He had three sons with wife number one Jasper, Henry and Roger demonstrating that the Tudor difficulty of producing male heirs didn’t stem from Owen. Several of Levina’s appear to have been commissioned as New year gifts. Hilliard thought that creating miniatures was the work of a gentleman rather than a woman not that it seems to have stopped some of the leading women of the period for sitting for Levina. Lady Catherine Grey (also "Katherine") ( 25 August 1540 - 26 January 1568), Countess of Hertford, was the younger sister of Lady Jane Grey and a cousin of Elizabeth I of England. Unknown 356 Lady Katherine Grey and her son Lord Edward Beauchamp Portrait of Lady Katherine or Catherine Grey (25 August 1540 - 26 January 1568) and her son Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp of Hache (21 September 1561 – 21 July 1612). I love the fact that her father as an illuminator of manuscripts was working in an artistic tradition that went back to the seventh century and that in training Levina, her miniatures which became so popular during the Tudor period, are a clearly route-marked bridge between traditions and art forms. On the same occasion, Lady Katherine was married to Lord Herbert at Durham House. It had the effect of making Robert Dudley jealous. Mary was the daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York and the younger sister of Henry VIII of England . His gentleman of the horse was apparently accused and unsurprisingly fled on one of the earl’s best horses. Elizabeth had successfully illegitimised the two sons of Lady Katherine Grey although they were permitted to inherit their father’s estates and ultimately their father Edward Seymour found the priest who had performed the marriage ceremony for him and Katherine. There were other children including a further daughter, Barbara who is also mentioned in her father’s will– as is her illegitimate state. In fact unlike Dudley or her next favourite Sir Christopher Hatton there were never any rumours of romance between the two of them. 64, no. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Under the terms of Henry VIII’s will it should have been his family line who ascended to the throne after Elizabeth I died. It was something of a relief to all concerned, apart possibly from the Scots, when he handed in his notice. Bess of Hardwick was also imprisoned, as Elizabeth had become convinced (not without reason) that the marriage was part of a wider conspiracy against the Crown. He also thought that the Earl of Hastings would support him. From the Reign of Henry the Second to the Accession of Queen Elizabeth Volume 2 London: Nichols and Son. Whilst  Jane was at Chelsea in Katherine Parr’s household all initially seemed to be well. The other is a woman who looks remarkably like Anne Boleyn because of the french hood that she wears although it has been argued that it could be Katherine Parr- there are issues over hair colouring. 374, 1934, pp. Alexander would marry again but did not have any children. They are painted on vellum in the style of a manuscript artist. He found that his credentials were suspect under the new Tudor regime not least because of his suspected conspiracy in the Lambert Simnel affair. Other men mentioned Henry Hastings the Earl of Huntingdon. Grey, attainted of treason,  went to his death grieving for his daughter who was executed along with her husband on the 12th. He was father to three of the potential claimants to the throne and husband of the fourth. There was still the difficulty of the fact that Elizabeth was expected to marry and produce children at this time in her reign but it appears to have been a gamble that Mary was prepared to take so long as Elizabeth was prepared to put in writing without any equivocation that Mary was her heir. Grey was a man of the time. Warner reported that the furnishings of Katherine's room, which were provided from the Royal Wardrobe in the Tower, had been damaged by her pet monkey and dogs. The first earl died in 1619 and James, by now James I of England intervened in a dispute over property, took Alexander junior under his wing and negotiated a good match for him. Breverton, Terry. Whilst Frances and their two  younger daughters returned to court where they were welcomed by Queen Mary, Suffolk having paid a fine made disgruntled noises about the prospect of a return to Catholicism. Her maternal grandparents were Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor, former Queen consort of France. On this day in history, 12th February 1554, Lady Jane Grey and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were executed by being beheaded. A possible clue as to where the ring comes from is the fact