Pair of Stirrups (yob) Tibetan or Mongolian possibly 12th–14th century (Met Museum)

22 Sept 1690: John Churchill 1st Duke of Marlborough arrives in #Cork #otd with 6,000 troops to support William III's forces in #Ireland. (NPG)

22 Sept 1598: Ben Jonson playwright indicted for killing an actor in a duel at Shoreditch #London #otd

22 Sept 1626: d. Aodh MacAingil aka Hugo Cavellus #Franciscan Archbishop of #Armagh Scotist philosophy genius, #Gaelic hymn-writer in #Rome #otd (JMcC/ @ucdarchives.bsky.social )

Hip-joint armchair (sillón de cadera or jamuga) Granada c. 1480–1500 'Moriscos' produced these after Reconquista using the style of inlay practiced under Islamic rule. Conquistadors used similar chairs in the Americas as emblems of authority (Met Museum)

22 Sept 1566: d. Johannes Agricola #otd at #Berlin reformer & follower of Luther. They fell out after which Luther accused him of antinomianism

22 Sept 1586: Sir William Russell, future (then disgraced) Lord Deputy of #Ireland leads cavalry charges on #Spanish infantry at Zutphen #otd Philip Sidney mortally wounded also #otd left Russell his armour in his will

Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, b. 22 Sept 1523 – d. 9 May 1590 Unknown artist, c.1580 The Catholic League proclaimed him king on the death of Henri III in 1589 & he was recognized as Charles X by the parlement of Paris on 21 Nov 1589. (Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris)

22 Sept 1411: b. Richard of York, son of Richard, Earl of Cambridge and Anne Mortimer #otd Future Lord Protector during the madness of Henry VI (BL)

Poppies Attributed to Kitagawa Sōsetsu mid-17th century (Met Museum)

Thistle and dragonfly, Jacques Le Moyne, c. 1585 (British Museum)

22 Sept 1576: The death of his father Walter of dysentry in #Dublin makes Robert Devereux 2nd Earl #Essex & a royal ward (NPG)

22 Sept 1576: Walter Devereux 1st Earl of #Essex, a favourite of Elizabeth I, dies in #Dublin, aged 37 #otd

Still Life of Kitchen Utensils Cornelis Jacobsz. Delff, 1571–1643 (The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford University)

Reading woman, Pieter Janssens Elinga, 1663-1665 (Alte Pinakothek, München)

Aphra Behn, 1640–1689, possibly by Mary Beale (St Hilda's College, Oxford)

22 Sept 1560: Amy Robsart, the wife of Robert Dudley Earl #Leicester who was found dead with a broken neck at Cumnor Place #Berkshire on 8 Sept is buried #otd in St Mary’s #Oxford The death is later ruled accidental. (Diliff/ Nottingham Castle - 19thC imagining of the scene)

22 Sept 1606: b. Arthur only child of Sir Arthur Chichester & Letitia Perrot #otd He died on 31 Oct or 1 Nov - here is a 17thC sketch of his tomb in Christ Church #Dublin (NLI) Chichester’s heir, his nephew, also Arthur was Earl of Donegall who gives his name to #Belfast streets

A Courtier Dressing in the Style Required by the Edict of 1633 Abraham Bosse I love a bit of sumptuary law. (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

22 Sept 1610: b. Anne of Austria, mother of & regent for, Louis XIV at #Valladolid #Spain #otd Also, it seems, driver of a #unicorn powered chariot...

22 Sept 1562: Thomas Smith, diplomat, scholar, colonial projector in #Ireland leaves #England #otd to serve as Ambassador in #France (NPG)

Elizabeth I, done c. 1560-65, now no longer attributed to Nicholas Hilliard. A slightly different image of a young queen. (The Royal Collection, HM CIII)

Fanfare Trumpet, 1581. This trumpet by Anton Schnitzer still has the original mouthpiece intact. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

22 Sept 1691: General Godard van Reede van Ginkel future baron #Aughrim & Earl of #Athlone, lands Williamite troops across the #Shannon into Co. Clare #otd (BM) #endgame

22 Sept 1571: Bishop John Jewel, apologist for the Church of #England draws up his will #otd (NPG) He died the next day, 23 Sept 1571

22 Sept 1525: Martin Bucer future theologian & reviewer of the #English 1549 Book of Common Prayer attains citizenship of #Strasbourg #otd He died in 1551 but his corpse was exhumed & burnt under Mary I

22 Sept 1539: d. Guru Nanak founder of the #Sikh faith #otd (Wellcome)

22 Sept 1633: Bishop Willam Bedell ordains his co-translator of the Bible to #Gaeilge #Irish that is Muircheartach Ó Cionga [or Murtagh King in English] #otd Later, in a case involving his own son, Ó Cionga would be accused of conforming just for an income.

