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Frances Scudamore, Duchess of Norfolk. Frances Scudamore (1750–1820) was the second wife of Charles Howard, who became the 11th Duke of Norfolk in 1786. She spent her married life confined to Holme Lacy in a mentally deranged condition.
Frances Scudamore, Duchess of Norfolk, wife of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk; Charlotte Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (née Charlotte Leveson-Gower), wife of Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk; Augusta Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (née Augusta Lyons), wife of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk; Flora Fitzalan ...
Frances Howard (Fitzroy-Scudamore), Duchess of Norfolk: Birthdate: circa 1750: Death: 1820 (65-74) Immediate Family: Daughter of Charles Fitzroy Scudamore, MP and Frances Scudamore, Duchess of Beaufort Wife of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk. Managed by: Private User Last Updated: June 7, 2015
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She was born Frances Howard, the daughter of Lord Thomas Howard (later 1st Earl of Suffolk), and his wife, the former Catherine Knyvet. Frances' father was the second son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, a wealthy and powerful nobleman during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and Margaret Audley, Duchess of Norfolk. Frances' maternal gr...
Lady Frances Howard was married at the age of 14 to the 13-year-old Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, the grandson of Francis Walsingham. The marriage was primarily a political union and due to both their young ages, they did not live together. Her husband was then sent on Grand Tour from 1607 to 1609, apparently without having consummated the ma...
Sir Thomas Overbury, a close friend and advisor of Somerset, had tried to advise Somerset not to marry Frances Howard, but the Howard family and their allies were powerful. The Howard faction persuaded the king to offer Overbury the post of Ambassador to Russia, knowing he would refuse in order to stay in England by Somerset's side. When he did so,...
Bellany, Alistair. The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603–1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.Fraser, Antonia. The Weaker Vessel. New York : Knopf, 1984; ISBN 1-84212-635-0Haynes, Alan. Sex in Elizabethan England. Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1997; ISBN 0-905778-35-9King, Betty Nygaard. Hell Hath No Fury: Famous Women in Crime(Borealis Press, 2001)Frances Scudamore was the second wife of Charles Howard, who became the 11th Duke of Norfolk in 1786. She spent her married life confined to Holme Lacy in a mentally deranged condition.
Essex. In Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex. …I arranged Essex’ marriage to Frances Howard, countess of Suffolk. But the countess soon fell in love with the king’s Scottish favourite, Robert Carr, and in 1613 James had a divorce commission annul her marriage so that she could marry Carr, who was also created earl of Somerset.
The 11th Duke married in 1771 Frances, daughter and heir of Charles Fitzroy-Scudamore of Holme Lacy (Herefordshire), but the Holme Lacy estate did not remain in the Howard family after the death of Frances, Duchess of Norfolk in 1820.
