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9 de jul. de 2012 · Catherine Sedley; Usage on pt.wikipedia.org Catherine Sedley, Condessa de Dorchester; Usage on sv.wikipedia.org Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester; Usage on vi.wikipedia.org Catherine Sedley, Bá tước xứ Dorchester; Usage on www.wikidata.org Q275061
25 de feb. de 2023 · Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester (1657-1717) was the mistress of King James II of England. Known for her wit, she was not considered a beauty. Catherine had a troubled childhood, and her mother was admitted to a psychiatric hospital when she was young. She began her affair with James while working for his wife, Mary of Modena.
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The title Countess of Dorchester had previously been created in the Peerage of England in 1686, together with the title Baroness Darlington, as life peerages, for Catherine Sedley, a mistress of King James II. Both titles became extinct on her death in 1717, but her heirs were Earls of Portmore in the Peerage of Scotland.
29 de jul. de 2010 · A solid, if average, historical novel, elevated by the personality and wit of its protagonist, Katherine Sedley, the Countess of Dorchester. Despite the constricted era in which she lives, Katherine's unusual upbringing - with a "mad" mother, and "libertine" (drunken adulterer) father - grants her a greater sense of personal freedom than many women of her station in Restoration England.
15 de jul. de 2021 · Charles Sedley inherited the title (5th baronet) in 1656 when his brother William died. By his first wife Lady Katherine Savage, daughter of John, 2nd Earl Rivers he had only one legitimate child, Catherine, Countess of Dorchester, mistress of James II. The couple lived in Great Queen Street. After his first wife had been sent to a convent in ...
This convinced the Gallery to re-identify the oil portrait as that of Catharine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester (1657–1717), mistress to King James II. This is one of over a hundred portraits in the Gallery’s collection whose sitter identification has been queried, debated and then dropped.
