Elizabeth Annesley, Countess of Anglesey

Elizabeth Annesley, Countess of Anglesey (9 January 1620[1] – January 1698) was the wife of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey. They were married on 24 April 1638 in London.[2] At the time of their marriage, her husband's title was The Hon. Arthur Annesley. In 1660 he inherited his father's title of Viscount Valentia, making Elizabeth a viscountess, and in the following year he was created Earl of Anglesey, making her a countess.

Elizabeth was the daughter and co-heiress of Sir James Altham of Oxhey, Hertfordshire (son of James Altham), and his wife Elizabeth Sutton. The countess's sister, Frances, married Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery.[3][4]

Elizabeth and her husband had seven sons and six daughters, including:

• James (1645–1690), who succeeded his father to become the 2nd Earl of Anglesey and married (in 1669) Elizabeth, daughter of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland and Frances Montagu;[5]
• Altham, who was created Baron Altham in 1681;
• Richard (1655-1701), who served as Dean of Exeter, succeeded as 3rd Baron Altham, and married Dorothy, daughter of John Davey, of Ruxford, Devon;[6]
• Arthur;
• Charles;
• Dorothy, who married Richard Power, 1st Earl of Tyrone (1630–1690) in 1654;
• Elizabeth (died 1672), who married Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of Antrim (1615–1699);
• Frances (1648-1704/5), married first Francis Windham, of Felbrigg, Norfolk, and second (in 1668) John Thompson, 1st Baron Haversham;
• Philippa (died 1714/5), married first Charles Mohun, 3rd Baron Mohun of Okehampton,[7] and second William Coward, of Wells, Somerset;
• Anne, who married Sir Francis Wingate J.P. of Harlington Grange, Harlington

The countess died some time in January 1697/8, and was buried at St Anne's Church, Soho.

References

1. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 134
2. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 114
3. "Welsh Biography Online - VAUGHAN family, of Golden Grove, Carms". Retrieved 7 December 2017.
4. Yorke, Philip Chesney. Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, First Earl of. 2. pp. 15–16.
5. Watson, Paula (1983). "ANNESLEY, James, Lord Annesley (c.1645-90), of Farnborough, Hants.". In Henning, B. D. (ed.). The House of Commons 1660-1690. The History of Parliament Trust.
6. Ursula Radford (1955). "An Introduction to the Deans of Exeter". Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association 87: 1–24
7. Kiernan, V. G. (October 2005). "Mohun, Charles, fourth Baron Mohun (1675?–1712)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18881. Retrieved 2 January 2011. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)