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Jane Seymour (/ ˈ s iː m ɔːr /; c. 1508 – 24 October 1537) was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 30 May 1536 until her death the next year. She became queen following the execution of Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn , who was accused by King Henry VIII of adultery after failing to produce the male heir he so desperately desired.
Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII of England and mother of King Edward VI. She succeeded—where Henry’s previous wives had failed—in providing a legitimate male heir to the throne. The future Edward VI was born on October 12, 1537, but Jane died 12 days later.
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- She was born at Wolf Hall. Jane was born in 1508, the year before her future husband became King, into the ambitious Seymour family, based in Wolf Hall in Wiltshire.
- She was a devout Catholic. Her journey into the heart of the Tudor court began at a young age, coming into the service of Henry’s first two wives – Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.
- She was far from naïve. While Jane was at court she paid witness to some tumultuous times as Henry’s obsessive search for an heir lead to a split with the church of Rome and the divorce of his first wife, who had only been able to give Henry a daughter.
- She was said to be gentle and sweet-natured. Jane could not have been more different from her predecessor. For a start, she was not a beauty or a great wit.
- She wasn’t very well-educated. Born in 1508 in Wolf Hall, Wiltshire, Jane was the daughter of Sir John Seymour, a lesser knight, and Margery Wentworth.
- She served both of Henry’s previous wives. The first record of Jane arriving at the Tudor court is in 1529 when she served as maid of honour for Catherine of Aragon.
- She was one of nine children. Jane was one of nine children, including six brothers and two sisters. Henry was good friends with Jane’s brothers and it’s believed that she first caught the king’s eye during a royal visit to her family home shortly after the marriage of Henry and Anne.
- She wasn’t a young queen. At the time of their marriage, Jane was already in her late 20s - an older age for the time when most women were married before the age of 20.
Apr 2, 2014 · QUICK FACTS. Name: Jane Seymour. Birth Year: 1509. Birth City: England. Birth Country: United Kingdom. Gender: Female. Best Known For: Anne Boleyn's successor, Queen Consort Jane Seymour, was ...
Aug 11, 2010 · Anne Boleyn. Certainly Jane was the 16th century man’s, (and especially Henry’s) ideal “little woman” 1. She was considered to be soft spoken, docile and subservient. Physically, Anne and Jane were night and day. Jane was pale, as Chapuys writes rather bluntly “Her complexion is so whitish that she may be called rather pale” 2.
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The fall of Anne Boleyn opened a path for Jane Seymour, who had already caught the king's eye. Henry VIII, ever impatient and increasingly desperate for a male heir, wasted little time in moving on from Anne. Just one day after Anne's execution, Henry was formally betrothed to Jane, and they were married ten days later.
