 Abt 1515 - Aft 1544 (~ 30 years)
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| Name |
Wadham, Jane |
| Born |
Abt 1515 |
Of Somersetshire, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
Aft 1544 |
| Person ID |
I04892 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
20 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
Wadham, Nicholas, b. Abt 1474, Of Devonshire, England , d. 1541, Of Merrifield, Somerset, England (Age ~ 67 years) |
| Mother |
Seymour, Margaret, b. Abt 1479, Of Wiltshire, England , d. Abt 1517, Carisbrooke, Isle Of Wight, Hampshire, England (Age ~ 38 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1507 |
| Family ID |
F01522 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Foster, John, b. Abt 1505, Of Romsey, Hampshire, England , bur. 8 Jun 1576, Baddesley, Hampshire, England (Age ~ 71 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1538 |
England |
| Family ID |
F02256 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- A Who's Who of Tudor Women:
JANE WADHAM (1517+- 1544+)
Jane Wadman was the daughter of Sir Nicholas Wadham, of Maryfield, Governor of the Isle of Wight (c.1474-1541) and his second of four wives, Margaret Seymour (b.c.1479), making her the niece of Queen Jane Seymour. She was a nun at Romsey Abbey in Hampshire, under Abbess Elizabeth Ryprose, at the time it was dissolved on July 11, 1538, as was her half sister, Katherine (b.1511), who was subprioress. Jane was sexton, but she had no real vocation. Because ex-religious were required to remain chaste, a ruling retained until 1549 and revived from 1553-1558, Jane had to obtain a “capacity” to return to the world. According to some accounts, she claimed that prior to becoming a nun she had gone through a private form of marriage with John Foster or Forster (d.1557+), but then was forced to take her vows, and that John Foster had been forced to become a priest. Foster's father was steward at Romsey and John is variously called steward and chaplain there. He received a number of properties after the dissolution. Geoffrey Baskerville's English Monks and the Suppression of the Monasteries states that Jane married Foster after the surrender of Romsey in 1539. In any case, from 1538 Jane and John lived together as man and wife and they had three children, Edward, Andrew, and Jane. By June 1541, however, concerns about the validity of their marriage had caused Foster to separate from Jane. At that time, she asked for a ruling on the subject and a special commission of two bishops was formed. Records are scarce, but Jane was again asking that commissioners look into the validity of her marriage in April 1544. Foster, meanwhile was the incumbent at Baddesley by 1543. One account has Jane living there with him, presumably after the validity of their marriage had been established to everyone’s satisfaction. Baskerville cites a reference to Jane Foster, gentlewoman, in May 1558, in the belief that this was Jane Wadham.
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