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Countess of Stafford is a title given to the wife of the Earl of Stafford. Women who have held the title include: Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley (1318-c.1351; her husband became earl in 1350) Philippa de Beauchamp (c.1344–1386) Anne of Gloucester (1383–1438), wife of both the 3rd Earl and, after his death, the 5th Earl
Alethea Stafford-Howard, who became a nun. [12] Isabella Stafford-Howard (d. 1691), who married, as his third wife, John Paulet, 5th Marquess of Winchester, son of William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester and Lady Lucy Cecil (a daughter of the 1st Earl of Exeter), in 1669, but had no issue. [12]
Margaret married Humphrey, eldest son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, who held the courtesy title of Earl of Stafford. [3] Margaret's father led the Lancastrian forces in the First Battle of St Albans (22 May 1455) against his main rival Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and was killed.
This is a list of peerages created for women in the peerages of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom. It does not include peerages created for men which were later inherited by women, or life peerages created since 1958 under the Life Peerages Act 1958. Background Prior to the regular creation of life peerages, the great majority of peerages were created for men ...
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A woman with the rank of a marquess or the wife (or widow) of a marquess is a marchioness (/ m ɑː (r) ˈ ʃ ə n ɛ s / [3]) or marquise (French: ⓘ). These titles are also used to translate equivalent Asian styles, as in Imperial China and Imperial Japan. A portrait of William Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian, wearing his British Army uniform.
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford; George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland This page was last edited on 26 July 2016, at 20:43 (UTC). Text is ...
Susanna Leveson-Gower, Marchioness of Stafford (née Lady Susanna Stewart) (1742–1805), styled Lady Susanna Stewart from 1742 to 1768, Countess Gower until 1786, Marchioness of Stafford until 1803 and Dowager Marchioness of Stafford until her death in 1805, was a British noblewoman, who in 1768 became the wife of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford and a member of the Leveson ...