Alice Spencer
Deceased Person
1559 – 1637
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Who was Alice Spencer?
Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby was an English noblewoman and noted patron of the arts. Poet Edmund Spenser represented her as "Amaryllis" in his eclogue Colin Clouts Come Home Againe and dedicated his poem The Teares of the Muses to her. Her first husband was Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, a claimant to the English throne. Alice's eldest daughter, Anne Stanley, Countess of Castlehaven, was heiress presumptive to Queen Elizabeth I.
She married secondly in 1600 Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley.
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- Born
- May 4, 1559
Althorp - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
(1600/10/20 - ) - Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby
(1579 - 1594/04/16)
- Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
- Children
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Nationality
- Kingdom of England
- Died
- Jan 23, 1637
Harefield
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on July 23, 2013
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