Jane Seymour

Jane, the daughter of Sir John Seymour and Margery Wentworth, was most likely born at Wulfhall, Wiltshire,{{sfn|Norton|2009|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FiXjKTkR0QYC&pg=PA11 11]}} although West Bower Manor in Somerset has also been suggested.{{NHLE|desc=West Bower Manor with barn|num=1058940|access-date=1 May 2017}} Her birth date is not recorded; various accounts use anywhere from 1504 to 1509,{{cite web |last1=Hanson |first1=Marilee |title=Jane Seymour – Facts, Biography, Information & Portraits |url=https://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/jane-seymour/ |access-date=17 November 2018 |date=1 February 2015}} but it is generally estimated at between 1508 and 1509.{{sfn|Norton|2009|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FiXjKTkR0QYC&pg=PA11 11]}} Through her maternal grandfather, she was a descendant of King Edward III's son Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence.{{sfn|Norton|2009|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FiXjKTkR0QYC&pg=PA8 8]}} Because of this, she and King Henry VIII were fifth cousins. She also shared a great-grandmother, Elizabeth Cheney, Lady Say, with his second and fifth wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.{{sfn|Norton|2009|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FiXjKTkR0QYC&pg=PA9 9]}}

Jane was not as highly educated as Henry's first and second wives, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. She could read and write a little but was much better at needlework and household management, which were considered much more necessary for women.{{sfn|Brown|2005|p=244}} Her needlework was reportedly beautiful and elaborate; some of it survived as late as 1652, when it is recorded to have been given to the Seymour family. After her death, it was noted that Henry was an "enthusiastic embroiderer".{{cite web |url=http://www.royal-needlework.org.uk/content/129/henry_viii_embroiderer_king |title=Henry VIII – the Embroiderer King |publisher=Royal School of Needlework |access-date=19 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004155140/http://www.royal-needlework.org.uk/content/129/henry_viii_embroiderer_king |archive-date=4 October 2011 |url-status=dead }}

Jane became a maid-of-honour in 1532 to Queen Catherine, but may have served her as early as 1527, and went on to serve Queen Anne with her sister Elizabeth.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}} The first report of Henry's interest in Jane was in February 1536, about three months before Anne's execution.{{sfn|Lipscomb|2012|p=70}}

Jane was highly praised for her gentle, peaceful nature, being called as "gentle a lady as ever I knew" by John Russell and "the Pacific" by the Imperial Ambassador Eustace Chapuys (who referred to her as Jane Semel in his letters"She is the sister of one Edward Semel [...] The said Semel is not a woman of great wit, but she may have good understanding (un bel enigm, qu. engin?)" – Eustace Chapuys to Antoine Perrenot, 18th May 1536, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10, January – June 1536, (1887)), for her peacemaking efforts at court.David Starkey, Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII, p.585-586 According to Chapuys, she was of middling stature and very pale; he also said that she was not of much beauty, but Russell said she was "the fairest of all the King's wives".{{sfn|Norton|2009|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FiXjKTkR0QYC&pg=PA65 65]}} Polydore Vergil commented that she was "a woman of the utmost charm in both character and appearance".{{sfn|Vergil|1950|p=337}} She was regarded as meek, gentle, simple, and chaste, with her large family making her thought to be suitable to have many children.

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Henry VIII was betrothed to Jane on 20 May 1536, the day after Anne Boleyn's execution. They were married at the Palace of Whitehall, Whitehall, London, in the Queen's closet by Bishop Stephen Gardiner{{sfn|Weir|2007|p=344}} on 30 May 1536. As a wedding gift he granted her 104 manors in four counties as well as a number of forests and hunting chases for her jointure, the income to support her during their marriage.{{sfn|Weir|2007|p=344}} She was publicly proclaimed queen on 4 June 1536. Her well-publicised sympathy for the late Queen Catherine and her daughter Mary showed her to be compassionate and made her a popular figure with the common people and most of the courtiers.{{sfn|Weir|2007|p=340}} She was never crowned because of plague in London, where the coronation was to take place. Henry may have been reluctant to have her crowned before she had fulfilled her duty as a queen consort by bearing him a male heir.{{sfn|Wagner|Schmid|2012|p=1000}}

