. Like us today,the Tudors enjoyed eating different types of meat.
4. Following his father’s death, Henry VIII became King of England in 1509 and ruled until his death in 1547.
5.But without fridges and freezers, they would preserve meat by rubbing salt on it.
6. People in Tudor times didn’t eat with a fork – they ate using knives, spoons and their fingers.
7. There were few books in Tudor schools, so pupils read from ‘hornbooks’ instead.
8. If you were a child in a Tudor school, you’d better behave! Teachers were very strict and would punish pupils with 50 strokes of the cane.
9. Some of the boardgames the Tudors played are still enjoyed today, such as chess, backgammon and card games!
10. The houses had a wooden frame with walls made from ‘wattle and daub’ – a building material consisting of wooden strips covered with mud, clay and wet soil. The walls were then painted white giving what is known as ‘the black and
1. Edward VI was crowned when he was just 10 years old
2. Henry VIII had 6 wives
3. Catherine of Aragon was originally married to Arthur Tudor but Arthur was beheaded by Henry VIII so Henry could marry Catherine
4. The Tudor period was called the Tudor period because the Tudors won the War of the Roses
5. The first Tudor king was Henry VII
6. Henry VII was married to Elizabeth of York and gave birth to Henry VIII
7. The Tudors were very keen on meat
8. The Tudors created chess, backgammon, etc.
9. In school pupils read from ‘Hornbooks’
10. They didn’t use forks in Tudor times
The Tudor period is between 1485 and 1603. This was when the Tudors were the ruling family in England.
The first Tudor monarch was King Henry VII who claimed the throne when his forces defeated Richard III was born 1485. He ruled until his death in 1509.
Following his father’s death, Henry VIII became King of England in 1509 and ruled until his death in 1547
They were called the Tudors because Henry VII was otherwise known as Henry Tudor
Today one of England’s most famous historical figures, Henry VIII is well known for his six marriages and for having two of his wives beheaded!
1. The Tudor period is the period between 1485 and 1603. This was when the Tudors were the ruling family in England.
2. The first Tudor monarch was King Henry VII who claimed the throne when his forces defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. He ruled until his death in 1509.
3. The Tudor rose was created when Henry VII brought an end to the Wars of the Roses (an ongoing battle between two royal groups – the House of Lancaster and the House of York). He joined the White Rose of York with the Red Rose of Lancaster, creating the Union Rose (or Tudor Rose), which is still used as the floral emblem of England today!
4. Following his father’s death, Henry VIII became King of England in 1509 and ruled until his death in 1547.
5. Like us today, the Tudors enjoyed eating different types of meat. But without fridges and freezers, they would preserve meat by rubbing salt on it.
6. People in Tudor times didn’t eat with a fork – they ate using knives, spoons and their fingers.
7. There were few books in Tudor schools, so pupils read from ‘hornbooks’ instead.
8.Teachers were very strict and would punish pupils with 50 strokes of the cane.
9. Some of the boardgames the Tudors played are still enjoyed today, such as chess, backgammon and card games!
10. Tudor houses are very distinctive and many can still be seen today.
1.The Tudors ruled England and Wales from 1485 to 1603 and it was one of the most exciting periods of British history.
2.The first Tudor king was Henry Vll. He became king after the battle of Bosworth field, which was the end of the War of the Roses.
3. He was followed by his son, Henry Vlll, who was famous for marrying six times and beheading two of his wives.
4. His son, Edward Vl ruled after him and then his daughters Mary l and Elizabeth l.
5. Henry VIII liked fart jokes.
6. By the end of his life, his waistline measured 4 and half feet around and there were special devices made to get him in and out of bed and on and off his horse.
7. It is said, that even though he was a large man, he had a high pitched voice.
8. During 118 years of the Tudors, England became richer than ever before. As the country became richer, towns grew, beautiful houses were built and schools and colleges were set up.
