Curated category
16th-century English women
- Elizabeth Howard, Duchess of NorfolkLady Elizabeth Stafford entered the world around 1497 as the eldest daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.
- Mary Percy, Countess of NorthumberlandLady Mary Talbot entered the world as one of eleven children born to George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury. Her father's first wife was Anne Hastings, 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 IElizabeth was born on the 7th of September 1533 at Greenwich Palace. Her mother Anne Boleyn had been Henry VIII's second wife.
- 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 QuineyThe parish register for Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon recorded a single entry on the 2nd of February 1585. The vicar Richard Barton wrote Hamnet…
- 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…