Curated category
16th-century English women
- Elizabeth Howard, Duchess of NorfolkElizabeth Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, spent the last five years of her separation ruling herself, as she put it, in a house in Redbourn, Hertfordshire, on a…
- Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of WiltshireElizabeth Boleyn entered the world around 1480 within the wealthy Howard family. Her father was Sir Thomas Howard, who later became the 2nd Duke of Norfolk.
- Mary ShakespeareMary Arden entered the world around 1536 in Wilmcote, Warwickshire. Her father Robert Arden was a gentleman farmer and part of a junior line within the…
- Susanna HallSusanna Shakespeare entered the world of Stratford-upon-Avon on Trinity Sunday, the 26th of May 1583. Her baptism took place in the Church of the Holy…
- Elizabeth IAt Tilbury in Essex on the 8th of August 1588, Elizabeth I rode before her militias wearing a silver breastplate over a white velvet dress.
- Mary I of EnglandMary Tudor entered the world on the 18th of February 1516 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich. She was the only child of King Henry VIII and his first…
- Judith QuineyJudith Quiney was born on the 2nd of February 1585, the younger daughter of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the fraternal twin of the only…
- Lady Jane GreyJane Grey sat in the presence of her father or mother, speaking, keeping silence, sitting, standing, going, eating, drinking, merrily or sadly.
- Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)Anne Hathaway grew up in Shottery, a village just to the west of Stratford-upon-Avon. Her father Richard Hathaway was a yeoman farmer who died in September…
- Mary Tudor, Queen of FranceMary Tudor entered the world at Shene Palace on the 18th of March 1496. She was the fifth child of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, yet the youngest to…