Frances (Cavendish) Pierrepont (abt. 1548 - 1632)

Born about 18 Jun 1548 in London, Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Pierrepont — married 1562 in England

Descendants

Died 1632 at about age 83 in Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, England

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Biography

dau. of "Bess of Hardwick"

Name

Frances Cavendish

Birth

1546

Sources

• Thoroton, Robert. The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677) Page 87
• The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (J. Hinton, London, Nov. 1767) Page 251
• Chalmers, Alexander. The General Biographical Dictionary (London, 1813) Vol. 8, Page 475
• Marshall, George William. The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614 (London, 1871) Page 51
• Harleian Society:Visitation Series. The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614., The Publications of The Harleian Society (The Society, London, 1871) Vol. 4, Page 56
• Harleian Society:Visitation Series. The Visitation of Shropshire Taken in the Year 1623, The Publications of The Harleian Society (The Society, London, 1869-) Vol. 28, Page 224
• Moffat, R. Burnham. Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman times to 1913 (L. Middleditch Company, 1913) Page 23
• Copnall, H. Hampton. Nottinghamshire County Records, Notes and Extracts from the Nottinghamshire County Records of the 17th Century (Henry B. Saxton,Nottingham, 1915)

• Page 133: Oct. 2, 1626, "Lady Frances Pierrepont attended and presented the following Certificate of the Archbishop of York" ... "Lady ffrances Pierrepont was dully exonerated on her professing and promising all her life to conform to the laws and Statute under consideration"

• Priestland, Pamela. From Domesday to Dukedom and Beyond (Ashbracken, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottingham, England, 2010) Page 71
• Gibbons, Alfred. The Northern Genealogist (John Sampson, York, 1895) Vol. 1.

• Page 169-70: "Dame Frances Pierrepont, of Holmeperpoynt, widow of Sir Henry P., of same, knt., 15 Feb., 1620. Son Robert P. esq., exor. Daurs. Elizth. Stapleton, late wife of Richard S., of Carleton, esq.; Grace Manners, wife of Sir Geo. Manners, of Waddon, knt.; Mary, wife of Fulke Cartwright, of Essington, esq., and Frances Pierrepont. Gilbert Stapleton, eldest son of my dau. Stapleton, and Epiphannis and Robt. S., his brothers, and Grace S. their sister. John Manners, eldest son of my dau. Lady Grace Manners, and Roger M. his brother. Elinor, wife of Sir Lewis Watson, and Elizth. wife of Robt. Sutton, esq., the two eldest daurs. of my dau. Manners, and their sisters Frances, Dorothy, and Mary Manners. Dau. Cartwright's 5 eldest children, and 2 youngest children, Ann and Catherine. Son Robt. Pierrepont's eldest son Henry P., and his other sons Wm., Francis, Robt., and Gervas P., and his eldest dau. Frances P. My dau.-in-law Gertrude Pierrepont, wife of my said son. Brother-in-law Mr. Gervas Pierrepont; sister-in-law, Lady Katherine Cavendish, of Welbeck; cousin Lady Mary Chaworth, wife of Sir Geo. C., knt.; cousin Mr. Sanctelow Kniveton. Proved at York, 13 March, 1632, by the exor. [xlii., 73.]

• Eisenberg, Elizabeth. This Costly Countess: Bess of Hardwick (Hall, Derby, 1985)

• Page 11: "During her imprisonment Bess... communicated with Sir George Pierrepont of Nottingham regarding a marriage between his eldest son, Henry, and her eldest daughter, Frances Cavendish, then aged thirteen. Frances entered her prospecitve husband's household at Holme Pierrepont as a lady-attendant and Henry paid a visit to the St. Loes in London. Both being found Staisfactory, they were married towards the end of 1562... Bess was released ... before the wedding"
• Page 32: "Bess left the rest of the party in order to spend a night at Holme Pierrepont with her eldest daughter, Frances, and granddaughter, Grace, who was soon to marry Dorothy Vernon's son, George Manners and become the ancestors of the Dukes of Rutland."