Elizabeth Herbert Duchess of Powis

Standard Name: Powis, Elizabeth Herbert,,, Duchess of
Used Form: Lady Powis

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Family and Intimate relationships Lady Lucy Herbert
Lady Powis , mother of two future writers (Lucy and Winifred , then about ten and seven), joined her husband in the Tower of London, on a charge of Roman Catholic plotting against...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Lucy Herbert
Lady Lucy's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis , was born into the highest ranks of Catholic monarchists and through her father (Edward Somerset, second Marquess of Worcester , soldier, diplomat...
Family and Intimate relationships Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale
Lady Winifred's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis , came from an influential Catholic royalist family. One of her great-grand-mothers was the Renaissance translator Elizabeth Russell (one of the famous Cook sisters)...
Occupation Lady Lucy Herbert
The year after her mother 's death, LLH was clothed at the convent of the English Augustinian Canonesses : Nazareth Monastery (called the English Convent) at Bruges, where she took the name Sister Teresa Joseph .
Durrant, Catherine S. A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs. Burns, Oates and Washbourne, 1925.
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politics Elizabeth Cellier
EC met Lady Powis , an active and prominent Catholic, who enlisted her in work on behalf of imprisoned co-religionists.
Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1988.
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Publishing Elizabeth Cellier
Lady Powis , governess to the infant Prince of Wales , brought the baby to the king with Elizabeth Cellier 's Foundling Hospital petition in his hand.
Lady Powis was author of a broadside Ballad...

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