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Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Janet Wertman on Douglas Sheffield

Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors

Heather Teysko

History

4.6 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This is Janet Wertman's talk from Tudorcon 2024 on Douglas Sheffield.  She was an English noblewoman, the lover of Robert Dudley and mother by him of explorer/cartographer Sir Robert Dudley, an illegitimate son. Plan to come to Tudorcon 2025 October 3-5 at Agecroft Hall in Richmond, VA! https://www.englandcast.com/Tudorcon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey friend. This is a supplemental episode of the Renaissance English History podcast. This is Janet Wartman talking at TudorCon, 24, about Douglas Sheffield.

0:24.5

Janet Wartman has been on this show many times, and I've done a lot with her. She is amazing.

0:30.1

You can learn more about her at Janet Wartman.com. She is the author of several books. The Seymour Saga, which traces the Seymour family, is a great place to start.

0:43.3

And here she is discussing Douglas Sheffield.

0:48.0

TudorCon is happening next year as well, October 3rd through 5th, back at Echcroft Hall in Richmond.

0:55.5

And we have a couple of exciting announcements. We're going to have an amazing Saturday concert included with Ron McFarland.

1:02.3

He is a lieutenant and Andrew McAvoy, who is a classical guitarist. That's going to just be so cool.

1:09.0

And because we sold out last year and expect to again this year, I'm actually opening up different ticket levels to if you are local and you don't necessarily want to come for the entire weekend.

1:18.8

You can just come for the Saturday concert.

1:20.7

You can come for the Friday and Saturday party and entertainment.

1:23.7

Our big space limitation is in the room where we have the lectures.

1:26.8

But we have more space out

1:27.8

on the courtyard so we can bring more friends in if you want to come and enjoy the history and

1:32.2

have fun and meet people, meet new friends. You can just come Friday and Saturday or just

1:37.5

Saturday. So you can go to Englandcast.com slash TudorCon to learn more about TudorCon

1:42.9

and save your spot at the early bird price, which will be good until the end of the year.

1:49.1

It makes a great gift thinking about holiday gifts. And if you are gifting it, I'm quite happy to send you something you can print out a little digital card that you can print out, letting people know that they are coming to TudorCon if it's a

2:01.2

gift and you want to have something to put in a stocking. So Englandcast.com slash TudorCon.

2:05.6

So I'm going to turn this over to Janet Wirtman now and her talk on Douglas Sheffield.

2:10.4

Heather, I just want to thank you. Thank you, Anne. Thank you all for being here. Again,

2:15.5

this is just incredible. I didn't think that anything could top

2:19.1

a Renaissance fair at a wine bar, but I'm not.

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