On this Day in History ... 13th February
13 Feb is in February.
1536 Henry VIII becomes Supreme Head of the Church
1542 Catherine Howard Tower of London Executions
1575 Coronation and Marriage of Henry III King France
1608 Death of Bess of Hardwick
Events on the 13th February
Letters. 13 Feb 1254. Letter XII. Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England (age 31) and Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall (age 45) to King Henry III of England (age 46).
To their most excellent lord, the lord Henry, by God's grace the illustrious king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and earl of Anjou, his most devoted consort Eleanora, by the same grace queen of England, and his devoted and faithful Richard earl of Cornwall, send health with all reverence and honour.
Be it known to your revered lordship that the lords the earl marshall (age 45) and John de Bailiol (age 46), being hindered at sea by a contrary wind during twelve days, came to us in England on the Wednesday after the Purification of Blessed Mary last past.
We had been treating with your prelates and the magnates of your kingdom of England before the advent of the said Earl and John, on the quinzaines of St. Hilary last past about your subsidy, and after the arrival of the said Earl and John, with certain of the aforesaid prelates and magnates, the archbishops and bishops answered us that if the King of Castile (age 32) should come against you in Gascony each of them would assist you from his own property, so that you would be under perpetual obli gations to them; but with regard to granting you an aid from their clergy, they could do nothing without the assent of the said clergy; nor do they believe that their clergy can be induced to give you any help, unless the tenth of clerical goods granted to you for the first year of the crusade, which should begin in the present year, might be relaxed at once by your letters patent, and the collection of the said tenth for the said crusade, for the two following years, might be put in respite up to the term of two years before your passage to the Holy Land; and they will give diligence and treat with the clergy submitted to them, to induce them to assist you according to that form with a tenth of their benefices, in case the King of Castile should attack you in Gascony; but at the departure of the bearer of these presents no subsidy had as yet been granted by the aforesaid clergy. Moreover, as we have elsewhere signified to you, if the King of Castile should come against you in Gascony, all the earls and barons of your kingdom, who are able to cross the sea, will come to you in Gascony, with all their power; but from the other laymen who do not sail over to you we do not think that we can obtain any help for your use, unless you write to your lieutenants in England firmly to maintain your great charters of liberties, and to let this be distinctly perceived by your letters to each Sheriff of your kingdom, and publicly proclaimed through each county of the said kingdom; since, by this means, they would be more strongly animated cheerfully to grant you aid; for many persons complain that the aforesaid charters are not kept by your sheriffs and other bailiffs as they ought to be kept. Be it known, therefore, to your lordship, that we shall hold a conference with the aforesaid clergy and laity at Westminster, in the quinzaines of Passover next, about the aforesaid aid, and we supplicate your lordship that you will write us your good pleasure concerning these affairs with the utmost possible haste. For you will find us prepared and devoted, according to our power, to solicit the aforesaid aid for your use, and to do and procure all other things ....* which can contribute to your convenience and the increase of your honour. Given at Windsor [Map], the 13th of February, in the thirty-eighth year of your reign.
On 13 Feb 1468 Juana Enríquez Queen Consort Aragon (age 43) died at Tarragona.
Wriothesley's Chronicle 1536. 13 Feb 1536. The seconde sermon, being on Septuagesima Sundaie, their preached at Powles Crosse [Map] the Bishop of Rochester.a
Note a. John Hilsey, Prior of the Dominican Friars in London, appointed 4th October, 1535, to this see, then vacant by the execution of Bishop Fisher.
Chronicle of Greyfriars. 13 Feb 1542. And the 13th day of February was the Queen Katherine (age 19) and Lady Rocheford (age 37) be-heddyd within the tower, and there burryd.
On 13 Feb 1542 Queen Catherine Howard (age 19) and Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford (age 37) were beheaded at Tower Green [Map]. Henry Howard (age 26) attended. They were both buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map].
Mary Boleyn (age 43) was the heir of Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford (age 37) being the sister of her deceased husband George Boleyn Viscount Rochford.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 13 Feb 1562. The fryday after dyd pryche a-for the quen (age 28) at the cowrt the dene of Westmynster master Goodman (age 33).
On 13 Feb 1575 Henry III King France (age 23) was crowned III King France: Capet Valois Angoulême at Reims Cathedral.
