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| Keywords: monochrome Frances Howard was celebrated in her lifetime both for her beauty and her lineage. A pride in the latter - her father, Thomas Viscount Howard of Bindon was a younger son of the 5th Duke of Norfolk and the grandson of the 3rd Duke of Buckingham -sustained her through her first marriage to Henry Prannell, a rich wine merchant. Prannell died in December 1599, leaving her both a great heiress and free to make a more elevated match. In 1601 she married the son of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Protector during the reign of King Edward VI. Her husband, Edward Earl of Hertford (1539?-1621). The Earl was the successful of two suitors for her hand. Sir George Rodney, the loser, in an act which testifies both to Frances Howard’s beauty and to the extreme conclusion to which Jacobean courtly love could lead, wrote a dying love song in his blood and ran upon his sword. The marriage was performed secretly at Hertford’s house, without Banns of licence, for which the celebrant, Thomas Montfort, was suspended by Archbishop Whitgift for three years. Hertford was amused by his wife’s hauteur, and would tap her on the cheek, asking: ''Frank! Frank! How long is it since you married the vintner?'' Two months after Hertford’s death in 1621 Frances Howard married Ludovic Stuart 2nd Duke of Lennox (1574-1624). Lennox was a trusted courtier and servant of his cousin, King James I, and in addition to the offices of Privy Councillor and Steward of the household was in 1623 created Duke of Richmond. Unfortunately, this marriage, which otherwise would seem to be the Duchess’s happiest, was not destined to be long. The Duke died in 1623, predeceasing his wife by sixteen years. It was to this last marriage that she looked back when giving instruction for her burial, asking in her will to lie in Westminster Abbey next to the man, ''whose matchless memory and faire needs to me shall ever live with me to the uttermost of affection and dutie, whiles I breathe on earth.'' Frances Howard was celebrated in her lifetime both for her beauty and her lineage. A pride in the latter - her father, Thomas Viscount Howard of Bindon was a younger son of the 5th Duke of Norfolk and the grandson of the 3rd Duke of Buckingham -sustained her through her first marriage to Henry Prannell, a rich wine merchant. Prannell died in December 1599, leaving her both a great heiress and free to make a more elevated match. In 1601 she married the son of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Protector during the reign of King Edward VI. Her husband, Edward Earl of Hertford (1539?-1621). The Earl was the successful of two suitors for her hand. Sir George Rodney, the loser, in an act which testifies both to Frances Howard’s beauty and to the extreme conclusion to which Jacobean courtly love could lead, wrote a dying love song in his blood and ran upon his sword. The marriage was performed secretly at Hertford’s house, without Banns of licence, for which the celebrant, Thomas Montfort, was suspended by Archbishop Whitgift for three years. Hertford was amused by his wife’s hauteur, and would tap her on the cheek, asking: ''Frank! Frank! How long is it since you married the vintner?'' Two months after Hertford’s death in 1621 Frances Howard married Ludovic Stuart 2nd Duke of Lennox (1574-1624). Lennox was a trusted courtier and servant of his cousin, King James I, and in addition to the offices of Privy Councillor and Steward of the household was in 1623 created Duke of Richmond. Unfortunately, this marriage, which otherwise would seem to be the Duchess’s happiest, was not destined to be long. The Duke died in 1623, predeceasing his wife by sixteen years. It was to this last marriage that she looked back when giving instruction for her burial, asking in her will to lie in Westminster Abbey next to the man, ''whose matchless memory and faire needs to me shall ever live with me to the uttermost of affection and dutie, whiles I breathe on earth.'' Frances, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox.jpg en Engraved portrait of Frances Stewart daughter of Thomas Howard 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon who had m Ludovic Stewart 2nd Duke of Lennox on 16 June 1621 a plate from John Smith's The generall historie of Virginia New-England and the Summer Isles with the names of the adventurers planters and governours from their first beginning ano 1584 to this present 1624 with the procedings of those severall colonies and the accidents London Printed by I ohn D awson and I ohn H aviland for Michael Sparkes 1624 http //beinecke library yale edu/dl_crosscollex/brbldl/oneITEM asp pid 2029989 iid 1112777 Frances Duchess of Richmond and Lennox at beinecke library yale edu Engraved by Creator Willem van de Passe 1623 public domain age PD-old-100 Engraved portraits of women Frances Howard Duchess of Richmond and Lennox 1623 Willem van de Passe Frances Stewart Duchess of Richmond and Lennox Frances Howard was celebrated in her lifetime both for her beauty and her lineage. A pride in the latter - her father, Thomas Viscount Howard of Bindon was a younger son of the 5th Duke of Norfolk and the grandson of the 3rd Duke of Buckingham -sustained her through her first marriage to Henry Prannell, a rich wine merchant. Prannell died in December 1599, leaving her both a great heiress and free to make a more elevated match. In 1601 she married the son of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Protector during the reign of King Edward VI. Her husband, Edward Earl of Hertford (1539?-1621). The Earl was the successful of two suitors for her hand. Sir George Rodney, the loser, in an act which testifies both to Frances Howard’s beauty and to the extreme conclusion to which Jacobean courtly love could lead, wrote a dying love song in his blood and ran upon his sword. The marriage was performed secretly at Hertford’s house, without Banns of licence, for which the celebrant, Thomas Montfort, was suspended by Archbishop Whitgift for three years. Hertford was amused by his wife’s hauteur, and would tap her on the cheek, asking: ''Frank! Frank! How long is it since you married the vintner?'' Two months after Hertford’s death in 1621 Frances Howard married Ludovic Stuart 2nd Duke of Lennox (1574-1624). Lennox was a trusted courtier and servant of his cousin, King James I, and in addition to the offices of Privy Councillor and Steward of the household was in 1623 created Duke of Richmond. Unfortunately, this marriage, which otherwise would seem to be the Duchess’s happiest, was not destined to be long. The Duke died in 1623, predeceasing his wife by sixteen years. It was to this last marriage that she looked back when giving instruction for her burial, asking in her will to lie in Westminster Abbey next to the man, ''whose matchless memory and faire needs to me shall ever live with me to the uttermost of affection and dutie, whiles I breathe on earth.'' | ||||
