Jane's guilt, of having treacherously assumed the title and the power of the monarch, was evidenced by a number of documents she had signed as "Jane the Quene".
The Duke of Northumberland was executed on 22 August 1553.

After his fourth interrogation by the King's Council, he proposed his daughter Jane as a bride for the Protector's eldest son, Lord Hertford. [53] This painting had been discovered at the Yale Center for British Art in America. Beautiful and intelligent, she reluctantly allowed herself at age 15 to be put on the throne by unscrupulous politicians; her subsequent execution by Mary Tudor aroused universal sympathy. The Privy Council switched their allegiance and proclaimed Mary queen in London, on 19 July. Jane and her husband were executed soon due to the Wyatt’s Rebellion, which took place in January and February 1554. [6] In May 1553, she married Lord Guildford Dudley, a younger son of Edward's chief minister John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. Edward died on July 6, 1553. Beautiful and intelligent, she reluctantly allowed herself at age 15 to be put on the throne by unscrupulous politicians; her subsequent execution by Mary Tudor aroused universal sympathy.

Fact #1: Lady Jane Grey was a teenage noblewoman during the English Tudor era. [18] The Duke, Lord President of the King's Council from late 1549, was then the most powerful man in the country.

However, Edward, in a draft will ("My devise for the Succession") composed earlier in 1553, had first restricted the succession to (non-existent) male descendants of Frances Brandon and her daughters, before he named his Protestant cousin "Lady Jane and her heirs male" as his successors, probably in June 1553; the intent was to ensure his Protestant legacy, thereby bypassing Mary, who was a Roman Catholic. [1] Historian and Tudor specialist David Starkey is sceptical, "It's an appallingly bad picture and there's absolutely no reason to suppose it's got anything to do with Lady Jane Grey. As soon as Mary was sure of King Edward's demise, she left her residence at Hunsdon and set out to East Anglia, where she began to rally her supporters. [44][45] Jane then recited Psalm 51 (Have mercy upon me, O God) in English, and handed her gloves and handkerchief to her maid. Lady Jane Grey was a well-educated woman in her era. However, there is no clear evidence for that outside Norfolk and Suffolk, where Northumberland had put down Kett's Rebellion; hence, where princess Mary sought refuge. Her mother, Lady Frances Brandon, was the daughter of Mary Tudor, Queen of France (Henry VIII‘s sister). Wikisource has original works on the topic: Bindoff, Stanley T. (1953) "A Kingdom at Stake, 1553.

But Seymour was beheaded for treason in 1549, and Jane returned to her studies at Bradgate. At the beginning of Mary’s reign, Jane was arraigned for high treason and later executed. Support for Mary grew very quickly, and most of Jane's supporters abandoned her.

Lady Jane Grey was the eldest daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and his wife, Frances. As was to be expected, all defendants were found guilty and sentenced to death.

The will removed his half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, from the line of succession on account of their illegitimacy, subverting their claims under the Third Succession Act.

In November 1553, Jane Grey was charged for high treason.
Lady Jane Grey has been viewed as a Protestant martyr for centuries, “the traitor-heroine” of the Reformation.

The Privy Council of England suddenly changed sides and proclaimed Mary as queen on 19 July 1553, deposing Jane. [46] Jane's father, the Duke of Suffolk, was executed 11 days after Jane, on 23 February 1554. In June 1553, Edward VI wrote his will, nominating Jane and her male heirs as successors to the Crown, in part because his half-sister Mary was Roman Catholic, while Jane was a committed Protestant and would support the reformed Church of England, whose foundation Edward claimed to have laid. [55], "Jane Grey" redirects here.

Provided with excellent tutors, she spoke and wrote Greek and Latin at an early age; she was also proficient in French, Hebrew, and Italian. Let us get other interesting facts about Lady Jane Grey by reading the following post below: Henry VII was the great-grandfather of Lady Jane Grey from Mary, the younger daughter of Henry VII. With her head on the block, Jane spoke the last words of Jesus as recounted by Luke: "Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!"[43].

Her father was the first Duke of Suffolk, Henry Grey. The people also call her the Nine-Day Queen for she only served the monarch for 9 days.

The birthplace of Lady Jane Grey was believed in Leicestershire based on the traditional view. She died in 1559. Rather, it seems that Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel—whom Northumberland had arrested and detained twice as an ally of Somerset, before rehabilitating—engineered a coup d'état in the Privy Council in Northumberland's absence. Her primary supporter, her father-in-law the Duke of Northumberland, was accused of treason and executed less than a month later.

Lady Jane and her husband, however, were arraigned for high treason on November 14, 1553. Jane Grey is the only English monarch in the last 500 years (though whether her short reign was legitimate is disputed) of whom no proven contemporary portrait survives. If there’s one reason why we’re here today talking about her, it’s because Lady Jane Grey holds an extremely dubious historical title. Jane was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII through his younger daughter Mary, and was a first cousin once removed of Edward VI. She was born circa 1536/1537 and died on 12 February 1554. Seeing her husband's corpse return, Jane is reported to have exclaimed: "Oh, Guildford, Guildford. She was a viable heir to the English throne because of her maternal grandmother, Princess Mary Tudor.