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Jane Digby
Portrait of Digby by Joseph Karl Stieler (1831)
Born
Jane Elizabeth Digby
(1807-04-03)3 April 1807
Forston House, Dorset, England, United Kingdom
Died
11 August 1881(1881-08-11) (aged 74)
Damascus, Vilayet of Syria, Ottoman Empire (now Syria)
Resting place
Damascus, Syria
Other names
Jane Elizabeth Digby el Mezrab Shaikhah Umm al-Laban
Title
Lady Ellenborough (1824–1830) Baroness von Venningen (1833–1842)
Spouses
Edward Law
(m. 1824; div. 1830)
Baron Karl von Venningen
(m. 1833; div. 1842)
Spyridon Theotokis
(m. 1841; div. 1846)
Medjuel el Mezrab
(m. 1853)
Children
6
Parent(s)
Admiral Sir Henry Digby Lady Jane Elizabeth Coke
Jane Elizabeth Digby (3 April 1807 – 11 August 1881) was an English aristocrat, famed for her remarkable love life and lifestyle. She had four husbands and many lovers, including Lord Ellenborough, Governor-General of India, King Ludwig I of Bavaria and his son King Otto of Greece, Bohemian nobleman and Austrian statesman Prince Felix zu Schwarzenberg, and the Greek general Christodoulos Hatzipetros. She died in Damascus, then part of the Ottoman Empire, as the wife of Arab sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab, who was 20 years her junior.[1]
^Keenan, Brigid (2000). Damascus Hidden Treasures of the Old City. Thames & Hudson Inc. p. 167. ISBN 0-500-28299-4.
Jane Elizabeth Digby (3 April 1807 – 11 August 1881) was an English aristocrat, famed for her remarkable love life and lifestyle. She had four husbands...
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about Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), JaneDigby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty who ended up living in...
Lutheran faith. Otto was unfaithful to his wife, and had an affair with JaneDigby, a notorious woman his father had previously taken as a lover. [better source needed]...
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published in 1954. It is a colourful account of four women – Isabel Burton, JaneDigby, Aimée du Buc de Rivéry and Isabelle Eberhardt – who left Europe to live...
children JaneDigby, the noted adventuress and mistress of Ludwig I of Bavaria, was also raised there along with her brother Edward Digby, 9th Baron Digby. In...
winners and the following year, he won his first Group 1 success on Lady JaneDigby in the Bayerisches Zuchtrennen the following year. Soon after, his career...
Burton made friends with Abdelkader al-Jazairi, while Isabel befriended JaneDigby, calling her "my most intimate friend." Burton also met Charles F. Tyrwhitt-Drake...
Ludwig had several extramarital affairs and was one of the lovers of JaneDigby, an aristocratic English adventuress. Another affair was the Italian noblewoman...
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life. Sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab of the Anizah was the husband of Lady JaneDigby. One branch of the Anizah in that area, centered around Al-Jouf and the...
British aristocrat Lady JaneDigby (1807–1881), English aristocrat Lady Jane Douglas (1698–1753), Scottish noblewoman Lady Jane Fellowes (born 1957), sister...
and Eubank 1994, pp. 287–89 Tortora and Eubank 1994, pp. 290–91 Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500–1914, Abrams, 1996. ISBN 0-8109-6317-5...
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