Richmond Palace is in Richmond.
On 21 Jun 1377 King Edward III England (64) died of a stroke at Sheen Palace. He was buried in the Chapel of St Edward the Confessor. King Richard II of England 1367-1400 (10) succeeded II King England.
On 07 Jun 1394 Anne of Bohemia Queen Consort England 1366-1394 (28) died of plague (probably) at Sheen Palace. King Richard II of England 1367-1400 (27) was so distraught at her death he ordered the destruction of Sheen Palalce.
Wriothesley's Chronicle Henry VII. 1500. This yeare the Kinge (42) buylded new his manner at Sheene, and chaunged the name and named it Eichmonde; and buylded new his place called the Baynards Castle, in London; and repayred his place in Greenewich, with muche new buyldinge.
On 27 Jun 1503 Margaret Tudor Queen Scotland 1489-1541 (13) left for Scotland at Richmond Palace accompanied by Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde 1477-1539 (26), Edward Howard 1476-1513 (27), Richard Neville 2nd Baron Latimer of Snape 1468-1530 (35) and Ralph Ogle 3rd Baron Ogle 1468-1513 (34).
Wriothesley's Chronicle Henry VII. 1509. This yeare, in Aprill, died King Henry the Vllth (51) at Richmond; and his Sonne King Henry the VIII (17) was proclaymed Kinge on St. Georges daye, in the same moneth. And in June follwinge the King (17) was married to Queene Katherin (23), late wife of his brother Prince Arthure (22), and were both crowned on Mid-sommer day. See Marriage of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, Coronation of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
On 21 Apr 1509 Henry VII King England and Ireland 1457-1509 (52) died of tuberculosis at Richmond Palace. Henry VIII (17) succeeded VIII King England.
On 01 Jan 1511 Henry Tudor Duke Cornwall 1511-1511 was born to Henry VIII (19) and Catherine of Aragon (25) at Richmond Palace. He was appointed Duke Cornwall at birth.
On 22 Feb 1511 Henry Tudor Duke Cornwall 1511-1511 died. He was buried at Westminster Abbey.
On 09 Jul 1540 Henry VIII's (49) marriage to Anne of Cleves (24) was annulled. He gave her a generours settlement including Richmond Palace and Hever Castle. Bishop Robert Parfew aka Warton -1557 signed the delcaration. She was given precedence above all other women other than the King's wife future wives and daughters, referring to her thereafter as The King's Sister. She lived seventeen more years outliving Henry's two next wives Queen Catherine Howard of England 1523-1542 (17) and Catherine Parr Queen Consort England 1512-1548 (27), and Edward VI King England and Ireland 1537-1553 (2).
Wriothesley's Chronicle Edward VI 1st Year 1547-1548. The eight daie of October my Lord Protectors Grace (47) came from North home, and in Finsburie Fields my lord major, with the aldermen in their skarlett gownes, with certaine of the comens in their liveries with their hoodes, mett his Grace, the major and aldermen on horsebacke, and he ever tooke one of them by the handea, and after my lord major rode with him to the pounde in Smythfield, where my Lord Protector tooke his leve of them, and so rode that night to his place at Shene, and the morrowe after to the King (9) at Hampton Court.
Note a. Probably a clerical error for " he tooke every one of them by the hand."
On 04 Jun 1550 Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester 1532-1588 (17) and Amy Robsart 1532-1560 (17) were married at Sheen Palace. Edward VI King England and Ireland 1537-1553 (12) and William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley 1520-1598 (29) attended.
Diary of Henry Machyn September 1553. 03 Aug 1553. The iij day of August, at Rychemond, was my lord Cortnay (26) created the yerle of Denshyre of owre nobulle qwene Mare (37).
Wriothesley's Chronicle Mary I 1st Year 19 May 1554. 19 May 1554. The xixth of May, beinge Saterday and the eeven of the feast of the Holie Trinitie, Ladye Elizabeth (20) was had out of the Tower and went thorowe London Bridge in her barge at 3 of the clock in the afternoone, lyeinge at Richmond that night; and from thence conveyed to Woodstock, Mr. Benyfield (45)b, Lorde Williams of Tame, and Sir Leonard Chamberlayne, waytinge on her, with iic horsemen, there to remayne at the Queenes pleasure.
b. Sir Henry Bedingfield (45), the recently appointed Constable of the Tower.
Diary of Henry Machyn May 1554. 29 May 1554. The xxix day of May the Queen (38) removed from St. James's, passing through the park, and took her barge at Whitehall, and so to Rychmond, on her progress.
