Elizabeth Devick or De Vic () was a servant of
Anne of Denmark.
She was a member of the household of
Magdalen Wood
Magdalen Wood ( fl. 1600–1614) was an English courtier and diplomatic messenger.
Life
Magdalen Wood was a daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Wood, Clerk of the Signet. She married Sir Thomas Edmondes (1563-1639), a diplomat and politician, in ...
, the wife of the English diplomat
Thomas Edmondes
Sir Thomas Edmonds (1563 – 20 September 1639) was an English diplomat and politician who served under three successive monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I, Kings James I and Charles I, and occupied the office of Treasurer of the Royal Household from ...
. In May 1615 Edmondes gave her £100 after the death of his wife, for her long service.
On 14 February 1613 she added a Valentine's day greeting to Jean Beaulieu's letter from Paris to
William Trumbull and his wife and daughter "pretty Betty".
At the end of June 1615 she travelled from Paris to
Pougues with the
Countess of Pembroke.
Elizabeth Devick joined the household of Anne of Denmark in March 1617 as a lady in waiting, or "
chamberer A chamberer was a female attendant of an English queen, queen consort, or princess. There were similar positions in aristocratic households.
Chamberers at court
At court, the position was similar to a male groom of the privy chamber. The names of t ...
". She went to join the queen's household at
Oatlands Palace where she swore the customary oath of loyalty and service on 24 August 1617. At the Queen's death in 1619 she reckoned to have two years service in wages.
She was with the queen, who had been ill, at
Hampton Court and told a visitor that she now "began to sit up and walk about her chamber, which for 6 weeks before she was not able to do."
When the queen died in 1619 the other chamberers were; Elizabeth Murray (probably the
Countess of Annandale); Marie Mayerne, sister of
Théodore de Mayerne
Sir Théodore Turquet de Mayerne (28 September 1573 – 22 March 1655) was a Genevan-born physician who treated kings of France and England and advanced the theories of Paracelsus. The Young Doctor
Mayerne was born in a Huguenot family in Gen ...
who married
Gian Francesco Biondi in 1622;
Bridget Annesley
Bridget Annesley ( fl. 1610-1630) was a courtier to Anne of Denmark, wife of James VI and I.
Bridget Annesley was a daughter of Robert Annesley of Rathverd or Rathuard and Newport Pagnell, an undertaker of the plantations in Munster, and Beatrix ...
; and
Mary Gargrave
Mary Gargrave (1576 – c. 1640) was a courtier to Anne of Denmark.
Mary Gargrave was a daughter of Sir Cotton Gargrave (1540–1588) and his second wife Anne Waterton. They had houses at Kinsley, Hemsworth, and Nostell Priory, near Wakefield. ...
as Maid of Honour. Elizabeth Devick attended the queen's funeral, listed with the ladies of the Privy Chamber.
Subsequently there was "much talk" in London about provision for her servants, "Mistris de Vicg" was to have rewards and pensions ''
pro rata''. The King delayed making a settlement but the terms were announced to satisfy the Danish ambassador.
[Norman Egbert McClure, ''Letters of John Chamberlain'', vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 258.]
The exact date of Elizabeth Devick's death is unknown.
References
Household of Anne of Denmark
17th-century English women
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