Elizabeth Dent, Countess of Tullibardine (1591-1656) was an English aristocrat and landowner.
She was the daughter of John Dent and Alice Grant. John Dent was originally from Leicester and became a salter and merchant in London.
She married the veteran soldier
Francis Vere
Sir Francis Vere (1560/6128 August 1609) was a prominent English soldier serving under Queen Elizabeth I fighting mainly in the Low Countries during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Eighty Years' War.
He was a sergeant major-genera ...
(d. 1609) on 26 October 1607.
Rowland Whyte
Rowland Whyte (died after 1626) was an Elizabethan official and businessman, whose letters provide important evidence about the latter stages of the life of Queen Elizabeth I and the transition to the rule of James I. The letters were first publish ...
commented that some "smile at it for it is said she is not the fairest."
There was discussion about her marrying
Charles Caesar
Sir Charles Caesar (27 January 1590 – 6 December 1642), of Benington in Hertfordshire, was an English judge who served as Master of the Rolls in the period leading up to the outbreak of the English Civil War; his father, Sir Julius Caesar, ...
, a son of her step-father, the judge
Sir Julius Caesar
Sir Julius Caesar (1557/155818 April 1636) was an English lawyer, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1622. He was also known as Julius Adelmare.
Early life and education
Caesar was born near ...
, and John Chamberlain said she was pressured to marry Caesar. In 1613 she married
Sir Patrick Murray
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...
, a son of
John Murray, 1st Earl of Tullibardine
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second E ...
, who became the 1st or 3rd
Earl of Tullibardine
Duke of Atholl, named for Atholl in Scotland, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland held by the head of Clan Murray. It was created by Queen Anne in 1703 for John Murray, 2nd Marquess of Atholl, with a special remainder to the heir male of ...
in January 1628.
Murray had come to London with King James in 1603, and was knighted at St James Palace on 24 July 1603. His first wife was Prudence Bulmer, a daughter of the mining entrepreneur
Bevis Bulmer
Sir Bevis Bulmer (1536–1615) was an English mining engineer during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. He has been called "one of the great speculators of that era". Many of the events in his career were recorded by Stephen Atkinson in ''The ...
, and widow of John Beeston who she had married in 1596. Beeston was a grandson of
George Beeston
Sir George Beeston or Beston (circa 1520 - 13 September 1601Pinkie. Murray died in October 1644.
She died in 1656.
Family
The children of Elizabeth Dent and Patrick Murray included:
* James Murray, Lord Gask, and 2nd or 4th Earl of Tullibardine (1617-1670), who married Lilias Drummond, a daughter of the Earl of Perth in London in May 1643.
* Charles Murray (1618-1647)
* Francis Murray (1627-1639)
* William Murray of Redcastle (d. 1646)
* Patrick Murray (1637-1640)
* Elizabeth Murray
She also mentioned her daughters Diana and Juliana in her last testament.Memorandum, TNA PROB 11-263-6.
Tullibardine Tullibardine is a location in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, which gives its name to a village, a castle and a grant of nobility.
The village of Tullibardine is a settlement of approximately forty dwellings about southwest of Perth. It lies in the ...