Lists of Women at Court
(last updated 12/6/2011)
The following are taken from a variety of sources, including
a great number of biographies. Of particular use were Janet Arnold’s Queen Elizabeth’s Wardrobe Unlock’d, Barbara Harris’s English Aristocratic Women, Maria Hayward’s Dress at the Court of Henry VIII, two doctoral dissertations and entries in the L&P.
All individuals marked
with an * have entries under their maiden names in Kathy Lynn Emerson’s A Who’s Who of Tudor Women, as do some individuals whose names are not marked. I'm slowly cross-checking and adding these. It's probably worth taking a look at the Who's Who even if there isn't a * there yet. Many names are also repeated, sometimes with variant spellings, from list to list.
Household
of Queen Elizabeth of York
*Anne Browne
*Mary Brandon, Mrs. Redynng
Elizabeth, wife of John Burton [still receiving an annuity of £13 6s.8d. in 1520]
Eleanor Catesby
*Elizabeth Chamber/Chambre [wife of Edward of Dorset; still receiving an annuity of £20 in 1520]
*Margaret Ellerbek, Mrs. Marzen
Anne Green
*Lady Catherine Gordon
Anne Hubbard
*Catherine Hussey, Lady Bray
*Anne Percy, later Countess of Arundel
*Cecily Plantagenet, Lady Welles
*Katherine Plantagent, Lady Courtenay
*Eleanor Pole, Lady Verney
*Joan (sic) Popyncourt
*Eleanor Radcliffe, Lady Lovell
*Mary Roos, Mrs. Denis/Denys
*Anne Sandys, Mrs. Weston
*Elizabeth Scrope, Lady Pechey
*Lady Elizabeth Stafford
Joan Stuarde [Stewart or Steward?]
*Joan Vaux, Lady Guildford
Katherine Vaux
Anne Verney, Lady Weston
Dorothy Verney
*Margaret Whetehill, Lady Fitzwalter
*Margaret Wootton (Wotton?)
Spanish Household
of Princess Catherine of Aragon
entire household
consisted of 44 persons, including 6 ladies of the household
*Elvira Manuel
Maria de Rojas
Inez de Salinas
*Maria de Salinas
Blanche de Vargas
*Isabel/Elizabeth de Vargas
*Inez de Venegas
list of those to remain in England in 1500
in her household: Juan de Cuero & wife, Katharine Cardenas, Martina Muderra
daughter of Don Pedroda Mendoza
daughter of Doña Blanca
Martina Salazar
Inez, daughter of Doña Inez, nurse to the princess
Katharine de Montoya
2 slaves [see *Catalina]
daughter of Inez Dalbornoz [see *Inez de Albanos]
niece of ___ Morales
laundress: wife of Andres Martines
Ladies given "manteletts and kercheffes" for the Funeral of Henry VII
In the household of the Princess of Castile [Henry VII's daughter, Mary Tudor]
Lady Katherine [*Katherine Plantagenet, Lady Courtenay]
Lady Fitzwalter [*Elizabeth Stafford or *Margaret Whetehill]
Lady Anne Percy
the lady of Kent [Elizabeth Hussey]
*Lady Gordon [Lady Catherine Gordon]
*Lady Verney [Eleanor Pole]
*Lady Marzen [Margaret Ellerbek]
*Mrs. Redyng [Mary Brandon]
*Mrs. [Elizabeth] Catesby
*Mrs. Denys [Mary Roos]
*Mrs. Weston [Anne Sandys]
*Mrs. Jerningham [Mary Scrope]
Mrs. Buchram
*Mrs. [Jane] Popyncourt
Mrs. Kateryn
Mrs. Sapcote [*Alice Vaux?]
In the household of the Princess of Wales [Catherine of Aragon]
*Dame Agnes [Inez] Vanegas
Dame Maria de Gavara
Katerina Fortes, gentlewoman
*Maria de Salinas, gentlewoman
John de Quero's wife, gentlewoman
Kateryn Montoya, gentlewoman
Kateryn de Gavara, chamberer
Isabel de Vanegas, chamberer
In the household of the king's granddame [Margaret Beaufort]
Lady Jane [*Joan Vaux, Lady Guildford]
Lady Willoughby
Mrs. Clifford
Mrs. Parker
Mrs. Fowler [Edith Dynham, wife of Thomas]
Mrs. Stanhope [*Elizabeth Bourchier?]
Mrs. Jane
Mrs. Ratcliff
Perott Doren [Perrot Doryn, a Frenchwoman], chamberer
Jane Walter, chamberer
[retired by this time was Elizabeth Massey, who had an annuity from Margaret Beaufort and had died before May 6, 1511, when that annuity was granted to someone else]
Household
of Princess Mary Tudor, later Queen of France
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Jane Barners, chamberer
*Elizabeth Catesby
*Elizabeth Saxby
*Elizabeth, wife of Reginald Wolvenden
Ladies who remained in France with Mary Tudor:
*Mary Boleyn
*Lady Joan/Jane Bourchier
*Mary Fiennes
*Lady Elizabeth Grey
*Elizabeth Grey of Wilton
*Florence Hastings, Lady Grey de Wilton?
*Anne Jerningham (later Anne Grey)
Ladies who were sent home:
Anne Denny
*Anne Devereux
*Elizabeth Ferrers
*Joan Vaux, Lady Guildford
Mistress Wotton (*Mary Wotton?)
Household of
Queen Catherine of Aragon
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In 1509: 147-160 persons,
including 33 aristocratic women (18 wives or daughters of peers). According to Eric Ives, Catherine still had a household of 200, including 30 maids of honor, in 1531.
