8. s2014 wives and widows in mid-15th century england
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Wives and Widows
Catherine de Valois and Henry V
Wives and Widows
• Catherine of France = Henry V• Jacqueline of Hainault = Humphrey of
Gloucester• Jacquetta of Luxembourg = John of Bedford• Margaret of Anjou = Henry VI• The Paston Women
Genealogical Table of Henry VI
John Talbot presents Poems and Romances to Margaret of Anjou
CatherineHenry V
Henry VI
Humphrey, duke of Gloucester Richard, duke of YorkTalbot Presentation
Jacqueline (1401-36)Countess of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland Married John, Dauphin of France
(1415-17) John IV, Duke of Brabant
(1418-22) Humphrey, Duke of
Gloucester (1423-28) Frank van Borssele (1434-
6)
Lowlands
Humphrey and Eleanor Cobham (1400-1452)
1422 Lady in waiting to Jacqueline1425 Mistress1428 Wife1441 Trial1442 Divorce and life imprisonment
Jessica Freeman (2004) “Sorcery at court and manor: Margery Jourdemayne, the witch of Eye next Westminster,” Journal of Medieval History, 30:4, 343-357, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmedhist.2004.08.001
Margery JourdemaineWitch of Eye next Westminster
How she in waxe by counsel of the witch, An image made, crowned like a king,...... which dayly they did pytchAgainst a fyre, that as the wax did melt, So should his lyfe consume away unfelt.
The Paston Women
• Margaret Mautby [Margaret Paston (1421/2– 1484)– Wife of John (I) Paston
• Margery Paston Calle (~1448 – before 1482)• Margery Brews Paston (? – 1495)
Paston Letters 1449
• pray you to get some crossbows and windlasses to bind them with, and crossbow bolts;
• Defenses of Lord Molyns retainer• Requests for purchases in London
Margery Paston
• Richard Calle, bailiff for the Pastons• Secret marriage – opposition
The Valentine Letter
Wives, Widows and Future Kings
Effigy of Catherine of Valois Owen Tudor
Catherine of Valois (1401-37)
1420-22 Married to Henry V Henry VI
1425 Rumors of attachment to Edmund Beaufort1426 Petition to Commons to allow King’s widows to marry at will1427 Statute forbidding marriage of King’s widows
Catherine of Valois
~ 1428-29 Marriage to Owen Tudor (1400-1461)Edmund Tudor (~1430-56), Jasper Tudor (~1431-1495), Owen Tudor (?), daughter who may have become a nun and died young. 1432 Owen Tudor given rights of an Englishman
Jaquetta of Luxembourg (1416-1472)
1433 Marries John, duke of Bedford (1389-1435), brother of Henry V1437 Marries Richard Woodville (d. 1469), a minor knight
14 children including Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV (witchcraft?)
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