9. Arts and crafts were really popular too. England was home to great painters, writers and musicians.
10. Henry VIII set up the Church of England with himself as the head (The Act of Supremacy and reformation). This meant the start of centuries of religious conflict in Britain.
Henry VII was the first Tudor monarch. He defeated Richard III of York at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. He was from the house of Lancaster whose symbol was a Red rose.
He married Elizabeth who was the only surviving heir of the House of York. Their symbol was a White rose. The two roses were joined together to make the Tudor rose.
They are buried together in Westminster Abbey.
Their eldest son was called Arthur after the legendary king because they hoped that he would bring a new “Golden Age”. However, Arthur died young, possibly of the Plague, so his brother Henry became king instead. So that they could keep the treaty with Spain, Henry VIII married his brother’s widow, Katherine of Aragon. He later divorced her because she had not given him a male heir causing a split from the Roman Catholic Church.
1. Henry the V11 was the first Tudor to the throne in 1485. He was crowned after the battle of Bosworth.
2. The Tudor period ran between 1485-1603. 3. Hampton Court Palace has a large Tudor kitchen built by Henry V111. 4. Not many children went to school in Tudor times. Boys were educated for work and girls for marriage and running a house. 5. The Tudors ate bread with most meals. 6. People in Tudors times did not have fridges or freezers 7. People in Tudors times ate with knives, spoons and their fingers but no forks. 8. This is the order of the Tudors: Henry V11 – 1485-1509, Henry V111 – 1509-1547, Edward V1 – 1547-1553, Jane Grey – 1553-1553, Mary 1 – 1553-1558, Elizabeth 1 – 1558-1603. 9. Arthur Tudor and Henry V111 both married Catherine of Aragon. 10. In Tudor schoolteachers were very strict and if you misbehaved you would get 50 strokes of the cane.
1. The Tudors ruled between 1485 and 1603.
2. They had over seven kings named Henry.
3. Henry VIII had six wives
4. Henry VIII’s wives died in a pattern like this: Divorced,beheaded and died,divorced,beheaded,survived
5. They played an early game of football
6. Their ball was a pig’s bladder
7. Queen Elizabeth I’s portrait painter made the painting as a copy of the only painting she had ever liked.
8. In the Tudor times football was so violent Henry VIII made illegal because too many people were getting hurt.
9. The Tudors were the ones who invented The Royal Mail.
10. In Tudor times if you stole 11pence or less you were put in jail but 12pence or more your head was chopped off.
Elizabeth I became queen in 1558 after the death of her half sister Mary I. She was known as The Virgin Queen because she never got married or had children. She was the last Tudor monarch.
Her mother was Anne Boleyn, she was Henry VIII second wife. Anne was accused of treason and witchcraft and beheaded with a sword at The Tower of London when Elizabeth was only 3 years old.
Mary I was known as “Bloody Mary” because she had rejoined the Roman Catholic Church when she became queen and had hundreds of Protestant “heretics” burned at the stake. She married King Philip II of Spain but they did not have any children.
Elizabeth took the country back to the Church of England and Catholics tried to assassinate her several times during her reign so that her cousin Mary Queen of Scots could rule instead. When she had Mary beheaded, Philip of Spain launched a fleet of ships called The Spanish Armada to invade England. They were defeated by the English navy led by Sir Francis Drake.
1. The Tudor period is the period between 1485 and 1603. This was when the Tudors were the ruling family in England.
2. The first Tudor monarch was King Henry VII who claimed the throne when his forces defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. He ruled until his death in 1509.
3. The Tudor rose was created when Henry VII brought an end to the Wars of the Roses (an ongoing battle between two royal groups – the House of Lancaster and the House of York). He joined the White Rose of York with the Red Rose of Lancaster, creating the Union Rose (or Tudor Rose), which is still used as the floral emblem of England today!
4. Following his father’s death, Henry VIII became King of England in 1509 and ruled until his death in 1547. Today one of England’s most famous historical figures, Henry VIII is well known for his six marriages – and for having two of his wives beheaded!