Ladies in Waiting
(8):
*Anne Hastings,
Countess of Derby
*Anne Hastings,
Countess of Shrewsbury
*Mary Say, Countess
of Essex
*Elizabeth Scrope, Countess of Oxford
*Margaret Scrope, Countess of Suffolk
*Anne Stafford,
Lady Hastings
*Elizabeth
Stafford, Lady Fitzwalter
*Agnes Tylney, Countess of Surrey
replacements by
1517:
*Maud Green, Lady
Parr
*Elizabeth Howard,
Lady Boleyn (or possibly *Anne Tempest, Lady Boleyn)
*Margaret
Plantagenet, Lady Pole
*Joan Vaux, Lady
Guildford
Ladies of the
Bedchamber (8)
*Anne Bourchier, Lady Dacre of the
South
Margaret Brent (?),
Lady Bergavenny
Mabel or Margaret Dacre, Lady Scrope
Mary Grey, Lady Ferrers of Chartley (or her mother-in-law, Cecilia Bourchier)
Lady Percy [possibly Lady Anne Percy, who became the second wife of Lord Maltravers in 1511 and was Countess of Arundel 1524+]
*Inez de Venegas, Lady Mountjoy (Lord Mountjoy’s 2nd wife)
*Elizabeth Willoughby, Lady Maltravers
Maids of Honor
(over the period 1509-1536):
*Dorothy Badby
*Elizabeth Blount
*Gertrude Blount
*Anne Boleyn
*Joan Champernowne
*Elizabeth Darrell
*Margery Horsman
*Mary Norris
*Jane Popyngcort
*Maria de Salinas
*Jane Seymour
*Anne Stanhope
*Lucy Talbot
*Mary Zouche
Chamberers
October 18, 1511: November 18, 1514:
in unspecified positions:
Ladies at table with the queen, July 1517:
Lady Jane Guildford
Ladies living at court and participating in revels 1517-18:
*Elizabeth Blount
Ladies at court in January 1518:
Lady Norfolk
Twelve performers at Cardinal Wolsey's banquet in 1518:
The French Queen
Ladies given "rewards" in January 1519:
The French Queen
Ladies accompanying Catherine of Aragon to the Field of Cloth of Gold, 1520
Duchess of Buckingham (Eleanor Percy) and 3 gentlewomen
Ladies participating in a masque on March 3, 1521/2:
The French Queen
Anne
Boleyn’s Household
*Mary Boleyn, Lady Carey
Anne Boleyn’s Household before she was queen
(from Christmas 1528):
*Anne Gainsford, later wife of George Zouche
after Anne became Marchioness of Pembroke in 1532:
*Elizabeth Holland
Anne Boleyn's Coronation Procession (from Chapter 12, Jane Boleyn by Julia Fox):
on horseback:
Household of Queen Anne Boleyn, 1533+
Maids of Honor (taken mostly from January 1534 list)
Ladies in Waiting
chamberers
other ladies at court but probably NOT in Anne’s household
Lady Brynton (Baynton? *Isabel Legh?)
silkwomen
With Anne Boleyn in the Tower of London:
*Anne Boleyn, Lady Shelton
Jane
Seymour’s Household
Maids of Honor: *Jane Arundell *Mary Arundell *Jane Ashley *Anne Bassett *Margery Horsman *Elizabeth Jerningham *Mary Norris *Anne Parr *Mary Zouche Mother of Maids: *Margaret (or Anne) Foliot, Mrs. Stonor Chief Chamberer: *Mrs. Fitzherbert in unspecified
positions: *Mary Brandon,
Lady Mounteagle *Elizabeth Oxenbridge *Jane Parker, Lady
Rochford *Eleanor Paston, Countess of Rutland Queen Jane’s
Funeral Procession First Chariot: *Mary Arundell, Countess of Sussex *Frances Brandon,
Marchioness of Dorset *Mabel Clifford,
Countess of Southampton Cecily Daubeney, Countess of Bath *Lady Margaret
Douglas *Eleanor Paston, Countess of Rutland Elizabeth Trussell, Countess of Oxford Second Chariot: *Elizabeth Bryan,
Lady Carew Lady Margaret Grey *Jane Parker, Lady
Rochford Dorothy Howard, Countess
of Derby On Horseback: *Alys Gage, Lady Browne *Jane Guildford,
Lady Dudley *Anne Sapcote, Lady Russell Alice St. John,
Lady Morley and others Third Chariot: *Anne Bray, Lady Cobham *Margaret Dymoke, Lady Coffin *Jane Hallighwell, Lady Bray *Mary Scrope, Lady Kingston Riding: *Elizabeth Harleston, Lady Wallop *Margery Horsman, Lady Lister *Anne Pickering,
Lady Knyvett *Catherine Skipwith, Lady Heneage others Fourth Chariot: *Jane Ashley, Mrs.
