Jane Seymour biography

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Jane Seymour was born in England c. 1509. After Henry VIII's wife, Anne Boleyn, was executed, Jane and Henry married on May 30, 1536. On October 12, 1537, she gave birth to Henry VIII's first male heir, King Edward VI, the future king of England. She died of childbirth complications less than two weeks later, on October 24, 1537, in London, England, after having been queen for only a year and a half.