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Ferdinando Stanley m. 1579/80 b. 1559? London, England d. Apr 16, 1594 Ormskirk, Lancashire, England |
Anne b. 1580 d. Oct 11, 1647 | Alice Frances b. May 1583 d. Mar 11, 1635/6 England |
Elizabeth b. 1587? d. 1633 |
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Sir Thomas Egerton m. Oct 20, 1600 b. 1540? Doddleston, Chester, England d. Mar 15, 1617 |
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Alice was known as the Dowager Countess of Derby, long after the Earl of Derby died
in 1594, and after she became the Baroness of Ellesmere in 1600. |
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After Lady Alice Spencer Stanley was widowed by the death of Ferdinando Stanley,
5th Earl of Derby, in 1594, Thomas Egerton purchased the house in Harefield for
her in 1601. She lived there after Thomas died. She is buried nearby in the Church
of St Mary the Virgin. |
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Her daughter Anne became the Countess of Castlehaven. Because her father died in 1594,
Anne, as specified in Henry VIII's will, was supposed to become Queen, succeeding
Elizabeth I, in 1603. James VI of Scotland, a descendant of Henry VII, eventually
succeeded Queen Elizabeth. |
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Her daughter Frances married her stepson,
Sir John Egerton, in 1602 and they had 11 surviving children. |
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Portrait of (probably) Lady Alice Spencer Stanley painted about 1610. This
painting is in the Weiss Gallery in London. |
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Lady Alice was a well-known patron of the arts...
Excerpt describing masques relating
to the family from the book Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642. |
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Sources: 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. Schelling, Felix E., "The English Masque", Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642, Houghton Mifflin & Company, New York NY, 1908, pp. 133-134. Weiss Gallery, London, England, website, Portrait of a Lady, probably Alice Spencer (1559-1637). |
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