Biography of Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset 1667-1722

Paternal Family Tree: Reginar aka Percy

Maternal Family Tree: Audrey Saunders 1551-1588

On 23 Nov 1655 [her grandmother] Elizabeth Leigh Countess Southampton (age 35) died.

On 23 Dec 1662 [her father] Josceline Percy 11th Earl of Northumberland (age 18) and [her mother] Elizabeth Wriothesley Countess Northumberland (age 16) were married. She by marriage Countess of Northumberland. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Thomas Wriothesley 4th Earl of Southampton 2nd Earl Chichester (age 55) and [her grandmother] Elizabeth Leigh Countess Southampton. He the son of [her grandfather] Algernon Percy 10th Earl of Northumberland (age 60) and [her grandmother] Elizabeth Howard Countess Northumberland (age 39).

On 26 Jan 1667 Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset was born to Josceline Percy 11th Earl of Northumberland (age 22) and Elizabeth Wriothesley Countess Northumberland (age 21).

On 16 May 1667 [her grandfather] Thomas Wriothesley 4th Earl of Southampton 2nd Earl Chichester (age 60) died. Earl of Southampton, Earl Chichester extinct.

On 13 Oct 1668 [her grandfather] Algernon Percy 10th Earl of Northumberland (age 66) died at Petworth. He was buried at Petworth. His son [her father] Josceline Percy 11th Earl of Northumberland (age 24) succeeded 11th Earl of Northumberland, 14th Baron Percy of Alnwick, 22nd Baron Percy of Topcliffe, 5th Baron Percy of Alnwick, 13th Baron Poynings.

On 31 May 1670 [her father] Josceline Percy 11th Earl of Northumberland (age 25) died in Turin without male issue. Earl of Northumberland, Baron Percy of Alnwick and Baron Percy of Topcliffe, Baron Percy of Alnwick and Baron Poynings extinct. His daughter Elizabeth (age 3) was his sole heiress.

In 1673 [her step-father] Ralph Montagu 1st Duke Montagu (age 34) and [her mother] Elizabeth Wriothesley Countess Northumberland (age 27) were married. She the wealthy daughter of [her grandfather] Thomas Wriothesley 4th Earl of Southampton 2nd Earl Chichester who had died six years previously. She the daughter of Thomas Wriothesley 4th Earl of Southampton 2nd Earl Chichester and [her grandmother] Elizabeth Leigh Countess Southampton. They were third cousin once removed.

On 27 Mar 1679 Henry Cavendish (age 20) and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 12) were married. She being the sole heiress of Josceline Percy 11th Earl of Northumberland she brought an enormous fortune to the marriage. She the daughter of Josceline Percy 11th Earl of Northumberland and Elizabeth Wriothesley Countess Northumberland (age 33). He the son of Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne (age 48) and Frances Pierrepont Duchess Newcastle upon Tyne (age 48).

Around 1680 Mary Beale aka Cradock (age 46). Portrait of Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 12) as Madonna and Child.Petworth House.

On 01 Nov 1680 [her husband] Henry Cavendish (age 21) died.

On 15 Nov 1681 Thomas "Tom of Ten Thousand" Thynne (age 33) and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 14) were married. She the daughter of Josceline Percy 11th Earl of Northumberland and Elizabeth Wriothesley Countess Northumberland (age 35).

Evelyn's Diary. 15 Nov 1681. I dined with the Earl of Essex (age 49) who, after dinner in his study, where we were alone, related to me how much he had been scandalized and injured in the report of his being privy to the marriage of his [her aunt] Lady's (age 45) niece (age 14), the rich young widow of the late [her former husband] Lord Ogle, sole daughter of the [her grandfather] Earl of Northumberland; showing me a letter of [her husband] Mr. Thynn's (age 33), excusing himself for not communicating his marriage to his Lordship. He acquainted me also with the whole story of that unfortunate lady being betrayed by her [her grandmother] grandmother, the Countess of Northumberland (age 58), and Colonel Bret, for money; and that though, upon the importunity of the Duke of Monmouth (age 32), he had delivered to the grandmother a particular of the jointure which Mr. Thynn pretended he would settle on the lady, yet he totally discouraged the proceeding as by no means a competent match for one that both by birth and fortune might have pretended to the greatest prince in Christendom; that he also proposed the Earl of Kingston (age 21), or the Lord Cranburn, but was by no means for Mr. Thynn.

