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Catherine Sheffield, Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby (c. 1681 – 13 March 1743), formerly Lady Catherine Darnley, was an illegitimate daughter of King James II of England, and was married to two English noblemen in succession.
- c. 1681
- House of Stuart (illegitimate)
- 13 March 1743
Catherine Sheffield, Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby (c. 1681 – 13 March 1743), formerly Lady Catherine Darnley, was an illegitimate daughter of King James II of England, and was married to two English noblemen in succession. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Close.
Catherine Sheffield, Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby (c.1681 – 13 March 1743), formerly Lady Catherine Darnley, was an illegitimate daughter of King James II of England, and was married to two English noblemen in succession.
'This very curious book containing the illustrations to Sturts Prayer Book appears from the writing on the back of the frontispiece to have been presented to the Lady Anne Hyde, daughter of the Earl of Clarendon and the first wife of the Duke of York afterwards James the Second, and from circumstances known to the writer of this note there is ...
- John Sheffield
- Catherine, Duchess of Buckingham
- Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
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A large marble monument to John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham stands in the north eastern chapel of Henry VII's chapelin Westminster Abbey. He, his wife Catherine and their four children lie in the vault in this chapel. The monument was designed by Denis Plumiere and sculpted by Laurent Delvaux and Peter Scheemakers. A sarcophagus stands on the...
Catherine Darnley was the illegitimate daughter of James II by Catherine Sedley and she always insisted on being treated with royal state. (Her infant brotherJameswas buried in Henry VII's chapel "in the middle between the stalls" on 26th April 1685). She was married firstly to the Earl of Anglesey and married John at St Martin in the Fields church...
Edmund, who succeeded his father as 2nd Duke of Buckingham, was baptised at St Margaret's Westminster on 29th January 1716 and served in Germany with his uncle. He died of consumption in Rome on 30th October 1735 and his body was returned to the Abbey for burial in the family vault on 31st January 1736. He had a magnificent funeral and the recumben...
The wax figures are now all displayed in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries Oxford Dictionary of National Biography The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbeyedited by Anthony Harvey & Richard Mortimer, revised edition 2003 An account of Edmund's funeral appears in "The Old Whig" Feb. 5 1735/1736
Catherine Sheffield married John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby. The property passed to the Phipps family in 1718, when the Duchess's daughter Lady Catherine Annesley married William Phipps.
Exhibition History The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 28, as Duchess of Buckingham. Provenance Probably Catherine Sheffield, Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby (ca. 1681–1743), Buckingham House, London, by 1743;
