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Lady Bridget Wingfield (née Wiltshire, later Harvey, then Tyrwhitt; died January 1534) was a neighbour, close friend and lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England. She was the wife of Sir Richard Wingfield (widower of Catherine Woodville) and the daughter of Sir John Wiltshire of Stone Castle, Kent, a neighbour of the Boleyn family. A letter written by Queen Anne to Bridget was used as evidence in the trial of the Queen for adultery, incest and conspiring against the life of the King. As Bridget had died, she could not refute the interpretation the prosecution placed on the Queen's words. The report also questioned the morality of Bridget: ''And note that this matter was disclosed by a woman called Lady Wingfield who was a servant of the said queen and ''shared the same tendencies''. And suddenly the said Wingfield became ill and a little time before her death she showed the matter to one of those etc.''〔Spelman, ''Reports'', i.71; p.377, Eric Ives, ''Anne Boleyn〕 〔M.A.E. Wood, Letters, ii.74-5; Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, v.12〕 She married three times; her first husband was Sir Richard Wingfield K.G., by whom she had ten children; he died in 1525. Her second husband was Sir Nicholas Harvey, and her third husband was Sir Robert Tyrwhitt. == Family and career == Bridget was born on an unknown date, the daughter of Sir John Wiltshire, of Stone Castle, in Shurland, Kent,〔Retha Warnicke, ''The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII'', p.117〕 and Isabella Clothall. She became a member of Catherine of Aragon's household, sometime before 1520, as Bridget was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in France.〔TudorHistory.org〕 Later, on an unknown date, Bridget became a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Catherine's successor, Anne Boleyn. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lady Bridget Wingfield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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