On 13 Feb 1608 Bess of Hardwick (age 81) died. She was buried in All Saints Church, Derby [Map]. Her monument, which she had constructed before her death, was designed by Robert Smythson (age 38). She left nothing in her will for her 'bad son' Henry Cavendish (age 57). He did, however, inherit Chatsworth House [Map] which he subsequently sold in 1609 to his brother William Cavendish 1st Earl Devonshire (age 55) for £10,000.
The date of her funeral somewhat complicated. Rawsons 1910 book "Bess of Hardwick and her Circle" quotes Simpson's National Records of Derby for 1608: "The old Countess of Shrewsbury died about Candlemas this year, whose funeral was about Holy Thursday. A great frost this year. The witches of Bakewell hanged." Holy Thursday, the Feast of the Ascension, is thirty-nine days after Easter. Easter in 1608 was on the 6th of April, putting Holy Thursday on the 15th of May.
Ethel Carleton Williams "Bess of Hardwick", 1959, has a note: "9. The date of Bess of Hardwick's funeral is uncertain. The date on the coffin plate is said to be February 1608 (Cox and Hope, Chronicles of the Collegiate Church of All Saints, Derby), but on 31 March 1608 Gilbert Talbot wrote to Robert Cecil, excusing himself for not attending St George's Feast on the ground that his mother-in-law's funeral was to be on St George's Day (23 April). Later, on 3rd of April, the Earl of Arundel wrote to Gilbert (his father-in-law), 'the funeral at Derby is appointed to be either on the fourth or fifth of May, which Garter yet knoweth not, but rather thinketh on the fourth because the other is a holy day'".
Neither of which provide a definite answer. The former being around the 15th of May, the latter 'rather thinketh' the 4th of May. Are there any other contemporary sources available?
On 13 Feb 1660 Charles Gustav X King Sweden (age 37) died. His son Charles XI King Sweden (age 4) succeeded XI King Sweden.
Pepy's Diary. 13 Feb 1662. So to the office till night, and then home and to write by the post about many businesses, and so to bed. Last night died the Queen of Bohemia (age 65).
On 13 Feb 1662 Princess Elizabeth Stewart Queen Bohemia (age 65) died of pneumonia shortly after midnight. She was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].
Pepy's Diary. 13 Feb 1663. Took my wife home, and I to my office. Find myself pretty well but fearful of cold, and so to my office, where late upon business; Mr. Bland sitting with me, talking of my Lord Windsor's (age 36) being come home from Jamaica, unlooked-for; which makes us think that these young Lords are not fit to do any service abroad, though it is said that he could not have his health there, but hath razed a fort of the King of Spain (age 57) upon Cuba, which is considerable, or said to be so, for his honour.
Pepy's Diary. 13 Feb 1665. Thence I to Westminster and by water (taking Mr. Stapely the rope-maker by the way), to his rope-ground and to Limehouse [Map], there to see the manner of stoves and did excellently inform myself therein, and coming home did go on board Sir W. Petty's (age 41) "The Experiment", which is a brave roomy vessel, and I hope may do well. So went on shore to a Dutch House to drink some mum, and there light upon some Dutchmen, with whom we had good discourse touching stoveing1 and making of cables. But to see how despicably they speak of us for our using so many hands more to do anything than they do, they closing a cable with 20, that we use 60 men upon.
Note 1. Stoveing, in sail-making, is the heating of the bolt-ropes, so as to make them pliable. B.
Pepy's Diary. 13 Feb 1666. I away home, and there at the office all the afternoon till late at night, and then away home to supper and to bed. Ill newes this night that the plague is encreased this week, and in many places else about the towne, and at Chatham, Kent [Map] and elsewhere. This day my wife wanting a chambermaid with much ado got our old little Jane to be found out, who come to see her and hath lived all this while in one place, but is so well that we will not desire her removal, but are mighty glad to see the poor wench, who is very well and do well.
Pepy's Diary. 13 Feb 1667. Up, and by water to White Hall, where to the Duke of York (age 33), and there did our usual business; but troubled to see that, at this time, after our declaring a debt to the Parliament of £900,000, and nothing paid since, but the debt increased, and now the fleete to set out; to hear that the King (age 36) hath ordered but £35,000 for the setting out of the fleete, out of the Poll Bill, to buy all provisions, when five times as much had been little enough to have done any thing to purpose. They have, indeed, ordered more for paying off of seamen and the Yards to some time, but not enough for that neither.
