Baynard's Castle
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Baynard's Castle refers to buildings on two neighbouring sites in the City of London, between where Blackfriars station and St. Paul's Cathedral now stand. The first was a Norman fortification constru
The first Baynard's Castle
Seal of Robert Fitzwalter
Long View of London from Bankside, detail from a 1647 engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar. Baynard's Castle is at far right, on the far side (north side) of the River Thames, with the Church of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe behind it. The Blackfriars is a short distance upstream at left.
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1501–1570), owned the castle when Mary I was proclaimed Queen there in 1553.
Catherine Howard
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Catherine Howard was Queen of England from July 1540 until November 1541 as the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, a first cousin to Anne Bol
Baynard's Castle
…their wedding, and the Queen took up residence there. Margaret Tudor, widow of James IV of Scotland, came to stay at Baynard's Castle in May 1516. Katherine Howard journeyed to Baynard's Castle in May 1541. Later one of Henry's favourite courtiers, Sir William Sidney (c. 1482–1554), tutor to his son the future…
Possible portrait of Howard
Agnes Howard, née Tilney, the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, line engraving from 1793, based on an original from 1513
Catherine of Aragon m. 1509–1533
Anne Boleyn m. 1532/1533–1536