On This Day In History . 15 June 1519 . Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond & Somerset was born . ◼ Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, was the illegitimate son of Henry VIII by Elizabeth Blount, a lady-in-waiting to Katharine of Aragon. . ◼ Henry was given the surname ‘FitzRoy’ to make sure that all knew he was son of the King (FitzRoy is an Anglo-Norman name originally meaning “son of the king”.) . ◼ The child was officially acknowledged by the King after the early deaths of the three sons born to the Queen. . ◼ Following his divorce from Katharine of Aragon & his subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s attachment to Henry Fitzroy assumed a greater significance, particularly when his second wife also failed to produce a male heir. . ◼ Appointed Knight of the Garter in 1525 & made Duke of Richmond & Somerset in the same year, Henry Fitzroy was given several important positions, including that of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. . ◼ His education was entrusted to the distinguished classical scholar Richard Croke, who had taught Greek to Henry VIII, & was extended by attendance at the court of Francis I in France for eleven months in 1532. . ◼ ◼ At the of age 14, on 28 November 1533 the Duke married Lady Mary Howard, the only daughter of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. Thomas Howard was an uncle of two of the wives of Henry VIII: Anne Boleyn & Catherine Howard, . ◼ It appears that Henry VIII contemplated making Henry Fitzroy his heir, but whatever the King’s intentions may have been, the plan was spoilt by Henry Fitzroy’s premature death of tuberculosis at the age of 17 in 1536. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1519 #d15jun #HenryFitzroy #DukeofSomerset #DukeofRichmond #History #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #otd #OnThisDay #bornonthisday #Tudor #Tudors #henryviii #kinghenryviii #monarchy #onthisday #historyinpictures #TudorHistory #thetudors #England #Britishhistory #EnglishHistory #Englishroyalty . 📷 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018 (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQJenpVDeWy/?utm_medium=tumblr

On This Day In History . 15 June 1519 . Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond & Somerset was born . . ◼ Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset, was the illegitimate son of Henry VIII by Elizabeth Blount, a lady-in-waiting to Katharine of Aragon. . ◼ Henry was given the surname ‘FitzRoy’ to make sure that all knew he was son of the King (FitzRoy is an Anglo-Norman name originally meaning “son of the king”.) . ◼ The child was officially acknowledged by the King after the early deaths of the three sons born to the Queen. . ◼ Following his divorce from Katharine of Aragon & his subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s attachment to Henry Fitzroy assumed a greater significance, particularly when his second wife also failed to produce a male heir. . ◼ Appointed Knight of the Garter in 1525 & made Duke of Richmond & Somerset in the same year, Henry Fitzroy was given several important positions, including that of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. . ◼ His education was entrusted to the distinguished classical scholar Richard Croke, who had taught Greek to Henry VIII, & was extended by attendance at the court of Francis I in France for eleven months in 1532. . ◼ ◼ At the of age 14, on 28 November 1533 the Duke married Lady Mary Howard, the only daughter of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. Thomas Howard was an uncle of two of the wives of Henry VIII: Anne Boleyn & Catherine Howard, . ◼ It appears that Henry VIII contemplated making Henry Fitzroy his heir, but whatever the King’s intentions may have been, the plan was spoilt by Henry Fitzroy’s premature death of tuberculosis at the age of 17 in 1536. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1519 #d15jun #HenryFitzroy #DukeofSomerset #DukeofRichmond #History #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #otd #OnThisDay #bornonthisday #Tudor #Tudors #henryviii #kinghenryviii #monarchy . 📷 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018 (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBeJ6LtDXmY/?igshid=19c0rlsmfovmz