Joan Bulmer

Joan Bulmer was an English gentlewoman during the reign of Henry VIII. She grew up in the household of Agnes Howard, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk and there became a close friend of the Dowager Duchess' step-granddaughter, Catherine Howard, who went on to become Henry VIII's fifth wife.^[1]

She was the second daughter and heir of John or Thomas Bulmer or Bulman. During her teenage years, she was the lover of Edward Waldegrave. Once Catherine became queen, she gave Joan a place at court; it cannot be determined whether this was out of friendship or consideration of the tales which Joan could tell on the Queen and her teenage affairs. Bulmer may have been close to Francis Dereham, Queen Catherine's liaison who brought about her downfall.^[1]^[2]

In film and television

Joan is depicted in the fourth series of The Tudors by Catherine Steadman.

References

^ ^a ^b http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutCatherineHoward.htm
^ Warnicke, Retha M., "Katherine", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Subscription or UK public library membership required), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/4892

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