. Historical portraits ... efore a court of peers, with her uncle, theDuke of Norfolk, as president, in May 1536; but, though sentencewas unanimously given against her, it could hardly be calleda fair trial, as some of her alleged accomplices had been pre-viously convicted and put to death. She was beheaded on TowerHill, May 19, 1536. 124 JANE SEYMOUR (1509-1537) third Queen of Henry VIII, was the daughter of Sir John Seymourand Margaret Wentworth. We find her as a maid of honour in thehousehold of Queen Katharine and again in that of Queen Anne, butit was not till 1535 that Henry began to pay
. Historical portraits ... efore a court of peers, with her uncle, theDuke of Norfolk, as president, in May 1536; but, though sentencewas unanimously given against her, it could hardly be calleda fair trial, as some of her alleged accomplices had been pre-viously convicted and put to death. She was beheaded on TowerHill, May 19, 1536. 124 JANE SEYMOUR (1509-1537) third Queen of Henry VIII, was the daughter of Sir John Seymourand Margaret Wentworth. We find her as a maid of honour in thehousehold of Queen Katharine and again in that of Queen Anne, butit was not till 1535 that Henry began to pay her serious married her immediately after Annes death in May 1536, andtheir only child, afterwards Edward VI, was born in October 1537,the Queen dying from cold and improper diet twelve days after herdelivery. For her alone of his six Queens, Henry wore seems to have been a gentle creature of good character anda popular Queen. She was buried at Windsor, and Henry wasafterwards buried at her .2 O ^ o W) u en o w () > -1 c u 0 ■—i Uh ^ u If) c: w 2: .ti z 2 < ■^ o o. D r- *-* P o
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