14 May 1536 A.D. While Anne Boleyn is in the Tower, Henry VIII moves Jane Seymour nearer to the King
14 May 1536 A.D. While Anne Boleyn is in the Tower,
Henry VIII moves Jane Seymour nearer to the King
14
May 1536 – Jane Seymour moves nearer the King
Jane
Seymour by Lucas Horenbout
Ridgeway, Claire. “14 May
1536—Jane Seymour moves nearer the King.” The
Anne Boleyn Files. 14 May 2015. http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/14-may-1536-jane-seymour-moves-nearer-the-king/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAnneBoleynFiles+%28The+Anne+Boleyn+Files%29.
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14
May 1536 – Jane Seymour moves nearer the King
Posted
By Claire on May 14, 2015
On
14th May 1536 Sir Nicholas Carew was sent by Henry VIII to collect Jane Seymour
from Carew’s country home outside of London, where she had been sent earlier in
the month to prevent gossip about her relationship with the King, and to
install her in a house in Chelsea.1
Up
until now, Henry VIII had been careful to distance himself from Jane, going so
far as to even spend time with other women. Eustace Chapuys, the imperial
ambassador, reported that Henry VIII had “been going about banqueting with
ladies, sometimes remaining after midnight, and returning by the river” and
that he had also “supped lately with several ladies in the house of the bishop
of Carlisle, and showed an extravagant joy”, but everything had changed now.2
It was the day before Anne Boleyn’s trial and the King was obviously confident
enough to bring his relationship with Jane out into the open and to have her
close to him.
Chapuys
wrote to his master Charles V that Jane was “most richly dressed” and
“splendidly served by the King’s cook and other officers”.3 Like
Anne Boleyn before her, Jane was queen in all but name.
The Queen’s Incontinent Living
Also
on 14th May 1536, Thomas Cromwell wrote to Stephen Gardiner and John Wallop,
the King’s ambassadors in France, to inform Gardiner and Wallop of recent
events in England. In it, he wrote of the Queen’s “incontinent living”,
“incontinent” meaning lacking in self-control, and referred to the “abominable”
offences committed by the Queen and “certain men”. Click here to read Cromwell’s
letter.
Notes and Sources
1. Letters
and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10 – January-June 1536,
908
2. Ibid.
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