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Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey ( née de Vere; c. 1517 – 30 June 1577) was the second daughter and third child of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Trussell. She first married Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (executed for treason in 1547), and second Thomas Steyning. Frances Howard, sketch by Hans Holbein the Younger, Royal ...
21 ago 2013 · David Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as `wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', challenging the assumptions that have constructed her as a model of female villainy.
Frances Howard est un nom pouvant désigner: Frances Howard (comtesse de Surrey) (en) (c. 1517-1577), comtesse anglaise. Frances Howard (comtesse de Somerset) (en) (1590-1632), courtisane controversée anglaise. Frances Howard (duchesse de Lennox) (en) (1578-1639), duchesse anglaise de Lennox. Frances Howard (comtesse de Kildare) (en) (morte en ...
10 apr 2019 · The Countess, otherwise known as Frances Howard, is a fascinating figure. Cast as the poster girl for wicked women of the time, she was an infamous beauty, scion of a powerful family, surrounded by scandal and remembered as a murderer, a witch and a whore. There is a portrait of her by Larkin, famed for his images of Jacobean courtiers, in ...
Frances Howard (1578-1639) was considered one of the great beauties of the Jacobean Court, and was also wealthy, being the granddaughter of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. Frances was 43 years old when this portrait was painted, and had been married three times: first at the age of 14 to a wealthy London alderman (Henry Pranell), then to Edward ...
Frances decided to take matters into her own hands. In Sep 1613, Overbury died in the Tower of London in Sep 1613, poisoned - it was said - by an enema administered by an apothecary's boy. There is no doubt that Frances Howard had sent poison into the Tower on at least two occasions: once in a phial and once in some tarts.
Lady Frances Howard war eine englische Adlige. Das Verfahren zur Annullation ihrer Ehe mit Robert Devereux, 3. Earl of Essex mit dem Ziel Robert Carr, 1. Earl of Somerset heiraten zu können, löste einen öffentlichen Skandal aus. Nachdem klar wurde, dass sie im Zusammenhang mit dem Heiratsvorhaben mit dem Earl of Somerset für einen Mord verantwortlich war, löste dies einen der größten ...
