http://www.thetudorswiki.com//index.php?title=Jane_Boleyn&feed=atom&action=historyJane Boleyn - Revision history2024-03-29T01:26:49ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.1http://www.thetudorswiki.com//index.php?title=Jane_Boleyn&diff=36857&oldid=prevTravis: Created page with "<div class="WPC-editableContent"><div align="left"> <h3> <font size="3"><font color="#ffffff"><b>Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford</b> (nee Parker) </font><font color="#808080">as pl..."2020-11-13T16:14:32Z<p>Created page with "<div class="WPC-editableContent"><div align="left"> <h3> <font size="3"><font color="#ffffff"><b>Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford</b> (nee Parker) </font><font color="#808080">as pl..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div><div class="WPC-editableContent"><div align="left"> <h3> <font size="3"><font color="#ffffff"><b>Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford</b> (nee Parker) </font><font color="#808080">as played by [[Joanne King]]</font></font></h3></div> <table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-border-none" width="750"> <tr> <td class="WPC-edit-borderTop-double WPC-edit-borderBottom-none WPC-edit-custom-borderTop WPC-edit-custom-borderBottom WPC-edit-custom-bgColor" colspan="2" width="100%"> <h3> </h3></td></tr> <tr> <td class="WPC-edit-borderBottom-double WPC-edit-borderTop-none WPC-edit-custom-borderTop WPC-edit-custom-borderBottom WPC-edit-custom-bgColor" width="50%"> <font color="#ffa500"><b>born c. 1505 - executed February 13, 1542 by order of [[King Henry VIII]]</b></font><br/><br/><font color="#ffffff"><font size="2"><b>Character's backstory</b>: Henry VIII's grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort had </font></font><font size="2">brokered the marriage between Jane's parents and helped pay the christening expenses for Jane and her siblings</font>. <font color="#ffffff"><font size="2">She came from a wealthy, politically active, upper class family and probably was in court before her 15th birthday in the household of [[Queen Katherine of Aragon]]. She is recorded as taking part in the Masquerade in 1522 when the King may have first "noticed" [[Anne Boleyn]]. She married [[George Boleyn]] circa 1524/5 just before the King started to actively court his sister Anne. As the Boleyn family's influence increased, the couple were given Grimston (in Norfolk) and Beaulieu Palace as their chief residence, which George and Jane decorated with a lavish chapel, a tennis court, a bathroom with hot-and-cold running water, imported carpets, mahogany furniture and their own large collection of silverware. Their marital bed was draped in cloth of gold with a white satin canopy, linen quilts and a yellow counterpane. [source: Marie Bruce]. Jane plotted with her sister-in-law [[Anne Boleyn]] to banish one of the King's young unnamed mistresses from Court in 1534. When the King discovered her involvement, Lady Rochford was herself exiled for a few months. <br/><br/>When Cromwell orchestrated the "coup" against [[Anne Boleyn]] and the Boleyn faction, she was interrogated and implicated her husband as having an incestuous affair with his sister. </font></font><font size="2">However, Sir John Spelman, who sat on the bench throughout the trial , did not touch on Jane at all. Instead, he wrote that the incriminating evidence against Anne came from a Lady Wingfield's posthumous testimony through a relative. Cromwell, (who had all the "information" he needed to condemn Anne directly from Smeaton's confession), simply made general remarks on the disgust at Anne's conduct felt by the Ladies of the Bedchamber</font><font color="#ffffff"><font size="2">. She is said to have appealed for her husband while in the Tower. After her husband's execution, she was away from court for a time but thanks to Thomas Cromwell, she was awarded an annual pension and allowed to return to court <font face="Arial">as lady in waiting to [[Jane Seymour]]. After Jane's death she was sent to [[Anne of Cleves]] household and </font></font></font><font face="Arial" size="2">in July 1540 she aided the King's divorce from [[Anne of Cleves]] by stating that the Queen had confided in her that their marriage had never been consummated. This allowed the king to annul the marriage with [[Anne of Cleves]] and marry his teenage mistress</font><font face="Arial" size="2">, [[Katherine Howard]]. She then joined </font><font color="#ffffff"><font size="2">[[Katherine Howard]]'s privy chamber. Under interrogation for her role in aiding and abetting [[Katherine Howard]]'s affairs, she had a nervous breakdown and was pronounced insane. As it was illegal to execute the insane, King Henry changed the law and she was beheaded directly after the Queen was executed and buried alongside her ill fated husband &amp; sister-in-law.