5. Like us today, the Tudors enjoyed eating different types of meat. But without fridges and freezers, they would preserve meat by rubbing salt on it.
6. People in Tudor times didn’t eat with a fork – they ate using knives, spoons and their fingers.
7. There were few books in Tudor schools, so pupils read from ‘hornbooks’ instead. Pages displaying the alphabet and religious material were attached to wooden boards and covered with a transparent sheet of cow horn.
8. If you were a child in a Tudor school, you’d better behave! Teachers were very strict and would punish pupils with 50 strokes of the cane. Pupils with wealthy families would often pay for a ‘whipping-boy’ for their child – if the rich child misbehaved, the whipping-boy received the punishment!
9. Some of the boardgames the Tudors played are still enjoyed today, such as chess, backgammon and card games!
10. Tudor houses are very distinctive and many can still be seen today. The houses had a wooden frame with walls made from ‘wattle and daub’ – a building material consisting of wooden strips covered with mud, clay and wet soil. The walls were then painted white giving what is known as ‘the black and white effect
The first Tudor king was Henry VII.
William Shakespeare was the main playwright of the Tudor times.
The biggest battle of Tudor times was Flodden.
The biggest threat was the Spanish Armada which was a fleet of Spanish ships sent to invade England during the reign of Elizabeth I.
England stopped being Roman Catholic in Tudeo times because Henry VIII wanted a divorce which the pope would not allow.
Columbus discovered America in Tudor times.
The first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe was sir Walter Raleigh.
Christopher Marlowe was another very famous playwright.
The first Tudor queen was Mary I.
Mary I was also known as Bloody Mary for killing so many Protestant.
1. The Tudor reign ended in 1603 and started in 1485 when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at the battle of Bosworth. It ended because Elizabeth I died and had no children.
2. There were five monarchs during the Tudor era, three kings and two queens. 3. The nine days queen was Edward VI’s cousin Lady Jane Grey who was Henry VIII’s sister’s grandaughter. She was never crowned because, Mary seized power. 4. Did you know in 1580 Drake completed his two years and ten months voyage around the world? Sir Francis Drake was the first englishman to acheive this. Later on, Elizabeth I boarded Drake’s ship and knighted him for his acheivement, this was during the Tudor era. 5. During the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I the Globe peformed the production of William Shakespeare the great poet and playwright. 6. When Mary Tudor died childless and her sister Elizabeth succeeded her in 1558, Elizabeth I started reigning for 45 years, one of the longest reigns of any english monarch. 7. Elizabeth created the Church of England in 1563. 8. When Mary I married Philip II of Spain in 1554, Mary became very unpoular as England and Spain were rivals at that time. 9. England and Spain were great rivals. Their ships attacked each other off America, where Spain had extensive colonies. Philip II of Spain gathered together a fleet, called the Armada, with which to invade England. In 1588 it set sail, but the English set fire to many of its ships and the rest were destroyed by storms. 10. Life in Tudor Britain was tough, the average life spam was 35 years. Most people lived in villages, in the countryside, but some people lived in towns or big Tudor cities like, London, Bristol or Norwich.
1.The Tudors ruled for 118 years.
2.The Tudors ruled England from,1485-1603.
3.In Tudor times church services were held In Latin.
4.Edward Vl was crowned when he was 10 years old.
5.Henry Vlll wives were “divorced, beheaded, died,divorced,beheaded survived”.
6.Some 70,000 people suffered death penalty during the reign of Henry Vlll.
7.The Tudors ruled over England,Whales and part of Ireland.
8.Tudor toilets were called privyes.
9.Henry Vlll could speak four different languages.
10.Some Tudor explorers were:
.Sir Walter Raleigh
.Sir Francis Drake
.John Cabot
.Christopher Columbus
The Tudors were a Welsh- English family that ruled England & Wales from 1485-1603.
The 1st Tudor king was Henry VII.