that there’s an image of a phoenix painted in enamel on the underside of the bezel. In 1545 she is seen in the official record with her husband dealing with  her father’s accounts suggesting that Simon may have died at this time. There had been a couple of voices in favour of Margaret, Lady Lennox who was the grand-daughter of Henry VII by Margaret Tudor’s second marriage to Archibald Douglas, the earl of Angus. She may have even written a text on how to make a limning as these miniatures were known and trained Hilliard who gained prominence in the 1570s. [5] In 1553, as King Edward VI was dying, the King and his Chief Minister, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, planned to exclude Edward's sister Mary Tudor from the succession in favour of Katherine's elder sister, Lady Jane Grey. She was all to aware of the dangers of having an heir to the throne waiting in the background – after all she had been in that position seven years previously. They sent a man named Richard Hesketh who had links with the Stanley family. It was for this reason that he became involved with Sir Thomas Wyatt who wished to prevent Queen Mary from marrying Philip of Spain. Cétait la sœur cadette de Lady Jeanne Grey, et laînée de Lady Marie Grey. Katherine Campbell Ruthven was born in the year 1525 in Kynnard, Perth, Scotland, daughter of William Master of Ruthven 16gN and Janet Halyburton, Dirleton. Indeed, it may be that as a woman in Mary and then Elizabeth Tudor’s household that women were more able to sit for their portraits. Free Background Profile Found - Katherine Tudor. The baronet also gave orders as to what his tomb should look like and which wife should have her effigy next to his. (2009) Elizabeth’s Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen. With the help of her mother Frances, the two sisters were soon back at court. Detail from door grill leading to the vault where George Duke of Clarence and his wife Isobel Neville are buried in Tewkesbury Abbey. As a granddaughter of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, the younger sister of King Henry VIII, she had a … This view is supported by Tracey Borman in The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen. She married Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent and had seven children: There was also a handy little grant of £2000 a year. Under those circumstances you’d have thought that Suffolk would manage to keep his head down and his nose clean. Her maternal grandparents were Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and his second wife Joan Beaufort , a legitimized daughter of John of Gaunt . James, Susan E. (2009)  The Feminine Dynamic in English Art 1485-1603, Aldershot: Ashgate. / Wyfe of Therle of / Hertford" implying that was how her name was written. Not only that but Elizabeth used the image of the phoenix on more that one occasion to give the idea of herself as the phoenix rising from the ashes of her mother’s death. 1565 was a trying year for Elizabeth I. Gender politics was well and truly on the map and would stay there through the rest of Elizabeth’s reign both at home and abroad. Now as queen she was determined not to name her successor despite the fact that there had already been a succession crisis during the seven days when her privy councillors had feared for her life in 1561 when she had small pox. Summary of the story so far : Lady Jane Grey became Queen of England after the death of Edward VI but she only served for nine short days. According to the Letters Patent of 21 June 1553, Lady Katherine was to be second in the line of succession behind her sister and heirs-male. She was still there when Queen Mary I died and was succeeded by Queen Elizabeth I. Italics indicate people who predeceased Edward VI; Arabic numerals indicate the line of succession to Edward VI at the time of his death according to Henry VIII's will; and Roman numerals indicate the line of succession at the time of Edward VI's death according to Edward's will. At the same time as Thomas became a gentleman of the Privy Chamber Elizabeth began to flirt with him. Teerlinc in her turn was followed by Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac  Oliver. With her he’d produced two daughters . Cecil noted in his diary that the queen was “offended.”  