Dudley served as Vice-Admiral and Lord Admiral from 1537 until 1547, during which time he set novel standards of navy organization and was an innovative commander at sea.

The castle, as well as lands associated with the earldom, was in Crown care from 1478 until 1547, when they were granted to John Dudley with the second creation of the title the Earl of Warwick.

Andrew Dudley wrote in October 1547 that ; " never had a man had so weak a company of soldiers given to drinking, eating and slothfulness ," although, " the house stands well.

Along with the Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, John Dudley, Viscount Lisle and Sir William Paget, Denny helped to finalise Henry VIII's will upon his deathbed in 1547.

Sharing in the attack on the Electorate of Saxony, Albert was taken prisoner at Rochlitz in March 1547 by Elector John Frederick of Saxony, but was released as a result of the Emperor's victory at the Battle of Mühlberg in the succeeding April.

He was compelled to leave forsake when, in January 1547, the city was occupied by the imperial forces for the Diet of Augsburg.

Lithuanian was first attested in a hymnal translation in 1545 ; the first printed book in Lithuanian, a Catechism by Martynas Mažvydas was published in 1547 in Königsberg, Prussia ( now Kaliningrad, Russia ).

It was not until Henry's death in 1547 and the accession of Edward VI that revision could proceed faster.

Unable, however, to resist the urging of Charles V, the pope, after proposing Mantua as the place of meeting, convened the council at Trent ( at that time a free city of the Holy Roman Empire under a prince-bishop ), on December 13, 1545 ; the Pope's decision to transfer it to Bologna in March, 1547 on the pretext of avoiding a plague failed to take effect and the Council was indefinitely prorogued on 17 September 1549.

He died in January 1547 at the age of 55 and was succeeded by his son, Edward VI.

Although he showed piety and intelligence, Edward VI was only nine years old when he took the throne in 1547.

Paris was by far the largest city with 220, 000 people in 1547 and a history of steady growth.

Martynas Mažvydas's Catechism was published in the Lithuanian language in 1547

The Council of Trent in 1547 explicitly stated that baptism ( or desire for baptism ) was the means by which one is transferred " from that state wherein man is born a child of the first Adam, to the state of grace, and of the adoption of the sons of God, through the second Adam, Jesus Christ, our Saviour.

Under King Francis I ( who reigned 1515 – 1547 ), the Maréchaussée was merged with the Constabulary.

In development of the Third Rome ideas, the Grand Duke Ivan IV ( the " Awesome ") was officially crowned the first Tsar (" Caesar ") of Russia in 1547.

Despite initial doubts about the state of the Reformation in Scotland, Knox found the country significantly changed since he was carried off in the galley in 1547.

From 1485, it was the seat of the dukes of Saxony, and from 1547 the electors as well.

Year 1547 ( MDXLVII ) was a common year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

Born in Vienna, he was a son of his predecessor Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary ( 1503 – 1547 ).

He returned to England in 1539, living briefing in Newbury, but on the execution of Thomas Cromwell ( who had been his friend and protector since 1527 ) in 1540, he was compelled again to go into exile and lived for a time at Tübingen, and, between 1543 and 1547, was a pastor and schoolmaster at Bergzabern ( now Bad Bergzabern ) in the Electorate of the Palatinate, and very poor.

Catherine de ' Medici ( Italian: Caterina de ' Medici, 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589 ), daughter of Lorenzo II de ' Medici and of Madeleine de La Tour d ' Auvergne, was a Franco / Italian noblewoman who was Queen consort of France from 1547 until 1559, as the wife of King Henry II of France.

Under the gallicised version of her name, Catherine de Médicis, she was Queen consort of France as the wife of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559.

One of his pupils was Lodewijk Elzevir ( 1547 – 1617 ), who established the largest bookshop and printing works in Leiden, a business continued by his descendants through 1712 and the name subsequently adopted ( in a variant spelling ) by contemporary publisher Elsevier.

Although Henry had specified a group of men to act as regents during Edward's minority, Edward Seymour, Edward's uncle, quickly seized complete control, and created himself Duke of Somerset on 15 February 1547.

The abbey church of St. Pierre, dating chiefly from the 13th century, contains, besides some fine stained glass, twelve representations of the apostles in enamel, created about 1547 by Léonard Limosin.

