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Lady in Waiting is in Ladies.
1533 Marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
1536 Marriage of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour
Around 1465 Alice Haute (age 18) was appointed Lady in Waiting to her first cousin Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 28). Alice's mother Joan Woodville was sister to Elizabeth's father Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers (age 60).
After 1466 Elizabeth Tilney Countess of Surrey (age 22) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England (age 29).
After 11th June 1509 Maud Green (age 17) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Catherine of Aragon Queen Consort England (age 23).
On 25th January 1533 Henry VIII (age 41) and Queen Anne Boleyn of England (age 32) were married by Rowland Leigh Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (age 46) at Whitehall Palace [Map]. Anne Savage Baroness Berkeley (age 37), Thomas Heneage (age 53) and Henry Norreys (age 51) witnessed. She the daughter of Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde (age 56) and Elizabeth Howard Countess of Wiltshire and Ormonde (age 53). He the son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England. They were fifth cousin once removed.
Sometime after the marriage Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland (age 38) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Queen Anne Boleyn of England. She would go to serve Henry's next three wives.
Around May 1536 Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford (age 31) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Queen Jane Seymour (age 27).
On 30th May 1536 Henry VIII (age 44) and Jane Seymour (age 27) were married at Whitehall Palace [Map] by Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester (age 53). She by marriage Queen Consort England. He the son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England. They were half fourth cousin once removed.
Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland (age 41) and Margaret Dymoke aka Mistress Coffin (age 36) were appointed Lady in Waiting to Queen Jane Seymour.
In 1539 Catherine Howard (age 16) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Anne of Cleves Queen Consort England (age 23).
Around January 1540 Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford (age 35) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Anne of Cleves Queen Consort England (age 24).
On 6th January 1540 Henry VIII (age 48) and Anne of Cleves (age 24) were married by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (age 50) at the Palace of Placentia, Greenwich [Map]. Anne of Cleves was crowned Queen Consort England. The difference in their ages was 24 years. She the daughter of John La Marck III Duke Cleves and Maria Jülich Berg Duchess Cleves. He the son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England. They were fifth cousin once removed.
Catherine Carey (age 16) and Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland (age 45) were appointed Lady in Waiting to Anne of Cleves Queen Consort England.
Around July 1540 Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford (age 35) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Queen Catherine Howard of England (age 17).
On 28th July 1540 Henry VIII (age 49) and Catherine Howard (age 17) were married at Oatlands Palace [Map] by Bishop of London Edmund Bonner (age 40). She by marriage Queen Consort England. The difference in their ages was 31 years. He the son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland and Elizabeth York Queen Consort England. They were fifth cousin once removed.
Catherine Carey (age 16) and Eleanor Paston Countess Rutland (age 45) were appointed Lady in Waiting to Queen Catherine Howard of England.
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Around 1554 Jane Dormer Duchess Feria (age 15) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Queen Mary I of England and Ireland (age 37).
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1556 Sébastien de Luxembourg Duke of Penthièvre (age 26) and Marie de Beaucaire (age 21) were married. She a Lady in Waiting to Mary Queen of Scots (age 13).
Before 13th October 1559 Margaret Neville Countess Rutland was appointed Lady in Waiting to Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 26).
In November 1588 Mary Dudley was appointed Lady in Waiting to Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 55).
Around 1605 Cecily Bulstrode (age 20) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Anne of Denmark Queen Consort Scotland England and Ireland (age 30).
Around 1605 Dorothy Bulstrode (age 13) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Anne of Denmark Queen Consort Scotland England and Ireland (age 30).
After 9th March 1702 Barbara Villiers Viscountess Fitzhardinge (age 48) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Queen Anne of England Scotland and Ireland (age 37).
Before 1813 Anne Hamilton (age 46) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Caroline of Brunswick Queen Consort England (age 44) which position she held until 1813.
Before 1847 Alice Gordon (age 59) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Princess Sophia of Gloucester.
Olivia Boteler was appointed Lady in Waiting to Henrietta Maria Bourbon Queen Consort England.
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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Margaret Bourchier 1st Baroness Bryan was appointed Lady in Waiting to Catherine of Aragon Queen Consort England.