Wriothesley's Chronicle Mary I 2nd Year 11 Aug 1554. 11 Aug 1554. The 11 of August the King (27) and Queen (38) removed to Richmond.
Diary of Henry Machyn July 1557. 15 Jul 1557. The xv day of July the Quen('s) (41) grace dynyd at Lambeth with my lord cardenall Polle (57), and after dener removyd to Rychmond, and ther (her) grace tares ther her plesur.
Diary of Henry Machyn July 1560. 29 Jul 1560. The xxix day of July the Quen('s) (26) grace removyd from Grenwyche on her grace('s) progresse, and at Lambeth she dynyd with my lord of Canturbere (55) and her consell; and after [took her] gorney towhard Rychmond, and her grace lay ther v [5] days; and after to Ottland, and ther So[nday and] Monday dener, and to Suttun to soper.
On 07 Aug 1574 Robert Dudley 1574-1649 was born illegitimately to Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester 1532-1588 (42) and Douglas Howard Baroness Sheffield 1542-1608 (32) at Richmond Palace.
On 10 Nov 1599 Margaret Radclyffe of Ordsall Hall 1573-1599 (26) died at Richmond Palace. She had never recovered from the news of her twin brother Alexander's (26) death earlier in the year. Margaret was buried in St Margaret's Church with all the ceremonies of a great lady's obsequies. Elizabeth I (66) ordered the Court into mourning. A magnificent monument was erected over her grave at the Queen's expense, and Ben Jonson wrote the inscription for it:
Marble weep, for thou dost cover.
A dead beauty underneath thee,.
Rich as nature could bequeath thee:
Grant, then, no rude hand remove her.
All the gazers on the skies.
Read not in fair heaven's story.
Expresser truth or truer glory,.
Than they might in her bright eyes.
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Rare as wonder was her wit;.
And like nectar ever flowing:
Till time, strong by her bestowing,.
Conquered have both life and it.
Life whose grief was out of fashion.
In these times. Few have so rued.
Fate in a brother. To conclude,.
For wit, feature, and true passion.
Earth, thou hast not such another.
The Monument is no longer extant.
On 24 Mar 1603 Elizabeth I (69) died at Richmond Palace around three in the morning.
King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland 1566-1625 (36) succeeded I King England Scotland and Ireland. He was Elizabeth's second cousin being the son of Mary Queen of Scots (60) who was the daughter of Margaret Tudor Queen Scotland 1489-1541 daughter of Henry VII King England and Ireland 1457-1509.
Immediately following her death Robert Carey 1st Earl Monmouth 1560-1639 (43) started on horseback for Edinburgh to inform King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland 1566-1625 (36) arriving at Holyrood Palace late on the 26 Mar 1603. His conduct met with general disapproval and merited censure as contrary to all decency, good manners and respect. George Carew -1612 and Thomas Lake 1561-1630 (41) were sent by the Council to formally inform James VI's death.
On 20 Jun 1667 James Stewart 1st Duke Cambridge 1663-1667 (3) died at Richmond Palace. He was buried at Westminster Abbey. Duke Cambridge 1C 1664 extinct.
John Evelyn's Diary 27 August 1678. 27 Aug 1678. I took leave of the Duke (50), and dined at Mr. Henry Bruncker's (51), at the Abbey of Sheene, formerly a monastery of Carthusians, there yet remaining one of their solitary cells with a cross. Within this ample inclosure are several pretty villas and fine gardens of the most excellent fruits, especially Sir William Temple's (50) (lately Ambassador into Holland), and the Lord Lisle's (29), son to the Earl of Leicester (59), who has divers rare pictures, above all, that of Sir Brian Tuke's, by Holbein.
After dinner I walked to Ham, to see the house and garden of the Duke of Lauderdale (62), which is indeed inferior to few of the best villas in Italy itself; the house furnished like a great Prince's; the parterres, flower-gardens, orangeries, groves, avenues, courts, statues, perspectives, fountains, aviaries, and all this at the banks of the sweetest river in the world, must needs be admirable.
Hence, I went to my worthy friend, Sir Henry Capel (40) [at Kew], brother to the Earl of Essex (46); it is an old timber-house; but his garden has the choicest fruit of any plantation in England, as he is the most industrious and understanding in it.
Diary of Henry Machyn May 1554. 20 May 15544. The xx day of May my lade Elsabeth the quen('s) syster cam owt of the Towre, and toke her barge at Towre warfe, and so to Rychemond, and from thens unto Wyndsor, and so to Wodstoke.