April 9 - Catherine Willoughby's second husband

On this day in Tudor history, 9th April 1582, Richard Bertie, member of Parliament, evangelical, and second husband of Catherine Willoughby (other married name Brandon), Duchess of Suffolk, died at Bourne in Lincolnshire. He was laid to rest in St James’s Church, Spilsby, with Catherine, who had died in 1580. 

 

Bertie was Catherine's gentleman usher and the two became close following the death of her sons from sweating sickness.

 

Find out more about the man Catherine Willoughby chose to marry for love in today's talk from Claire Ridgway, author of "On This Day in Tudor History".

 

You can see their splendid tomb at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2736462 

 

You can see this podcast as a video at the following link:

https://youtu.be/xHtICfkzS7g

 

You can find out more about Catherine Willoughby in Claire's video on her at https://youtu.be/dVz3KEzvYso

 

Also on this day in Tudor history, 9th April 1533, Catherine of Aragon was informed that she was no longer queen. Find out what happened in last year’s video - https://youtu.be/c-zdfPaiK0U