Pregnant or not, Lettice was one of the most beautiful women in Elizabeth’s court and it was clear at this stage of the game of courtly love that whilst Elizabeth could have many favourites, they in their turn should look only to Elizabeth. Both women were imprisoned for their foolish behavior and both died probably of … What saved his bacon was his skill at jousting and his friendship with Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk. There is also the possibility that since she did not sign her works some of the earlier ones have been ascribed to Holbein whilst the later ones may now be viewed as the work of Hilliard. The plot was betrayed by Edward Courtenay, earl of Devonshire, who also happened to have quite a lot of Plantagenet blood and who Wyatt thought would make a better royal spouse. Mother of Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp; Thomas Seymour and Katherine Seymore. He decided that he would flee to Denmark but wasn’t quite sure about the direction he needed to take. Ferdinando’d been earl for less than a year and he had no male heirs other than his brother who now became the sixth Earl of Derby. King Henry VII having won the Battle of Bosworth and predated his reign to the day before the battle, did not after all have many relations so showed considerable favour to his illegitimate half-uncle by knighting him and arranging a marriage with the heiress Mary de Bohun of Midhurst. It should be noticed that she is wearing a ribbon round her neck from which a glimpse of another miniature can be seen – of her husband Edward Seymour. It is now thought that the ring that Robert carried was not necessarily one given to the queen by James VI of Scotland but more probably the so-called Chequers Ring that ended up in Lord Lee’ hands in 1919 having travelled from Elizabeth to James and then to Lord Lee via the Home family. Lady Catherine Grey (sometimes spelled "Katherine") ( 25 August 1540 - 26 January 1568), Countess of Hertford, was the second surviving daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Lady Frances Brandon. She married Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent and had seven children: Leicester and Coventry turned him away. Lady Catherine Grey (parfois épelée Katherine) (25 août 1540 - 26 janvier 1568), Comtesse dHertford, fut la seconde fille dHenry Grey, 1er duc de Suffolk et de Lady Frances Brandon. She was married on June 15, 1551 in Contr, Foulis, Ross Cromarty, Scotland to Colin ( 'the Grey' Campbell Cailien of Glenurchy) Campbell of Glenorchy 15gN, they had 14 children. He married Arbella Stuart in secret and the pair attempted to flee to France to avoid the wrath of King James. Not only that of course but it soon became clear that Seymour was behaving inappropriately by romping with Princess Elizabeth. The second earl married Catherine Carey who was part of the extended Carey family and thus a cousin of some description to Robert Carey who started this post. No need to register, buy now! Ferdinando’s eldest daughter, Anne Stanley, Countess of Castlehaven now became Elizabeth I’s heir presumptive under the terms of Henry VIII’s will. He was the king’s carver between 1486 and 1529. Back to Ferdinando. At that time Cecil had favoured Henry VIII’s will which would have seen the crown handed to Lady Katherine Grey the sister of Lady Jane Grey. Arrested after the Queen was informed of their clandestine marriage, Katherine (as Lady Hertford) lived in captivity until her death, having borne two sons in the Tower of London. Elizabeth was not amused and told Dudley that just as she had raised him, she could equally as well lower him. Double click on the effigy of David Owen to find out more about the church where he is buried – without an effigy of any of his wives by his side. Levina was born in Flanders, the eldest of five daughters to Simon Benninck, a renowned illustrator of manuscripts. At the same time as the Grey girls acquired husbands the duke of Northumberland’s daughter, also called Katherine and not yet twelve years old, married Henry Hastings, son of  the earl of Hastings – another man with Plantagenet blood threading through his veins. Philip II took it as evidence that the queen loved Robert Dudley. All that can be said with the clarity of hindsight  is that Grey was either extremely ambitious and took gambling to the extreme or that he was incredibly naive to believe that any of Seymour’s schemes would work. They were designed to be given as gifts that could be worn, often tucked out of sight. I will be posting more about Elizabeth I’s iconography as I shall be delivering a ten week course on Gloriana after Easter using a portrait, including the famous Rainbow Portrait, as my starting point each week. Alexander Home was the second Earl of Home. | History of Parliament Online", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lady_Katherine_Grey&oldid=1009426000, British courtesy baronesses and ladies of Parliament, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2021, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 28 February 2021, at 