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  2. Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde - Wikipedia

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    Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde, Dowager Countess of Essex (née Walsingham, formerly Devereux and Sidney; 1567 – 17 February 1633) was an English noblewoman. The daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham , Elizabeth I 's Secretary of State , she became the wife of Sir Philip Sidney at age 16.

  3. Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Leicester - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Leicester (née Lady Dorothy Percy; ca. 1598 – 20 August 1659), [1] was the eldest daughter of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, and his wife, Lady Dorothy Devereux. [2]

  4. Dorothy Sidney - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Leicester (née Dorothy Percy) (ca. 1598 – 1659) Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (1617 – 1684), daughter of the above Topics referred to by the same term

  5. Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire - Wikipedia

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    Sidney died of wounds received at the Battle of Zutphen in 1586. In 1590, Penelope's brother Essex married Sidney's widow Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham, and Lady Rich was much cultivated by poets and musicians during her brother's ascendancy at court in the 1590s. [13]

  6. Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy Sidney (1617-1684) (Henry Pierce Bone) On 20 July 1639 at Penshurst, he married Lady Dorothy Sidney, [2] daughter of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester at Penshurst Place. It was generally believed to be a love marriage and had his father-in-law's warm approval: after Sunderland's death, her father consoled Dorothy by reminding her of ...

  7. Elizabeth Francis, the oldest living person in the U.S., dies ...

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    In 1928, she gave birth to her only child, a daughter named Dorothy, 95. She was a single mother who went on to run a coffee shop at ABC13 News in Houston for 20 years until she retired in 1975.

  8. Dorothy Day gets a major shout out from Pope Francis - AOL

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    During his speech to Congress on Thursday, Pope Francis mentioned a list of people who "worked to build a better future." But who is Dorothy Day?

  9. Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy Spencer (née Sidney; later Smythe), Countess of Sunderland (5 October 1617 – 5 February 1684), was the wife of Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, and the daughter of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, and Lady Dorothy Percy. Lady Dorothy Sidney (or Sydney) was celebrated not only for her beauty but for wit, charm and intelligence.