Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland
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Margaret Clifford (née Russell), Countess of Cumberland (7 July 1560 – 24 May 1616) was an English
Exeter, England to Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford
and Margaret St John.
On 24 June 1577 she married
Queen Elizabeth I
, attending her on her death bed.
In 1603 she travelled from London with her daughter
Sir Robert Cecil asking for his intervention so that she could buy suitable clothes to "furnish her self" to attend the new queen.[2] The royal couple were entertained at Grafton Regis by her husband. Although the Countess was present, according to her daughter, she was marginalised, "not held as mistress of the house".[3]
She was a patron of the poet Emilia Lanier.[4]
In 1593, Lady Margaret Russell founded Beamsley Hospital, an almshouse for local widows.
She was interested in physic and alchemy, and had an alchemical recipe book compiled for her.[5]
She died at Brougham Castle, on 24 May 1616.[6]
The tomb of the Countess is at St Lawrence's Church, Appleby along with that of her daughter, Lady Anne Clifford. Lady Anne Clifford built the Countess Pillar to commemorate her.
Children
- Francis Clifford (1584 – 8 December 1589)
- Robert Clifford (21 September 1585 – 24 May 1591)
- Lady Anne Clifford (30 January 1590 – 22 March 1676), who married Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset, and secondly Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
- Lady Margaret Clifford (29 March 1594 - 4 February 1647)
References
- ^ Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676 (Manchester, 2018), pp. 19-20.
- ^ G. Dyffnalt Owen, HMC Hatfield Salisbury, vol. 23 (London, 1973), pp. 110-111.
- ^ Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676 (Manchester, 2018), pp. 20-21.
- ^ Helen Wilcox, 1611: Authority, Gender, and the Word in Early Modern England (Chichester, 2014), pp. 55–56.
- ^ Penny Bayer, 'Lady Margaret Clifford's Alchemical Receipt Book and the John Dee Circle', Ambix, 52:3 (2005), pp. 274-284.
- ^ Jessica L. Malay, Anne Clifford's Autobiographical Writing, 1590-1676 (Manchester, 2018), pp. 35-7, 40-1.
- Bell, J. Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting and Original Literature, and Records of the Beau-monde. Ser. 3, vol. 8, J. Bell, 1828. (p. 238) googlebooks Retrieved 11 September 2008
- Walpole, Horace, and Thomas Park. A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland; With Lists of Their Works. London: Printed for J. Scott, 1806. googlebooksRetrieved 31 August 2008