14:48. In addition to being exchanged by lovers and friends Teerlinc’s works formed the basis for other jewellery as well as for the Great Seal. Her parents were disappointed that she … Queen Elizabeth imprisoned Lady Katherine in the Tower of London, where Edward Seymour (Lord Hertford) was sent to join her on his return to England. Click to open the National Archives Currency converter to find out how much old money is worth at the turn of the twenty-first century. Levina died on 26 June 1576 when she was about sixty-six. Her maternal grandparents were Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor, former Queen consort of France . Robert rode for Edinburgh and did the journey in a very impressive three days. She was the younger sister of Lady Jane Grey and older sister of Lady Mary Grey. Posts about Lady Katherine Grey written by JuliaH. In short, Ferdinando splashed the cash like his mother Margaret Clifford before him except whereas she’d gambled he invested in becoming a patron of the arts. Nonetheless, this did not stop their being courted as potential heirs to the Crown. Of course, he didn’t. Genealogical Chronicle of the English Kings, Heirs of the English crown who pre-deceased their parent or grandparent, Henry Hastings 3rd Earl of Huntingdon. The rest, as they say, is history. When we think of Elizabethan miniatures we tend to think of the wonderfully Hilliard portraits with their stunning  azure backgrounds. The will went to probate in 1542 but by then saying masses for the dear departed was heavily frowned upon as Popish – so it is reasonable to assume he died before 1542 – startlingly he appears to have died seven years before the will was proved. [13], Katherine, Lady Hertford, concealed the marriage from everyone for months, even after she became pregnant; in her eighth month of pregnancy and on progress with the royal court to Ipswich, she decided to ask someone to plead for her with the Queen. Mary immediately abandoned Dudley’s proposal even though he’d been given a title, Kenilworth Castle and many lands. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography he asked his doctors to stop treating him as he knew he was dying. 1565 was a trying year for Elizabeth I. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Ferdinando Stanley (1559-1594), Lord Strange associated with the likes of Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare as well as the poet Edmund Spenser. Young Jane was in receipt of a first rate education and a step closer to the crown. Perhaps for this reason he was appointed to the privy council in 1549 after the fall of the duke of Somerset. Find the perfect lady catherine grey stock photo. relacionado con: Katherine Tudor. Lady Jane Grey, the unfortunate queen of England for just nine days, wrote the above letter to her younger sister Catherine before her execution. He then left her to face the music. After a few days he was released without charge, unlike seventeen year old Jane. Katherine Seymour, Countess of Hertford (25 August 1540 – 26 January 1568), born Lady Katherine Grey,[1][2] was a younger sister of Lady Jane Grey. [6] Lady Jane had been married to Northumberland's son, Lord Guildford Dudley, on 25 May 1553. Unfortunately  Suffolk was just about as good a rebel as he was a politician and had failed to spot that the band of nobles who’d sealed their deal with the marriages of their children were now backtracking rather rapidly – poor Katherine Grey was virtually kick rout of the Pembroke house despite the young couple having taken rather a shine to one another. Visiting his bedroom in the middle of the night, she explained her dilemma. It has been suggested that it was Edward Seymour who gave the queen the gift in a bid to soften her up after he ran off and married Katherine Grey in 1560. He died in unexplained circumstances on 16th April 1594 having been taken suddenly and severely ill with vomiting. Henry did what nobles did – he jousted. [27] This rendered the children illegitimate and thereby ineligible as successors to the throne. Katherine Grey's maternal grandparents were Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor ( formerly Queen Consort of France) , youngest surviving daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York . Her maternal grandparents were Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and his second wife Joan Beaufort, a legitimized daughter of John of Gaunt. The body of the ring is lined with rubies. Hesketh was swiftly arrested and executed although he is said to have told Ferdinando that if he didn’t agree to the plan he would find himself very dead soon afterwards. [28] She was interred at the Cockfield Chapel in