Evelyn's Diary. 14 Jan 1682. Dined at the Bishop of Rochester's (age 57), at the Abbey [Map], it being his marriage day, after twenty-four years. He related to me how he had been treated by Sir William Temple, foreseeing that he might be a delegate in the concern of my Baroness Ogle (age 14) now likely come in controversy upon her marriage with [her husband] Mr. Thynn (age 34); also how earnestly the late Earl of Danby (age 49) [NOTE. The word 'late' suggest the Earl being dead but may refer to his downfall around 1678], Lord Treasurer, sought his friendship, and what plain and sincere advice he gave him from time to time about his miscarriages and partialities; particularly his outing Sir John Duncomb (age 60) from being Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir Stephen Fox (age 54), above all, from being Paymaster of the Army. The Treasurer's excuse and reason was, that Fox's credit was so over great with the bankers and monied men, that he could procure none but by his means, "for that reason", replied the Bishop, "I would have made him my friend, Sir Stephen being a person both honest and of credit". He told him likewise of his stateliness and difficulty of access, and several other miscarriages, and which indeed made him hated.

Murder of Tom of Ten Thousand Thynne

On 12 Feb 1682 [her husband] Thomas "Tom of Ten Thousand" Thynne (age 34) was shot and killed while riding in his coach along Pall Mall [Map], by three men, Christopher Vratz, John Stern and Charles George Borosky who were believed to be acting for his wife's lover, or pursuer, Swedish Count Karl Johann von Königsmark (age 22). He was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map]. The tomb, sculpted by Arnold Quellin, is decorated in part with a representation of the murder of Thynne in 1682.

Evelyn's Diary. 10 Mar 1682. This day was executed Colonel Vrats, and some of his accomplices, for the execrable murder of [her former husband] Mr. Thynn (deceased), set on by the principal Koningsmark (age 22). He went to execution like an undaunted hero, as one that had done a friendly office for that base coward, Count Koningsmark, who had hopes to marry his widow, the rich Baroness Ogle (age 15), and was acquitted by a corrupt jury, and so got away. Vrats told a friend of mine who accompanied him to the gallows, and gave him some advice that he did not value dying of a rush, and hoped and believed God would deal with him like a gentleman. Never man went, so unconcerned for his sad fate.

On 30 May 1682 Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset (age 19) and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 15) were married. His first marriage, her third having been widowed twice by the age of seventeen. She by marriage Duchess Somerset. Being the sole heiress of her father Josceline Percy 11th Earl of Northumberland she brought considerable wealth to the marriage. She the daughter of Josceline Percy 11th Earl of Northumberland and Elizabeth Wriothesley Countess Northumberland (age 36). He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

Before 22 Mar 1683 [her son] Charles Seymour was born to [her husband] Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset (age 20) and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 16).

On 11 Nov 1684 [her son] Algernon Seymour 7th Duke of Somerset was born to [her husband] Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset (age 22) and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 17).

In 1685 [her daughter] Elizabeth Seymour Countess Thomond was born to [her husband] Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset (age 22) and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 17).

Around 1690. John Closterman (age 30). Portrait of Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 22) with her son [her son] Algernon Seymour 7th Duke of Somerset (age 5).

In 1693 [her daughter] Catherine Seymour was born to [her husband] Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset (age 30) and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 25).

On 03 Jun 1696 [her son] Percy Seymour was born to [her husband] Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset (age 33) and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 29).

On 11 Mar 1705 [her grandmother] Elizabeth Howard Countess Northumberland (age 82) died.

In 1707 [her son-in-law] Henry O'Brien 8th Earl Thomond (age 18) and [her daughter] Elizabeth Seymour Countess Thomond (age 22) were married. She by marriage Countess Thomond. She the daughter of [her husband] Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset (age 44) and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 39). He the son of Henry Horatio O'Brien and Henrietta Somerset Countess Suffolk (age 38).

In 1709 [her daughter] Anne Seymour Duchess Leeds was born to [her husband] Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset (age 46) and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 41).

Before 19 Aug 1710 [her son-in-law] William Wyndham 3rd Baronet (age 22) and [her daughter] Catherine Seymour (age 17) were married. She the daughter of [her husband] Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset (age 48) and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 43).

In 1713 Godfrey Kneller (age 66). Portrait of Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 45). Petworth House.

On 05 Jul 1715 [her son] Algernon Seymour 7th Duke of Somerset (age 30) and [her daughter-in-law] Frances Thynne Duchess Somerset (age 16) were married. He the son of [her husband] Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset (age 52) and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 48). They were third cousin once removed.

On 17 Sep 1719 [her son-in-law] Peregrine Osborne 3rd Duke Leeds (age 27) and [her daughter] Anne Seymour Duchess Leeds (age 10) were married. She the daughter of [her husband] Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset (age 57) and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 52). He the son of Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds (age 60) and Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds (age 57).

