Jane Digby

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Jane Digby" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

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]