Yoxford Church, Suffolk, before her body was moved to Salisbury Cathedral to be buried alongside her husband. Borman, Tracey. Unsurprisingly he was softly captured and returned to the Tower where he was executed on 23rd February 1554. [citation needed], There, Lady Katherine died fourteen days later on 26 January 1568 at the age of twenty-seven of consumption. [11], One of Lady Katherine's friends, Lady Jane Seymour, daughter of the Duke of Somerset, introduced her brother, Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, to Lady Katherine Grey (so restyled after the annulment of her first marriage). She was the younger sister of Lady Jane Grey and elder sister of Lady Mary Grey. Family and claim to the Throne []. When he died in 1530 it is perhaps not surprising that young Henry found his wardship in the hands of Brandon. Levina started work for Henry VIII and in the twenty-first century in an era when we are still talking about the “pay gap” it’s worth noting that such was her repute as an artist was such that her pay was more than that of Holbein who had recently died and vacated the position of court artist. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. His actions were the excuse that Mary’s government needed to execute his daughter. And with that knowledge it is unsurprising that he ended up married to Charles’ daughter Frances. From 1563 onwards Elizabeth had sought to control Anglo-Scottish relations by offering Robert Dudley as a potential husband to Mary with the carefully worded caveat that if Mary took Dudley as her husband that she would be named as Elizabeth’s heir. Hastings was very busy at that particular time back tracking as fast as he could. As it was his mother was dead as were his cousins the three Grey sisters, Jane, Katherine and Mary. For reasons best known to themselves, even after they’d heard the rumours Jane’s parent allowed her to remain in Seymour’s care. He should have realized from the fate of his mother and her cousins that Elizabeth would not look kindly on a possible candidate for her crown. Lady Kinloss was the Tudor claimant to the English throne, as she was ‘the surviving descendant of Lady Jane Grey’s sister Lady Catherine.’ The Telegraph – Obituary This entry was posted in Lady Katherine Grey . On the 9th July 1553 Suffolk together with the privy council declared Jane queen. Lady Katherine was born at Bradgate Park, near Leicester, the second surviving daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, by his marriage to Lady Frances Brandon.She was the younger sister of Lady Jane Grey and elder sister of Lady Mary Grey.Katherine Grey's maternal grandparents were Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor (formerly … David’s grandson Owen – son of Anne Hopton turns up in the history books as the last custodian of Lady Katherine Grey at Cockfield Hall in Suffolk. There was the small matter of persuading Jane that it was a good idea but it was effectively a done deal with the marriage being celebrated in May 1553 along with the nuptials of Jane’s younger sister Lady Katherine Grey to William Herbert, heir of the earl of Pembroke on the same day. Seymour convinced Henry and Frances that he could arrange a marriage between their oldest surviving child, Lady Jane Grey, and the new king, young Edward VI. Huge collection, amazing choice, 100+ million high quality, affordable RF and RM images. He married Alice Spencer of Althorp in Northamptonshire in 1579 who after her husband’s death became involved in a legal tangle with her brother-in-law over what was rightfully hers. Had he heard anything about a rebellion? She did refer to him as a beloved father and there is no evidence of any untoward behaviour on Seymour’s part. Anne Devereux was the sister of Lord Ferrers of Chartley. A few days later Suffolk declared Mary queen outside the Tower before tearing down the canopy of state from over his daughter’s head. [9] Meanwhile, her sister Lady Jane Grey and her father the Duke of Suffolk had been executed in February 1554 after the suppression of Wyatt's Rebellion. Katherine Grey's maternal grandparents were Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary Tudor ( formerly Queen Consort of France), youngest surviving daughter of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. Le mariage fut annulé en 1562, mais donna le jour à deux enfants, tous deux nés à la Tour: Ses enfants furent tout d'abord considér… [17] The Queen also disapproved of her choice of husband and, still unmarried, also feared that Katherine's ability to bear male offspring could possibly facilitate a rebellion in support of Katherine as queen.
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