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| Keywords: people Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (6 January 1538 – 13 January 1612) was an English lady-in-waiting to Mary I who, after the Queen's death, married Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, 1st Duke of Feria and went to live in Spain. The union produced two sons: Lorenzo (born in 1559), who succeeded his father as Duke of Feria, and Pedro (born in 1565; lived only three months). Jane Dormer was born at Eythrope near Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, on 6 January 1538. She was the daughter of Sir William Dormer (d. 17 May, 1575) of Wing, Buckinghamshire, by his first wife, Mary Sidney (died 10 February, 1542), the daughter of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst, Kent, and Anne Pakenham. Her health never recovered from an accident in 1609, and she was bedridden from the start of 1611 – planning ahead she had already prepared a coffin which she kept in the house. At her death on 13 January 1612, she was attended by seven priests. She was buried at the monastery of Santa Clara in Zafra on 26 January. It was this Jane Dormer told who provides us with the most reliable evidence about the age of Anne Boleyn. She told a visiting ambassador that she had been told by Queen Mary Tudor, who certainly would have been expected to know, and with whom Jane was a confident, that when Anne died she was not quite twenty-nine. It is my take on this that Anne was born in late May or Early June of 1507. Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (6 January 1538 – 13 January 1612) was an English lady-in-waiting to Mary I who, after the Queen's death, married Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, 1st Duke of Feria and went to live in Spain. The union produced two sons: Lorenzo (born in 1559), who succeeded his father as Duke of Feria, and Pedro (born in 1565; lived only three months). Jane Dormer was born at Eythrope near Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, on 6 January 1538. She was the daughter of Sir William Dormer (d. 17 May, 1575) of Wing, Buckinghamshire, by his first wife, Mary Sidney (died 10 February, 1542), the daughter of Sir William Sidney of Penshurst, Kent, and Anne Pakenham. Her health never recovered from an accident in 1609, and she was bedridden from the start of 1611 – planning ahead she had already prepared a coffin which she kept in the house. At her death on 13 January 1612, she was attended by seven priests. She was buried at the monastery of Santa Clara in Zafra on 26 January. It was this Jane Dormer told who provides us with the most reliable evidence about the age of Anne Boleyn. She told a visiting ambassador that she had been told by Queen Mary Tudor, who certainly would have been expected to know, and with whom Jane was a confident, that when Anne died she was not quite twenty-nine. It is my take on this that Anne was born in late May or Early June of 1507. | ||||
