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The privy chamber was the most influential department in an English royal household. [1] It contained the king's "privy lodging", consisting of bedroom, library, study, and lavatory. What was known as the chamber was later divided into a privy chamber (distinguished from bedchamber in 1559), and outer chamber (often styled presence chamber).
Under Elizabeth the role was also known as "Chief Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber", for example during Parry's tenure of it. 1558–1565: Kat Ashley; 1565–c.1572: Blanche Parry (as Chief Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber) by 1572: Catherine Howard, Countess of Nottingham
1761–1791: Elizabeth Howard, Countess of Effingham; 1761–1793: Elizabeth Thynne, Viscountess Weymouth (Marchioness of Bath from 1789) 1761–1794: Alicia Wyndham, Countess of Egremont; 1768–1782: Isabella Seymour, Countess of Hertford; 1770–1801: Mary Darcy, Countess of Holderness; 1783–1818: Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Pembroke ...
Elizabeth, Lady Raleigh (née Throckmorton; 16 April 1565 – c. 1647), was an English courtier, a Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England. Her secret marriage to Sir Walter Raleigh precipitated a long period of royal disfavour for both her and her husband.
England under Elizabeth I's reign, the Elizabethan Era, was ruled by the very structured and complicated Elizabethan government.It was divided into the national bodies (the monarch, Privy Council, and Parliament), the regional bodies (the Council of the North and Council of the Marches), the county, community bodies and the court system.
Elizabeth Knollys, Lady Leighton (15 June 1549 – c.1605), [1] was an English courtier who served Queen Elizabeth I of England, first as a Maid of Honour and secondly, after 1566, as a Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber. [1] [2] Knollys was the grand-niece of Queen consort Anne Boleyn, which made her a cousin once removed of the Queen.
The historian Treadway Russell Nash mentions a herald's funeral certificate or description for John Habington's wife, who was a gentlewoman of the privy-chamber of Elizabeth in 1557, and was buried at Hindlip at the queen's expense. This lost document must have referred to Dorothy Bradbelt.
no. 1440 A cup of agate set with rubies and emeralds given by Thomas Wilson, and delivered to Jewel House from the Privy Chamber by Henry Middlemore, groom of the privy chamber, the father of Mary Middlemore a maid of honour to Anna of Denmark. [33] no. 1453 A jug of crystal with silver gilt with a phoenix at the top given by Lord Henry Seymour.