New information acquired after the publication of the 3 volume edition of

A WHO'S WHO OF TUDOR WOMEN

ISABEL AGARD (d. 1520+)

James Taffe in Accounting for Anne identifies Isabel Stonor as Mother of Maids at the end of 1539 when she was paid £5/quarter.

MARY AUCHER

According to Sylvia Barbara Soberton, the stories associated with a Mary Orchard were a Victorian invention.

ANNE BOLEYN

Karen L. Davies, et al facial recognition study argues that this is Anne Boleyn, not "unknown woman."

MARY BOLEYN

Sylvia Barbara Soberton's Mary Boleyn which debunks most of the scandal associated with Mary. She speculates Mary Boleyn, not Anne, was sent first to Margaret of Austria's court and then to Mary Tudor in France and came home with Mary Tudor, but admits she is "impossible to locate" between 1515 an 1520. She finds no certain date for her affair with the king, but argues it took place before her marriage.

Karen L. Davies, et al facial recognition study argues that this portrait shows Mary Boleyn, not Elizabeth Cheney, Lady Vaux.

DOROTHY BROADBELT

Rosemary Griggs, in Queen Elizabeth I's Governess: The Real Kat Ashley, suggests that "Jane Broadbent" may have been sisters.

CATHERINE BROUGHTON HOWARD

Sophie Bacchus-Waterman's Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's mother gives the date of her burial in Lambeth as 1535.

Buried in Lambeth 1535

MARGARET BUTLER BOLEYN

Sophie Bacchus-Waterman's Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's mother states that her mental illness was first recorded in Sept. 1519 and that she was living at Hever by 1526. Sylvia Barbara Soberton's, Mary Boleyn says Thomas Boleyn arranged for her to receive an income of 400 marks/year from her Ormond inheritance. She was described in her inquisition post mortem as "lunatic, frenetic, insane, and not of sound mind," although she had lucid intervals. Dr. Claire Martin in Heirs of Ambition suggests she suffered from bipolar disorder.

CATHERINE CAREY

James Taffe in Accounting for Anne lists her as a maid of honor to Anne of Cleves. She received a gift of £15 one week before marriage to Francis Knollys.

MARGARET CARY

Sylvia Barbara Soberton's, Mary Boleyn says she was born November 30, 1564.

PHILADELPHIA CAREY

Sylvia Barbara Soberton's, Mary Boleyn says she was born December 21, 1563.

KATHERINE CHAMPERNOWNE (d. July 18, 1565)

Rosemary Griggs, in Queen Elizabeth I's Governess: The Real Kat Ashley presents evidence that Katherine Champernowne was one of two daughters of Sir Philip Champernowne and Catherine Carew by that name. This biography is highly recommended.

MARTHA DENNY

James Taffe in Accounting for Anne says Wymond Carew, Anne of Cleves's receiver general, stayed on with his wife after the annulment. He intercepted her letters for the king, after which Anne accorded him and his wife less respect than she had for her steward, Jasper Horsley, and his wife. Carew complained of this in a letter to John Gates.

ELIZABETH DONNE

James Taffe in Accounting for Anne identifies Elizabeth as the wife of Sir Thomas Dennis/Denys, chamberlain to Anne of Cleves. Elizabeth gave Anne one of her own greyhounds (Anne had several, plus other animals).

DOROTHY FITZHERBERT (d. 1557+)—her date of death should be changed to 1564+-

James Taffe in Accounting for Anne identifies Dorothy's husband as John (d.1542), son of Anthony Wingfield of Letheringham and reports that they were engaged to be married by the spring of 1538, but that Dorothy had to go to ecclesiastical court to force him to go through with the marriage. When they decided in her favor, John appealed to the king and his father petitioned Lord Cromwell, but Dorothy prevailed. They married sometime after September 1539. She was paid wages of 50s/quarter as a gentlewoman in the household of Jane Seymour and these payments continued after the queen's death. She was in the household of Anne of Cleves and when Anne was replaced by Catherine Howard she asked that Dorothy stay with her. In 1541, John and Dorothy petitioned the king to lease the former priory of Woodbridge, Suffolk. In 1548, when Woodbridge was to be sold, Dorothy petitioned Anne Stanhope Seymour, Countess of Hertford. Her letter is included in Taffe's book. Dorothy was to live there with the reversion to the Crown upon her death (she had no children). Anne of Cleves's will named Dorothy first among those receiving bequests. In addition to the sum received as chief gentlewoman, she was left an additional £20. In 1564, she was still living when the reversion was sold to Thomas Seckford.