Mewtas *Elizabeth Holland *Mary Norris *Anne Parr *Mary Zouche Riders: *Elizabeth
Seymour, Lady Cromwell others Fifth Chariot: *Anne Bassett *Mrs. Fitzherbert *Dorothy Gates,
Mrs. Josselyn Mrs. Rastell Mrs. Uxbridge Anne of
Cleves’s Household
Great Ladies of
the Household *Mary Arundell, Countess of Sussex *Frances Brandon,
Marchioness of Dorset *Lady Margaret
Douglas *Elizabeth Grey,
Lady Audley *Mary Howard, Duchess
of Richmond *Eleanor Paston, Countess of Rutland Privy
Chamber: *Jane Guildford, Lady Dudley *Susanna Hornebolt, Mrs. Gilman *Isabel Legh, Lady Baynton *Jane Parker, Lady
Rochford *Catherine St. John, Lady Edgecumbe Gentlewomen in
Attendance: *Jane Ashley, Lady
Mewtas *Jane Cheney, Lady
Wriothesley *Jane Guildford,
Lady Dudley *Elizabeth
Seymour, Lady Cromwell *Catherine Skipwith, Lady Heneage Maids of Honor (6) *Anne Bassett *Dorothy Bray *Catherine Carey *Catherine Howard *Mary Norris *Ursula Stourton Mistress of the
Queen’s Maids: Mother Lowe *Margaret (or Anne) Foliot, Mrs. Stonor
Anne of Cleves's Household after 1540
mentioned in Anne of Cleves's will, 1557
In Anne of Cleves's funeral procession:
Catherine
Howard’s Household
From a mss. quoted by Agnes Strickland:
Great Ladies of
the Household :
Ladies of the Privy Chamber
*Catherine St. John, Lady Edgecumbe
Chamberers
Ladies and gentlewomen attendant
Maids of Honor
Katherine
Parr’s Household
There were
thirty-three aristocratic women in Katherine’s household, including ten married
to peers. These occasionally included Henry VIII’s
two daughters and three nieces. The household in 1547 included twenty-seven
ladies ordinary and eight queen’s maids. Great Ladies of
the Household and/or members of the queen's "inner circle": Gentlewomen of the
Privy Chamber and Bedchamber *Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhitt *Maud Parr, Lady
Lane *Mary Wotton, Lady
Carew Chamberers (6): *Dorothy Fountain ___ Osborne
(daughter of Edward Osborne) *Mary Woodhull Maids of Honor: *Anne Bassett *Dorothy Bray Sir Anthony
Browne’s daughter a Carew a Guildford a relative of Dr.
Robert Huicke a Windsor Mother of Maids: *Margaret (or Anne) Foliot, Mrs. Stonor Paintrix: *Lavina Bening, Mrs.Teerlinck
in unspecified
positions: Mistress Barbara
___ *Elizabeth
Bellingham, Mrs. Hutton Anne Blechingham or Blechington *Eleanor Browne, Lady
Kempe *Elizabeth
Fitzgerald, Mrs. Garrett *Anne Jerningham, Lady Walsingham Mistress Kendal *Margaret Neville *Anne Sapcote, Lady Russell *Lucy Somerset *Elizabeth Stonor, Lady Hoby Mistress Syllyard *Catherine
Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk
Lady Mistress: *Elizabeth Jerningham, Mrs. Denton (1516) *Margaret Bourchier, Lady Bryan *Margaret
Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (1519; 1525-1533) *Amata (Jane) Boleyn,
Lady Calthorpe (1522-1525) Nurse: *Catherine Brydges, Mrs. Pole
Rockers:
also in Mary's household from 1516:
Alice Baker Laundress: Avis Wood (1516) *Beatrice ap Rice or Rhys (wife of David ap Rice or Rhys,
groom) (1519-1558) With Princess Mary at Richmond During the Field of Cloth of Gold, 1520:
The household in
1525-1527 in the Welsh Marches included: Chamberers: ____ Baptist Helen Gwyn Alice Parker
Between 1530 and 1533:
before 1536:
1536: Forty two people
in all, including:
1543:
*Anne Parr, Lady Herbert *Katherine Parr,
Lady Latimer before February 1545/6:
1547: Chamberers: Cecily Barnes *Frideswide Knight
Cecilia Barnes
Silkwoman: Marie Wilkinson Fool: *Jane Tumbler: *Lucretia Queen Mary’s
Household
This list is complied from various sources, including the list in Appendix A of Charlotte Merton's PhD dissertation, "The Women who served Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth: Ladies, Gentlewomen and Maids of the Privy Chamber, 1553-1603"
Maids of Honor (6 at a time): Mother of Maids: Gentlewomen of the Privy Chamber: Ladies of the Privy Chamber: Chamberers (3 at at time): Laundress:
Silkwoman In unspecified positions:
Elizabeth
Tudor’s Household
after 1536: Lady Mistress: *Blanche Milborne, Lady Troy, Governess: *Katherine Champernowne *Elizabeth Oxenbridge,
Lady Tyrwhitt in miscellaneous
positions: Elizabeth Candyselye (Cavendish? if so, this would be *Elizabeth Hardwick) *Frances Edmonds *Elizabeth Garrett
*Honora Grey
*Mary Hill *Isabella Markham
Mary Norne (*Mary Norris?) *Elizabeth Norwich
*Blanche Parry *Anne Rede (married to Thomas Parry) *Mary St. Loe
*Elizabeth Sandes
*Bridget Skipwith
*Elizabeth Venables, Mrs. Marbery
*Margaret Willoughby
chamberers: Jane Bradbelt (see Dorothy Broadbelt) Alys Huntercrum/Alyse Huntremy
laundress: Agnes Hylton with Elizabeth in
the Tower of London (1554) Blanche Courtenay *Ethelreda Malte, Lady Harington *Blanche Parry *Elizabeth Sandes Queen
Elizabeth’s Household
At least 56 women
in 1558, including 11 who could be called on when required and at least 18
Great Ladies of the Household. This alphabetical list (by maiden names) covers
the entire reign. If there is a date in parenthesis it is the earliest date
the subject is known to have been at court. I have tried not to repeat names, although
many of these women served in various positions over the years. This list is complied from various sources, including the list in Appendix A of Charlotte Merton's PhD dissertation, "The Women who served Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth: Ladies, Gentlewomen and Maids of the Privy Chamber, 1553-1603" and Joan Barbara Greenbaum Goldsmith's PhD dissertation, "All the Queen's Women: The Changing Place and Perception of Aristocratic Women in Elizabethan England 1558-1620."