</font></font><font color="#ffffff"><b><br/><br/></b></font><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><b>Gentility</b>: daughter of Baron Lord Morley, Viscountess of Rochford by marriage<br/><br/></font><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><b>Position</b>: Viscountess Rochford (wife of [[George Boleyn]]), Lady-in-waiting to [[Queen Katherine of Aragon|Katherine of Aragon]], [[Anne Boleyn]], [[Anne of Cleves]], and [[Katherine Howard]]<br/><br/></font><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><b>Personality type</b>: an ambitious social climber, disatisified &amp; resentful of her sister in law. </font><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><br/><b>Signature look</b>:<br/><br/><b>Endearing trait(s)</b>: Jane was very supportive of Anne during her reign, even helping Anne to do away with one of Henry's mistresses. Jane also wrote and begged for her husband during his imprisonment.<br/><br/><b>Annoying trait(s)</b>: Jane is infamously remembered in history as the lying wife who brought about the downfall of [[Anne Boleyn]] and her brother George, and for contributing to that of [[Katherine Howard]]. She has been described as a lying, jealous, conniving, self-preserving woman.<br/><br/><b>Scandals: </b>Although Jane did <font color="#ffa500"><b><u>not</u> </b></font>give testimony against her husband and sister-in-law during their trials, she did give statements to Thomas Cromwell which he used to accuse them of both adultery and incest. Her reasons for doing this will never be known but it has been suggested it was either because of jealousy of her husband’s extramarital affairs, self-promotion, religious grievances or animosity to Anne due to something which broke up their friendship. <br/></font><font color="#ffffff" size="2">Additionally, Jane also aided [[Katherine Howard]] in secretly meeting [[Thomas Culpepper]]. For her participation in the treasonous act, she was beheaded.<br/><br/></font><div align="center"><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="330"> <tr> <td class="" width="100%"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><font color="#ffffff"><b>Julia Fox</b> [see [[Tudor Historians]]] says in her recent biography of <font color="#ffa500"><b>"Jane Boleyn: the Infamous Lady Rochford"</b></font> about Jane's part in [[George Boleyn]] and [[Anne Boleyn]]'s demises : </font><br/><br/><font color="#ffffff">"<i>Jane Rochford found herself dragged into a maelstrom of intrigue, innuendo and speculation. For when Cromwell sent for Jane, he already had much of what he needed, not only to bring down Anne and her circle, but to make possible the king's marriage to [[Jane Seymour]]... The questions to Jane</i> [Rochford] <i>would have come thick and fast... Faced with such relentless, incessant questions, which she had no choice but to answer, Jane would have searched her memory for every tiny incident that occurred to her...</i> [But] <i>Jane had not been quick to tell tales, but she had buckled under the pressure of relentless questioning... And it was her weakness under interrogation that gave her future detractors - happy to find <font color="#ffa500">a <b>scapegoat</b></font> to exonerate the king from the heinous charge of callously killing his Innocent wife - the ammunition to maintain that it was her evidence that had fooled Henry and destroyed Anne and George...</i>"</font></font><font face="Arial" size="1"><br/><br/><br/><br/></font></td></tr></table></font></div><div align="center"></div><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><br/></font><div align="center"></div></td> <td align="center" class="WPC-edit-borderBottom-double WPC-edit-borderTop-none WPC-edit-custom-borderTop WPC-edit-custom-borderBottom WPC-edit-custom-bgColor" width="50%"> <br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="300"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#1a1a1a" class="WPC-edit-custom-bgColor" width="100%"> <br/><br/><div align="center"> [[File:ZbE4 H489NaPSL2LdqGzWA266526.jpeg|246px|Joanne King as Jane Boleyn]]</div> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> [[File:ZyuQByYd eLKuKYfVgaW2w39319.jpeg|324px|Jane Boleyn's signature]]<br/><font size="2">Jane