Mary Baynton

Mary Baynton (fl. c. 1533) was a woman from Lincolnshire, England, who claimed to be the Princess Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon. No one is sure exactly when the impersonation happened, but the report is from September 1533, around the time Mary was declared illegitimate and replaced in the succession by her newborn half-sister, Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of the King with his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Baynton was the daughter of Thomas Baynton of Bridlington, Yorkshire. She was arrested; nothing further is known. She has been investigated by several historians.