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Frances Seymour (other)
Frances Seymour may refer to: * Frances Stewart, Duchess of Lennox (1578–1639), wife of Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford * Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1599–1674), wife of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset * Frances Darcy, Countess of Holderness (1618−1681), daughter of the above, previously Viscountess Molyneux and Countess of Southampton * Frances Seymour, Lady Hungerford (bef. 1654–1716), daughter of Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge * Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (1699–1754), wife of Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset * Frances Ford Seymour (1908–1950), Canadian-American socialite, second wife of Henry Fonda and mother of Jane and Peter Fonda See also * Francis Seymour (other) Francis Seymour may refer to: * Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (c. 1590–1664) * Francis Seymour, 5th Duke of Somerset (1658–1678) * Francis Seymour, of Sherborne, Dorset (1697–1761), Member of Parliament * Francis Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Stewart, Duchess Of Lennox
Frances Stewart (née Howard), Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, Countess of Hertford (27 July 1578 – 8 October 1639)Strong (1998), pp. 61–62 was the daughter of a younger son of the Duke of Norfolk. An orphan of small fortune, she rose to be the only duchess at the court of James I of England. She married the son of a London alderman who died in 1599, leaving her a wealthy widow at a young age. She became, for 20 years, the third wife of the ageing Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, nephew of Jane Seymour, third queen consort of Henry VIII. Within months of Edward's death she married a cousin of James I, Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and 1st Duke of Richmond. One of the great beauties of the Jacobean court, she was also the patron of Captain John Smith of the Virginia Colony. Life Frances Howard was the daughter of Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon (c. 1520–1582) and his wife Mabel Burton, daughter of Nicholas Burton. Lord Howard was the third and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Seymour, Duchess Of Somerset
Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (''née'' Devereux; 30 September 1599 – 24 April 1674) was an English noblewoman who lived during the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I and Charles II. Her father was Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Elizabeth I's favourite who was executed for treason in 1601. She was the second wife of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, and the mother of his seven children. Early life Lady Frances Devereux was born on 30 September 1599 at Walsingham House, Seething Lane, London. She was the youngest child of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and his wife, Frances Walsingham. Her paternal grandparents were Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex and Lettice Knollys, and her maternal grandparents were Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's trusted spymaster, and Ursula St. Barbe. At the time of Frances's birth, her father, who was a former favourite of Queen Elizabeth and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was under arrest for treasonous behaviour i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Darcy, Countess Of Holderness
Frances Darcy, Countess of Southampton (1618 – January 1681), formerly Lady Frances Seymour, was an English noblewoman of royal descent, who was married three times to titled men. She was the daughter of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, by his second marriage to Lady Frances Devereux; the duke was directly descended from King Henry VII of England. Frances married Richard Molyneux, 2nd Viscount Molyneux, who, like her father, was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War. They had no children, and Molyneux died in about 1654. As her second husband, she married (as his third wife) Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, on 7 May 1659. They had no children, and Wriothesley died in 1667, leaving Frances the contents of Southampton House in Holborn, their London home. Thirdly (as his third wife) she married, in 1676,Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Seymour, Lady Hungerford
Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (c. 1621 – 25 August 1665) was the son of Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, whom he succeeded in the barony in 1664. Francis had been a younger brother of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset. Prior to his ennoblement, he represented Great Bedwyn in the Short Parliament of 1640 and Wiltshire in the Cavalier Parliament from 1661 to 1664. He married firstly, on 4 April 1632, Mary, daughter of Thomas Smith of Soley in Chilton Foliat, a village northwest of Hungerford. The couple had one son and two daughters; one of their daughters, Frances (bef. 1654–1716), would marry Sir George Hungerford. The Hungerfords had at least six children together. He married secondly, in 1654, Elizabeth Alington (1635–c.1691), daughter of William Alington, 1st Baron Alington of Killard (14 March 1610/1611, d. circa October 1648); they had five sons and two daughters. One of his notable descendants, his three times great-grandson, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Seymour, Duchess Of Somerset (1699–1754)
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford (''née'' Thynne; 10 May 1699 – 7 July 1754), later the Duchess of Somerset, was a British courtier and the wife of Algernon Seymour, Earl of Hertford, who became the 7th Duke of Somerset in 1748. She was also known as a poet, literary patron and woman of letters. Her great-aunt by marriage, Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, influenced her literary development. She was also influenced by the poet Elizabeth Singer (later Rowe), with whom she became acquainted in her youth at Longleat, where she grew up. Early life She was the daughter of Henry Thynne (1675–1708) and his wife Grace, and the granddaughter of Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth, a distant relation of her future husband. After her father's death in 1708, Frances and her mother moved to Leweston, the home of her maternal grandfather, Sir George Strode. Marriage and issue She married Algernon Seymour, Earl of Hertford, , when she was sixteen and he was thirty. The ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Ford Seymour
Frances Ford Seymour Fonda (4 April 1908 – 14 April 1950) was a Canadian-American socialite. She was the second wife of actor Henry Fonda, and the mother of actors Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda. Biography Born in Brockville, Ontario, Canada, Seymour was the daughter of Sophie Mildred (née Bower) and Eugene Ford Seymour. According to her daughter, Jane, medical records revealed that Seymour was a victim of recurrent sexual abuse in her childhood. On 10 January 1931, she married George Tuttle Brokaw, a millionaire lawyer and sportsman. They had one child, Frances de Villers "Pan" Brokaw (10 October 1931 – 10 March 2008). A year after Brokaw died, Seymour married actor Henry Fonda on 16 September 1936, at Christ Church, New York City. She had met Fonda at Denham Studios in England on the set of the film '' Wings of the Morning''. The couple had two children, actress Jane (born 21 December 1937) and actor Peter (23 February 1940 – 16 August 2019), but their marriage was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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