Frances Walsingham
Noble person
1567 – 1633
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Who was Frances Walsingham?
Frances Walsingham, Countess of Essex and Countess of Clanricarde was an English noblewoman. The daughter of Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's Secretary of State, she became the wife of Sir Philip Sidney at age 16. Her second husband was Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth's favourite, with whom she had five children. Shortly after his execution in 1601 she married her lover, Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde, and went to live in Ireland.
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- Born
- 1567
England - Parents
- Spouses
- Philip Sidney
(1583 - ) - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex
(1590/02 - ) - Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde
(1603 - )
- Philip Sidney
- Children
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Died
- Feb 17, 1633
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on July 23, 2013
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