Travelling was difficult during the Tudor times. (Roads were muddy tracks)
During the 118 years Tudors ruled, England became very rich.
Going to the theatre was popular entertainment in Tudor times.
Not many children went to school in Tudor times, it was usually the welther boys who’s parents were able to pay for attendance fees.
Girls usually stayed at home to help with housework and prepare for marriage and or go to work to help make money for the household.
Henry VIII was famous for having six wives.
1. Catherine of Aragon was born in Alcala de Hernas and, she had three older sisters and one older brother
2. She was 23 when she married Henry VIII they were married in June 1509 two months after Henry VII died.
3. The pomegranate was a symbol of fertility on Catherine’s badge.
4. The Tudor period was between 1485-1603.
5. There were a few books in Tudor times so children used hornbooks instead. Pages with religious work and the alphabet was attached to wooden board.
6. In those times, they didn’t eat with forks, they used knives spoons and their fingers.
7. The first Tudor Monarch was Henry VII.
8. Without fridges and freezers, they would preserve meat by rubbing salt on it.
9. EdwardVI was croned only when he was ten
10. Henry VIII had six wives.
1. The Tudor period is the period between 1485 and 1603. This was when the Tudors were the ruling family in England.
2. The first Tudor monarch was King Henry VII who claimed the throne when his forces defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. He ruled until his death in 1509.
3. Like us today,the Tudors enjoyed eating different types of meat.
4. Following his father’s death, Henry VIII became King of England in 1509 and ruled until his death in 1547.
5.But without fridges and freezers, they would preserve meat by rubbing salt on it.
6. People in Tudor times didn’t eat with a fork – they ate using knives, spoons and their fingers.
7. There were few books in Tudor schools, so pupils read from ‘hornbooks’ instead.
8. If you were a child in a Tudor school, you’d better behave! Teachers were very strict and would punish pupils with 50 strokes of the cane.
9. Some of the boardgames the Tudors played are still enjoyed today, such as chess, backgammon and card games!
10. The houses had a wooden frame with walls made from ‘wattle and daub’ – a building material consisting of wooden strips covered with mud, clay and wet soil. The walls were then painted white giving what is known as ‘the black and
1. Edward VI was crowned when he was just 10 years old
2. Henry VIII had 6 wives
3. Catherine of Aragon was originally married to Arthur Tudor but Arthur was beheaded by Henry VIII so Henry could marry Catherine
4. The Tudor period was called the Tudor period because the Tudors won the War of the Roses
5. The first Tudor king was Henry VII
6. Henry VII was married to Elizabeth of York and gave birth to Henry VIII
7. The Tudors were very keen on meat
8. The Tudors created chess, backgammon, etc.
9. In school pupils read from ‘Hornbooks’
10. They didn’t use forks in Tudor times
Lots of great facts here! What was a ‘Hornbook’?
The Tudor period is between 1485 and 1603. This was when the Tudors were the ruling family in England.
The first Tudor monarch was King Henry VII who claimed the throne when his forces defeated Richard III was born 1485. He ruled until his death in 1509.
Following his father’s death, Henry VIII became King of England in 1509 and ruled until his death in 1547
They were called the Tudors because Henry VII was otherwise known as Henry Tudor
Today one of England’s most famous historical figures, Henry VIII is well known for his six marriages and for having two of his wives beheaded!
-Henry had an extraordinary memory and could remember the names of every servant in all the royal households.
-In Tudor times people sometimes put toast in their beer.
-When Henry was king around 35 people were beheaded each week.
-The balls Henry played tennis with were made with dog hair.
-Henry’s waist was about 32 inches and he was 54 inches at his death he weighed over 300 pounds
-Lady Jane Grey was only queen for 9 days
-The Tudors are one of the most famous family’s to rule England.
– In Tudor times you wore a Rosary Bead to pray you prayed 10 times to Bloody Mary and 1 time to Jesus.
-In Tudor times there was no proper dictionary so they wrote whatever they wanted to.
