On this day in history, 19th September... 1551 – Birth of Henry III of France. He was born at the Château de Fontainebleau, and was the fourth son of King Henry II and Catherine de Medici. He was King of France from 1574 to 1589, succeeding his brother, Charles IX. 1555 – Burnings of Protestant martyrs, Robert Glover and Cornelius Bungey, at Coventry. John Foxe gives the date of their burnings as “about the 20th day” in his “Actes and Monuments” (1563), but Rev. Thomas Brice gives the date as the 19th in his “A Compendious Regester” of 1559. Foxe actually used Brices “Regester” as a source. 1560 – Baptism of Thomas Cavendish, explorer, navigator and privateer, at St Martins Church, Trimley St Martin, Suffolk. Cavendish is known for his imitation of Sir Francis Drakes circumnavigation of the globe, which he undertook in 1586, and for being the first Englishman to explore the island of St Helena, in the mid-Atlantic. 1580 - Death of Katherine Bertie (née Willoughby and previous married name Brandon). She was buried in Spilsby church, Lincolnshire. See todays post on The Anne Boleyn Files for more on Katherine.
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