Ladies of the
Bedchamber: *Catherine Carey,
Lady Knollys *Katherine Champernowne, Lady Astley *Elizabeth
Norwich, Lady Carew *Blanche Parry Chamberers *Jane Brussels (later Heneage)
(1586) *Bridget Chaworth (later Carr?) (1591) *Lucy Hyde (later Osborne) (1593-1603) *Frances Newton (later Lady Cobham) (1558) Katherine Newton
(1586) *Mary Shelton
(later Scudamore) (1571-4) *Elizabeth
Stafford (1569) *Elizabeth Venables, Mrs. Marbery (1558) Maids of Honor (6 at a time): *Mary Borough (1577) Dorothy Brooke
(1565-8) *Eleanor Brydges (1572) *Elizabeth Brydges (1594) *Frances Brydges
(1590s) *Katherine Brydges (1565) *Margaret Carey
(before 1582) *Philadelphia
Carey *Margaret Cavendish (1589-91) *Ann Cecil (1571) *Lucy Cecil (1586) *Margaret Edgecumbe *Mary Fitton (1590s) Margaret Garrett Lettice Garrett (1596-1603) *Lady Catherine
Grey (1558-60) *Lady Mary Grey *Elizabeth
Hastings (before 1571) *Lady Mary
Hastings (early 1580s) *Isabel Holcroft (1572) *Anne Hopton (1588) *Douglas Howard
(1558-9) *Elizabeth Howard
(1576-83) *Frances Howard
(1571) *Lady Jane Howard (1558-9) *Katherine Howard
(1572) *Mary Howard
(1565) *Lady Mary Howard
(1590+) Frances Johnson *Anne Knollys *Elizabeth Knollys (sometimes called Cecilia) (1572) *Lettice Knollys *Catherine Knyvett (1562) *Elizabeth Leighton *Bridget Manners
(early 1590s) Cecily Meautas *Frances Meautas (1558-1565) *Cordell Onslow/Cordwell Anslow (1596-1603) *Lady Jane Seymour *Frances Radcliffe *Margaret
Radcliffe *Mary Radcliffe *Anne Russell *Anne Russell
(1594-1600) *Elizabeth Russell
(1594-1600) *Lady Elizabeth
Somerset (1596) *Lady Katherine
Somerset (1596) *Elizabeth Southwell (1588) *Elizabeth Southwell (1599-1601) *Elizabeth Talbot
(1600) *Elizabeth
Throckmorton (1584) *Elizabeth Trentham (1588) *Frances Vaughan
(1578) Anne Vavasour (1601-3) *Frances Vavasour (1590) *Elizabeth de Vere (1593) *Elizabeth Vernon
(1597) *Helena Von Snakenborg (1564) Anne Windsor
(1565-8) Mother of Maids: *Katherine Champernowne? *Elizabeth Aglionby or Eglionby (1562) Mrs. Jones (1588) *Elizabeth Leche, Mrs. Wingfield (1598) Mrs. Hyde (1601) Privy Chamber (Ladies, Gentlewomen and Maids): *Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys *Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham *Margaret
Clifford, Countess of Derby *Penelope Devereux(later Lady Rich) *Katherine Dudley,
Lady Huntingdon *Mary Dudley, Lady
Sidney Elizabeth Egerton *Elizabeth
Fitzgerald, Lady Clinton *Margaret Gamage, Lady Howard *Mary Hill, Mrs. Mackwilliam Dorothy Litcott, Mrs. Edmunds *Isabella/Elizabeth Markham, Lady Harington *Anne Morgan, Lady
Hunsdon *Nazaret Newton, Lady Southwell *Anne Rede, Lady Parry *Elizabeth Sandes *Dorothy Stafford,
Lady Stafford *Mary Talbot, maid in unspecified
positions (including Extraordinary Ladies and Gentlewomen of the Household):
laundress:
silkwoman: *Alice Smythe, Mrs. Mountague
starchwoman
Ladies at Court in 1558/9 according to Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth by John Nichols (1823) ~ listed in order of precedence?
*Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
To go to the WHO'S WHO index, click here:
Elizabeth Collins
Elizabeth Lisle
*Margaret Pennington
*Elizabeth Vargas (Isabel de Vargas)
Elizabeth Collins
Blanche Merbury
Margaret Mulshoo
*Elizabeth Vargas
Margaret Atwell (1529)
*Mary Boleyn, Lady Carey
*Margaret Bourchier, Lady Bryan
*Mary Brandon, Mrs. Redyng (at least from 1509-1515)
*Mabel Clifford, Lady Fitzwilliam
*Elizabeth Dannett
*Alice Davy
*Margaret Ellerbek, Mrs. Marzen
Elizabeth Ferrers
*Lady Catherine Gordon
Margaret, Lady Grey
*Catherine Hussey, Lady Bray
*Anne Jerningham
*Anne Knyvett, Lady St. Leger
Anne Knyvett ("one of the queen's gentlewomen" before 1527; later m. Thomas Thoresby)
*Eleanor Pole, Lady Verney (Lady Verney the younger?)
