Person:Katherine Dudley (4)
Katherine Dudley
b.bet abt 1538 and 1545
d.14 Aug 1620
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of WarwickAbt 1528 - 1590
  2. Lady Mary Dudley1531 - 1586
  3. Henry DudleyAbt 1531 - 1557
  4. Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester1532 - 1588
  5. John Dudley, 2nd Earl of WarwickBef 1534 - 1554
  6. Lord Guilford Dudley1536 - 1554
  7. Katherine DudleyAbt 1538 & 1545 - 1620
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Name Katherine Dudley
Married Name Katherine Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Gender Female
Birth[1] bet abt 1538 and 1545
Marriage to Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon
Death[1] 14 Aug 1620
Reference Number? Q6376404?
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Katherine Hastings (née Dudley), Countess of Huntingdon (c. 1538[1] or 1543–1545[2] – 14 August 1620) was an English noblewoman.

She was the youngest surviving daughter of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland and his wife, Jane Guildford, and a sister of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Elizabeth I's favourite.[1]

Katherine Dudley was betrothed or married on 25 May 1553 at a very young age to Henry Hastings, the heir of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon. From her mother's will it appears that she was still under 12 years of age in January 1555,[2] and a clause regarding her marriage implies that the match could still be dissolved: "if it so chance that my Lord Hastings do refuse her or she him".[2]

By the spring of 1559 Katherine Hastings was definitely married,[2] and on the death of her father-in-law in 1560 became Countess of Huntingdon. She remained childless, though she may have suffered a miscarriage in the spring of 1566.[1] For many years she lived with her husband in the English Midlands and Yorkshire, where she dedicated herself to the education of young women of the nobility and gentry. Among her pupils were the diarist Margaret Hoby, memoirist Dionys Fitzherbert, and her brother Robert's stepdaughters, the sisters Penelope and Dorothy Devereux. Like her husband, the Countess was a convinced Protestant with Puritan leanings.[1]

After the Earl of Huntingdon died at York in December 1595, she lived at court and became one of the closest friends of the old Queen.[1] When young, she had suffered from Elizabeth's distrust of her husband's loyalty, which was nourished by his descent from the House of Plantagenet.[1] She was in debt by £2400 and asked the Queen to help realise her jointure property in March 1597. She was attending the queen privately twice a day in February 1598. Her differences with the new earl, George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon, over her jointure and her husband's debts were settled on 15 February, and he would have the Savoy House.

Katherine, Countess of Huntingdon died at Chelsea, London on 14 August 1620, and was buried in her mother's tomb at Chelsea Old Church.[1]

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Katherine Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Lady Catherine Dudley, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
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