-Prince Arthur was Henry’s older brother
1. The Tudor period is the period between 1485 and 1603. This was when the Tudors were the ruling family in England.
2. The first Tudor monarch was King Henry VII who claimed the throne when his forces defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. He ruled until his death in 1509.
3. The Tudor rose was created when Henry VII brought an end to the Wars of the Roses (an ongoing battle between two royal groups – the House of Lancaster and the House of York). He joined the White Rose of York with the Red Rose of Lancaster, creating the Union Rose (or Tudor Rose), which is still used as the floral emblem of England today!
4. Following his father’s death, Henry VIII became King of England in 1509 and ruled until his death in 1547.
5. Like us today, the Tudors enjoyed eating different types of meat. But without fridges and freezers, they would preserve meat by rubbing salt on it.
6. People in Tudor times didn’t eat with a fork – they ate using knives, spoons and their fingers.
7. There were few books in Tudor schools, so pupils read from ‘hornbooks’ instead.
8.Teachers were very strict and would punish pupils with 50 strokes of the cane.
9. Some of the boardgames the Tudors played are still enjoyed today, such as chess, backgammon and card games!
10. Tudor houses are very distinctive and many can still be seen today.
1.The Tudors ruled England and Wales from 1485 to 1603 and it was one of the most exciting periods of British history.
2.The first Tudor king was Henry Vll. He became king after the battle of Bosworth field, which was the end of the War of the Roses.
3. He was followed by his son, Henry Vlll, who was famous for marrying six times and beheading two of his wives.
4. His son, Edward Vl ruled after him and then his daughters Mary l and Elizabeth l.
5. Henry VIII liked fart jokes.
6. By the end of his life, his waistline measured 4 and half feet around and there were special devices made to get him in and out of bed and on and off his horse.
7. It is said, that even though he was a large man, he had a high pitched voice.
8. During 118 years of the Tudors, England became richer than ever before. As the country became richer, towns grew, beautiful houses were built and schools and colleges were set up.
9. Arts and crafts were really popular too. England was home to great painters, writers and musicians.
10. Henry VIII set up the Church of England with himself as the head (The Act of Supremacy and reformation). This meant the start of centuries of religious conflict in Britain.
1 – The Tudors ruled between 1485 – 1603.
2 – The first Tudor King was King Henry VII , who became King after the battle of Bosworth.
3 – The battle of Bosworth ended the war of the roses in 1485.
4 – After King Henry was his son King Henry VIII.
5 – King Henry was born in 1491 and died in 1547.
6 – King Henry VIII had six wives and killed two of them who are Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard
7 – King Henry VIII is known for being a fat man although he was young thin but after an accident he got fatter
8 – King Henry VIII was head of the Roman catholic church
9 – King Henry VIII didn’t like the pope of England so asked an artist to draw a picture of the pope dying and four men around him
10 – The pattern of the wives goes divorce beheaded died divorce beheaded survived these were the what happened to the wives of King Henry VIII
Henry VII was the first Tudor monarch. He defeated Richard III of York at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. He was from the house of Lancaster whose symbol was a Red rose.
He married Elizabeth who was the only surviving heir of the House of York. Their symbol was a White rose. The two roses were joined together to make the Tudor rose.
They are buried together in Westminster Abbey.
Their eldest son was called Arthur after the legendary king because they hoped that he would bring a new “Golden Age”. However, Arthur died young, possibly of the Plague, so his brother Henry became king instead. So that they could keep the treaty with Spain, Henry VIII married his brother’s widow, Katherine of Aragon. He later divorced her because she had not given him a male heir causing a split from the Roman Catholic Church.
