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Frances (Cecil) Clifford (1593 - 1644)

Lady Frances "Countess of Cumberland" Clifford formerly Cecil
Born in London, Middlesex, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 25 Jul 1610 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 51 in York, Yorkshire, Englandmap
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Biography

European Aristocracy
Lady Frances Cecil was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Lady Frances Cecil was born 1593, the daughter of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and his wife, Elizabeth Brooke.

She married 25 July 1610 at Kensington, Henry Clifford, who later succeeded as 5th Earl of Cumberland.[1]

They had 5 children[2]:

  1. Elizabeth Clifford, born 18 September 1613 at Skipton Castle, county York, and baptised 7 October 1613 at Skipton Parish Church, married 3 July 1634, Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork, 1st Earl of Burlington, and had issue[3]
  2. Francis Clifford, died young;
  3. Charles Clifford, baptised at Skipton 10 August 1620, died at Londesborough 19 February 1621/22 and buried 21 February at Skipton[4];
  4. Henry Clifford, died at Londesborough 30 August 1622, and buried the following day at Skipton[5];
  5. Lady Frances Clifford, died young.

Her husband died 11 December 1643 and she died two months later on 14 February 1643/44[6] at York and was buried 13 March 1643/44 at York Minster.[7]


Sources

  1. Cokayne, p. 570
  2. Named on her burial plate, Whitaker, p. 360; see also findagrave
  3. Cokayne, p. 302
  4. Cokayne, p. 570, note (c)
  5. Cokayne, p. 570, note (c)
  6. Her coffin plate states she died 4 February 1643 - Whitaker, p. 360; there seems to be no sources for her death on 14 December 1644 per Ancestry.com family trees
  7. Cokayne, p. 570
  • Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britian and the United Kingdom extant, extinct or dormant, 2nd ed. revised & enlarged by Hon. Vicary Gibbs & H. Arthur Doubleday (eds.), vol. 3, London: St Catherine Press, 1913. ABC Publications, London.
  • Clifford pedigree: Table Showing the Descent of the Barony of Clifford




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