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Philippa Coningsby

Philippa Coningsby

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Philippa Coningsby (née Fitzwilliam (died 1596) was an English aristocrat, a daughter of William FitzWilliam of Milton. She married Sir Thomas Coningsby and had 11 children.[2][3]

Lady Coningsby in 1578, painting by George Gower[1]

As wife of Sir Thomas Coningsby she lived at Leominster and Hampton Court, Herefordshire, where their monogram "TCP" was carved in several places. Coningsby wrote in a letter to Sir Robert Cecil that his wife was his "near kinswoman".[4]

She died in 1596, and was buried at Hope under Dinmore.

In 1617, an unmarried cousin of her husband, Joyce Jeffreys, who was born at Ham Castle at Clifton-upon-Teme, joined the household to be a "perpetual companion" to the younger Philippa Coningsby.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Art, Indianapolis Museum of; Janson, Anthony F.; Fraser, A. Ian (1980), 100 masterpieces of painting: Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Museum
  2. [2]
    "Coningsby, Thomas (d.1625)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  3. [3]
    "Phillipa Fitzwilliam". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  4. [4]
    HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 11 (Dublin, 1906), pp. 114, 161.
  5. [5]
    Judith M. Spicksley, The business and household accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, spinster of Hereford (Oxford, 2012), p. 11.
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