About Jane Langton
Jane Langton was a merchant.
Jane Langton was a 15th-century English silkwoman based in London.
The widow of a saddler, Langton bought silk with Genoese merchants, in one transaction paying £300 15s. for silk in the place of her daughter-in-law Agnes, who had recently died. In her 1475 will Langton calls herself a 'silkwoman'.
Langton's daughter-in-law Elizabeth Langton supplied the royal family with silk goods amounting to over £100 in 1503.
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· DBpedia: Jane Langton (silk merchant)
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