Philippa Jones is an historian and read Egyptology
at Cambridge University. She lives in Bristol and
has worked at Bristols Museum and University.
She has published many books and articles,
including the critically acclaimed
Elizabeth Virgin Queen?.
HENRY VIIIS MISTRESSES
AND BASTARDS
PHILIPPA JONES
This e-book published in 2011
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Contents
King Henry VII and Prince Hal
Elizabeth Denton
Catherine of Aragon
Anne Hastings, sister of the Duke of Buckingham
Etionette de la Baume and Jane Poppincourt, the Flemish Mistresses
Bessie Blount and her son Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond
Mary Howard, Dowager Duchess of Richmond, and the Howard Plot
Mary Boleyn and her son Sir Henry Carey
Jane Pollard and her son Thomas Stukeley
Mary Berkeley and her son John Perrot
Anne Boleyn, Mistress and Queen
Joanna Dingley and her daughter Etheldreda Malte
Margaret Shelton, the Chosen Mistress
Jane Seymour, Mistress and Queen
Anne of Cleves and the baby boy
Anne Bassett and Elizabeth Cobham
Catherine Howard
Catherine Parr
Katherine dEresby
Elizabeth Bryan; Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Wyatt; Sir Henry Lee; Richard Edwards; Lady Eleanor Luke; Mistress Parker; Elizabeth Amadas
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 dEresby 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 dEresby 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 |