The Other Tudors

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Philippa Jones
is an historian and read Egyptology
at Cambridge University. She lives in Bristol and
has worked at Bristol’s Museum and University.
She has published many books and articles,
including the critically acclaimed
Elizabeth – Virgin Queen?
.

HENRY VIII’S MISTRESSES
AND BASTARDS
PHILIPPA JONES

This e-book published in 2011
Printed edition first published in 2009 by New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd
London • Cape Town • Sydney • Auckland
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Text copyright © 2011 Philippa Jones
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ISBN 978 1 84773 429 7 (Print)
ISBN 978 1 78009 076 4 (ePub)
ISBN 978 1 78009 077 1 (Pdf)

Publisher: Aruna Vasudevan
Project Editor: Julia Shone
Editor: Sally MacEachern
Inside design: Sarah Williams
Cover design: Richard Jenkins
Production: Melanie Dowland

Contents

Chronology

Introduction

1 The Formative Childhood Years

– King Henry VII and Prince Hal

2 The First Encounter

– Elizabeth Denton

3 The Longed-for Wife and the Maids of Dishonour

– Catherine of Aragon

– Anne Hastings, sister of the Duke of Buckingham

– Etionette de la Baume and Jane Poppincourt, the ‘Flemish Mistresses’

4 The Worldly Jewel and the Plotting Widow

– Bessie Blount and her son Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond

– Mary Howard, Dowager Duchess of Richmond, and the Howard Plot

5 The First Mistress Boleyn and the Questionable Bastard

– Mary Boleyn and her son Sir Henry Carey

6 The Wool Merchant’s Wife and the Amazing Mercenary

– Jane Pollard and her son Thomas Stukeley

7 The Huntsman’s Wife and the Blustering Diplomat

– Mary Berkeley and her son John Perrot

8 From Mistress to Queen to the Executioner’s Block

– Anne Boleyn, Mistress and Queen

9 The Mysterious Mistress and the Tailor’s Foster Daughter

– Joanna Dingley and her daughter Etheldreda Malte

10 The Question of Mary or Madge and the Quiet Queen

– Margaret Shelton, the Chosen Mistress

– Jane Seymour, Mistress and Queen

11 The Virgin Queen and the Merry Maidens

– Anne of Cleves and the baby boy

– Anne Bassett and Elizabeth Cobham

12 The Foolish Queen, the Last Queen and the Last Love

– Catherine Howard

– Catherine Parr

– Katherine d’Eresby

13 According to Rumour…

– Elizabeth Bryan; Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Wyatt; Sir Henry Lee; Richard Edwards; Lady Eleanor Luke; Mistress Parker; Elizabeth Amadas

Conclusion

Endnotes

Acknowledgements

Chronology
1485
August
22nd: Henry VII ascends to the throne
1486
January
18th: Henry VII marries Elizabeth of York
 
September
Prince Arthur is born
1489
 
Princess Margaret is born
1491
June
28th, Prince Henry is born
1492
 
Princess Elizabeth is born (dies 1495 aged 3)
1496
 
Princess Mary is born
1499
 
Prince Edmund is born (dies in infancy); Mary Boleyn is born
1500
 
Elizabeth Denton becomes governess to the Princess Mary
1501
November
Prince Arthur marries Catherine of Aragon
1502
April
2nd: Prince Arthur dies
1503
February
11th: Princess Catherine is born(dies after three days);
 
 
Elizabeth of York dies in childbirth
1505
 
(?) Margaret Shelton is born
1507
 
(?) Anne Boleyn is born
1509
 
Jane Seymour is born
 
April
21st: Henry VII dies; Henry VIII ascends to the throne
 
June
11th: Marriage to Catherine of Aragon; 29th: Margaret Beaufort dies
1510
May
Affair between Henry VIII and Anne Hastings
1511
January
1st: Prince Henry is born (dies in March)
1512
 
Catherine Parr is born
1513
 
Anne Boleyn joins the Court of Margaret of Austria
 
September–
Affair between Henry VIII and Etionette de la
 
October
Baume
1514
January
Affair between Henry VIII and Elizabeth Blount begins (lasts to 1519)
 
 
Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor
 
September
Affair between Henry VIII and Jane Popincourt begins (lasts to January 1515)
1516
February
18th: Mary I is born
1518
 
