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Joan Larke (c.1490- after 1529), was the mistress of the powerful English statesman and churchman, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, and the mother of his two illegitimate children. == Wolsey's mistress == Joan was born in about 1490 in Yarmouth, Norfolk, the daughter of Peter Larke, variously named a Thetford innkeeper or a gentleman of Huntingdonshire.〔Kathy Lynn Emerson, ''A Who's Who of Tudor Woman'', retrieved on 25-11-09〕 Her brother Thomas Larke was chaplain to Thomas Wolsey. In about 1509, when Wolsey served as almoner of the new king Henry VIII of England, Joan became his mistress, living with him in Bridewell. She bore him two illegitimate children: * Thomas Wynter (b.c.1510), married and sired children. * Dorothy Clancey (b. 29 September 1512) Her son was sent to live with a family in Willesden, and her daughter, Dorothy, was adopted by John Clancey, and later placed in the Shaftesbury Nunnery, where she became a nun. She received a pension from Thomas Cromwell when her religious house was later dissolved. Sometime after Wolsey's arrest and death in November 1530, Thomas Wynter went to study at the University of Padua, at the King's expense. When he returned to England penniless in about 1535, he was financially assisted by Queen Anne Boleyn, Wolsey's former adversary.〔Alison Weir, ''The Six Wives of Henry VIII'', Ballantine Books, New York, 1991, p.280〕 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「Joan Larke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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