As queen, Jane was said to be strict and formal.{{By whom|date=November 2021}} The lavish entertainments, gaiety, and extravagance of the queen's household, which had reached their peak during Anne Boleyn's time, were replaced by strict decorum. She banned the French fashions Anne had introduced.{{Cite web |title=The Francophile French Hood Wearer or Not? |url=https://costumesociety.org.uk/blog/post/the-francophile-french-hood-wearer-or-not |access-date=2023-03-25 |website=The Costume Society |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/993653376 |title=Dress at the court of King Henry VIII |year=2017 |first=Maria |last=Hayward |isbn=978-1-315-09479-3 |location=London |publisher=Routledge |page=171 |oclc=993653376 }} Politically, Jane appears to have been conservative.{{cite web|title=Jane Seymour: Third Wife of Henry VIII of England|url=http://www.a-london-tourist-guide.com/jane-seymour.html|publisher=A-london-tourist-guide.com|access-date=22 October 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620050949/http://www.a-london-tourist-guide.com/jane-seymour.html|archive-date=20 June 2010}}{{Better source needed|reason=Blog posts are not strictly reliable, a historical work is needed here|date=November 2021}} Her only reported involvement in national affairs, in 1536, was when she asked for pardons for participants in the Pilgrimage of Grace. Henry is said to have rejected this, reminding her of the fate her predecessor met with when she "meddled in his affairs".{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/sixwives/meet/js_handbook_king.html|title= The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Jane Seymour|publisher=PBS|access-date=22 October 2010}}{{Better source needed|reason=PBS is not a Reliable Source, a historical work is needed here|date=May 2014}} Her motto as a queen was Bound to obey and serve.

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Jane formed a close relationship with her stepdaughter Mary, making efforts to have Mary restored to court and to the royal succession, behind any children she might have with Henry. She brought up the issue of Mary's restoration both before and after she became queen. While she was unable to restore Mary to the line of succession, she was able to reconcile her with Henry.{{sfn|Wagner|Schmid|2012|p=1000}} Chapuys wrote to Emperor Charles V of her compassion and efforts on behalf of Mary's return to favour. A letter from Mary to her shows Mary's gratitude.{{cite web|title=Henry VIII: June 1536, 16-30:1204|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol10/pp504-530}} While it was she who first pushed for the restoration, Mary and Elizabeth were not reinstated to the succession until Henry's sixth wife, Catherine Parr, convinced him to do so.{{sfn|Farquhar|2001|p=72}}

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One non-contemporary source conjectures that she may have been pregnant and had a miscarriage by Christmas 1536.The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland: Letters and papers, 1440–1797 (v.3 mainly correspondence of the fourth Duke of Rutland). v.4. Charters, cartularies, &c. Letters and papers, supplementary. Extracts from household accounts. H.M. Stationery Office, 1888, p 310 In January 1537, Jane conceived again. During her pregnancy, she developed a craving for quail, which Henry ordered for her from Calais and Flanders.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} During the summer, she took no public engagements and led a relatively quiet life, attended by the royal physicians and the best midwives in the kingdom.{{sfn|Weir|2007|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-UsWO_odsZAC&pg=PA362 362]}} She went into confinement in September 1537 and gave birth to the coveted male heir, the future King Edward VI, at two o'clock in the morning{{sfn|Weir|2007|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-UsWO_odsZAC&pg=PA367 367]}} on 12 October 1537 at Hampton Court Palace.{{sfn|Seal|2001|p=129}} Edward was christened on 15 October 1537, without his mother in attendance, as was the custom.{{clarify|date=November 2021}} He was the only legitimate son of Henry VIII to survive infancy. Both of his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, were present and carried Edward's train during the ceremony.{{sfn|Walder|1973|p=47}}

