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Month: October 2019

Death of Queen Jane Seymour

By Olivia LonguevilleIn Tudor & Renaissance BlogPosted October 27, 2019
The Death of Jane de Seymour, 1847

  On the 12th of October 1537, Queen Jane Seymour gave birth to the future King Edward VI at Hampton Court Palace.  The ordeal was a horrendous one, for the birth had taken two days and three nights.  Nevertheless, she must have been in an elated frame of mind because...

Tags: jane seymour, King Henry VIII, Queen Jane Seymour, Tudor Dynasty, tudor period, tudors
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