Boleyn's signature, signed 'Jane Rochford'</font></div></td></tr></table><i><font face="Times" size="4"> <br/></font></i> <div align="center"> <font size="2"><b><i><font face="Times" size="4">"" I will never confess it, <br/>to be torn with wild horses" </font></i></b><br/>~ [[Katherine Howard]] said this is what Jane said ( from LP)<br/><br/></font></div> <table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-border2 WPC-edit-border-none WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="300"> <tr> <td class="WPC-edit-borderTop-solid2px WPC-edit-borderLeft-solid2px WPC-edit-borderBottom-solid2px WPC-edit-borderRight-solid2px" width="100%"> <div align="center"> <font face="Arial" size="3"><font size="2">There is a </font><b><font color="#ffa500" size="2">fable</font></b><font size="2"> that in her final speech on the scaffold in 1542 she said:</font><br/><br/></font></div> <div align="center"> <font face="Arial" size="3"><b><i>"<font face="Times" size="3">I die today for the witness I bore against my husband and Queen Anne.</font></i></b><i><font face="Times" size="3"><b> The things I testified to then were not true."</b></font><br/><br/></i><font size="2">However , in actuality<i> </i>the French [[ambassador Marillac]] merely stated that Jane gave a<i> 'long discourse' </i>and a merchant named Otwell Johnson said that<b> she apologised for her '<i>many sins</i>,'</b> but neither man's accounts supports the later legend that she spoke at length about her late husband or sister-in-law.<br/><br/><br/></font></font></div></td></tr></table><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="350"><tr><td class="" width="100%"><font size="2">"The evidence against Lord Rochford [[[George Boleyn]]] was said to have been laid solely by his wife of 12 years, Jane Parker; she was described by Henry VIII's 16th century biographer, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, as the <b>'particular instrument' in the ruin of her husband</b> and his sister. Cherbury based his account on the lost journal of Anthony Anthony, a witness at the trials of George and [[Anne Boleyn]]....<br/><br/>George Cavendish who knew Jane personally but had no love for the Boleyns and wrote with the benefit of hindsight, had no great opinion of her character. She was reared, he asserted, speaking as Jane:<br/><br/><i>Withouten bridle of honest measure<br/>Following my lust and filthy pleasure,<br/>Without respect of any wifely truth,<br/>Dreadless of God, from grace also exempt,<br/>Viciously consuming the time of this my youth.</i><br/><br/>We know that Lady Rochford had a talent for intrigue, for she was complicit in [[Katherine Howard]]'s adulterous affairs in 1541, acting as facilitator and lookout. She was not new to the game." ~ Alison Weir's<i> Lady in the Tower</i><br/></font></td></tr></table><br/><div align="center"><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><br/></font><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="330"><tr><td class="" width="100%"><br/><font size="2">"Lady Rochford's motives are hard to understand. She was the widow of [[George Boleyn]], Lord Rochford, and as such, had seen her husband and her sister-in-law, Queen [[Anne Boleyn|Anne ]], destroyed by charges of adultery and incest. Those charges were a fabrication. But now she was encouraging her new mistress, Queen [[Katherine Howard|Katherine]], to act out such follies indeed. Had Lady Rochford's been a life starved of affection? Was she living out in Katherine the romantic fantasies she had never known? We can only guess. But her indulgence proved fatal to her mistress, to herself and to Katherine's lover." ~ David Starkey <i>Six Wives</i></font></td></tr></table><br/><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><br/></font><font size="2"><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="300"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <b><font size="3">LINKS:<br/><br/></font></b> <ul><li> <b><font size="3">[[Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford Controversies|Historical Controversies about Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford]]</font></b></li></ul></td></tr></table></font><br/><font size="2"><br/></font></div><font size="3"> <div align="center"> </div></font> </td></tr></table> <table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-border-none" width="750"> <tr> <td class="WPC-edit-custom-bgColor" width="50%"> <h3> <font color="#ffffff">CHARACTER CONNECTIONS</font></h3><font color="#ffffff"> <br/></font><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><b>Family