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Rather, it seems that Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel —whom Northumberland had arrested and detained twice as an ally of Somerset, before rehabilitating—engineered a coup d'etat in the Privy Council in Northumberland's absence. Jane is often called the Nine-Day Queen, although if her reign is dated from the moment of Edward's death on 6 July , her reign could have been a few days longer.

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The Duke of Northumberland was executed on 22 August In September, Parliament declared Mary the rightful successor and denounced and revoked Jane's proclamation as that of a usurper. Referred to by the court as Jane Dudley, wife of Guildford, Jane was charged with high treason , as were her husband, two of his brothers, and the former Archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Cranmer. As was to be expected, all defendants were found guilty and sentenced to death. Jane's guilt, of having treacherously assumed the title and the power of the monarch, was evidenced by a number of documents she had signed as "Jane the Quene".

Her father, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and his two brothers joined the rebellion, and so the government decided to go through with the verdict against Jane and Guildford. Their execution was first scheduled for 9 February , but was then postponed for three days to give Jane a chance to convert to the Catholic faith. Mary sent her chaplain John Feckenham to Jane, who was initially not pleased about this. On the morning of 12 February , the authorities took Guildford from his rooms at the Tower of London to the public execution place at Tower Hill , where he was beheaded.

A horse and cart brought his remains back to the Tower, past the rooms where Jane was staying.

Seeing her husband's corpse return, Jane is reported to have exclaimed: According to the account of her execution given in the anonymous Chronicle of Queen Jane and of Two Years of Queen Mary , which formed the basis for Raphael Holinshed 's depiction, Jane gave a speech upon ascending the scaffold:. Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same.

The fact, indeed, against the Queen's highness was unlawful, and the consenting thereunto by me: While admitting to action considered unlawful, she declared that "I do wash my hands thereof in innocence". The executioner asked her forgiveness, which she granted him, pleading: Jane then failed to find the block with her hands, and cried, "What shall I do? With her head on the block, Jane spoke the last words of Jesus as recounted by Luke: No memorial stone was erected at their grave.

She died in During and in the aftermath of the Marian persecutions , Jane became viewed as a Protestant martyr for centuries, featuring prominently in the several editions of the Book of Martyrs Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Dayes by John Foxe. The tale of Lady Jane grew to legendary proportions in popular culture, producing romantic biographies, novels, plays, paintings, and films, one of which was the production Lady Jane , starring Helena Bonham Carter.

Jane Grey is the only English monarch in the last years though whether her short reign was legitimate is disputed of whom no proven contemporary portrait survives.

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Painted 40 to 50 years after Jane's death, the " Streatham portrait " so called after the area of London in which it resided for decades depicts a young woman dressed in a red gown, adorned with jewels and holding a prayer book. David Starkey is sceptical, "It's an appallingly bad picture and there's absolutely no reason to suppose it's got anything to do with Lady Jane Grey". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Jane Grey disambiguation. The Streatham portrait , discovered at the beginning of the 21st century and believed to be a copy of a contemporaneous portrait of Lady Jane Grey [1].


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Ancestors of Lady Jane Grey John Grey of Groby [58] 8. Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset [58] Elizabeth Woodville [58] 4. Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset [56] William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington [58] 9. Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington [58] Lady Katherine Neville [58] 2. Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk Sir Robert Wotton [58] 5.

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Margaret Wotton [56] Henry Belknap [61] Anne Belknap [58] 1. Lady Jane Grey Sir William Brandon [59] Elizabeth Wingfield [59] 6. Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk [57] Henry Bruyn [60] Elizabeth Bruyn [60] Elizabeth Darcy [60] 3. Lady Frances Brandon Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond [60] Henry VII of England [58] Lady Margaret Beaufort [60] 7. Mary Tudor [57] Edward IV of England [58] Elizabeth of York [58] Retrieved 11 May National Portrait Gallery Publications.


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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Pegasus Books — via Google Books. In Nichols, John Gough.

Of Queen Joanna of Spain, Potter writes: Far from showing the power and glory of these monarchs, Potter shows their weakness and insecurity. This selection in time and scope of work was probably done in order to focus on those areas that are the most popular and the best known as well as to limit the scope of the work to one volume.

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Still, the choices appear somewhat arbitrary, and a reader ought to recognize that. The book does, however, spend most of its time talking about the wars of European Renaissance monarchs. Anyone who reads this volume will be made aware of the fact that these monarchs seemed constantly in a state of either fighting wars or preparing to fight them, or dealing with the civil discontent caused by the excessive taxation for warfare or for extravagant courts or wasteful elites.

Even though this particular volume is dedicated to biographical sketches of monarchs, many of the monarchs named here were either not particularly powerful monarchs on the battlefield or had to depend on regents to rule parts of their lands because of limitations of communication even as adults. As a result, the book is full of short biographical sketches of the other important military figures who assisted their monarchs in keeping order, or who rebelled against their monarchs.

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A typical introduction of these elite figures is as follows:. When the duchy of Savoy was overrun by France, he was forced to flee to the imperial court for protection. There are many examples of noble generals that begin in the same way, with genealogical information and a short biographical sketch of their own life mixed with their involvement in the affairs of the monarchs of their day. For DRM readers, there is also often specific information about battles and sieges and their results.