Biography of Mary Cromwell Countess Fauconberg 1637-1713
Paternal Family Tree: Williams aka Cromwell
Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Bourchier 1598-1665
On 22 Aug 1620 [her father] Oliver Cromwell (age 21) and [her mother] Elizabeth Bourchier (age 22) were married.
In 1637 Mary Cromwell Countess Fauconberg was born to Oliver Cromwell (age 37) and Elizabeth Bourchier (age 39).
On 03 Jul 1651 [her future husband] Thomas Belasyse 1st Earl Fauconberg (age 24) and Mildred Saunderson were married.
On 18 Apr 1653 Thomas Belasyse 1st Viscount Fauconberg (age 76) died. His grandson [her future husband] Thomas Belasyse 1st Earl Fauconberg (age 26) succeeded 2nd Viscount Faunconberg, 3rd Baronet Belasyse of Newborough.
Around 1657 John Michael Wright (age 39). Portrait of Mary Cromwell Countess Fauconberg (age 20).
On 18 Nov 1657 Thomas Belasyse 1st Earl Fauconberg (age 30) and Mary Cromwell Countess Fauconberg (age 20) were married. She by marriage Viscountess Faunconberg. She the daughter of Oliver Cromwell (age 58) and Elizabeth Bourchier (age 59).
On 03 Sep 1658 [her father] Oliver Cromwell (age 59) died at Whitehall Palace [Map]. His son [her brother] Richard Cromwell Lord Protector (age 31) succeeded Lord Protector.
Pepy's Diary. 22 Apr 1661. Both the King (age 30) and the Duke of York (age 27) took notice of us, as he saw us at the window. The show being ended, Mr. Young did give us a dinner, at which we were very merry, and pleased above imagination at what we have seen. Sir W. Batten (age 60) going home, he and I called and drunk some mum1 and laid our wager about my Lady Faulconbridge's name3, which he says not to be Mary, and so I won above 20s. So home, where Will and the boy staid and saw the show upon Towre Hill, and Jane at T. Pepys's, The. Turner (age 9), and my wife at Charles Glassecocke's, in Fleet Street. In the evening by water to White Hall to my Lord's, and there I spoke with my Lord. He talked with me about his suit, which was made in France, and cost him £200, and very rich it is with embroidery. I lay with Mr. Shepley, and CORONACION DAY.
Note 1. Mum. Ale brewed with wheat at Brunswick. "Sedulous and stout With bowls of fattening mum". J. Phillips, Cyder, Vol. ii. p. 231.
Note 2. Mary (age 24), third daughter of Oliver Cromwell, and second wife of [her husband] Thomas Bellasis (age 62), second Viscount Fauconberg, created Earl of Fauconberg, April 9th, 1689.
Pepy's Diary. 12 Jun 1663. At noon to the Exchange [Map] and so home to dinner, and abroad with my wife by water to the Royall Theatre [Map]; and there saw "The Committee", a merry but indifferent play, only Lacey's part, an Irish footman, is beyond imagination. Here I saw my [her husband] Lord Falconbridge (age 36), and his Lady, my Lady Mary Cromwell (age 26), who looks as well as I have known her, and well clad; but when the House began to fill she put on her vizard1, and so kept it on all the play; which of late is become a great fashion among the ladies, which hides their whole face.
Note 1. Masks were commonly used by ladies in the reign of Elizabeth, and when their use was revived at the Restoration for respectable women attending the Theatre [Map], they became general. They soon, however, became the mark of loose women, and their use was discontinued by women of repute. On June 1st, 1704, a song was sung at the Theatre [Map] in Lincoln's Inn Fields called "The Misses' Lamentation for want of their Vizard Masques at the Theatre [Map]". Mr. R. W. Lowe gives several references to the use of vizard masks at the Theatre [Map] in his interesting biography, "Thomas Betterton (age 27)"..
In or before 1665 William Frankland 1st Baronet (age 25) and [her sister-in-law] Arabella Belasyse Lady Thirkleby (age 27) were married. She by marriage Lady Frankland of Thirkleby in Yorkshire.
In 1665 [her mother] Elizabeth Bourchier (age 67) died.
Before 1667 George Saunderson 5th Viscount Castleton (age 35) and [her sister-in-law] Grace Belasyse were married.
In 1667 [her sister-in-law] Grace Belasyse died.
Before 23 Jan 1671 Walter Strickland (age 48) and [her sister-in-law] Barbara Belasyse were married.
On 26 Feb 1687 [her sister-in-law] Arabella Belasyse Lady Thirkleby (age 50) died.
On 09 Apr 1689 a number of new peers were created at the Coronation William III and Mary II ...
Charles Paulet 1st Duke Bolton (age 59) was created 1st Duke Bolton.
Charles Mordaunt 3rd Earl Peterborough 1st Earl Monmouth (age 31) was created 1st Earl Monmouth. Carey Fraser Countess Peterborough and Monmouth (age 29) by marriage Countess Monmouth.
[her husband] Thomas Belasyse 1st Earl Fauconberg (age 62) was created 1st Earl Fauconberg. Mary Cromwell Countess Fauconberg (age 52) by marriage Countess Fauconberg.
William Bentinck 1st Earl of Portland (age 39) was created 1st Earl of Portland.
On 16 Aug 1699 [her brother-in-law] Rowland Belasyse (age 67) died.
Before 31 Dec 1700 [her brother-in-law] Henry Belasyse died.
On 31 Dec 1700 [her husband] Thomas Belasyse 1st Earl Fauconberg (age 73) died without issue. Earl Fauconberg extinct. His nephew Thomas Belasyse 3rd Viscount Fauconberg succeeded 3rd Viscount Faunconberg, 4th Baronet Belasyse of Newborough. Bridget Gage Viscountess Fauconberg (age 25) by marriage Viscountess Faunconberg.
On 12 Sep 1708 [her former sister-in-law] Barbara Belasyse died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 24 Grand Daughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Kings England: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Kings Franks: Great x 26 Grand Daughter of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Kings France: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France
Great x 3 Grandfather: Morgan Williams
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Cromwell 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Cromwell 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Cromwell 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Glossop
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Cromwell aka Williams 15 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Murfyn
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Mirfyn
GrandFather: Robert Cromwell 16 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Warren of Feering in Essex
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ralph Warren
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Warren
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Trelake
Father: Oliver Cromwell 17 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Steward
GrandMother: Elizabeth Steward
Mary Cromwell Countess Fauconberg 18 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England