members</b>:</font><br/><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="4"><font size="3"><font size="2">Father: Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley</font></font></font><br/><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="4"><font size="3"><font size="2">Mother: Alice St. John (Eldest daughter of Sir John St. John; Sir John's grandfather Oliver was the 1st husband to Margaret Beauchamp, mother of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII)<br/>Husband: [[George Boleyn]], Lord Rochford<br/>Brother: Sir Henry Parker<br/>Sister: Margaret Parker, Lady Sheldon<br/>Sister: Elizabeth Parker<br/>Brother: Francis Parker<br/>Sisters-in-law: [[Anne Boleyn]] and [[Mary Boleyn]]<br/>Father-in-law: [[Thomas Boleyn]]<br/>Cousin: [[Madge Sheldon|Margaret Sheldon]]<br/><br/></font></font></font><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><b>Marriage:</b></font><br/><font size="2">[[George Boleyn]]<br/><br/>Her sister married her husband's cousin - see below.<br/></font></td> <td class="WPC-edit-custom-bgColor" width="50%"> <font color="#ffffff" size="2"><b>Children:</b><br/>Rumours that <font color="#0000ff">[[George Boleyn]]</font>, Dean of Lichfield in Elizabethan times may have been their son but it is thought he was perhaps a cousin.</font> <br/><br/><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><b><b>Friends</b></b>:</font><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="4"><font size="3"><font size="2"> [[Anne Boleyn]] and Jane were friends until something happened in 1535</font></font></font><br/><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="4"><font size="3"><font size="2">The Catholic Faction <br/><br/><br/></font></font></font><font color="#ffffff" size="2"><b><b>Enemies</b></b>:</font><br/><font size="2">The Reformer Faction &amp; [[Thomas Cranmer]]</font></td></tr></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-none WPC-edit-border-none WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="750"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <div align="center"> [[File:Xc OfXcRWcSvOqlZ8in6KQ10853.jpeg|640px|Jane Boleyn - The Tudors Wiki]]</div></td></tr></table><br/><font color="#ffffff" size="4">UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTER QUOTES</font><font color="#ffffff"><b><br/></b><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="6" class="WPC-edit-border-all" width="750"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font size="2"><br/></font> <ul> <li> <font size="2">Jane, "Do you love me, George?" George, "I married you, didn't I?"</font></li></ul><font size="2"> </font> <ul> <li> <font size="2">Jane to George: "it is not that you left my bed for another woman...but for another man!"</font></li></ul><font size="2"> </font> <ul> <li> <font size="2">" It's a sin against god! It's a sin against nature!"</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2">Jane to Queen Jane: "These Rebels are nothing but villians"</font><br/></li></ul><font size="2"> </font> <ul> <li> <font size="2">"Shes a fool, a sweet fool" Jane to [[Thomas Culpepper]] on [[Katherine Howard]]</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2">"The King Spoils you", [[Katherine Howard|Katherine]] "But am I not worth it?"<br/></font></li></ul><font size="2"> </font></td></tr></table></font><font color="#ffffff"><b><font size="2"> <br/></font></b></font><font color="#ffffff" size="4">DEFINING EPISODES | MEMORABLE SCENES</font><font color="#ffffff"><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="6" class="WPC-edit-border-all" width="750"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font size="2"><br/></font> <ul> <li> <font size="2">When [[Anne Boleyn]] tells Jane that the King cannot satisfy a woman because he "neither has the skill nor the virility"Jane</font></li></ul><font size="2"> </font> <ul> <li> <font size="2">Jane complies with Cromwell in implicating her husband and sister-in-law with a charge of incest, Episode 2.9</font></li></ul><font size="2"> </font> <ul> <li> <font size="2">Jane's and George's wedding night</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2">Jane telling Jane Seymour about Henry's affair</font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="2">Jane telling Culpepper she could organize an affair between the Queen and himself</font><br/></li></ul><font size="2"> </font> <ul> </ul><ul><li><font size="2">Jane's mental breakdown in the Tower<br/></font></li></ul></td></tr></table></font><font