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Jane's labour had been difficult, lasting two days and three nights, probably because the baby was not well positioned.{{sfn|Walsh|2009}} After the christening, it became clear that she was seriously ill.{{sfn|Norton|2009|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FiXjKTkR0QYC&pg=PA145 145]}} She died on 24 October 1537 at Hampton Court Palace. Within a few weeks, there were conflicting accounts of the cause of her death. According to King Edward's biographer Jennifer Loach, her death may have been due to an infection from a retained placenta. According to Alison Weir, she may have succumbed to puerperal fever following a bacterial infection contracted during the birth. Weir has also speculated, after medical consultation, that the cause of her death was a pulmonary embolism.{{cn|date=September 2023}}

Jane was buried on 12 November 1537 in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle after the funeral in which her stepdaughter Mary acted as chief mourner. A procession of 29 mourners followed Mary, one for every year of Jane's life.{{sfn|Weir|2007|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-UsWO_odsZAC&pg=PA372 372]}} She was the only one of Henry's wives to receive a queen's funeral.

After her death, Henry wore black for the next three months. He married Anne of Cleves two years later, although marriage negotiations were tentatively begun soon after Jane's death. He put on weight during his widowerhood, becoming obese and swollen and developing diabetes and gout. Historians{{who|date=November 2021}} have speculated she was his favourite wife because she gave birth to a male heir. When he died in 1547, he was buried beside her, on his request, in the grave he had made for her.

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Jane gave the King the son he so desperately desired, helped to restore Mary to the succession and her father's affections, and used her influence to bring about the advancement of her family.{{sfn|Weir|2007|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=-UsWO_odsZAC&pg=PA373 373]}} Two of her brothers, Thomas and Edward, used her memory to improve their own fortunes. Thomas was rumoured to have been pursuing the future Elizabeth I, but he married the queen dowager Catherine Parr instead. In the reign of the young King Edward VI, Edward Seymour set himself up as Lord Protector and de facto ruler of the kingdom. Both brothers eventually fell from power and were executed.

Lady Margery Lyster was in charge of the jewels of Jane Seymour. An inventory was made of the queen's beads, jewels, pomanders, tablets, girdles, borders, brooches, bracelets, buttons, aglets, and chains. Many of the pieces were gold decorated with enamel and some were set with gems.Maria Hayward, Dress at the Court of Henry VIII (Maney, 2007), p. 188: James Gairdner, Letters and Papers Henry VIII, 12:2 (London, 1891), p. 340 no. 973.

An inventory of Henry VIII includes costume belonging to Jane Seymour, which was stored in 1542 in the Old Jewel House of Whitehall Palace.Maria Hayward, The 1542 Inventory of Whitehall Palace, 1 (Illuminata Publishers, 2004), pp. 101, 116. The list includes: gowns of damask, velvet, and satin; kirtles of velvet, cloth of silver, taffeta, and purple cloth of gold; cloaks of satin; sleeves of silver and gold tissue embroidered with Venice gold and tied with gold aglets; placards for gowns; stomachers; frontlets; French hoods and billiments of black velvet and white satin; partlets; and crimson velvet hats.Maria Hayward, The 1542 Inventory of Whitehall Palace, 2 (Illuminata Publishers, 2004), pp. 151–58. The same clothes were listed again in 1547.David Starkey, Inventory of Henry VIII (London: Harvey Miller, 1998), pp. 249–252.

Jane Seymour was said to have embroidered a bed and a chair,Elizabeth Norton, Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love (Amberley, 2009), p. 13. later given by Charles I to her relation William Seymour.Susan E. James, The Feminine Dynamic in English Art (Ashgate, 2009), p. 91.John E. Jackson, "Wulfhall and the Seymours", Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 15:44 (June 1875), pp. 163, 205. Included in the 1542 inventory are some items of embroidery, possibly her own work such as a cushion featuring an antelope. A piece with a branch of roses and a crowned white falcon seems to be an emblem associated with Anne Boleyn.Maria Hayward, The 1542 Inventory of Whitehall Palace, 2 (Illuminata Publishers, 2004), p. 157 nos. 2252, 2255. Jane Seymour owned great and little "babies", dolls dressed in gowns of cloth of silver, satin, and velvet tied with gold "aglettes", like her own sleeves. These may have been fashion dolls.Maria Hayward, Dress at the Court of Henry VIII (Maney, 2007), p. 159: Maria Hayward, The 1542 Inventory of Whitehall Palace, 2 (Illuminata Publishers, 2004), p. 157 nos. 2247, 2248: David Starkey, Inventory of Henry VIII (London: Harvey Miller, 1998), p. 252 nos. 11381, 11382.

