Biography of Dorothy Bulstrode Lady in Waiting 1592-1590

Paternal Family Tree: Bulstrode

Maternal Family Tree: Cecily Bulstrode 1515

On 28 May 1571 [her father] Edward Bulstrode of Hedgerley Bulstrode Buckinghamshire and [her mother] Cecily Croke (age 16) were married at St Dunstan's in the West, Fleet Street [Map]. They were second cousins.

In 1592 Dorothy Bulstrode Lady in Waiting was born to Edward Bulstrode of Hedgerley Bulstrode Buckinghamshire and Cecily Croke (age 37).

In 1598 [her father] Edward Bulstrode of Hedgerley Bulstrode Buckinghamshire died. He was buried in St Laurence's Church Upton cum Chalvey Slough.

Around 1605 Dorothy Bulstrode Lady in Waiting (age 13) was appointed Lady in Waiting to Anne of Denmark Queen Consort Scotland England and Ireland (age 30).

Around 1610 John Eyre (age 30) and Dorothy Bulstrode Lady in Waiting (age 18) were married.

On 04 Jul 1610 Anne of Denmark Queen Consort Scotland England and Ireland (age 35) gave Dorothy Bulstrode Lady in Waiting (age 18) a gown of ash-colour taffeta.

On 14 Oct 1610 Anne of Denmark Queen Consort Scotland England and Ireland (age 35) gave Dorothy Bulstrode Lady in Waiting (age 18) a gown of black satin.

In 1611 [her husband] John Eyre (age 31) and Dorothy Bulstrode Lady in Waiting (age 19) attempted to murder Edward Herbert 1st Baron Herbert Chirbury (age 28) who he suspected of having an affair with his wife (Dorothy Bulstrode Lady in Waiting (age 19)). Eyre (age 31) and four accomplices caught up with Herbert (age 28) and his two footmen at Scotland Yard as he was leaving Whitehall Palace [Map], and wounded his horse several times. Eyre (age 31) broke Herbert's sword. Twenty more men appeared, Herbert thought them Eyre's supporters and attendants of the Earl of Suffolk (age 49). Two other men helped Herbert, and after a prolonged struggle he wounded Eyre, who was carried to the Thames vomiting. A few days later Eyre sent a message that he would kill Herbert with "a musket out of a window". Meanwhile, because Eyre (age 31) claimed Dorothy had confessd to being unfaithful, she sent a letter to her aunt Lady Croke (Note. probably [her aunt] Prudence Croke (age 44) possibly [her aunt] Elizabeth Croke denying this, and Herbert was able to give this letter to the Privy Council. The Duke of Lennox (age 36) said that John Eyre was "the most miserable man living" because of the shame of Dorothy's letter, and because his father had disinherited him on hearing of the assault.