color="#ffffff" size="2"> <br/></font><font color="#ffffff" size="4">PHOTOS</font><br/><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-border-all" width="750"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#1a1a1a" class="WPC-edit-custom-bgColorWPC-edit-custom-bgColor" width="100%"><br/></td></tr></table><br/></font><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="6" class="WPC-edit-border-all" width="750"> <tr><td align="center" width="50%"><div align="center"> [[File:UgiWe727DYxNI4hSjaA7UA73781.jpeg|365px|Jane Boleyn as played by Joanne King]]<br/><font size="3">Season 4</font></div></td><td align="center" width="50%"><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><font color="#ffffff" size="4">[[File:YICwyEGc5ncJT7l296qtZA55512.jpeg|346px|Jane Boleyn as played by Joanne King]]<br/><font size="3">Season 4</font></font></font></td></tr><tr> <td align="center" width="50%"> <font color="#ffffff" size="4"><font color="#ffffff" size="4">[[File:Wi7scS74sj1qC3L1E4VktQ32708.jpeg|358px|Jane Boleyn/Rochford played by Joanne King in Season 3]]<br/>Season 3<br/></font></font></td> <td width="50%"> <font color="#ffffff" size="4">[[File:A0iiNLALhyrC6m4UYgUC Q31758.jpeg|325px|Jane Boleyn/Rochford played by Joanne King in Season 3]]<br/></font> <div align="center"> Season 3</div></td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="50%"> <div align="center"> [[File:PevaNQXopQ-6V2UG1qoS3A60392.jpeg|223px|Jane Boleyn/Rochford played by Joanne King in Season 3]]<br/>Season 3</div></td> <td align="center" width="50%"> <font color="#ffffff" size="4"><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><br/><br/>[[File:LJFUHgafmfbxSz1F-Yrc4Q22528.jpeg|251px|Jane Boleyn as played by Joanne King]]<br/>Season 2 <br/><font size="3">Jane reveals what Thomas Cromwell<br/>wants under interrogation</font><br/></font></font></font></font></td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="50%"> <font color="#ffffff" size="4">[[File:PYoHZscKmKf8RWxfN2PHlg110854.jpeg|291px|Jane Parker/Grace Newport]]<br/><font size="2">There is <u><b>no known</b></u> contemporary portrait of Jane Boleyn.<br/>This drawing was once incorrectly identified as Jane Boleyn. As wife of George Boleyn, her title would have either been Viscountess Rochford or Lady Boleyn.<br/>It is now believed to depict her sister-in-law, Grace, Lady Parker (c.1515–c.1549), the daughter of Sir John Newport and wife of Jane's brother, Sir Henry Parker.<br/>She married Henry Parker in 1523 when aged eigh</font></font><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><font size="2">t. </font></font></td> <td align="center" width="50%"> <font color="#ffffff" size="4"> <div align="center"> <div align="center"> <font color="#ffffff" size="4">[[File:JlqSdaQPb08KgtQsaOKIKQ391953.jpeg|299px|Henry Parker, father of Jane Boleyn]]<br/><font size="2"><b>Henry Parker, B. Morley</b></font> <font size="2">(Jane's father) </font> <font size="2">Sketch by Albert Durer<i> in 1523, while in Germany as one of the Ambassadors sent by the King to oresent the Order of the Garter to Archduke Ferdinand, the Emperor`s brother.</i></font></font><br/><br/><font size="2"><br/></font></div></div></font> </td></tr></table></font><br/><b>VIDEOS</b><br/><table align="bottom" cellpadding="3" class="WPC-edit-style-grid1 WPC-edit-border-all WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23191919&amp;color2=%23474747" width="750"><tr><td class="" width="50%"><br/><div align="center"><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><embed height="227" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/thetudorswiki/widget/youtubevideo/3cd7d658d252d88f2d45ea214ac1de8d83500ad1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="373" wmode="transparent"/></font><br/><font size="3">Season 2<br/>Source: Youtube <a class="external" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/JuzTudor70AD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JuzTudor70AD</a></font></font></div></td><td class="" width="50%"><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><font><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><font color="#ffffff" size="4"><embed allowfullscreen="true" height="278" src="http://widget.wetpaintserv.us/wiki/thetudorswiki/widget/youtubevideo/e30bdd5ea5e635f9be5ade72cf98a2e0c71d2289" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="344" wmode="transparent"/></font></font></font></font></font></td></tr></table><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><div></div><br/></div></div>Travis