Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey | |
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The Streatham portrait, discovered at the beginnin o the 21st century an believed tae be a copy o a contemporary portrait o Lady Jane Grey.[1] | |
Queen o Ingland an Ireland (disputit) (mair...) | |
Ring | 10 Julie 1553 – 19 Julie 1553[2] |
Predecessor | Edward VI |
Successor | Mary I |
Born | 1536/1537 |
Dee'd | 12 Februar 1554 (aged 16–17) Touer o Lunnon, Lunnon |
Buirial | St Peter ad Vincula, Lunnon |
Spouse | Lord Guildford Dudley |
Faither | Henry Grey, 1st Duke o Suffolk |
Mither | Lady Frances Brandon |
Seegnatur |
Lady Jane Grey (1536/1537 – [3] or The Nine Days' Queen,[4] wis an Inglis noblewoman an de facto monarch o Ingland frae 10 Julie till 19 Julie 1553. She wis a womin who dee'd at 17 yeirs o age, afta a failit coup by the Earal of Nothumbalan an harself, knowan as the 'devyse'. Undere the rean of Quene Mary, she wis executit the followin yier.
12 Februar 1554), forby kent as Lady Jane DudleyReferences
- ↑ Higgins, Charlotte (16 Januar 2006). "Is this the true face of Lady Jane?". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 Mey 2008.
- ↑ Williamson, David (2010). Kings & Queens. National Portrait Gallery Publications. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-85514-432-3
- ↑ Plowden, Alison (23 September 2004). "Grey, Lady Jane (1534–1554), noblewoman and claimant to the English throne". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-861362-8.
- ↑ Ives 2009, p. 2