Henry VIII
- Bessie Blount (c. 1502 – 1540), mother of his only acknowledged illegitimate child, Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
- Mary Boleyn (c. 1499 – 1543), sister of his second wife, Anne, and mother of Henry VIII's alleged children, Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys
- Mary Shelton (c.1518-c.1560), mistress during his marriage to her cousin, Anne Boleyn
- Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon (after 1483 – 1544), who was prosecuted for adultery in 1527
- Jane Poppincourt
- Joan Dingley
- Mary Berkeley
- Agness Blewitt
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