John Dee (1527 - abt. 1609)

Born 13 Jul 1527 in London, England

Died about 1609 at about age 81 in Mortlake, Surrey, England

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Biography

John Dee is Notable.

John Dee was born in London in 1527, the only child of Rowland Dee and Joan(na) Dee, née Wild. His first marriage to Katherine Constable in 1565 remained childless. Widowed in 1575, he married Jane Fromond in 1578 with whom he had eight children. Widowed again in 1605, he himself died in 1609.

His mother is Jane ___ b.1503 d.Oct. 10, 1580 age 77.^[1]

m. Jane ____^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Camden Soc. Ser.: Page 9-10
2. ↑ Camden Soc. Ser.: Page 17: "Oct. 21st(1582), Jane my wife sowned in the church."

See Also:

• Grantees of arms named in docquets and patents to the end of the seventeenth century : Dee John in the manuscripts preserved in the British museum, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Queen's College, Oxford, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and elsewhere : alphabetically arranged by the late Joseph Foster and contained in the Additional ms. no. 37,147, in the British museum
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/7418
• Wikipedia:John_Dee
• Camden Society Series (London, 1842) Vol. 19: "The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee"
• He notes his own birthday as "Dies natalis." (Private Diary, page 53)
• Monas Hieroglyphica, 1564
• Preface to Billingsley's Euclid (Billingsley's translation of Euclid's Elements), 1570
• General and Rare Memorials, Pertayning to the Perfect Art of Navigation: Annexed to the Paradoxal Cumpas in Playze. 1577.
• On the Mystical Rule of the Seven Planets, 1582–1583
• Dee, John; Kelly, Edward; Casaubon, Meric (1659). A True & Faithful Relation of what Passed for Many Yeers Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits. T Garthwait. ISBN 978-5-88514-094-2.
• Quinti Libri Mysteriorum. British Library, MS Sloane Collection 3188. Also available in a fair copy by Elias Ashmole, MS Sloane 3677.
• Joseph H. Peterson, ed. (2003). John Dee's Five Books of Mystery: Original Sourcebook of Enochian Magic. Boston: Weiser Books. ISBN 978-1-57863-178-0. from the collected works known as Mysteriorum libri quinque
• John Dee, The Mathematicall Praeface to the Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara (1570). New York: Science History Publications (1975) ISBN 0-88202-020-X
• John Dee, John Dee on Astronomy: Propaedeumata Aphoristica (1558 & 1568) edited by Wayne Shumaker, Berkeley: University of California Press ISBN 0-520-03376-0
• John Dee, Autobiographical tracts of John Dee, Warden of the College of Manchester, ed. James Crossley. Chetham Society Publications, Vol XXIV. Manchester, 1851
• John Dee, Diary for the years 1595–1601, ed. John E. Bailey. Privately printed, 1880
• J.O. Halliwell, ed. (1842). The Private Diary of Dr John Dee. Camden Society.