John Travers, Chancellor of St Patricks Cathedral, is executed for high treason at Oxmantown Green for conspiring with Lord Offaly
John Travers, who served as the Chancellor of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, met a tragic end when he was executed for high treason at Oxmantown Green, Dublin. His involvement in a conspiracy with Lord Offaly (Silken Thomas) marked a significant episode in the turbulent history of Ireland during the Tudor period.
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Revolt in Ireland of Silken Thomas Fitzgerald
Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (1513?1537), also known as Silken Thomas (Irish: Tomás an tSíoda), was a figure in Irish History. He spent a considerable part of his early life in England. In February 1534, when his father, the ninth earl, was summoned to London, he appointed Thomas deputy governor of Ireland in his absence. In June Thomas heard rumours that his father had been executed in the Tower of London and that the English government intended the same fate for himself and his uncles. He summoned the Council to St Marys Abbey, Dublin, and on 11 June, accompanied by 140 horsemen with silk fringes on their helmets (from which he was given his nickname), rode to the abbey and publicly renounced his allegiance to King Henry VIII, Lord of Ireland.
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William Rokeby, Archbishop of Dublin, dies
William Rokeby (died 29 November 1521) was a leading statesman and cleric in early sixteenth-century Ireland, who held the offices of Bishop of Meath, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He is commemorated in the Rokeby Chapels in two Yorkshire churches, St Oswald’s Church, Kirk Sandall, and Halifax Minster.
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James IV of Scotland killed in the Battle of Flodden.
The Battle of Flodden or Flodden Field was fought in northern England on September 09, 1513, between an invading Scots army under King James IV and an English army commanded by Thomas Howard.
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King James V was born at Linlithgow Palace, son of King James IV and Margaret Tudor
King James V was born at Linlithgow Palace on 10 April 1512, son of King James IV and Margaret Tudor (daughter of King Henry VII of England). He was only 17 months old when his father, King James IV, was defeated by an English army at Flodden on September 9 1513. This was the heaviest defeat ever experienced by a Scottish army, with the slaughter of the King and the flower of Scottish nobility.
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