Pepy's Diary. 13 Feb 1668. At noon home to dinner, and thence with my wife and Deb. to White Hall, setting, them at her tailor's, and I to the Commissioners of the Treasury, where myself alone did argue the business of the East India Company against their whole Company on behalf of the King (age 37) before the Lords Commissioners, and to very good effect, I think, and with reputation. That business being over, the Lords and I had other things to talk about, and among the rest, about our making more assignments on the Exchequer since they bid us hold, whereat they were extraordinary angry with us, which troubled me a little, though I am not concerned in it at all. Waiting here some time without, I did meet with several people, among others Mr. Brisband, who tells me in discourse that Tom Killigrew (age 56) hath a fee out of the Wardrobe for cap and bells1, under the title of the King's Foole or jester; and may with privilege revile or jeere any body, the greatest person, without offence, by the privilege of his place.
Note 1. The Lord Chamberlain's Records contain a copy of a warrant dated July 12th, 1661, "to deliver to Mr. Killegrew thirty yards of velvett, three dozen of fringe, and sixteene yards of Damaske for the year 1661". The heading of this entry is "Livery for ye jester" (Lowe's "Betterton (age 32)", p. 70).
On 13 Feb 1744 Pierre Gobert (age 82) died.
On 13 Feb 1751 Richard Worsley 7th Baronet was born to Thomas Worsley 6th Baronet (age 24) at Appuldurcombe House, Isle of Wight.
On 13 Feb 1803 Samuel Mitchell was born to Samuel Mitchell of Sheffield and Whiteley Wood and Elizabeth Brightmore.
On 13 Feb 1818 Richard Croft 6th Baronet (age 56) shot himself as a consequence of the death of Princess Charlotte Augusta Hanover to whom he had been physician during her labour. A copy of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost was found open with the passage (Act V, Scene II): "Fair Sir, God save you! Where is the Princess?". He was buried at St James' Church, Piccadilly.His son Thomas Elmsley Croft 7th Baronet (age 19) succeeded 7th Baronet Croft of Croft Castle in Herefordshire.
On 13 Feb 1849 Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill was born to John Winston Spencer-Churchill 7th Duke Marlborough (age 26) and Frances Anne Emily Vane Duchess Marlborough (age 26) at 3 Wilton Terrace Belgravia.
The Diary of George Price Boyce 1858. 13 Feb 1858. February 13. Miss Cooke came to sit for me. Little Simeon Solomon (age 17) called and stayed a long while and jawed and bored us considerably. Burges came up and I introduced them.
Births on the 13th February
On 13 Feb 1457 Mary Valois Duchess Burgundy was born to Charles "Bold" Valois Duke Burgundy (age 23) and Isabella Bourbon (age 21). She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England. Coefficient of inbreeding 7.43%.
Around 13 Feb 1470 Richard Herbert was born to Richard Herbert 1423-1469 and Margaret Jones (age 26).
On 13 Feb 1524 Robert Drury was born to William Drury (age 23) and Elizabeth Sothill (age 19).
On 13 Feb 1539 Elizabeth Hesse Electress Palatine was born to Landgrave Philip I of Hesse (age 34) and Christine of Saxony (age 33).
On 13 Feb 1587 Dorothea Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was born to Henry Julius Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (age 22) and Dorothea of Saxony (age 23). Her mother (age 23) died in childbirth.
On 13 Feb 1588 Anne West was born to Thomas West 2nd Baron De La Warr (age 32) and Anne Knollys Baroness De La Warr (age 32).
On 13 Feb 1602 Landgrave William V of Hesse-Kassel was born to Landgrave Maurice of Hesse-Kassel (age 29).
On 13 Feb 1638 Frederick I Duke of Mecklenburg Grabow was born to Duke Adolphus Frederick I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (age 49) and Maria Katharina (age 21).
On 13 Feb 1640 Richard Edgecumbe was born to Colonel Piers Edgecumbe (age 31) and Mary Glanville.
On 13 Feb 1641 Christian Albert Duke of Holstein Gottorp was born to Frederick III Duke of Holstein Gottorp (age 43) and Marie Elisabeth of Saxony Duchess Holstein Gottorp (age 30).
On 13 Feb 1645 Vere Fane 4th Earl of Westmoreland was born to Mildmay Fane 2nd Earl of Westmoreland (age 43) and Mary Vere Countess of Westmoreland (age 37) at Lamport Hall, Buckinghamshire.