*Eleanor Radcliffe, Lady Lovell
*Mary Roos, Mrs. Denis/Denys
*Anne Sandys, Mrs. Weston
*Elizabeth Scrope, Lady Pechey
*Mary Scrope, Lady Jerningham
Anne Verney, Lady Weston
*Elizabeth, wife of Reginald Wolvenden
*Margaret Wotton, Marchioness of Dorset
Margaret, Marchioness of Dorset
Elizabeth, Countess of Surrey
Mary, Lady Willougby
Lady Mabel Fitzwilliam
Lady Elizabeth Boleyn
Alice, Lady Mountjoy
Lady Elizabeth Grey
*Anne Browne
Margaret Bruges
*Elizabeth Bryan, Lady Carew
*Margaret Bryan, Lady Guildford
Anne Carew (unmarried sister of Sir Nicholas)
*Elizabeth Dannett
*Mary Fiennes
*Alice Kebel, Lady Mountjoy (Lord Mountjoy's 3rd wife)
*Anne Knyvett, Lady St. Leger
*Elizabeth Stafford, Countess of Surrey
Anne Weston
*Mary Wotton
Lady Mountjoy
Lady Darrell
Lady Guildford younger
Lady Carew
Elizabeth Blount
Lady St. Leger
Anne Carew
Anne Browne (daughter of Sir Matthew)
Anne Wotton
Mary Fiennes
Margaret Bruges
Lady of Norfolk
Lady Marquess
Lady Kateryn
Ladies Surrey, Hastings, Daubeney, Bullayn, Salisbury, Shelton, Neville, and Fitzwalter
Countess of Stafford (Ursula Pole) and 3 gentlewomen
Countess of Westmorland (Catherine Stafford) and 3 gentlewomen
Countess of Shrewsbury (Elizabeth Walden) and 3 gentlewomen
Countess of Devon (Gertrude Blount) and 3 gentlewomen
Countess of Derby (Anne Hastings) and 3 gentlewomen
Countess of Oxford (Anne Howard) and 3 gentlewomen
Countess Dowager of Oxford (Elizabeth Scrope) and 3 gentlewomen
Lady Fitzwalter (Elizabeth Stafford) and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Boleyn (Elizabeth Howard) and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Willoughby d'Eresby (Maria de Salinas) and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Bergavenny (Mary Stafford) and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Cobham (Elizabeth Hart) and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Elizabeth Grey and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Anne Grey and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Scrope (Mabel Dacre? Eleanor Windsor?) and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Morley (Alice St. John) and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Hastings (Anne Stafford) and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Montague (Jane Neville) and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Daubeney (Elizabeth Neville) and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Mountjoy (Alice Kebel) and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Grey, Lord John's wife and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Willoughby de Broke (Dorothy Grey) and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Guildford the elder (Joan Vaux) and 2 gentlewomen
Lady Vaux and 1 woman
Lady Fettiplace and 1 woman
Lady Parr, widow (Maud Green) and 1 woman
Lady Rice and 1 woman
Lady Darrell and 1 woman
Lady Guildford the Younger (Margaret Bryan) and 1 woman
Lady Selenger/St. Leger (Anne Knyvett) and 1 woman
Lady Parr (Mary Salisbury) and 1 woman
Lady Compton (Werburga Brereton) and 1 woman
Lady Finch and 1 woman
Lady Hopton and 1 woman
Lady Tilney and 1 woman
Lady Wingfield, Sir Richard's wife (Bridget Wiltshire) and 1 woman
Lady Owen (Anne Devereux?) and 1 woman
Lady Boleyn, Sir Edward's wife (Anne Tempest) and 1 woman
Lady Wingfield, Sir Anthony's wife (Elizabeth Vere) and 1 woman
Lady Clare and 1 woman
Lady Neville, Sir John's wife and 1 woman
Mistress Carew (Elizabeth Bryan) and 1 woman
Mistress Cheyney and 1 woman
Mistress Courtenay and 1 woman
Mistress Norris (Mary Fiennes) and 1 woman
Mistress Fitzwarren and 1 woman
Mistress Wotton and 1 woman
Mistress Browne and 1 woman
Mistress Finch and 1 woman
Mistress Cornwallis and 1 woman
Mistress Coke/Cooke (Margaret Pennington) and 1 woman
Mistress Parris and 1 woman
Mistress Victoria (wife of Dr. Fernando Vittorio) and 1 woman
Mistress Appleyard and 1 woman
Mistress Cary, Lord Fitzwater's daughter and 1 woman
Mistress Coffyn (Margaret Dymoke) and 1 woman
Mistress Parker and 1 woman
Mistress Jerningham, widow (Mary Scrope) and 1 woman
Mistress Bruce and 1 woman
Mistress Danet and 1 woman
Mistress Poyntz, Sir Anthony's daughter (Margaret Poyntz) and 1 woman
Mistress Catherine Mountoria and 1 woman
Mistress Lawrence and 1 woman
Mistress Anne Wentworth and 1 woman
Mistress Bridget Longan and 1 woman
Chamberers: (no women servants)
Mistress Kempe
Mistress Margett
Mistress Margery
Countess of Devon
Anne Boleyn
Mistress Carre [Mary Boleyn Carey]
Mrs. Parker [Jane]
Mistress Browne
Mistress Dannett.jpg)
Dorothy Howard, Lady Derby
*Elizabeth Howard, Lady Fitzwalter
*Jane Parker, Lady Rochford
*Honor Grenville, Lady Lisle
*Elizabeth Harleston, Lady Wallop
*Elizabeth Harleston [m. Sir John Wallop (1490-1552) at Windsor June 8, 1530)
George Zouche, equerry
*Anne Savage
Jane Parker, Lady Rochford
Mary Howard, Countess of Richmond
Countess of Derby
Countess of Worcester
Countess of Sussex
2 other ladies
in first chariot:
Dowager Duchess of Norfolk
widow of Marquess of Dorset
second chariot:
Elizabeth Howard, Countess of Wiltshire
2 other countesses
12 ladies on horseback
third chariot:
Lady Fitzwarren
Mary Zouche
Margery Horsman
Mary Carey
Lady Morley
Lady Boleyn
fourth chariot:
Madge Shelton
Kate Ashley [? Katherine Champernowne was not yet married]
riding:
female servants in red livery
Mrs. Marshall, mistress of the maidens
*Jane or Joan Ashley
____ Gambaige (*Margaret Gamage?; became the second Lady Howard 1535)
*Elizabeth Holland
*Margery Horsman “of the queen’s wardrobe”
*Mary Norris
Anne Saville
*Jane Seymour
*Margaret Shelton
*Mary Zouche
*Mary Boleyn, Lady Carey AKA Mary Rochford
*Anne Bray, Lady Cobham
*Elizabeth Browne, Countess of Worcester
*Nan Cobham
*Lady Mary Howard
*Elizabeth Isley, Mrs. Hill/Hilles
*_______ Morres (possibly Mary Norris?)