1. Henry the V11 was the first Tudor to the throne in 1485. He was crowned after the battle of Bosworth.
2. The Tudor period ran between 1485-1603. 3. Hampton Court Palace has a large Tudor kitchen built by Henry V111. 4. Not many children went to school in Tudor times. Boys were educated for work and girls for marriage and running a house. 5. The Tudors ate bread with most meals. 6. People in Tudors times did not have fridges or freezers 7. People in Tudors times ate with knives, spoons and their fingers but no forks. 8. This is the order of the Tudors: Henry V11 – 1485-1509, Henry V111 – 1509-1547, Edward V1 – 1547-1553, Jane Grey – 1553-1553, Mary 1 – 1553-1558, Elizabeth 1 – 1558-1603. 9. Arthur Tudor and Henry V111 both married Catherine of Aragon. 10. In Tudor schoolteachers were very strict and if you misbehaved you would get 50 strokes of the cane.
1. The Tudors ruled between 1485 and 1603.
2. They had over seven kings named Henry.
3. Henry VIII had six wives
4. Henry VIII’s wives died in a pattern like this: Divorced,beheaded and died,divorced,beheaded,survived
5. They played an early game of football
6. Their ball was a pig’s bladder
7. Queen Elizabeth I’s portrait painter made the painting as a copy of the only painting she had ever liked.
8. In the Tudor times football was so violent Henry VIII made illegal because too many people were getting hurt.
9. The Tudors were the ones who invented The Royal Mail.
10. In Tudor times if you stole 11pence or less you were put in jail but 12pence or more your head was chopped off.
Elizabeth I became queen in 1558 after the death of her half sister Mary I. She was known as The Virgin Queen because she never got married or had children. She was the last Tudor monarch.
Her mother was Anne Boleyn, she was Henry VIII second wife. Anne was accused of treason and witchcraft and beheaded with a sword at The Tower of London when Elizabeth was only 3 years old.
Mary I was known as “Bloody Mary” because she had rejoined the Roman Catholic Church when she became queen and had hundreds of Protestant “heretics” burned at the stake. She married King Philip II of Spain but they did not have any children.
Elizabeth took the country back to the Church of England and Catholics tried to assassinate her several times during her reign so that her cousin Mary Queen of Scots could rule instead. When she had Mary beheaded, Philip of Spain launched a fleet of ships called The Spanish Armada to invade England. They were defeated by the English navy led by Sir Francis Drake.
1. The Tudor period is the period between 1485 and 1603. This was when the Tudors were the ruling family in England.
2. The first Tudor monarch was King Henry VII who claimed the throne when his forces defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485. He ruled until his death in 1509.
3. The Tudor rose was created when Henry VII brought an end to the Wars of the Roses (an ongoing battle between two royal groups – the House of Lancaster and the House of York). He joined the White Rose of York with the Red Rose of Lancaster, creating the Union Rose (or Tudor Rose), which is still used as the floral emblem of England today!
4. Following his father’s death, Henry VIII became King of England in 1509 and ruled until his death in 1547. Today one of England’s most famous historical figures, Henry VIII is well known for his six marriages – and for having two of his wives beheaded!
5. Like us today, the Tudors enjoyed eating different types of meat. But without fridges and freezers, they would preserve meat by rubbing salt on it.
6. People in Tudor times didn’t eat with a fork – they ate using knives, spoons and their fingers.
7. There were few books in Tudor schools, so pupils read from ‘hornbooks’ instead. Pages displaying the alphabet and religious material were attached to wooden boards and covered with a transparent sheet of cow horn.
8. If you were a child in a Tudor school, you’d better behave! Teachers were very strict and would punish pupils with 50 strokes of the cane. Pupils with wealthy families would often pay for a ‘whipping-boy’ for their child – if the rich child misbehaved, the whipping-boy received the punishment!
9. Some of the boardgames the Tudors played are still enjoyed today, such as chess, backgammon and card games!
10. Tudor houses are very distinctive and many can still be seen today. The houses had a wooden frame with walls made from ‘wattle and daub’ – a building material consisting of wooden strips covered with mud, clay and wet soil. The walls were then painted white giving what is known as ‘the black and white effect
The first Tudor king was Henry VII.
