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03/28/08

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Categories: Kings And Queens, British History

Jane Seymour

Portrait of Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England, by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Jane Seymour was the third of King Henry VIII wives, and a replacement for Anne Boleyn. History has recorded her as a pious, docile, well-born lady from a powerful family, who married the King because her brothers told her to.

Jane was queen for about 18 months, and she never had a coronation ceremony. She died of puerperal fever just 12 days after delivering Henry's long awaited boy, Edward.

Above her grave, there was for a time the following inscription:

"Here lieth a Phoenix, by whose death
Another Phoenix life gave breath:
It is to be lamented much
The world at once ne'er knew two such."

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