Lettice (Boyle) Goring (1610 - 1657)

Ancestors

Died Jul 1657 at age 47 in Ireland [uncertain]

Biography

Lady Lettice Boyle was born on 23 April 1610. She was the third daughter and fourth child of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork 'and his second wife', Catherine Fenton. She married Colonel George Goring... Lord Goring... son of George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich and his wife, Mary Neville, on 25 July 1629. Lettice was one of the children of millionaire land speculator Richard Boyle, the Earl of Cork, and his second wife, Catherine Fenton. The blushing bride was 19 years of age; her spouse just 21. Lord Goring must have wrung his hands with glee: she came with a dowry of 10,000 Pounds! Whether that prompted his forthcoming behavior or it had previously evolved, records do indicate that he rapidly spent it all on gambling, women of doubtful morals and other less than basic household expenses, including alcoholic beverages. But he is said to have gained a reputation as a witty member of the hangers-on at court.

His unamused father-in-law, perhaps In hopes of rectifying his error in giving his daughter's hand in marriage to this man, "... bought Goring a commission as a colonel of the English troops fighting for the Prince of Orange."

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At age 47, she died without children in July, 1657, the .same month at which Lord George Goring died in Madrid, Spain, after a long period of suffering with a battle wound which never healed due to the primitive medical care and medications of the day. Whatever instigated his action, shortly prior to his death in Madrid, Spain, he converted to Catholicism. Though he died penniless in Madrid, Spain in 1657, he is buried in the English Jesuit Chapel of St. George located in Madrid.

[Boyle-1546|Lettice]], [[Boyle-20|Cork's third daughter, was perhaps his favorite. In some of his missives, he refers to her as"'My dear, dear daughter, one of the best women in the world". He often turned to her for advice in the management of his younger children. A number of her ill-spelt epistles remain to testify to the devotion that existed between father and daughter. Only a year younger than her sister Sarah (Boyle-683, she and her next sister, Joan [[Boyle-709... with just one year in age between them) remained under their father's roof until they were of more mature age than the elder two. It was not until they were each nineteen that they were matched [[Boyle-1546|Lettice] with [Goring-40|George Goring], son of the Parliamentary General : Joan with George Fitzgerald, sixteenth Earl of Kildare. The latter, like Barrymore, was [[Boyle-20|Cork]'s ward. He was married to Joan as soon as he returned from Oxford, where his guardian, during his residence at Christchurch, had allowed him as a great favour to keep a dwarf for his page." ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Mary Rich, countess of Warwick (1625-1678): her family and friends, pg 25 [1]

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• Scott, James Renat. Memorials of the Family of Scott, of Scot's-Hall, in the County of Kent (J.R. Scott, London, 1876) Page 235