10 September 1533 A.D. Church of Observant Friars, Greenwich: Baptism of the future Elizabeth 1
10
September 1533
A.D. Church of Observant Friars, Greenwich:
Baptism of the future Elizabeth 1
Mann, Claire. “10 September 1533—The
Christenng of the future Elizabeth 1.” The
Anne Boleyn Files. 10 Sept 2015. http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/10-september-1533-the-christening-of-the-future-elizabeth-i/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAnneBoleynFiles+%28The+Anne+Boleyn+Files%29.
Accessed 10 Sept 2015. 10 September 1533 – The Christening of the future Elizabeth I
Posted
By Claire on
September 10, 2015
Princess
Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth I and daughter of Henry VIII and Anne
Boleyn, was christened on Wednesday 10th September 1533 at the Church of
Observant Friars in Greenwich. She was just three days old, having been born on
7th September.
Her
godparents were Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Centerbury; Agnes Howard (nee
Tylney), Dowager Duchess of Norfolk; Margaret Grey (nee Wotton), Marchioness of
Dorset; and Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter.
Click here (or see below) to read a primary source
account of Elizabeth’s christening.
Mann, Claire. “10 September 1533-Elizabeth 1’s
Christening at the Church of Observant Friars.” The Anne Boleyn Files. 10
Sept 2015. http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/10-september-1533-elizabeth-christening-church-observant-friars-greenwich/.
Accessed 10 Sept 2014.
10 September 1533 – Elizabeth I’s Christening at the Church of Observant Friars, Greenwich
Posted
By Claire on September 10, 2013
On
Wednesday 10th September 1533, Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne
Boleyn, was christened at the Church of Observant Friars in Greenwich.
The
future Queen Elizabeth I was just three days old, having been born on the 7th
September, when she was processed along a carpet of green rushes from the Great
Hall at Greenwich Palace to the church.
Letters
and Papers contains a record of Elizabeth’s christening:
“The
mayor, Sir Stephen Pecock, with his brethren and 40 of the chief citizens, were
ordered to be at the christening on the Wednesday following; on which day the
mayor and council, in scarlet, with their collars, rowed to Greenwich, and the
citizens went in another barge.
All
the walls between the King’s place and the Friars were hanged with arras, and
the way strewed with rushes. The Friars’ church was also hanged with arras. The
font, of silver, stood in the midst of the church three steps high, covered
with a fine cloth, and surrounded by gentlewomen with aprons and towels about
their necks, that no filth should come into it. Over it hung a crimson satin
canopy fringed with gold, and round it was a rail covered with red say.
Between the choir and the body of the church was a close
place with a pan of fire, to make the child ready in. When the child was
brought to the hall, every man set forward. The citizens of London, two and two
; then gentlemen, squires, and chaplains, the aldermen, the mayor alone, the
King’s council, his chapel, in copes ; barons, bishops, earls ; the earl of
Essex bearing the covered gilt basons ; the marquis of Exeter with a taper of
virgin wax. The marquis of Dorset bare the salt. The lady Mary of Norfolk bare
the chrisom, of pearl and stone. The officers of arms. The old duchess of
Norfolk bare the child in a mantle of purple velvet, with a long train held by
the earl of Wiltshire, the countess of Kent, and the earl of Derby. The dukes
of Suffolk and Norfolk were on each side of the Duchess. A canopy was borne
over the child by lord Rochford, lord Hussy, lord William Howard, and lord
Thomas Howard the elder. Then ladies and gentlewomen.
Notes and Sources
The
bishop of London and other bishops and abbots met the child at the church door,
and christened it. The archbishop of Canterbury was godfather, and the old
duchess of Norfolk and the old marchioness of Dorset godmothers. This done,
Garter, with a loud voice, bid God send her long life. The archbishop of
Canterbury then confirmed her, the marchioness of Exeter being godmother. Then
the trumpets blew, and the gifts were given ; after which wafers, comfits, and
hypocras were brought in. In going out the gifts were borne before the child,
to the Queen’s chamber, by Sir John Dudley, lord Thos. Howard, the younger,
lord Fitzwater, and the earl of Worcester. One side was full of the Guard and
King’s servants holding 500 staff torches, and many other torches were borne beside
the child by gentlemen. The mayor and aldermen were thanked in the King’s name
by the dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk, and after drinking in the cellar went to
their barge.”
In
his Chronicle, Charles Wriothesley writes that “and the morrowe after their was
fiers[bonfires] made in London, and at everie fire a vessell of wyne[wine] for
people to drinke for the said solempnitie.” Elizabeth may not have been the son
Henry VIII had hoped for, but her birth had shown that his new wife was fertile
and could carry a healthy baby to term, so there was hope for the future.
Notes and Sources
- L&P
vi. 1111
- Wriothesley,
Charles. A Chronicle of England During the Reigns of the Tudors, p23
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