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Mother of William Shakespeare (1536-1608)

Mary Shakespeare (néeArden; c. 1537 — September 1608)^[a] was the mother of William Shakespeare.

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Biography

Mary was born about 1536 in Wilmcote, the daughter of Robert Arden, a gentleman farmer and junior descendant of the Arden family,^[4][5] who were prominent in Warwickshire.

She was the youngest of eight daughters, and when her father died in 1556 she inherited land at Snitterfield and Wilmcote from him as a dowry. The house was left to her stepmother Agnes Hill. Richard Shakespeare, the father of John Shakespeare, was a tenant farmer on land owned by her father in Snitterfield.

As the daughter of Richard's landlord, she may have known John since childhood.^[6] Mary married John Shakespeare in 1557, when she was 20 years old and her spouse was approximately 26 years old.^[6] She bore eight children: Joan (1558), Margaret (1562–1563), William (1564–1