BRIDGET FOGGE

James Taffe in Accounting for Anne clarifies that Bridget Fogge was not Mother Lowe, Mother of Maids under Anne of Cleves. That lady was from Cleves and is recorded on May 22, 1540 as being one of several "Dutch maids" who wanted to return home. While waiting for the king's permission, they were housed in the Tower of London, which reportedly terrified Mother Lowe. Sir William Paget was assigned to escort them home and leave to depart was granted by June 1540 but the final license was approved by Catherine Howard.

ALYS GAGE

James Taffe in Accounting for Anne suggests that Alys was a lady of the privy chamber to Anne of Cleves but left Court in February to recover from a sudden illness and died 31 March 1540.

ELIZABETH HOWARD BOLEYN

Sophie Bacchus-Waterman's Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's mother places her at court from 1509-1522. Karen L. Davies, et al facial recognition study argues that this is Elizabeth Howard, not Anne Boleyn or others that have been suggested, such as Sir Thomas Wyatt's wife or his mistress.

ELIZABETH HOWARD RADCLIFFE

Sophie Bacchus-Waterman's Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's mother says she was buried in Lambeth in 1534.

MARY HOWARD

Sylvia Barbara Soberton's, Mary Boleyn places Mary Howard in Anne Boleyyn's household at about age twelve although the usual age for a maid of honor was sixteen or older.

MURIEL HOWARD

Sophie Bacchus-Waterman's Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's mother says she served Elizabeth of York. She was the wife of John Grey (d. 9. Sept 1504). Their daughter Elizabeth was born posthumously. Her last child by her second husband, Thomas Knyvett (d.1512) was also posthumous. Muriel went into labor Dec. 14, 1512, contracted childbed fever, and died at 1 AM Dec. 15. She made her will on Dec. 13. Her funeral was Dec. 21 at Lambeth. Her seven female mourners were Elizabeth Boleyn, Elizabeth Stafford Howard, Mary Bourchier, her three half-sisters, Anne de Vere, Anne Bourchier, and Marjorie Bryan, and her mother-in-law, Eleanor Knyvett. Fiftyt-two other mourners included gentlewomen Alys Denys and Margaret Jerningham, d/o Mary Scrope. Many more details of the funeral are given in this biography.

ANNE KNYVETT

Sophie Bacchus-Waterman's Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's mother says she was in Queen Catherine's household by 1514 and went to Wales in 1526 with Princess Mary.

MARY NORRIS

James Taffe in Accounting for Anne says she was in Anne of Cleves's household but left with Catherine Howard (her cousin). She married Sir George Carew in the autumn of 1540 after his first wife, Thomasine, died in Calais on 18 Dec. 1539 (while Anne of Cleves was stranded there). Mary received from Catherine Howard a wedding gift of a pair of crystal beads garnished with gold and others of "gold enameled blue and set with stones."

JANE PARKER

Sylvia Barbara Soberton's, Mary Boleyn says she married George Boleyn between October 4, 1524 and the end of 1525.

ELEANOR PASTON

James Taffe in Accounting for Anne says Jane Boleyn, Eleanor Countess of Rutland, and Katherine Lady Edgecombe were all ladies of Anne of Cleves's privy chamber and all signed a single document testifying to a conversation with Anne of Cleves that confirmed her marriage to the king had not been consummated. This may or may not have been fabricated to secure an annulment.

MARY ROOS

James Taffe in Accounting for Anne says that in 1496 grant of 40 marks/year was changed on death of Elizabeth of York to an annuity for life. In

1535, as Lady Capell, she wrote to Cromwell to say had not been paid for two years. She had to produce the patent in 1536 but payments were restored and she was receiving them as late as 1540 out of the queen's dower lands from Anne of Cleves

CATHERINE ST. JOHN

ANNE STANHOPE

James Taffe in Accounting for Anne names her as a lady in waiting to Anne of Cleves. She left Court in spring 1540 to have her daughter, Margaret. The queen visited her and gave rewards to the baby's nurse and to minstrels who performed during her visit

ANNE TEMPEST

Sophie Bacchus-Waterman's Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's mother says Anne Tempest was not at court until 1517 at the earliest, when she was at least 12. She had married by June 1520.