• In 1933, Wendy Barrie played Seymour opposite Charles Laughton's Henry VIII in Alexander Korda's highly acclaimed film The Private Life of Henry VIII.{{tcmdb title|id=87210|title=The Private Life of Henry VIII}}
• In 1969, Lesley Paterson portrayed Jane briefly in Anne of the Thousand Days.{{cite book|last=Monaco|first=James|title=The Movie Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s7MUAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA30|access-date=28 May 2018|year=1992|publisher=Perigee Books|isbn=9780399517808|page=30}}
• As part of the 1970 BBC series The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Henry was played by Keith Michell, and Seymour by Anne Stallybrass.{{Cite web |url=http://www.museum.tv/eotv/sixwivesof.htm |title=Six Wives of Henry VII, The |last=Pickering |first=David |website=Encyclopedia of Television |publisher=Museum of Broadcast Communications |access-date=28 May 2018 |archive-date=12 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180812175117/http://www.museum.tv/eotv/sixwivesof.htm |url-status=dead }}
• In 1972, this interpretation was repeated in the film Henry VIII and His Six Wives, adapted from the BBC series, in which Keith Michell reprised his role as Henry; on this occasion Seymour was played by Jane Asher.{{Cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/570886/index.html |title=BFI Screenonline: Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972) |last=Angelini |first=Sergio |website=Screenonline |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=28 May 2018}}
• Seymour was played by Charlotte Roach in David Starkey's documentary series The Six Wives of Henry VIII in 2001.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/six-wives-of-henry-viii/cast/198930/ |title=Six Wives of Henry VIII – Cast |magazine=TV Guide |access-date=28 May 2018}}
• Seymour is a supporting character in the 2003 BBC television drama The Other Boleyn Girl, played by Naomi Benson opposite Jared Harris as Henry VIII and Jodhi May as Anne Boleyn.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bce55d728 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180528140954/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bce55d728 |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 May 2018 |title=Naomi Benson |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=28 May 2018}}
• In October 2003, in the two-part ITV drama Henry VIII, Ray Winstone starred as the King. Jane Seymour was played by Emilia Fox.{{cite news |url=https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/news/2014/01/the-sunday-times-emilia-fox-interview/ |title=Emilia Fox interview |work=The Sunday Times |date=12 January 2014 |via=Hampstead Theatre |access-date=28 May 2018}}
• In The Simpsons 2004 episode "Margical History Tour", Seymour is portrayed by the shrill Miss Springfield during Marge's retelling of Henry's reign. Henry (portrayed by Homer) quickly orders Seymour's beheading after hearing her annoying voice.{{Cite web |url=https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-simpsons&episode=s15e11 |title=The Simpsons s15e11 Episode Script |first=Brian |last=Kelley |author-link=Brian Kelley (writer) |website=Springfield! Springfield! |access-date=28 May 2018}}
• Corinne Galloway depicts Seymour in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008).
• Anita Briem portrayed Seymour as lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn in the second (2008) season of the television series The Tudors, produced for Showtime. In the third season of the same series, when Jane Seymour becomes queen and later dies, the part is played by Annabelle Wallis.{{Cite news |url=https://nypost.com/2009/04/05/queen-for-a-day/ |title=QUEEN FOR A DAY |last=Rorke |first=Robert |date=5 April 2009 |work=New York Post |access-date=28 May 2018}}
• Kate Phillips, in her first professional role, plays Jane Seymour in the BBC Two adaptation of Wolf Hall.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02g3n38/p02g3bxt |title=Who are the royal subjects? |website=Wolf Hall |publisher=BBC Two |access-date=28 May 2018}} Phillips reprises the role in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.
• Jane Seymour is portrayed in the stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall parts I and II, adapted by Mike Poulton. It was presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London's West End (2014) and on Broadway (2015).{{cite web|url=http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=498312|title=Wolf Hall Part One |work=IBDB}}
• Lucy Telleck played Seymour opposite Charlie Clements as Henry VIII in Suzannah Lipscomb and Dan Jones Henry VIII and his Six Wives on Channel 5.{{Cite news |url=https://metro.co.uk/2016/04/15/eastenders-charlie-clements-is-still-holding-out-for-game-of-thrones-even-after-landing-henry-viii-role-5818576/ |title=Ex-EastEnders star Charlie Clements is eyeing up Game Of Thrones |date=15 April 2016 |work=Metro |access-date=28 May 2018 }}
• In the musical Six, she was played by Holly Musgrave in the original Edinburgh cast, Natalie Paris in the studio and West End casts and Abby Mueller in the Chicago cast.{{cite web |url=https://www.sixthemusical.com/cast-creatives |title=Six the Musical |access-date=14 November 2018 |archive-date=14 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114141442/https://www.sixthemusical.com/cast-creatives |url-status=dead }}

