Agnes blewitt biography

Biography.
In fact, Agnes Blewitt, born circa.1509 which made her at least eighteen-years his junior, was born in Somerset to most likely low-standing.
When Agnes Beaupenny Blewett was born in 1509, in England, her father, Richard Blewett, was 31 and her mother, Mary Grenville, was 32.

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Tags: 16th century, Elizabeth I, English history, Henry VIII, The Tudors, Tudor England

I was asked on Twitter the other day (by the estimable @rocio_carvajalc) how many illegitimate children Henry VIII had. It’s an interesting question and, for obvious reasons, it’s also one to which the answer isn’t altogether clear. However, I am going to write about three possible candidates. One was certainly Henry’s child; another more likely than not; and the third rumoured but, on balance, unlikely. If anyone has any other candidates, please do let me know!

Henry Fitzroy

The only bastard child acknowledged by Henry was the son named Henry Fitzroy – the given name being something of a clue – who was born to Henry’s then mistress, Elizabeth Blount in the summer of 1519. The newborn boy was, therefore, three years younger than Henry’s legitimate daughter, Mary, born in February 1516. Mary’s mother, Katherine of Aragon, had lost two baby sons by that time: one born on New Year’s Day 1511 and christened Henry, who died on February 22 the same year; and another stillborn in the

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Henry VIII's alleged peasant mistress; Agnes Blewitt

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It seems like the notion of producing and giving birth to an illegitimate child to the King was becoming a trend in the early 1520s as, alike Bessie Blount and Jane Pollard, Henry’s next mistress might have decided to take a page out of their book and produce a bastard son with the handsome, womanizing King Henry VIII.

You would think that women would refrain from getting pregnant or take extreme measures to ensure that this was not a possibility considering the fact that the whole of England would have known how devastating the birth of Henry Fitzroy was for poor Queen Catherine of Aragon and how cautious she was becoming of women who were becoming close to her royal husband but no.

I mean, for married women, I suppose they had it easier because, especially if they were sleeping with her husband at the same time as they were sleeping with the King, it might have proved more difficult for them to determine which of the two men they were sexually intimate with was the father

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King Henry VIII and His Mistress Agness Blewitt

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King Henry VIII is said to have had an affair with Agnes Blewitt, with whom he fathered an illegitimate son named Richard Edwards. Richard was afforded opportunities usually given to royal illegitimate children, such as attending Oxford. He later joined the inner circle of the royal family. Richard Edwards became a composer and poet, writing two plays for the Chapel Children. He was educated at Oxford and Lincoln's Inn Field but never practiced law, instead becoming a master of the Chapel Children, for whom he created musical dramas. His most famous composition was "In Going to my Naked Bed".

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