William Shakespeare was the main playwright of the Tudor times.
The biggest battle of Tudor times was Flodden.
The biggest threat was the Spanish Armada which was a fleet of Spanish ships sent to invade England during the reign of Elizabeth I.
England stopped being Roman Catholic in Tudeo times because Henry VIII wanted a divorce which the pope would not allow.
Columbus discovered America in Tudor times.
The first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe was sir Walter Raleigh.
Christopher Marlowe was another very famous playwright.
The first Tudor queen was Mary I.
Mary I was also known as Bloody Mary for killing so many Protestant.
The Tudors
by Rachel
1. The Tudor reign ended in 1603 and started in 1485 when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at the battle of Bosworth. It ended because Elizabeth I died and had no children.
2. There were five monarchs during the Tudor era, three kings and two queens. 3. The nine days queen was Edward VI’s cousin Lady Jane Grey who was Henry VIII’s sister’s grandaughter. She was never crowned because, Mary seized power. 4. Did you know in 1580 Drake completed his two years and ten months voyage around the world? Sir Francis Drake was the first englishman to acheive this. Later on, Elizabeth I boarded Drake’s ship and knighted him for his acheivement, this was during the Tudor era. 5. During the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I the Globe peformed the production of William Shakespeare the great poet and playwright. 6. When Mary Tudor died childless and her sister Elizabeth succeeded her in 1558, Elizabeth I started reigning for 45 years, one of the longest reigns of any english monarch. 7. Elizabeth created the Church of England in 1563. 8. When Mary I married Philip II of Spain in 1554, Mary became very unpoular as England and Spain were rivals at that time. 9. England and Spain were great rivals. Their ships attacked each other off America, where Spain had extensive colonies. Philip II of Spain gathered together a fleet, called the Armada, with which to invade England. In 1588 it set sail, but the English set fire to many of its ships and the rest were destroyed by storms. 10. Life in Tudor Britain was tough, the average life spam was 35 years. Most people lived in villages, in the countryside, but some people lived in towns or big Tudor cities like, London, Bristol or Norwich.
1.The Tudors ruled for 118 years.
2.The Tudors ruled England from,1485-1603.
3.In Tudor times church services were held In Latin.
4.Edward Vl was crowned when he was 10 years old.
5.Henry Vlll wives were “divorced, beheaded, died,divorced,beheaded survived”.
6.Some 70,000 people suffered death penalty during the reign of Henry Vlll.
7.The Tudors ruled over England,Whales and part of Ireland.
8.Tudor toilets were called privyes.
9.Henry Vlll could speak four different languages.
10.Some Tudor explorers were:
.Sir Walter Raleigh
.Sir Francis Drake
.John Cabot
.Christopher Columbus
The Tudors were a Welsh- English family that ruled England & Wales from 1485-1603.
The 1st Tudor king was Henry VII.
Travelling was difficult during the Tudor times. (Roads were muddy tracks)
During the 118 years Tudors ruled, England became very rich.
Going to the theatre was popular entertainment in Tudor times.
Not many children went to school in Tudor times, it was usually the welther boys who’s parents were able to pay for attendance fees.
Girls usually stayed at home to help with housework and prepare for marriage and or go to work to help make money for the household.
Henry VIII was famous for having six wives.
1. Catherine of Aragon was born in Alcala de Hernas and, she had three older sisters and one older brother
2. She was 23 when she married Henry VIII they were married in June 1509 two months after Henry VII died.
3. The pomegranate was a symbol of fertility on Catherine’s badge.
4. The Tudor period was between 1485-1603.
5. There were a few books in Tudor times so children used hornbooks instead. Pages with religious work and the alphabet was attached to wooden board.
6. In those times, they didn’t eat with forks, they used knives spoons and their fingers.
7. The first Tudor Monarch was Henry VII.
8. Without fridges and freezers, they would preserve meat by rubbing salt on it.
9. EdwardVI was croned only when he was ten
10. Henry VIII had six wives.