Timeline January 1506

Events in January 1506 3

• 1506 – 1534 Elizabeth Barton The Holy Maid of Kent English Catholic nun and prophetess known as the Holy Maid of Kent. A servant girl from Aldington in Kent, she began experiencing visions and trances during a severe illness in 1525 and was declared miraculously cured at a local chapel. Archbishop Warham found her orthodox and she entered a Benedictine convent in Canterbury, where she became a celebrity visited by pilgrims from across England. She met Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII and corresponded with Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher. When she began prophesying that Henry would die if he divorced Catherine of Aragon and married Anne Boleyn, she became a threat to the Crown. She was publicly denounced, attainted by Parliament and hanged at Tyburn in 1534 at the age of 28 — the first woman whose head was displayed on London Bridge.
• 1506 Elizabeth Barton born in Aldington, Kent Born in the parish of Aldington, a village about fifteen miles south-west of Canterbury in Kent, close to one of the Archbishop of Canterbury's palaces. Almost nothing is known of her parents or early life.
• 1506 – present Swiss Guard Protectors of the Pope The elite corps of Swiss soldiers that has served as the personal bodyguard to the Pope for over 500 years.