Penelope Wriothesley b. 8 November 1598 d. 16 July 1667

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8 November 1598 birth: Titchfield, England

23 November 1620 child birth: ♂ w Henry Spencer (1st Earl of Sunderland) [Spencer] b. 23 November 1620 d. 20 September 1643

1627 child birth: Brington (Northamptonshire), England, ♀ Margaret Spencer [Spencer] b. 1627 d. 1693

1630 child birth: ♂ Robert Spencer [Spencer] b. 1630

16 July 1667 death: Brighton (England), Sussex (England)

Notes

Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel, a German professor of English Literature, has recently speculated that Henry Wriothsley's wife, Elizabeth Vernon, was a mistress of Shakespeare and that the child she was carrying at the time of her marriage to Wriothsley was actually the child of William Shakespeare. However an extant portrait in miniature of the daughter of Elizabeth Vernon (painted between 1610 and 1615, probably 1614 the year before her marriage to William Spencer) so resembles her husband Henry Wriothsley that it would be highly improbable that she was fathered by William Shakespeare.

[edit] Sources

1. ↑ Cokayne, G.E. (1953). The Complete Peerage edited by Geoffrey H. White. XII (Part I). London: St. Catherine Press. -
2. ↑ Stopes, Charlotte Carmichael (1922). The Life of Henry, Third Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare's Patron. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. -
3. ↑ http://www.thepeerage.com/p10528.htm#i105273 -

From grandparents to grandchildren

Grandparents

♀ Elizabeth Wriothesley

burial: 1555

♂ Henry Wriothesley (Wrioteski)

birth: 24 April 1545
death: 4 October 1581

♀ Mary Browne

birth: 22 July 1552
death: 4 November 1607

♂ John Vernon (of Hodnet)

birth: 1546
death: 1591

♀ Elizabeth Devereux

Grandparents

Parents

♂ Henry Wriothesley

birth: 6 October 1573, Midhurst, Sussex (England), Cowdray House
death: 10 November 1624

♀ Elizabeth Vernon

birth: 1572, Hodnet (Shropshire), England
death: 23 November 1655, Hodnet (Shropshire), England

Parents

 

== 3 ==

♂ Thomas Wriothesley

birth: 10 March 1607
marriage: ♀ Elizabeth Leigh , France, Charenton
death: 16 May 1667, England
burial: 18 June 1667, Titchfield, Hampshire (England)

♂ William Spencer

birth: 1592, Northamptonshire, England
birth: 19 December 1636

♀ Penelope Wriothesley

birth: 8 November 1598, Titchfield, England
death: 16 July 1667, Brighton (England), Sussex (England)

== 3 ==

Children

♂ Robert Spencer

birth: 1630
birth: 1678, Surrey County (Virginia)

♂ (Sir) Anthony Ashley-Cooper

birth: 22 July 1621, England
religion: Unitarian
residence: 1646, Barbados
title: 1669, Lord Proprietor of Carolina
fact 2: 1681, Arrested for high treason - (Charges Dismissed)
death: 22 January 1683, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Gout of the stomach

♀ Margaret Spencer

birth: 1627, Brington (Northamptonshire), England
death: 1693, London, England

♂ Henry Spencer (1st Earl of Sunderland)

birth: 23 November 1620
death: 20 September 1643

Children

Grandchildren

♂ John Long

birth: 1662, England
marriage: ♀ Elizabeth Spencer , Caroline County (Virginia)
birth: 1752, Spotsylvania County (Virginia)

♀ Elizabeth Spencer

birth: 1664, Virginia, St. Georges Parish, Spotsylvania
marriage: ♂ John Long , Caroline County (Virginia)
birth: 1764, Spottsylvania, Virgina

♂ Anthony Ashley-Cooper (2nd Earl Shaftesbury)

birth: 16 January 1652
death: 10 November 1669

♀ Penelope Ashley-Cooper

birth: 1647, Barbados
death: 1711, Virginia, St Peters, New Kent, Virginia

♀ Anne Digby

marriage: ♂ w Robert Spencer (2nd Earl of Sunderland)
death: 26 April 1715

♂ Robert Spencer (2nd Earl of Sunderland)

birth: 5 September 1641, Paris
marriage: ♀ Anne Digby
death: 28 September 1702

Grandchildren