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Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde, Dowager Countess of Essex ( née Walsingham, formerly Devereux and Sidney; 1567 – 17 February 1633) was an English noblewoman. The daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I 's Secretary of State, she became the wife of Sir Philip Sidney at age 16.
Clanricarde ( English: / klænˈrɪkɑːrd /; klan-RIK-ard ), also known as Mac William Uachtar ( Upper Mac William) or the Galway Burkes, were a fully Gaelicised branch of the Hiberno-Norman House of Burgh who were important landowners in Ireland from the 13th to the 20th centuries.
Helen Burke, Countess Clanricarde (née MacCarty; c. 1641 – 1722), also styled Helen FitzGerald, was brought to France by her mother fleeing the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, against which her father, the 2nd Earl Muskerry, resisted to the bitter end.
In 1603, Clanricarde married Frances Walsingham, the widow of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, daughter of Francis Walsingham. [5] Richard and Frances had one son:
5 de jul. de 2023 · Genealogy for Frances Burke (Walsingham), Countess of Essex & of Clanricarde (1567 - 1631) family tree on Geni, with over 250 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- 1567
- Carole (Erickson) Pomeroy,Vol. C...
- February 13, 1631 (63-64)
Frances Burke, daughter of Francis Walsingham, Countess of Clanricarde, one-time Countess of Essex, left a significant legacy in Elizabethan politics through her strategic marriages and the roles that her children played.
Within two years, Frances married the Irish Earl of Clanricarde, who had been brought up in the Essex household, and had accompanied Essex on several campaigns. She converted to Catholicism and together they built and left to posterity two outstanding houses.
