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Frances Howard, portrait miniature by Isaac Oliver. Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset (31 May 1590 [1] – 23 August 1632), was an English noblewoman who was the central figure in a famous scandal and murder during the reign of King James I.
Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, by William Larkin, NPG. [1]The Somerset Masque, sometimes known as The Squire's Masque, [2] was written by Thomas Campion and performed on 26 December 1613 at the old Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace, to celebrate the wedding of Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and Frances Howard.
The Masque of Flowers was an entertainment on 6 January 1614 to celebrate the marriage of Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset. [ 2 ] Masque for a wedding
He had done this after beginning an affair with Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk. Overbury mistrusted the Howards and still had Carr's ear, and tried to prevent the marriage. In order to remove him from court, the Howard faction manipulated Overbury into seeming to be disrespectful to Anne of Denmark.
Frances Howard, Countess of Kildare (d. 1628), courtier Frances Stewart, Duchess of Lennox née Frances Howard (1578–1639), daughter of Thomas Howard, Viscount Bindon Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset née Frances Howard (1591–1632), countess of Somerset and dau. of Lord Thomas Howard
Flora Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk; Frances Drake; Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey; Frances Stewart, Duchess of Lennox; Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset; Francis Howard (British Army officer, born 1848) Francis Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham; Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham; Frederick Howard (British Army officer)
There were also rumours that the commission was tricked into believing that Frances was still virgo intacta. [11] The marriage two months later of Frances Howard and Robert Carr, now the Earl of Somerset, was the court event of the season, celebrated in verse by John Donne. The Howards' rise to power seemed complete.
Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford (née Thynne; 10 May 1699 – 7 July 1754), later the Duchess of Somerset, was a British courtier and the wife of Algernon Seymour, Earl of Hertford, who became the 7th Duke of Somerset in 1748. She was also known as a poet, literary patron and woman of letters. [1]