*Grace Newport, Lady Parker
_______ Nurse (possibly Mary Orchard—see under chamberers)
*Jane Parker, Lady Rochford
*Margaret Parker, Lady Shelton
*Eleanor Paston, Countess of Rutland
*Anne Savage,Lady Berkeley
Margaret Stanley, Countess of Sussex
_____ Toppes
*Frances de Vere, Countess of Surrey
Mary Orchard, Anne’s old nurse
*Lady Margaret Douglas [aka Lady Margaret Angwisshe (Angus)]
*Katherine Boughton, Lady Howard (before 1535)
*Elizabeth Grey, Lady Kildare
Lady Margaret Grey
*Blanche Milbourne, Lady Herbert of Troy
*Anne Rawson, Lady Stanhope
*Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Ughtred
*Catherine Skipwith (c.1484-c.1575), Mrs. Heneage?
*Elizabeth Walden, Countess of Shrewsbury (1491-1567)
*Catherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk
*Elizabeth Wood, Lady Boleyn
Lady Zouche (probably *Anne Gainsford)
*Joan North, Mrs. Wilkinson
*Elizabeth Philip
*Margaret Dymoke, Mrs. Coffyn
Mary Orchard
*Mary Scrope, Lady Kingston
*Elizabeth Wood, Lady Boleyn
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*Catherine Bassett [mistakenly called Elizabeth Bassett in some sources]
Frances Lilgrave, widow
Jane Ratsey
Mrs. Sympson
*Dorothy [Fitzherbert] Wingfield, widow
Susan Boughton
Mary Brudenell
Katherine Chayre/Chare and Anne, her daughter
*Dorothy Curzon
Anne Egerton
Elizabeth Eliott, laundress
*Elizabeth Guildford
*Mary Hall
Anne Haymond
Mother Lovell
Dorothy Potter
Magdalen [or *Maud Curzon, wife of Nicholas] Tatton
Elya Turpen, former laundress
Eleanor Vaughan and Anne, her daughter
Jane Whittington
*Dorothy [Fitzherbert, widow of John] Wingfield
*Mary Fitzalan, Duchess of Norfolk
*Margaret Gamage, Lady Howard
*Alice Squire, Lady North
Anne Pelham, Lady Capel
Ela Fitzlewis, wife to Sir John Mordaunt
Anne Cheyne, wife to Sir Edmund Peckham
Mary Carew, Lady Darcy
wife to Sir Robert Oxenbridge
*Martha Denny, widow of Sir Wymond Carew
*Dorothy Fitzherbert, widow of John Wingfield
Susan Boughton
Mary Nawnton, wife to Raphe Haymond
*Dorothy Curzon
Lucy Brudenell
*Elizabeth Guildford
Mary Brudenell
*Mary Hall
Jane Whittington
*Maud Curzon, wife to Nicholas Totton
[Anne Edgerton and Dorothy Potter were sick at home and did not attend]
Katheryn, wife to Thomas Chayre, a Dutch woman
Mrs. Hamond
Elizabeth Rastell, wife to John Tyteley
Elizabeth Capell, lady marquesse of Winchester and 3 women
Mary More
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*Mary Howard, Duchess of Richmond
*Duchess of Norfolk [incorrectly identified by Strickland as Katherine Willoughby, who was Duchess of Suffolk; this was *Agnes Tylney, the queen's step-grandmother]
*Margaret Arundell, Countess of Sussex
*Margaret Gamage, Lady Howard
*Ursula Stourton, Lady Clinton
*Eleanor Paston, Countess of Rutland
*Jane Parker, Lady Rochford
*Isabel Legh, Lady Baynton
Gentlewomen of the Privy Chamber
*Anne Parr, Mrs. Herbert
*Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Mrs. Tyrwhitt
Mrs Leye [Lee? Legh?]
*Susanna Hornebolt, Mrs. Gilmyn
*Katherine Tylney
Margaret Morton
Mrs. Fryswith
Mrs. Luffkyn
[later: *Joan Acworth
*Alice Restwold]
*Jane Guildford, Lady Dudley
*Margaret Howard, Lady Arundell
*Joan Champernowne, Lady Denny
Jane Cheney, Lady Wriothesley
*Katherine Skipwith, Lady Heneage
Lady Knyvett
*Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell
*Jane Ashley, Mrs. Mewtas
Mrs. Broughton
[also: *Dorothy Gates, Lady Josselyn]
*Lady Lucy Somerset
*Mrs. Anne Bassett
Mrs. Garnyshe [Garneys?]
Mrs. Cowpledike [*Margaret Copledike?]
*Mrs. Catherine Stradling
*[Margaret (or Anne) Foliot,] Mrs. Stonor [Mother of Maids]
[later: *Dorothy Bray
*Elizabeth Fitzgerald?
