Jane Digby

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Jane Elizabeth Digby, Lady Ellenborough (3 April 1807 – 11 August 1881) was an English aristocrat known for her remarkable love life and lifestyle.

She had four husbands and many lovers, including King Ludwig I of Bavaria, his son King Otto of Greece, Bohemian nobleman and Austrian statesman Prince Felix zu Schwarzenberg, as well as Greek general Christodoulos Hatzipetros.

She died in Damascus, Syria, as the widow of Arab Sheikh Medjuel Mezrab, who was 20 years old.

Life

Jane Elizabeth Digby was born in Holkham Hall, Norfolk, on the 3rd of April 1807, the daughter of Admiral Henry Digby and Lady Jane Elizabeth Coke. In the course of 16 October 1799, Jane's father seized Santa Brgida, earning the family's share of the prize money. Holkham Hall was the ancestral home of her maternal grandfather Thomas Coke's family, and her father died in 1815 and settled in Minterne House and Estate, Dorset.

Digby was first married to Edward Law, 2nd Baron Ellenborough, who became India's Governor General in 1824, who was considered promiscuous for her times. They had one son, Arthur Dudley Law (15 February 1828 – 1 February 1830), who died in infancy. She was divorced from Lord Ellenborough in 1830 by an act of Parliament after a string of events with her maternal cousin Colonel George Anson and Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg. At the time, there was a lot of controversy around this. Felix and Felix had two children with Felix; Mathilde "Didi" (born 12 November 1829 Basel, Switzerland, and raised by Felix's sister) and Felix (born December 1830 Paris, France), who died just a few weeks after his birth. Felix's affair came to an end shortly after their son's death.

She then moved to Germany and became Ludwig I of Bavaria's lover. Baron Karl von Venningen (6 January 1806 – 10 June 1874) met her in Munich. They married in November 1833 and had a son, Heribert (27 January 1833 Palermo, Germany), and a daughter, Bertha (4 September 1834 Mannheim, Germany), and a son, Bertha (27 September 1907).

Digby discovered a new lover in the Greek Count Spyridon Theotokis (born 1805) in 1838. Venningen found out and challenged Theotokis to a duel, in which the latter was injured. Venningen divorced Digby from their marriage and took care of their children. They remained best friends for the rest of their lives.

Digby converted to the Greek Orthodox faith and married Theotokis in Marseille, France, 1841, although she was not legally divorced from Venningen until 1842. Leonidas and the couple moved to Greece with their son Leonidas (21 March 1840 Paris, France – 1846 Bagni di Lucca, Italy). Theotokis and Digby divorced in 1846 after their son's death from a balcony. King Otto of Greece became her next lover.

Following his conscription of the Greek War of Independence, the Thessalian general Christodoulos Chatzipetros, became the 'queen' of his army,' living in caves, riding horses, and hunting in the mountains, triggering a controversy. She walked out on him because he was unfaithful.

Digby, a 46-year-old boy, moved to the Middle East and fell in love with Sheik Medjuel Mezrab. The sheik's name has also been written as "Mijwal al Mezrab" and "Mijwal al Musrab." "Abdul Medjuel el Mezrab" is a word that can be misidentified by twentieth-century sources, who may have mistook it for "Abdul Medjuel el Mezrab." Medjuel was a sheik of the Mezrab section of the Sba'a, a sub-tribe in Syria of the great Anizzah tribe. He was 20 years old as a child. Jane Elizabeth Digby el Mezrab was married under Muslim law, and she bore the name Jane Elizabeth Digbyel Mezrab. They had a happy marriage and lived until her death 28 years later. Jane Digby was referred to as Shaikhah Umm al-Laban (literally sheikha mother of milk) due to her skin's color.

Digby learned Arabic in addition to the other eight languages in which she was fluent. Half of each year was spent in the nomadic style, sleeping in goat-hair tents in the desert, while the remainder was enjoyed in a palatial villa built in Damascus. Abd al-Kazairi, the exiled leader of the Algerian revolution, spent the remainder of her life in the city, where she befriended Sir Richard Burton and Lady Burton. Isabel Burton stayed in the city for the rest of her life.

Digby died of fever and dysentery in Damascus on August 11, 1881, and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery. She was buried with her horse at the funeral. Her name is written in Arabic by Medjuel in charcoal and cut into the stone by a local mason, on her footstone—a block of pink limestone from Palmyra. Her house was allowed and the family of the young H. R. Dickson had been among its tenants after her death. A small portion of the house remains intact, and it is in the custody of the same family that bought it from Medjuel's uncle in the 1930s.

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