Elizabeth Noel, Viscountess Campden

Elizabeth Noel, Viscountess Campden (1640 – July 1683),[1] formerly Lady Elizabeth Bertie, was the fourth wife of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden, and the mother of nine of his children.

Lady Elizabeth was the daughter of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey, and his first wife, Martha Ramsay (née Cockayne), Dowager Countess of Holderness. Her siblings included Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey, Hon. Peregrine Bertie, Hon. Richard Bertie, Hon. Vere Bertie and Hon. Charles Bertie, as well as two sisters.

Elizabeth married Viscount Campden on 6 July 1655, when she was 15 and he was in his forties; he had been widowed three times, and had at least four surviving children, including his heir, Edward. Elizabeth's children by Campden were:[2]

Baptist Noel, MP, who married Susannah Fanshaw and was the father of Baptist Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough
John Noel (1659–1718), who married Elizabeth Sherard and had children
Martha Penelope Noel, who married a Mr Dormer[3]
Catherine Noel (1657-1724 or 1733)[4] who married, as his third wife, John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland, and had children

A portrait of Viscountess Campden was painted by Sir Peter Lely.[5] She outlived her husband by a year, and is buried with him at the Church of St Peter and St Paul, in Exton, Rutland.[6]

References

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 II, page 516.
Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
"Campden, Viscount (E, 1628 - 1798)". Cracrofts Peerage. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
Cracrofts gives 1724 and Mosley gives 1733
"Portrait of a Lady of the Noel Family, identified as Elizabeth Noel, Viscountess Campden (1640 - 1683)". Fergus Hall Master Paintings. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
"TOMB OF VISCOUNT CAMPDEN AT EXTON CHURCH". World Monuments Fund.

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[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 II, page 516.

[2] Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.

[3] "Campden, Viscount (E, 1628 - 1798)". Cracrofts Peerage. Retrieved 26 September 2018.

[4] Cracrofts gives 1724 and Mosley gives 1733

[5] "Portrait of a Lady of the Noel Family, identified as Elizabeth Noel, Viscountess Campden (1640 - 1683)". Fergus Hall Master Paintings. Retrieved 26 September 2018.

[6] "TOMB OF VISCOUNT CAMPDEN AT EXTON CHURCH". World Monuments Fund.