Grace (Pierrepont) Manners (bef. 1572 - 1648)

Born before Nov 1572 in England

Ancestors

Wife of George Manners — married 2 Apr 1594 in Holme, Nottinghamshire, England

Descendants

Died 27 Nov 1648 after age 76 in England

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Biography

She founded Lady Manners School 20 May 1636.

Her body is interred at Bakewell Parish Church.

Sources

• Marshall, George William. The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614 (London, 1871) Page 51
• Wikipedia: Grace,_Lady_Manners
• http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2945676

• "Sir George Manners 1573 - 1623 married Grace Pierrepoint and later Frances Cavendish. They had nine children: John, Henry, Roger, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Frances, Dorothy and Mary. Henry and Roger appear to have died young. One child died in infancy."

• Find A Grave: Memorial #70739449
• Priestland, Pamela. From Domesday to Dukedom and Beyond (Ashbracken, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottingham, England, 2010) Page 71: bapt. Nov. 1572 at Edensor, Derbyshire, England.
• 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
• Thoroton, Robert. The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (London, 1677) Page 87
• Thoroton, Robert. The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (G. Burbage, 1790) Vol. 1, Page 176
• Eisenberg, Elizabeth. This Costly Countess: Bess of Hardwick (Hall, Derby, 1985)

• 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."

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p1591.htm#i15903
• Ancestry Family Trees (Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Profile
• Calendar of The Manuscripts of The Most Honourable The Marquess of Salisbury, K.G., Vol. 4, Historical Manuscripts Commission (Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1892) Page 345.

• Ro[ger] Manners to Sir Robert Cecil. 1593, Aug. 2. "Yesterday, as I am informed, was appointed the day for a marriage betwixt my nephew George Manners, my lord your father's servant, and Mrs. Grace Perpoynt at Chatchworth, effected by the old Countess. Wherein I assure you I was no party. - From Uffington, 2 August, 1593."