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Frances Walsingham (also
Frances Sidney;
Frances Devereux, Countess of Essex;
Frances De Burgh, Countess of St. Albans and Clanricarde)
1569 -
13 February 1631) was an
English countess during the
Tudor and Stuart periods.
She was the only child of Sir
Francis Walsingham, spymaster for Queen
Elizabeth I, and
Ursula St. Barbe. A lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, she married
Philip Sidney in 1583; although he died three years later in 1586. In 1590 Frances’ father also died and she was left with an annuity of £300.
In 1590 Frances married again, to
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, a match which caused great displeasure to the Queen. Elizabeth was said to have been in love with Essex, who was the stepson of her great love,
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. Essex was also the great-grandson of two of
Henry VIII's mistresses,
Mary Boleyn, the sister of Queen
Anne Boleyn, and
Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon . Some historians believe that
Catherine Carey, the daughter of Mary Boleyn and the grandmother of Essex, was fathered by Henry VIII
. This would make Frances' children the great-great-grandchildren of England's best-known king. Robert was executed in 1601 after participating in an attempted coup against the Queen. Frances had three children with her second husband, these were named Frances, Robert and Dorothy. Robert became the
third Earl of Essex. In 1603, she remarried to
Richard De Burgh, Earl of St Albans and Clanricarde. They had one daughter, Honor,
Marchioness of Winchester.
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