• Is the main character in Janet Wertman's Jane the Quene novel, the first installment in her Seymour Saga.{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9971338-1-3|title=Fiction Book Review: Jane the Quene by Janet Wertman. Janet Wertman, $11.57 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-0-9971338-1-3|website=Publishers Weekly|date=April 2016|language=en|access-date=30 December 2019}}
• Is the main character in Carolly Erickson's highly fictionalized novel The Favoured Queen, which follows her from her appointment as lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon right up until her death.{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/carolly-erickson/favored-queen/ |title=The Favoured Queen by Carolly Erickson |via=Kirkus Reviews |language=en-us |access-date=28 May 2018 }}
• Is the subject of the novel Plain Jane: A Novel of Jane Seymour (Tudor Women Series) by Laurien Gardner (Sarah Hoyt).{{Cite web |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/296350/plain-jane-by-laurien-gardner/9780425220948/ |title=Plain Jane by Laurien Gardner |website=Penguin Random House |language=en-US |access-date=28 May 2018 }}
• Appears as a lady serving both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, which ends with hints of her coming prominence. The second novel in Mantel's series, Bring Up the Bodies focuses on the machinations that led to the execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's growing determination to replace her with Jane Seymour and the Seymour family's strategems to gain from the King's attraction to Jane. The third volume, The Mirror & the Light, includes Jane Seymour's story.{{cite web|last=Mares|first=Peter|title=Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall|work=ABC Radio National|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bookshow/hilary-mantels-wolf-hall/3131120#transcript|publisher=Abc.net.au|date=18 June 2009|access-date=27 January 2014}}
• The book I, Jane, by Diane Haeger, tells of her growing up and, before catching the eye of King Henry, meeting a young man whose parents are well placed in court and look down on Jane and her family. Despite this, Jane and the son become close, and over the years she never forgets him.{{Cite web |url=http://www.dianehaeger.com/books.htm |title=Books by Author Diane Haeger |website=www.dianehaeger.com |access-date=28 May 2018 }}
• Is the title character of Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love by Elizabeth Norton.{{Cite web|url=https://www.burtonbookreview.com/2010/07/book-review-jane-seymour-henry-viiis.html|title=Book Review: Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love by Elizabeth Norton|last=BurtonBookReview|website=Burton Book Review – Leafing through history|access-date=30 December 2019}}
• Seymour is the title character in Alison Weir's book Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen, the third in the Six Tudor Queens series.{{Cite web |url=https://sixtudorqueens.co.uk/ |title=Jane Seymour |website=Six Tudor Queens |language=en-GB |access-date=28 May 2018 }}

