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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. She was found guilty but spared execution, and was eventually pardoned by the King and released from the Tower of London in early 1622.
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.
Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset by William Larkin The Earl and Countess of Somerset, by Renold Elstracke The costume of Kawasha may have been based on the frontispiece of Thomas Hariot's Briefe and True Report, 1590.
Even the powerful Carr, hardly experienced for the responsibilities thrust upon him and often dependent on his intimate friend Overbury for assistance with government papers, [8] fell into the Howard camp. He had done this after beginning an affair with Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk.
From 1616, Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset were inmates of the Tower and on social terms with Northumberland. Frances promoted the marriage of his second daughter Lucy Percy to James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle. He disapproved of the proposed marriage saying that he would not see his daughter, "dance to a ...
The powerful Carr, unfit for the responsibilities thrust upon him and often dependent on his intimate friend, Overbury, for assistance with government papers, [6] fell into the Howard camp, after beginning an affair with the married Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk.
Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset née Frances Howard (1591–1632), countess of Somerset and dau. of Lord Thomas Howard; Frances Howard (actress) (1903–1976), American actress and wife of film producer Samuel Goldwyn; Frances Minturn Howard (1905–1995), American poet; Frances Drake or Frances Howard (1912–2000), American actress
The Countess of Suffolk's daughter Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset. When the Earl of Northampton died in 1614, the Suffolks inherited Northampton House on London's Strand. [28] The Countess of Suffolk paid £5000 for the furnishings, detailed in a surviving inventory.