They sent Henry VIII a joint letter which was signed by Mabel, Lady Southampton, Margaret Tallebois, Margaret Howard, Alice Browne, Anne Knyvett (daughter of Thomas Knyvett), Jane Denny, Jane Meutas, Anne Bassett, Elizabeth Tyrwhitt, and Elizabeth Harvey. In August 1540 Anne Bassett and others ladies of the court visited Portsmouth to see a newly built ship. The ambassadors thought that she might become his fourth wife in 1540, and again in 1542, just after Queen Catherine Howard was sentenced to death. Īnne is rumoured to have attracted Henry VIII in 15, and is rumoured to have been the king's mistress. Anne was the sister accepted and was sworn into service the day after the pregnant queen took to her chamber for her lying-in. She allowed Lady Lisle to send her daughters but warned her that only one position could be found. She persisted in her efforts to secure them positions and eventually, after sending a large consignment of quails to Anne's successor, Queen Jane Seymour, the latter relented. Lord Lisle was the illegitimate son of Edward IV of England, and thus Henry VIII's uncle.Īnne's mother, had attempted to secure a place for her two daughters (Anne and her sister Katharine Basset) in the service of Queen Anne Boleyn several times, but to no avail. As her father died when she was young, Anne was brought up by her mother and stepfather, Arthur Plantagenet, Lord Lisle, in the English enclave of Calais. Biography Īnne was born in 1520, the fourth child of Sir John Basset and Honor Grenville (daughter of Sir Thomas Grenville of Stowe in Kilkhampton, Cornwall and his wife Isabella). For the rancher associated with Butch Cassidy, see Ann Bassett.Īnne Basset (1520 – before 1558) was an English lady-in-waiting of the Tudor period, reputed to have been the mistress of King Henry VIII.
For the Canadian psychiatrist, see Anne S.
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