Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — Ill-Omened Jane. [ARTICLE]

Ill-Omened Jane.

Jane, as home by the royal families of Europe, has always been a name of ill-omen. Lady Jane Gray was beheaded for treason; Jane Seymour was one of the victims of King Hal; Jane Beaufort, wife of James I. of Scotland, was savagely murdered; Jeanne de Yalois, wife of Louis XII., was repudiated for her want of pertonal beauty; Jeanne d’Albret, mother of Henry IV., was poisoned by Catharine de Medici; Jane of Castile Host her reason through the" neglect of her husband,' Philip the Handsome, Archduke of Austria; Jane I. of Naples caused her husband to he murdered and married bis assassin, and Jane IL of Naples was one of the most wanton of women.-— American Notes and Queries.