Elizabeth Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire

Elizabeth Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire (1619 – 19 November 1689) was the wife of William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire.

Elizabeth, Countess of Devonshire

She was one of the twelve children of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and his wife, the former Lady Catherine Howard.[1]

On 4 March 1639, she married the Earl of Devonshire. The couple had three children:

They lived at Chatsworth, then an Elizabethan house. A Royalist, the earl left the country during the English Civil War in order to protect his family, and moved to his mother's house at Latimer, Buckinghamshire, returning to Chatsworth only after the Restoration.[3]

The countess died at the age of about seventy, and is buried at the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey.[4] A drawing of her by Pierre Lombart is held by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.[5]

References

  1. Banks, Thomas Christopher (1808), The Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England: Or, An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Lives, Public Employments, and Most Memorable Actions of the English Nobility who Have Flourished from the Norman Conquest. J. White, p. 456
  2. Burghley House
  3. "History of Chatsworth - 17th century". Chatsworth. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  4. "Cavendish, William (1617-1684)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  5. "Elizabeth (Cecil), Countess of Devonshire, d. 1689". National Galleries. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
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