On 24 Nov 1722 Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset (age 55) died.

On 04 Feb 1725 [her former husband] Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset (age 62) and Charlotte Finch Duchess Somerset (age 32) were married. She by marriage Duchess Somerset. The difference in their ages was 30 years. She the daughter of Daniel Finch 2nd Earl Nottingham 7th Earl Winchilsea (age 77) and Anne Hatton Countess Nottingham and Winchelsea. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

On 02 Dec 1748 [her former husband] Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset (age 86) died at Petworth. His son [her son] Algernon Seymour 7th Duke of Somerset (age 64) succeeded 7th Duke Somerset, 7th Earl Hertford, 7th Baron Beauchamp of Hatch Beauchamp in Somerset, 5th Baron Seymour of Trowbridge. [her daughter-in-law] Frances Thynne Duchess Somerset (age 49) by marriage Duchess Somerset.

[her daughter] Frances Seymour was born to Charles Seymour 6th Duke of Somerset and Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset.

Ancestors of Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset 1667-1722

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Percy 5th Earl of Northumberland 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Percy 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Spencer Countess Northumberland 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Percy 8th Earl of Northumberland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Guiscard Harbottle 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Harbottle 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Willoughby 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry "Wizard Earl" Percy 9th Earl of Northumberland 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy de Vere 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Katherine Neville Countess Northumberland 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucy Somerset Baroness Latimer Snape 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandFather: Algernon Percy 10th Earl of Northumberland 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Devereux 1st Viscount Hereford 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Devereux 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Grey Baroness Ferrers Chartley 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Walter Devereux 1st Earl Essex 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Hastings 1st Earl Huntingdon 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy Hastings 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Stafford Countess Huntingdon 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Dorothy Devereux Countess Northumberland 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Knollys

Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Knollys

Great x 4 Grandmother: Lettice Peniston

Great x 2 Grandmother: Lettice Knollys Countess Essex 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Carey 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Carey 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Boleyn 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Father: Josceline Percy 11th Earl of Northumberland 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Howard 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Vere Countess of Surrey 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Audley 1st Baron Audley Walden

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Audley Duchess Norfolk 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Grey Baroness Audley 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Theophilus Howard 2nd Earl Suffolk 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Knyvet of Charlton Wiltshire 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Knyvet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Pickering 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stumpe

GrandMother: Elizabeth Howard Countess Northumberland 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: David Home

Great x 3 Grandfather: Alexander Manderston Home

Great x 2 Grandfather: George Home 1st Earl Dunbar

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Home Countess Suffolk 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: James Gordon 2nd of Gight 12 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Alexander Gordon 3rd of Gight 13 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Gordon Countess Dunbar 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Cardinal David Beaton

Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Beaton

Great x 4 Grandmother: Marion Ogilvy

Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Wriothesley

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Wriothesley 1st Earl of Southampton

Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Drayton of London

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Wriothesley 2nd Earl of Southampton

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cheney of Chesham Blois in Buckinghamshire

Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Cheney Countess Southampton

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 1st Viscount Montagu 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Gage

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Browne Countess Southampton 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Jane Radclyffe 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Stanley Countess Sussex 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandFather: Thomas Wriothesley 4th Earl of Southampton 2nd Earl Chichester 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Vernon 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: George Vernon 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Ludlow 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Vernon 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry IV of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Vernon Countess Southampton 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England

Mother: Elizabeth Wriothesley Countess Northumberland 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry IV of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Leigh

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Leigh

Great x 2 Grandfather: Francis Leigh

Great x 4 Grandfather: James Harrington

Great x 3 Grandmother: Frances Harrington

Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney

Great x 1 Grandfather: Francis Leigh 1st Earl Chichester

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Egerton

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Egerton 1st Viscount Brackley

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Sparkes of Bickerton

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Egerton

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Ravenscroft of Bretton

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Ravenscroft

Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Grosvenor

GrandMother: Elizabeth Leigh Countess Southampton 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Boteler 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Boteler 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Griselda Roche

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Boteler 1st Baron Boteler 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Waller

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Waller

Great x 1 Grandmother: Audrey Boteler Countess Chichester 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Villiers of Brooksby Leicestershire

Great x 3 Grandfather: George Villiers of Brokesby

Great x 4 Grandmother: Collette Clarke

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Villiers Baroness Boteler Brantfield

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Saunders of Harrington Northamptonshire

Great x 3 Grandmother: Audrey Saunders

Royal Ancestors of Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset 1667-1722

Royal Descendants of Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset 1667-1722

Ancestors of Elizabeth Percy Duchess Somerset 1667-1722