The painter Hans Burgkmair and his wife Anna Allerlai by Lukas Furtenagel, 1529. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien) As grim as portraiture can get, really.

Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia and Magdalena Ruiz, a servant of the royal family since the days of Charles V Alonso Sánchez Coello, 1585-1588 (Museo Nacional del Prado)

Owl badge, #London, 14th-16th centuries. The Savile family bore three owls on their coat of arms. This may be one of their livery badges. (British Museum)

22 Sept 1638: The #Scottish Privy Council sign the 'King's Covenant' #otd (BM) A bit of a flop ..

22 Sept 1591: John Baldwin's setting of Nicholas Breton's 'In the merry month of May' sung before Elizabeth I #otd at Elvetham House #Hampshire (Magdalen College Oxford)

St Francis receives the stigmata, 1663, unknown artist (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek, München)

22 Sept 1503: Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini whose maternal uncle was Pius II becomes Pius III #otd However he only ruled for 26 days, dying after an operation on an ulcerated left leg.

22 Sept 1576: The death of his father Walter of dysentry in #Dublin makes Robert Devereux 2nd Earl #Essex & a royal ward (NPG)

22 Sept 1572: Alberico Gentili, #Spanish jurist, a father of international law, and future Regius Professor of Law at #Oxford takes a doctorate at #Perugia #otd (eebo/googlebooks)

Jane Seymour, 1509-1537, made by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1600 (The Royal Collection, HM CIII)

Portrait of a man aged 24, by Christoph Amberger, done in 1525. His hosiery and footwear are some sight to behold. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Frances Walsingham who became Frances Sidney on 21 Sept 1583. And here are two portraits of her. 1.Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII 2.National Trust Collections Her journey to widowhood started #otd in 1586, when her husband Philip was wounded.

Johannes Leopold (1657-1722) was preacher at the Kloster Heilig Kreuz in Augsburg This dates from 1688. (British Museum)

Scarlet Ibis with an Egg, 1699-1701 This drawing is attributed to Dorothea Maria Gsell, daughter of artist and scientist, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717). In 1699, she and her mother traveled to Suriname to draw all sorts of animals. (Rijksmuseum)

22 Sept 1693: d. Sr Mary Cary #Benedictine daughter of Falkland Lord Deputy of #Ireland & Elizabeth Tanfield Cary #writer at Our Lady of Consolation Cambrai #otd She was also a biographer of her mother.

Federico Gonzaga, 1510, aged ten. By Francesco Francia Isabella d’Este, marchioness of Mantua, commissioned this portrait of her son Federico Gonzaga to console her when he was taken to the papal court in #Rome as hostage. #MothersLove (Met Museum)

22 Sept 1633: William Juxon nominated to succeed William Laud as Bishop of #London #otd (NPG). Laud had just become Archbishop of Canterbury, Juxon would become Archbishop in the Restoration. They are also buried beside each other.

22 Sept 1392: Henry (IV) Bolingbroke leaves Danzig / Gdansk for the Holy Land #otd

22 Sept 1586: Philip Sidney #poet & #courtier fatally wounded at battle of Zutphen #otd - He died on 17 Oct. (NPG/ Emelha, portrait of memorial)

Still Life with Dead Game, 1680s By William Gouw Ferguson (c. 1632/3 - after 1689) of Scottish birth and also active in the Netherlands.

22 Sept 1555: John Foxe martyrologist arrives in Basel where his daughter is baptised on the same day #otd

22 Sept 1515: b. Anne of Cleves, future Queen of #England & wife to Henry VIII #otd (BM)