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20 de feb. de 2017 · Frances as a young woman. As a daughter of the Howard family, Frances Howard’s role early in her life was to be married off to the family’s advantage. She was raised to suit this aim, and at the age of 14 she was married to the 13-year old Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex. His father had been executed in 1601 for treason and the title had ...
13 de jun. de 1996 · ABSTRACT. David Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as `wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', challenging the assumptions that have constructed her as a model of female villainy.
21 de ago. de 2013 · David Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as `wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', challenging the assumptions that have constructed her as a model of female villainy.
Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey ( née de Vere; c. 1517 – 30 June 1577) was the second daughter and third child of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell. She first married Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (executed for treason in 1547), and second Thomas Steyning. Frances Howard, sketch by Hans Holbein the Younger, Royal ...
Frances, Countess of Somerset. A famous beauty, Frances Howard was divorced from Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex in 1613 and married Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, a favourite of James I. In 1615 she and her second husband, along with several accomplices, were convicted of poisoning Sir Thomas Overbury, who had opposed their marriage.
Frances Howard (1578-1639) was considered one of the great beauties of the Jacobean Court, and was also wealthy, being the granddaughter of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. Frances was 43 years old when this portrait was painted, and had been married three times: first at the age of 14 to a wealthy London alderman (Henry Pranell), then to Edward ...
Frances decided to take matters into her own hands. In Sep 1613, Overbury died in the Tower of London in Sep 1613, poisoned - it was said - by an enema administered by an apothecary's boy. There is no doubt that Frances Howard had sent poison into the Tower on at least two occasions: once in a phial and once in some tarts.
