Tudor Times Demographical Stats

1) Φιλολoγικά/Philologica : "in a time when most people died at an average age of 35" ; 2) What others have to say about Life Expectancy through history - and my take on that ; 3) Longevity in Selected Ancestry and Inlaws of Eleanor of Montfort ; 4) Tudor Times Demographical Stats ; 5) How Many Hours are we Talking About, and How Heavy? ; 6) New blog on the kid : When "Answers" Paint Middle Ages Black ; 7) Creation vs. Evolution : CMI Provided some Lifespans of the Past ; 8)Other list from CMI of lifespans ; 9) Φιλολoγικά/Philologica : Medieval and Early Modern Lifespans, Again: Berkeleys and Related ; 10) Story of a Cardinal's Title with Pre-Industrial Demographics

Here is the link which is my source material:

Tudor Times : A - Z of People
http://tudortimes.co.uk/people/all

And here is the material I got from it:

152 people mentioned in the list, maybe there are doubles with the free part of the genealogy of Margaret Plantagenet, and of these the useful ones (useful for statistics, that is) with two years (birth and death) are:

• Men (with exceptions): 73 : 89 : 23/25 : 46 : 70 : 48 : 30 : 59 : 81 : 63 : 46 : 62 : 43 : 52 : 78 : 57 : 56 : 44 : 26 : 71 : 51 : 85 : 50 : 50 : 43 : 50 : 67 : 72: 76 : 49 : 43 : 28 : 43 : 31 : 62 : 58 : 54 : 33 : 53 : 39 : 50 : 31 : 56 : 62 : 63 : 47: 63 : 76 : > 56 : 48 : 36
  
  
  • Two insecure ages, for the 23/25 I will take the 25, since the other insecure age is equal to or greater than 56, and I don’t know what to put instead of 56.
    
    
  • 25: 26 : 28 : 30 : 31 :
    31 : 33 : 36 : 39 : 43 :
    43 : 43 : 43 : 44 : 46 :
    46 : 47: 48 : 48 : 49 :
    50 : 50 : 50 : 50 : 51 :
    52 : 53 : 54 : 56 : 56 :
    56 : 57 : 58 : 59 : 62 :
    62 : 62 : 63 : 63 : 63 :
    67 : 70: 71 : 72 : 73 :
    76 : 76 : 78 : 81 : 85 : 89
    
    
  • 51 adult men, minimum 25, lower quartile between 43 and 44, median 52, higher quartile 63, maximum 89.
  
  
  
• Women : c. 42 : >42 : 36 : 70 : 42 : 28 : 25 : 32 : 55 : 68 : 63 : 39 : 73 : 47 : 87 : 50 : 42 : 37 : 56 : 67 : 80 : 66 : 44 : 60 : 72 : 61 : 59 : 64 : 51 : 51 : 54 : 72
  
  
  • 25 : 28 : 32 : 36 : 37 : 39 : 42 : 42 :
    42 : 42 : 44 : 47 : 50 : 51 : 51 : 54 :
    55 : 56 : 59 : 60 : 61 : 63 : 64 : 66 :
    67 : 68 : 70 : 72 : 72 : 73 : 80 : 87
    
    
  • 32 adult women, not dying in childbirth. Minimum 25, lower quartile 42, median between 54 and 55, higher quartile between 66 and 67, maximum 87.
  
  
  
• 2 Women dead in or after childbirth : 36 : 25
• 3 Children : within a year : within two months : around two years
• 1 Died in battle : 40
• 1 Died after prison : 45
• 1 Murdered : 22
• 7 Executed men and women: 31 : 40 : 45 : 68 : 23 : 47 : >40

96 accounted for, with five approximations of age.

Here is an interview with Elizabeth Freemantle, who is writing fiction about the era:

Tudor Times : Interview with Elizabeth Fremantle
http://tudortimes.co.uk/books/author-interviews/interview-with-elizabeth-fremantle

Enjoy the interview, and then ask yourself how come the median and the quartiles are a bit lower than my French statistics for Medieval Royalty* which in its turn is lower than the French statistics for Medieval Non-Royalty.**

Perhaps Tudor times were so hectic, people died earlier - and I excluded death in childbirth, execution and infant death from the count, since these are in my book separate issues.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre, UL
Annunciation Sollemnity
25-III-2015

* Moyen Âge, Royautés
http://filolohika.blogspot.com/2015/02/moyen-age-royautes.html

** Et le Moyen Âge? Hormis royautés
http://filolohika.blogspot.com/2015/02/et-le-moyen-age-hormis-royautes.html