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Margaret (Madge) Shelton and Mary Shelton (1510/15 – 1570/71)〔.〕 were two sisters in Tudor England, one of whom may have been a mistress of King Henry VIII. Recent research has indicated that they were the same person.〔Hart, The Mistresses of Henry VIII by Kelly Hart pp 120-128〕〔''Rethinking the Henrician Era: Essays on Early Tudor Texts and Contexts'' by Paul G. Remley〕 ==Family== Both Margaret and Mary were daughters of Sir John Shelton and his wife Anne, the sister of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, the father of King Henry VIII's second Queen consort, Anne Boleyn. Margaret and Mary were thus first cousins of the Queen.〔; .〕 Mary Shelton (1510/15 – 1570/71) was the youngest of Sir John Shelton's daughters. She was an attendant of her cousin, Queen Anne Boleyn, who is said to have chided her "for writing 'ydill poesies' in her prayerbook".〔; .〕 Mary was part of a social group which included the poets Sir Thomas Clere (d. 14 April 1545), Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and Thomas Wyatt,〔.〕 with all of whom she was romantically linked. In an epitaph he composed at the death of Sir Thomas Clere, Surrey identified Mary as Clere's "beloved".〔 Mary's two closest friends were Lady Margaret Douglas, a niece of King Henry VIII, and Mary Howard, Duchess of Richmond, wife of the King's illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond.〔 Shelton was the main editor of and a main contributor to〔 the famous ''Devonshire MS'', where members of their circle wrote poems they enjoyed or had composed.〔 Her father was John Shelton (Born 1472 and died December 21, 1539), the son of Sir Ralph Shelton and Margaret Clere. He was a high sheriff in 1504, and knighted in 1509. Her siblings were; John, Ralph, Elizabeth, Anne, Gabriella, Emma, Thomas, Margaret and Amy Shelton (Mary was one of 10 children). She was married three times and had seven children. After the death of her fiance, Thomas Clere, she married Anthony Heveningham of Ketteringham, her first cousin. She had seven children with Heveningham: Arthur, John, Abigail, Bridget, Elizabeth, Mary and Anne. Another son, Anthony, died on November 22, 1557. Mary's final marriage was to Phillip Appleyard.〔Castelli, Jorge H. "Shelton Family." Tudorplace.com. Jorge Castelli, n.d. Web. 21 Mar. 2013.〕 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「Margaret and Mary Shelton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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