Frances Darcy, Countess of Holderness
Frances Darcy, Countess of Holderness | |
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| Born | 1618 |
| Died | January 1681 (aged 62–63) |
| Spouse(s) | Richard Molyneux (d. 1654) |
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| Relatives | Henry Seymour (brother) John Seymour (brother) Edward Seymour (grandfather) Robert Devereux (grandfather) Frances Walsingham (grandmother) |
Frances Darcy, Countess of Southampton (1618 – January 1681),[1] formerly Lady Frances Seymour, was an English noblewoman of royal descent, who was married three times to titled men.
Biography
[edit]She was the daughter of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, by his second marriage to Lady Frances Devereux; the duke was directly descended from King Henry VII of England.
Frances married Richard Molyneux, 2nd Viscount Molyneux,[2] who, like her father, was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War. They had no children,[3] and Molyneux died in about 1654.
As her second husband, she married (as his third wife) Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, on 7 May 1659. They had no children, and Wriothesley died in 1667, leaving Frances the contents of Southampton House in Holborn, their London home.[4]
Thirdly (as his third wife) she married, in 1676,[5] Conyers Darcy, 2nd Earl of Holderness,[1] by whom she had no children.
She died childless at the age of about 62, and was buried at Westminster Abbey on 5 January 1681.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Joseph Lemuel Chester (1876). The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church Or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. Harleian Society. pp. 201.
- ^ Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester. Chetham Society. 1847. p. 70.
- ^ Edward Kimber; John Almon (1768). The Peerage of Ireland: A Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of that Kingdom. J. Almon. p. 30.
- ^ Ursula Hoff; National Gallery of Victoria (1973). European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800. National Gallery of Victoria. ISBN 9780724100071.
- ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Volume 3, page 3680.