March 2016 - Page 2 of 3 - History of Royal Women

The demotion of the future Queen Mary I

Wednesday, 23 March 2016, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

The year of 1533 saw considerable changes in the future Mary I’s status. Her father Henry and Anne Boleyn had married in early 1533, and they had their first child, the future Elizabeth I in September 1533. The First Succession Act made Princess Elizabeth and future children by Anne Boleyn to true successors to the [read more]

King’s daughter was buried alive

Tuesday, 22 March 2016, 17:30 Moniek Bloks 2

A horrible discovery has been made in the crypt of Schönfelder Castle. The coffin of an illegitimate daughter of Augustus II of Poland and his mistress Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, named Augusta Anna Constantia contains scratches on the inside. How could she have been buried alive? Augusta was just 17 years old in 1725 when she married Heinrich [read more]

The burning of Thomas Cranmer

Monday, 21 March 2016, 16:00 Moniek Bloks 1

Thomas Cranmer was born on 2 July 1489 in Aslockton in England. His parents were Thomas and Agnes Cranmer, who were of modest wealth. He had at least two brothers. Thomas Cranmer came into Mary’s life when he was assisting with the annulment proceedings between Mary’s parents, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. He discussed [read more]

Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck’s unhappy marriage

Friday, 18 March 2016, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck has an impressive name, and her name is possibly just as big as her family as she was one of the thirteen children of Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck and Luise Charlotte of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. On 17 April 1709 Dorothea married the future Margrave of Bayreuth, George Frederick Karl of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach. It was [read more]

Margaret I, Countess of Flanders’s Lost Tomb at the St. Donatius Cathedral in Bruges, Belgium

Wednesday, 16 March 2016, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Margaret was born circa 1145 as the daughter of Thierry, Count of Flanders and Sibylla of Anjou. Her first marriage was to Ralph II, Count of Vermandois, but he suffered from leprosy. Due to this the marriage could not consummated and they separated. He died in 1167 and by 1169 Margaret married her second husband, Baldwin [read more]

Queens Regnant – Victoria of the United Kingdom

Monday, 14 March 2016, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 1

Victoria was born on 24 May 1819 at 4.15 AM at Kensington Palace in London as the only child of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. Until 1817 Princess Charlotte of Wales was the only legitimate grandchild of George III and her death in childbirth caused a marriage race [read more]