Person:Elizabeth Killigrew (3)

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Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon
b.1622
d.1680
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  1. William Killigrew1606 - 1695
  2. Thomas Killigrew1612 - 1683
  3. Henry Killigrew1613 - 1700
  4. Catherine Killigrew1618 - 1689
  5. Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon1622 - 1680
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  1. Charlotte Jemima FitzRoy1650 - 1684
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Name Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon
Gender Female
Birth[1] 1622
Marriage Cohabitation?
to Charles II _____, of England
Marriage to Francis Boyle, 1st Viscount Shannon
Death[1] 1680
Reference Number? Q5363074?


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Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon (16 May 1622 (baptised) – December 1680) was an English courtier.

She was a daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew and Mary Woodhouse, and sister of dramatist Thomas Killigrew. Elizabeth was baptised at St Margaret Lothbury, London.

On 24 October 1639 she married Francis Boyle (later Viscount Shannon), son of the Irish landowner Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. He was a friend of her stepfather, Thomas Stafford (MP). As the couple was young, there was discussion whether they should live together, or Francis Boyle depart on a Grand Tour first.

Elizabeth joined the royalist court-in-exile of Queen Henrietta Maria as a maid of honour – where she became one of the many mistresses of the queen's son, the future King Charles II.

Her daughter Charlotte was fathered by the exiled Prince Charles. In 1660, the year Charles was restored to the throne as Charles II, Elizabeth Killigrew's husband was raised to the Irish peerage as Viscount Shannon. Her daughter Charlotte married firstly the playwright James Howard and in 1672 remarried William Paston, son of the Earl of Yarmouth. Poet Anne Killigrew was Elizabeth's niece; among her relatives Lady Shannon also numbered the politicians and playwrights Sir William Killigrew (her brother) and Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery (a brother-in-law), Robert Boyle, the physicist, and Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (the latter two siblings-in-law).

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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