Joan Larke
Joan Larke | |
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| Born | c. 1490 Cardinal Wolsey |
| Spouses |
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| Children | (by Cardinal Wolsey): Very Rev Thomas Wynter Sister Dorothy Clancey (by George Legh): Thomas Legh Elizabeth Legh (Lady Barlow) Mary Legh Ellen Legh |
| Parent | Peter Larke |
Joan Larke (c. 1490 – 1532) was the mistress of the powerful English statesman and churchman in the Tudor period, Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, and mother of his two illegitimate children.
Wolsey's mistress
Joan was born in about 1490 at
Henry VIII of England, Joan became his mistress, living with him at Bridewell Palace
. They had two children:
- Thomas Wynter (1510 – 1542), dean of Wells, and had issue.
- Dorothy Clancey (b. 29 September 1512), a nun.
Her son, Thomas, was sent to live with a family in
religious house was later dissolved
.
Sometime after
Queen Anne Boleyn, Wolsey's former adversary.[2]
Marriages and children
As
Sir John Savage. Wolsey provided her dowry and would later assist the Leghs in a property dispute; this ancient family of Cheshire extraction, variously spelled Leigh or Lee, also enjoyed privilege and patronage during the Tudor period.[3]
Together Joan and George Legh had four children:
- Elizabeth or Isabel Legh (1525–1583), who married Sir Alexander Barlow.
- Thomas Legh (1527–1599), his heir, who married Sheriff of Cheshire.
- Mary Legh
- Ellen Legh
After George Legh died in 1529, his widow the following year married Sir George Paulet (knighted 1553), younger brother of the 1st Marquess of Winchester, KG, as his second wife.
Joan Paulet (née Larke) died in childbirth about two years later.
See also
- Blessed John Larke(uncle)
- Leghs of Adlington
References
- ^ Kathy Lynn Emerson, A Who's Who of Tudor Woman, retrieved on 25-11-09
- ^ Alison Weir, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Ballantine Books, New York, 1991, p.280
- ^ Kathy Lynn Emerson, A Who's Who of Tudor Women
External links
- Burke, John (1836). "Legh, of Adlington". A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland [...]. London: Henry Colburn. pp. 453–457. OL 23301035M.