• As Giovanna Seymour, she appears in Gaetano Donizetti's opera Anna Bolena.{{Cite web |url=http://www.librettidopera.it/annabol/annabol.html |title=Anna Bolena (1830) |website=Libretti d'opera italiani |language=it |access-date=28 May 2018 }}
• Rick Wakeman recorded the piece "Jane Seymour" for his 1973 album The Six Wives of Henry VIII.{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000650944 |title=The Six Wives of Henry VIII}}
• The English ballad "The Death of Queen Jane" (Child No. 170) is about the death of Jane Seymour following the birth of Prince Edward. The story as related in the ballad is historically inaccurate, but apparently reflects the popular view at the time of the events surrounding her death. The historical fact is that Prince Edward was born naturally, and that his mother succumbed to infection and died 12 days later. Most versions of the song end with the contrast between the joy of the birth of the Prince and the grief of the death of the Queen.{{cite journal |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+death+of+Queen+Jane%3a+ballad%2c+history%2c+and+propaganda-a0321683005 |title=The death of Queen Jane: ballad, history, and propaganda |last=Vannan |first=Alastair |date=1 January 2013 |journal=Folk Music Journal |issn=0531-9684 |access-date=28 May 2018 |via=The Free Library}}
• A setting of the ballad to a tune by Irish musician Dáithí Sproule was included on the Bothy Band's 1979 album After Hours (Live in Paris),{{AllMusic |id=mw0000675610 |title=After Hours (Live in Paris) |class=album}} on the 1995 album Trian II{{AllMusic | id=mw0000646402|title=Trian II|class=album}} by Trian (Sproule, Liz Carroll, and Billy McComiskey), and the Bothy Band's 2008 album Best of the Bothy Band.{{AllMusic |id=mw0000198561 |title=Best of the Bothy Band |class=album}} The song also appears on Loreena McKennitt's 2010 album The Wind That Shakes the Barley,{{AllMusic |id=mw0002067160 |title=The Wind That Shakes the Barley |class=album}} and on Dáithí Sproule's 2011 album Lost River: Vol. 1;{{AllMusic |id=mw0002201839 |title=Lost River: Vol. 1 |class=album}} and it was performed by Oscar Isaac in the Coen brothers' 2013 film Inside Llewyn Davis.{{Cite web |url=http://www.vulture.com/2013/12/toughest-scene-i-wrote-the-coens-llewyn-davis.html |title=The Toughest Scene I Wrote: The Coen Brothers on Inside Llewyn Davis |last=Buchanan |first=Kyle |date=24 December 2013 |website=Vulture |language=en |access-date=28 May 2018 }}

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|title=All Colour book of Henry VIII

|location=London

|publisher=Octopus Books

|year=1973

|isbn=978-0706402322

|url-access=registration

|url=https://archive.org/details/allcolorbookofhe00wald

}}

• {{cite web|last=Walsh

|first=Andrew

|title=The death of Jane Seymour – a Midwife's view

|work=Tudor Stuff: Tudor History From the Heart of England

|url=http://tudorstuff.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/the-death-of-jane-seymour-a-midwife's-view/

|date=21 March 2009

|publisher=Tudorstuff.wordpress.com

|access-date=24 October 2010

}}

• {{cite book|last=Weir

|first=Alison

|author-link=Alison Weir

|title=The Six Wives of Henry VIII

|location=London

|publisher=Vintage

|year=2007

|isbn=9780099523628

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-UsWO_odsZAC

}}

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{{Commons category|Jane Seymour}}

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• [http://tudorhistory.org/seymour/ A quick overview of Jane's life, with a good portrait gallery as well]
• [http://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/seymour.html A more in-depth historical look at Jane's life and times]
• [http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=365164 A geo-biography tour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221234337/http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=365164 |date=21 December 2008 }} of the Six Wives of Henry VIII on Google Earth
• [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch170.htm The text of the ballad The Death of Queen Jane]
• [http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/three-royal-births-that-werent-as-comfortable-as-kates-328635.html 2015 Irish Examiner article] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620074126/http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/three-royal-births-that-werent-as-comfortable-as-kates-328635.html |date=20 June 2018 }}

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