Date: c. 1536-37

Description:

Ireland, Henry VIII, First Harp Issue (1534-40), groat, m.m. crown, crowned “H” and “I” (for Henry and Jane Seymour, 1536-37) beside harp, 2.45g (S. 6473)

• Good very fine (GVF)

Country:

• Ireland

Category:

• Anglo-Norman
  • House of Tudor
• Henry VIII
  • Jane Seymour
• Hammered

Additional Information:

• Jane Seymour (c. 1508 – 24 October 1537)
  • Queen of England from 1536 to 1537 as the third wife of King Henry VIII.
  • She succeeded Anne Boleyn as queen consort following the latter’s execution for high treason, incest, and adultery in May 1536.
  • She died of post-natal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her only child, a son who reigned as King Edward VI.
  • She was the only one of Henry’s wives to receive a queen’s funeral, and his only consort to be buried beside him in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
  • She was the only wife of Henry VIII whose son survived infancy.

Jane Seymour, Queen of England – a portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger

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