Mary Cromwell, Countess Fauconberg (9 February 1637 (christened) – 14 March 1713) was an English noblewoman, the third daughter of
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three K ...
and his wife
Elizabeth Bourchier
Elizabeth Cromwell (née Bourchier; 1598–1665) was the wife of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland; and the mother of Richard Cromwell, the second Lord Protector.
Family and marriage
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Biography
Born in either late 1636 or early 1637, Mary Cromwell was christened on 9 February 1637.
On 19 November 1657 she married
Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg, at
Hampton Court
Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames. The building of the palace began in 1514 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the chie ...
, and became Countess Fauconberg. Fauconberg had been previously married to Mildred Saunderson, who had died. Lady Fauconberg's residence in London was
Fauconberg House which was on the north side of Sutton Street, and on the eastern side of
Soho Square
Soho Square is a garden square in Soho, London, hosting since 1954 a ''de facto'' public park let by the Soho Square Garden Committee to Westminster City Council. It was originally called King Square after Charles II, and a much weathered ...
.
It has been claimed that, when her father's body was disinterred and symbolically executed at the Restoration, Mary bribed some guards to substitute another body for Cromwell's and to give her the real body, which she arranged to have buried at
Newburgh Priory, the family seat of the Fauconbergs.
She died on 14 March 1713 in
Sutton Manor at the age of 76, and was buried on 24 March in the church of
St. Nicholas Church, Chiswick, the district where she had lived since 1676.
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1630s births
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People
* Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name)
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17th-century English women
17th-century English nobility
18th-century English women
18th-century English nobility
Children of Oliver Cromwell