Chapter 18. Jane the Queen
Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch18
Copyright © 2009 Eric Ives
Book Title
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery
Additional Information
How to Cite
Ives, E. (2009) Jane the Queen, in Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444307832.ch18
Publication History
- Published Online: 17 DEC 2009
- Published Print: 18 SEP 2009
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405194136
Online ISBN: 9781444307832
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- Jane the Queen;
- English privy council - becoming aware of impending crisis with Jane in total ignorance;
- Jane to marry Guildford Dudley - Northumberland's only unmarried son;
- Girolamo Raviglio Rosso's History of Events in England;
- Tudor times, parental choice - being dominant factor in aristocratic marriages;
- Commendone, to have the story – ‘Jane strongly deprecated the marriage’ – but gave no explanation;
- Guildford Dudley, very best bet, marriage tying the Greys to the most powerful man in the country;
- securing a second Dudley dukedom;
- Jane's reaction to being married to Guildford - ‘a comely, virtuous and goodly gentleman’;
- On being told that she was queen, - ‘if what was given to me was rightly and lawfully mine … that I might govern to his glory and service’