Jane
Seymour
(1505-1537)
Born: 1505 at Wolf Hall, Savernake, Wilts
Queen of England
Died: 24th October 1537 at Hampton Court Palace, Richmond, Surrey
Jane
Seymour, third Queen of Henry
VIII, was the daughter of Sir John Seymour of Wolf
Hall (Savernake, Wilts) and his wife, Margaret Wentworth. We find her as a maid
of honour in the household of Queen Catherine and again in that of
Queen Anne,
but it was not till 1535 that King Henry began to pay her serious attention. He
married her immediately after Anne's death, in May 1536, and their only child,
afterwards Edward
VI, was born in October 1537. The Queen died from cold and
improper diet twelve days after her delivery. For her alone of his six Queens,
Henry wore mourning. She seems to have been a gentle creature of good character
and a popular Queen. She was interred at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, and
Henry was afterwards buried at her side.
Edited from Emery Walker's "Historical
Portraits" (1909).
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