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Catherine Sheffield, Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby (c. 1681 – 13 March 1743), formerly Lady Catherine Darnley, was an illegitimate daughter of King James II of England, and was married to two English noblemen in succession.
- c. 1681
- House of Stuart (illegitimate)
- 13 March 1743
- John Sheffield
- Catherine, Duchess of Buckingham
- Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
- Further Reading
A large marble monument to John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham stands in the north eastern chapel of Henry VII's chapelin Westminster Abbey. He, his wife Catherine and their four children lie in the vault in this chapel. The monument was designed by Denis Plumiere and sculpted by Laurent Delvaux and Peter Scheemakers. A sarcophagus stands on the...
Catherine Darnley was the illegitimate daughter of James II by Catherine Sedley and she always insisted on being treated with royal state. (Her infant brotherJameswas buried in Henry VII's chapel "in the middle between the stalls" on 26th April 1685). She was married firstly to the Earl of Anglesey and married John at St Martin in the Fields church...
Edmund, who succeeded his father as 2nd Duke of Buckingham, was baptised at St Margaret's Westminster on 29th January 1716 and served in Germany with his uncle. He died of consumption in Rome on 30th October 1735 and his body was returned to the Abbey for burial in the family vault on 31st January 1736. He had a magnificent funeral and the recumben...
The wax figures are now all displayed in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries Oxford Dictionary of National Biography The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbeyedited by Anthony Harvey & Richard Mortimer, revised edition 2003 An account of Edmund's funeral appears in "The Old Whig" Feb. 5 1735/1736
Catherine Sheffield, duquesa de Buckingham y Normanby (c. 1681 - 13 de marzo de 1743), anteriormente Lady Catherine Darnley, era hija ilegítima del rey James II de Inglaterra y estuvo casada sucesivamente con dos nobles ingleses.
Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby; Catherine Sheffield; Lived 61 years, 8 months, 12 days
11 de sept. de 2023 · Explore our History. Funeral and wax effigies. There are twenty wooden and wax effigies on display in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries in Westminster Abbey, plus the armour from the now lost funeral effigy of General George Monck. History of the effigies.
Her husband was created Duke of the County of Buckingham and of Normanby on 23 March 1702/03 and Katherine would have been known as the Duchess of those territories. She died on 7 February 1703/04, aged 38, without any further issue from her second marriage, and was buried in Westminster Abbey on 11 February that year.
Probably Catherine Sheffield, Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby (ca. 1681–1743), Buckingham House, London, by 1743;