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*Anne Calthorpe, Countess of Sussex
*Joan Champernowne, Lady Denny
*Lady Margaret Douglas
*Jane Guildford, Lady Lisle
*Anne Stanhope, Lady Hertford
*Catherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk
Christian Murset (wife of William)
*Mrs. Eglionby
Anne Bright
Margery Cousins
Ellen Hutton
Margery Parker
3 of her daughters (probably Lady Anne Howard, *Lady Katherine Howard and *Lady Elizabeth Howard)
Lady Margaret, wife of Lord Herbert
the Lady Grey
Lady Neville
Lord John's wife
*Frances Aylmer
Alice Baker
*Catherine Brydges, Mrs. Pole
*Cecily Dabridgecourt
*Mary Dannett
Anne Darrell or Darnell
*___ de Bruxia (wife of Peter)
Mary Fitzherbert
Anne Knyvett
Elizabeth Pole
*Anne Rede
*Mary Vittorio (Mary Fernando; Mary Victoria)
*Margaret Bacon, Lady Butts
Margaret Baynton
*Mary Browne
*___ de Bruxia (wife of Peter)
*Lady Margaret Douglas, Chief Lady in Waiting
*Joan Duwes (Mrs. Giles)
*Anne Grey, Lady Hussey
*Katherine Grey, Lady Maltravers
*Frideswide Knight, chamberer
Alice Parker, chamberer
____ Rider
*Frances Baynham
Mary Baynton
*Eleanor Browne, Lady Kempe
*Mary Browne
*Mary Kempe Finch
*Elizabeth Fitzgerald
*Barbara Hawke
*Frances Jerningham
*Anne Morgan
*Elizabeth Sidney
*Susan White
*Anne Bassett
*Mabel Browne
*Eleanor Browne, Lady Kempe
*Anne Cooke (later Lady Bacon)
*Mary Kempe, Mrs. Fynche
___ Jerningham
___ Moreton (Morgan?)
*Frances Neville, Lady Waldegrave
*Anne Radcliffe, Lady Wharton
*Jane Russell
___ Stirlye (Strelley?)
*Susan White.jpg)
Cecily Arundell (1557)
Dorothy Boughton (1553-7)
*Anne Conyers (1557)
*Margaret Cooke (1557)
*Magdalen Dacre
*Jane Dormer (1556-7)
*Lady Catherine Grey
*Lady Mary Grey
Mary Howard (1557)
*Elizabeth Jerningham
Mary Mansell/Manxwell (1557)
Frances Neville (1558)
*Lady Jane Seymour (1557) and two of her sisters?
Lady Anne Somerset (1557)
Mrs. Poyntz (1557)
Elizabeth Babington
____ Barkley
*Anne Bassett
Cecily Barnes
Joan Baynham
*Mabel Browne
Dorothy Broughton
*Anne Cooke, Lady Bacon
*Sybil Hampden,Mrs. Penne
*Barbara Hawke
*Mary Kempe, Mrs. Finch
*Catherine Luttrell, Mrs. Copley
Margaret Merton
*Mary Roper, Mrs. Clarke
*Jane Russell (1554-7)
_____ Southwell
Mary Thomas
*Susan White, Mrs.Tonge (Clarencieux)
*Frances Baynham, Lady Jerningham
*Anne Bourchier, Lady Parr, styled Viscountess Bourchier
*Frances Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk
*Anne Browne, Lady Petre
*Eleanor Browne, Lady Kempe
*Catherine Brydges, Lady Brooke
Elizabeth Brydges
*Cecily Dabridgecourt, Lady Mansell/Manxwell
Anne Jerningham, Lady Cornwallis
*Anne Rede, Lady Fortescue
*Frideswide Knight, Lady Strelley
*Frances Neville, Lady Waldegrave
*Anne Radcliffe, Lady Wharton
Elizabeth Babington
Edye Brocas (1554)
Edith Brodyman/Brydyman (1556-7)
Elizabeth Gilbourne/Golbourne (1553-4)
___ Mackwilliams (1557) (possibly *Mary Hill)
Mary Mitchell (1556)
Barbara Rice/ap Price (1553-7)
*Jane Russell (1553)
Elizabeth Shirlocke/Shurlocke/Shirlock (1553, 1556-7)
*Beatrice Rice or Rhys
Margaret Hogg
Mrs. Bell
*Dorothy Bray, Lady Brydges (1553)
*Mabel Browne, Countess of Kildare
Avis Byllyard (1556-7)
Mrs. Cavely (1556-7)
Jane Cheney, Countess of Southampton
Mrs Clyston (1556-7)
Mrs. Danyell the Elder (1556-7)
Bridget Foster (1554-5)
Mrs. Frankwell (1556-7)
Eleanor Gresley, Lady Strelley (1557)
Eleanor Hammond (1554-5)
Mrs. Hemmings (1556-7)
Mrs. Holland (1556-7)
Joan Hougton (1556-7)
Alice Huntercombe (1553-4)
*Isabel Legh, Lady Baynton (1554-7)
Mrs. Marchenes (1556-7)
Mrs. Henry Mink (1556-7)
Mrs. Pawne (1556-7)
Mrs. Penne of Codington (1556-7)
Mrs. Preston (1556-7)
Mrs. Raymond (1556-7)
Mary Russell (1554-7)
Anne Stanton (1556-7)
Mrs. Strelley of London (1556-7)
Mary Thomeo (1553-7)
Anne Verney, Lady Grey (1556-7)
Mrs. Weddell (1556-7)
Mrs. Welsh (1556-7)
Anne Woodhouse, Mrs. Shelton (1556-7)
Mrs. Zynzans (1556-7)
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(According to Charlotte Merton, they served 3-4 at a time and were the top level of attendants)
(according to Charlotte Merton, chamberers were the bottom level of the queen's personal attendants and served 3-4 at a time):
(according to Charlotte Merton there were also "Maids of the Privy Chamber" and this list probably includes some of them, as well. "Queen's maids" seems to have been a catchall title for young women serving at court.)