Two editions have been created from one translation of Joinville's text ( which does not survive itself ), created by Antoine Pierre in 1547 and by Claude Ménard in 1617 respectively.

He was survived by two of the three children of his second marriage: his younger son, Thomas created Viscount Howard of Bindon in 1559, and his daughter Mary, his eldest son and heir, Henry, having been executed in 1547.

He had already been created Viscount Lisle in right of his deceased mother, Elizabeth Grey, in 1543, and was made Earl of Warwick in the Peerage of England in 1547.

Certainly he was one of the executors of Henry's will, and in accordance with the dead king's wishes he was created Earl of Southampton on 16 February 1547.

The title was created for the first time in the Peerage of England in 1547 in favour of William Parr, brother of Catherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII.

On 12 September 1640 William Howard was created Baron Stafford, with remainder, in default of heirs male of the body, to the heirs of his body by his wife Mary and with the precedence of the 1547 barony.

In 1547, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, created Mikołaj " the Black " and his brother, Jan, hereditary Reichsfürsten of Nesvizh and Olyka ; their cousin Mikołaj " the Red " Radziwiłł was created Reichsfürst of Biržai and Dubingiai.

* Henry Grey ( c. 1547 – 1614 ), nephew of Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, was created Baron Grey of Groby, 21 July 1603.

After his father's execution he managed to regain some of his family's position and he was created Baron Stafford in 1547.

He had been created Baron Parr of Kendal in 1539, Earl of Essex in 1543 and Marquess of Northampton in 1547.

From 1547, when his father was created Duke of Somerset, his son Edward Seymour was styled by the duke's subsidiary title of Earl of Hertford.

Alexandrines also formed the first line of the couplet form Poulter's Measure ( the second line being a fourteener ) as exemplified in Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey's poem, Complaint of the Absence of her lover, being upon the sea ( 1547 ).

* 1547 – Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.

Somerset led a large and well equipped army to Scotland, where he and the Scottish regent James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, commanded their armies at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh on 10 September 1547.

** Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English aristocrat ( d. 1547 )

Mount Surrey, a house built by the Earl of Surrey on the site of the despoiled St Leonard's Priory, had lain empty since the Earl's execution in 1547 and was used to hold Kett's prisoners.

* Lady Eleanor Brandon ( 1519 – 27 September 1547 ), who married Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland.

During the War of the Rough Wooing, the invading English armies of the Earl of Hertford inflicted structural damage on Holyrood Abbey in 1544 and 1547.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, KG ( 1516 / 1517 – 19 January 1547 ), was an English aristocrat, and one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry.

Taken from its monastic residents by Henry VIII and given to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford in 1547, it became the seat of the Russell family and the Dukes of Bedford.

On 12 January 1547 Norfolk acknowledged that he had ' concealed high treason, in keeping secret the false acts of my son, Henry Earl of Surrey, in using the arms of St. Edward the Confessor, which pertain only to kings ', and offered his lands to the King.

During this period Foxe also found a patron in Mary Fitzroy, Duchess of Richmond, who hired him as tutor to the orphan children of her brother, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, a Catholic who had been executed for treason in January 1547.

# Lady Eleanor Brandon ( 1519 – 27 September 1547 ); she married Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland

The Earl of Argyll tried to capture the castle on 22 November 1547 and again in January 1548 with 150 men lead by the soldier Duncan Dundas, without success.

Far to the west, a diversionary invasion of 5000 men was led by Thomas Wharton and the dissident Earl of Lennox on 8 September 1547.

:* Robert Graham, Master of Montrose ( d. 1547 ), eldest son of the 2nd Earl, predeceased his father

Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, KG ( REYE-əths-lee ; 21 December 1505 – 30 July 1550 ), known as The Lord Wriothesley between 1544 and 1547, was a politician of the Tudor period born in London to William Wrythe and Agnes Drayton.

After the dissolution of the Abbey, The Lee stayed in the possession of the Crown until in 1547 when Edward VI granted a lease on the estate to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford.

After King Henry's death in 1547, the Earl was Lord High Constable at Edward VI's coronation.

* David Lindsay, 11th Earl of Crawford ( c. 1547 – 1607 )

The college was dissolved during the English Reformation in 1547, and purchased by Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby.

Lord Howard's career received a check in 1547 with the downfall of his half-nephew Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.