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| Sir John Egerton m. Jun 27, 1602 b. 1579? Sussex Co. England d. Dec 4, 1649 England |
Frances b. 1603? d. 1649 |
Elizabeth b. 1604? d. Mar 1687/88 |
Cecilia (Cicily) b. 1606? d. young |
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Penelope b. 1609? d. Jul 1658 |
Alice b. 1612? d. young |
Catherine b. 1613? d. Mar 25, 1625 |
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Magdalene b. 1616? d. Oct 1664 |
James b. Sep 21, 1616? d. Dec 1620 |
Anne b. 1617/8 d. Dec 27, 1625 |
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Alice b. 1619 d. 1689 |
Charles b. 1619? d. Apr 1623 |
John b. Jun 1623 d. Dec? 1686 |
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Thomas b. 1625 d. 1648 |
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Frances was one of her husband's step-sisters, being the daughter of
Alice Spencer and her husband's
father, Sir Thomas Egerton . She was a patron of the
arts and a book collector. |
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John became the First Earl of Bridgewater in 1617. |
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Husband Sir John Egerton became President of Wales in 1634, at the age of 55.
The inauguration was held at his residence, Ludlow Castle in Shropshire.
There John Milton's masque Comus was performed, then for the first time,
in his honor. Milton's work was influenced by another masque, Tempe Restored
by Aurelian Townsend, in which Alice Egerton, John's daughter, had performed in
Feb 1632 at Whitehall Palace, London.
Excerpt describing these masques from
the book Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642. |
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Sir John and Lady Alice were both buried in Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England. |
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Sources: Baker, Blanche Wilmot Egerton, comp., "Egerton Ancestry", Roxboro NC, 1946. Baker, George B., "Brackley chart", History of the County of Northamptonshire, London, 1822-1841, v.1:564. Culver, Francis B., "Egerton Family", Maryland Hist. Mag., v.35:292-302, 1940. Emerson, Kathy Lynn, "Frances Stanley", in Wives and Daughters, the Women of Sixteenth-Century England, 1984. Schelling, Felix E., "The English Masque", Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642, Houghton Mifflin & Company, New York NY, 1908, pp. 133-134. |
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