Mary Howard (1558-9)
Margaret MacWilliam (1588)
*Ethelred or Audrey Shelton (later Walsingham)
Katherine Lee, Lady Mountjoy
*Susan de Vere
Mary Arundell (1600-3)
Anne Bacon (1602-3)
Margaret Baptist-Castilion (1567-88) wife of John Baptist-Castilion, groom of the privy chamber
Mrs. Barley (1567-88)
Katherine Blount (Champernon/Lady Berkeley) (1558-9)
Elizabeth Bovon (1594-1603)
Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Warner (1558-9)
*Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Cecil
Katherine Buckler, wife of Sir Walter (1558-9)
Katherine Bullosley (1600-3)
Mary Cave Weston (1558-9)
Elizabeth, Lady Cawarden (1558-9)
Lady Clarke (1558-9)
Amy Clarke, Mrs. Marvyn (1558-9)
Eliabeth Cliffe/Clyffe (1558-9)
Katherine Clinton, Lady Burgh (1558-9)
Elizabeth de Counte (1580-1603)
Lucretia de Counte/Lucretia de Tadeschi (1563-1603)
Mrs. Croxson/Crokeson (1577-8)
Mrs. Curson (1558-9)
Mrs. Dale (1577-8)
Mrs. Margaret Dane (1567-78)
Lady Darcy (1558-9)
Mistress Darcy (1601-3)
Mrs. Digby (1577-8)
Mary Dymmock
Anne Ferneley, Lady Gresham (1558-9)
Lady Fitzwilliam (1558-9)
*Margery Golding, Countess of Oxford (1559-1561)
Mrs. Gray (1558-9)
Anne Grey (1559?)
Elizabeth Grey, Lady Chandos (1558-9)
Elizabeth Guildford (1600-3)
Jane Handces (1576?)
*Elizabeth Hardwick, Lady St. Loe
Elizabeth Harington, Mrs. Montague (1577-90+)
Mrs. Harman (1577-8)
*Barbara Hawke
*Frances Howard, Countess of Kildare (1597)
Mrs. Huggons (1558-9)
Mrs. Huggons (1577-8)
Mrs. Huggons of Hampton Court (1567-8)
Mrs. Huggons of Norfolk (1567-8)
Elizabeth Hyde (1575+)
Ipolita the Tartarian alias Lynnet (1561-9)
Margaret Isham, Lady Arnold (1558-9)
Mrs. Julio (1577-8)
Mrs. Lichfield (1577-8)
Mrs. Loo (1567-8)
Elizabeth Neville, Mrs. Haynes (1558-9)
Mrs. Nott (1577-8)
Lady Palmer (1558-9)
Isabel Partridge (1545?)
*Katherine Paston, Lady Newton (1577-1603)
Mrs. Quadrin (1558-9)
Mrs. Robinson (1558-9)
Mrs. Sackford (1577-8)
Anne St. John, Mrs. Dennys (1558-9)
Agnes Seycolle (Edgerley/Lady Benger) (1558-9)
Amy Shelton (1567-88)
Elizabeth Shelton (1567-8)
*Mary Sidney (before 1577)
Mrs. Smallpage (1558-9)
Elizabeth Snowe (called “Eme”; served 1558-87 at the least; knew Elizabeth prior to 1558)
Dorothy Speckard (by 1603)
*Elizabeth Stafford
Jane Stanhope, Mrs. Townsend (1577-8)
Elizabeth Stumpe, Lady Knyvett (1558-9)
Mistress Thompson (by 1603)
Gresham Thynne (1601)
*Maria Touchet (1594)
*Margaret Vaughan, Lady Hawkins (1589-1603)
Anne Verney, Lady Poyntz (1558-9)
Mrs. Wayneham (1558=9)
Anne West
Margaret Wharton (1601)
Dorothy Willoughby, Lady Hopton (1558-9)
Mrs. Winter (1558-9)
Barbara Wolf Seymour (1558-9)
Mrs. Ellen Wolf (1567-8)
Mrs. Mary Yetsweirt/Mary Getswiert/“Mrs. Nycates” (1558-9) (married to French secretary Nicasius Yetsweirt)
Joan Hilton (1558-60)
Elizabeth Smithson/Smythson (1558-1568)
Mrs. Taylor (1567-9)
Anne Twiste (1576-1603)
Eleanor Cobham
Elizabeth Green (1580s+)
*Frances Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk
*Margaret Audley, Duchess of Norfolk
*Ann Stanhope, Duchess of Somerset
*Margery Golding, Countess of Oxford
Christian North, Countess of Worcester
*Margaret Neville, Countess of Rutland
*Katherine Pole, Countess of Huntingdon
Margaret St. John, Countess of Bedford
*Magdalen Dacre, Viscountess Montagu
*Lady Catherine Grey
*Margaret Gamage, Lady Howard of Effingham
*Lady Jane Howard
Lady Eleanor Somerset
Lady Jane Somerset
Lady Anne Grey
*Lady Mary Grey
Lady Anne Wharton (*Anne Radcliffe)
*Frances Manners, Lady Bergavenny
*Jane or Joan Fitzalan, Lady Lumley
*Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Lady Clinton
*Katherine Vere, Lady Windsor jr
*Anne Stanley, Lady Stourton
*Lucy Somerset, Lady Latimer
*Mary Neville, Lady Dacre of the South
Lady Katherine Clinton
Lady Baylbors sr (*Margaret Skipwith, Lady Talboys?)
Lady Borowe jr (Burgh)
Catherine Leigh, Lady Mountjoy
*Margaret Wentworth, Lady Williams of Thame
*Alice Squire, Lady North