ELIZABETH TYLNEY (d.1497)

Sophie Bacchus-Waterman's Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's mother concludes that the poem, Garland or Chapelet of Laurel was written later about a visit by John Skelton to Sheriff Hutton in May 1495, since the Countess of Surrey (Elizabeth Tylney) was his patron before he became Prince Henry's tutor. The women present were:

Elizabeth Tylney Howard, Countess of Surrey

Elizabeth Howard, a teenager, and Muriel Howard, age 10

Anne Bourcher, her daughter by her first marriage [she married Thomas Fiennes, baron Dacre in 1492]

Margery Wentworth, later Seymour and Jane Seymour's mother

Margaret [Brewes] Tylney, sister-in-law of Agnes Tylney

Jane Blenner-Haiset, daughter of Sir Thomas Blenner-Haiset [Blennerhassett]

Isabel Pennell, Margaret Tylney's niece

Margaret Hussey [Margaret Blount, Lady Hussey?]

Gertrude Statham

Isabel Knyght

BRIDGET WILTSHIRE

Sylvia Barbara Soberton, Mary Boleyn says Sir Richard Wingfield died in 1524 on a mission to Charles V's court in Toledo and

Sir Nicholas Harvey died in August 1532 of the plague.

ELIZABETH WOOD

Sophie Bacchus-Waterman's Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's mother says Elizabeth Wood was not Lady Boleyn until 1515 or 1516 and cites C. Norton The Boleyn Women.

LISTS OF WOMEN AT COURT:

Household of Princess Mary, later Queen of France

(from Sylvia Barbara Soberton, Mary Boleyn)

Mary Boleyn/Marie Boulonna

M. Wotton

Lady Elizabeth Grey

Elizabeth Ferrys

Anne Devereux

Grey of Wilton

Joan Berners (Bourchier)

Alys Denys, chamberer

Anne Jerningham, chamberer

Anne Boleyn's household:

Possible ID for Mistress Marshall, Mistress of Maids

According to Sophie Bacchus-Waterman's Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's mother

William Marshall's will (written 8 July 1531;proved 6 Feb 1532) gave Elizabeth Howard Boleyn "oversight and governance" of his daughter Elizabeth and of her marriage. At that time, according to online genealogies, his daughter was the widow of John Brocas of Horton (1476-1518) and had two children, Robert (1510-1558) and Elizabeth (1515-1581), which makes it seem very odd that she would be in need of "oversight and governance" from someone who was not a family member. Bacchus-Waterman suggests William's wife, Mary Marshall, was Mistress Marshall, Mother of Maids under Anne Boleyn (1534-1536). For more information see Bacchus-Waterman's article: "'Mrs. Marshall': The Identity of the Mother of Maids in Anne Boleyn's Household" The Court Historian, vol. 29, no.3, 2024, pp. 211-218

James Taffe in Accounting for Anne identifies the following gentlewomen who accompanied Anne of Cleves to England:

Swartzenbroch

Brempt

Ossenbruch

Wyllyk

Lady Wissem, howmestrinne (Mother of Maids?)

Loe (or Loew)—"Mother Lowe" was from Cleves and is recorded on May 22, 1540 as being one of several "Dutch maids" who wanted to return home. While waiting for the king's permission, they were housed in the Tower of London, which reportedly terrified Mother Lowe. Sir William Paget was assigned to escort them home and leave to depart was granted by June 1540 but the final license was approved by Catherine Howard. A June 24 1540 reference to Catherine Malecrode and Gertrude Wyllyk (wife of Otto? If so d. before 1552) mentions Anne Joscelyn, chamberer, Elizabeth Rastell, chamberer, Mother of Maids paid £20/year. Ellen Turpin, laundress 40s./quarter (she was in Anne's will). Not listed in April 1540 were Catherine Howard, Catherine Carey (cousin of Catherine Howard), and Mary Norris (cousin of Catherine Howard). They were replaced by Margaret Garneys and Damascin (or Katherine) Stradling. In 1552: Count Von Waldeck tried to discharge Jasper Brockhouse, cofferer, and his wife Gertrude but Anne refused; they buried their daughter Anne at Bletchingly in the spring of 1553; in 1556 the Duke of Cleves claimed that Gertrude had driven Anne of Cleves mad "by her marvellous impostures and incantations."

NO CURRENT ENTRY—ALYS DENYS

Sophie Bacchus-Waterman's Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's mother identifies her as a lady of the queen's household in Catherine of Aragon's coronation procession and says she served Claude of France along with Mary Boleyn and was a mourner at funeral of Murial Howard in 1512.

NO CURRENT ENTRY—JANE STAFFORD

Sylvia Barbara Soberton's, Mary Boleyn identifies her as the sister of William Stafford, who married Mary Boleyn and then Dorothy Stafford. Jane and her husband, William Willms, went into exile with William and Dorothy. On February 24, 1556, Jane married Maximilian Celsus, and Italian preacher.