Last recorded pregnancy of Catherine of Aragon
1519
June
Henry Fitzroy, son of Henry VIII and Elizabeth Blount is born; Elizabeth Blount marries Gilbert Tailboys
1520
 
Affair between Henry VIII and Mary Boleyn begins; Katherine d’Eresby is born
 
February
4th: Mary Boleyn marries William Carey
1521
 
Anne Boleyn returns to England from France;
 
 
Anne Bassett is born
1522
 
(?) Catherine Howard is born
1523
 
Anne Boleyn is courted by Henry Percy, heir to the Earl of Northumberland
1524
 
Mary Boleyn gives birth to either Catherine or Henry Carey
1525
 
Henry Fitzroy is created Duke of Richmond and Somerset and Earl of Nottingham;
 
 
Affair between Henry VIII and Mary Boleyn ends
1526
March
Mary Boleyn gives birth to either Catherine or Henry Carey; Affair between King Henry and Anne Boleyn begins
1527
 
Mary Perrot gives birth to John Perrot.
 
July
First mention of Henry VIII ’s divorce
1528
 
William Carey dies
1529
 
Catherine Parr marries Edward Borough
1530
 
(?) Thomas Stukeley is born
 
November
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey dies
1532
 
Elizabeth Blount marries Edward Fiennes Clinton
 
September
1st: Anne Boleyn is created Marquess of Pembroke
1533
 
Catherine Parr marries John Neville, Baron Latimer
 
January
Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII marry
 
April/May
Henry VIII divorces Catherine of Aragon
 
September
7th: Elizabeth I is born
1534
 
Henry Fitzroy marries Mary Howard; Mary Boleyn marries Sir William Stafford
 
September
7th: Katherine d’Eresby marries Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk;
 
 
(?) Affair between Henry VIII and Joanna Dingley
1535
 
(?) Affair between Henry VIII and Margaret Shelton
 
June
23rd: Etheldreda Malte is born (?)
1536
January
7th: Catherine of Aragon dies
 
May
19th: Anne Boleyn is executed; 30th, Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour
 
July
22nd: Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, dies
1537
October
Jane Grey, briefly Queen Jane I, is born
 
September
Anne Bassett becomes a lady-in-waiting to Queen Jane
 
October
12th: Edward VI is born; 24th, Jane Seymour dies in childbirth
1540
 
Elizabeth Blount dies
 
January
6th: Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves
 
July
9th: Marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled;
 
 
28th: Henry VIII marries Catherine Howard
1542
February
13th: Catherine Howard is executed
1543
July
12th: Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr;
 
 
19th: Mary Boleyn dies
1545
August
24th: Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, dies
1547
January
28th: Henry VIII dies; Edward VI ascends to the throne
1548
 
Catherine Parr marries Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudeley
 
August
30th: Mary, daughter of Catherine Parr and Thomas Seymour is born
 
September
7th: Catherine Parr dies
 
 
Etheldreda Malte marries John Harrington
1549
March
20th: Thomas Seymour is executed
1550
 
Thomas Stukeley is the King’s standard bearer in Boulogne
1552
 
Katherine d’Eresby marries Richard Bertie
1553
July
6th: Edward VI dies; 10th, Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England; 19th: Mary I ascends to the throne
1554
 
Anne Bassett marries Sir Walter Hungerford
 
February
12th: Jane Grey is executed
1555
Thomas Stukeley marries Anne Curtis
 
October–
 
 
November
Etheldreda Malte dies
1557
July
16th: Anne of Cleves dies
 
December
Mary Howard, Dowager Duchess of Richmond, dies
1558
 
(?) Anne Bassett dies
 
November
17th: Mary I dies
 
 
Elizabeth I ascends to the throne
1570
April
Thomas Stukeley retires to Spain
1571–3
 
Sir John Perrot is made president of Munster, in Ireland
1578
August
4th: Thomas Stukeley is killed at the Battle of Alcazar
1580
September
19th: Katherine d’Eresby dies
1582
 
John Harrington dies
1584–8
 
Sir John Perrot is made Lord Deputy of Ireland
1592
September
Sir John Perrot dies in the Tower accused of treason
1596
July
23rd: Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, dies
1603
March
24th: Elizabeth I dies

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