On 13 Feb 1647 William Windham of Felbrigg Hall was born to Thomas Windham (age 61).
On 13 Feb 1652 August Oldenburg was born to August Philipp Oldenburg I Duke Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (age 39) and Marie Sibylle Nassau Saarbrücken Duchess Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck.
On 13 Feb 1686 John Churchill was born to John Churchill 1st Duke Marlborough (age 35).
On 13 Feb 1698 Lieutenant-Colonel John Johnstone of Netherwood was born to William Johnstone 2nd Baronet (age 35).
On 13 Feb 1698 Charles Fitzroy was born to Charles Fitzroy 1st Duke Southampton 2nd Duke Cleveland (age 35) and Anne Pulteney Duchess Southampton Duchess of Cleveland (age 34). He a grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 13 Feb 1707 Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon was born.
Before 13 Feb 1718 George Brydges Rodney 1st Baron Rodney was born to Henry Rodney (age 37).
On 13 Feb 1731 Charles Wood was born to Francis Wood (age 34).
Around 13 Feb 1748 John Wilmot Prideaux 7th Baronet was born to John Prideaux (age 30) and Elizabeth Rolt (age 45). Coefficient of inbreeding 1.56%.
On 13 Feb 1751 Richard Worsley 7th Baronet was born to Thomas Worsley 6th Baronet (age 24) at Appuldurcombe House, Isle of Wight.
On 13 Feb 1774 Robert Curzon Baron Zouche was born to Assheton Curzon 1st Viscount Curzon (age 44) and Dorothy Grosvenor Baroness Curzon.
On 13 Feb 1783 Hugh Fortescue 2nd Earl Fortescue was born to Hugh Fortescue 1st Earl Fortescue (age 29) and Hester Granville Countess Fortescue (age 17).
On 13 Feb 1788 William Howard 4th Earl of Wicklow was born.
On 13 Feb 1794 John Rous 2nd Earl Stradbrooke was born to John Rous 1st Earl Stradbrooke (age 43).
On 13 Feb 1803 Samuel Mitchell was born to Samuel Mitchell of Sheffield and Whiteley Wood and Elizabeth Brightmore.
On 13 Feb 1820 Augustus Anthony Frederick Irby was born to George Irby 3rd Baron Boston (age 42) and Rachel Ives Drake Baroness Boston (age 37).
On 13 Feb 1824 George Jessel was born to Zadok Aaron Jessel.
On 13 Feb 1829 Henry Lygon 5th Earl Beauchamp was born to Henry Beauchamp Lygon 4th Earl Beauchamp (age 45) and Susan Caroline Eliot (age 27).
On 13 Feb 1842 Robert Charles de Grey Vyner was born to Henry Vyner (age 36) and Mary Gertude Robinson (age 33).
On 13 Feb 1842 Beatrice Violet Graham was born to James Graham 4th Duke Montrose (age 42) and Caroline Agnes Horsley Beresford "Mr Manton" Duchess Montrose (age 24).
On 13 Feb 1847 Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell 3rd Earl Cawdor was born to John Frederick Vaughan Campbell 2nd Earl Cawdor (age 29) and Sarah Mary Compton Cavendish Countess Cawdor (age 33).
On 13 Feb 1849 Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill was born to John Winston Spencer-Churchill 7th Duke Marlborough (age 26) and Frances Anne Emily Vane Duchess Marlborough (age 26) at 3 Wilton Terrace Belgravia.
On 13 Feb 1854 Flora Paulyna Hetty Barbara Clifton Duchess Norfolk was born to Charles Frederick Abney-Hastings 1st Baron Donington (age 31) and Edith Maud Rawdon-Hastings 10th Countess Loudon (age 20).
On 13 Feb 1866 Cecil Victoria Kerr Baroness Montagu of Beaulieu was born to Schomberg Henry Kerr Kerr 9th Marquess Lothian (age 32) and Victoria Alexandrina Montagu-Douglas-Scott Marchioness Lothian (age 21).
On 13 Feb 1887 Eileen Wellesley was born to Arthur Charles Wellesley 4th Duke Wellington (age 37) and Kathleen Emily Bulkeley Williams Duchess Wellington (age 38).
On 13 Feb 1893 Richard Tihel Leighton 10th Baronet was born to Bryan Baldwin Mawddwy Leighton 9th Baronet (age 25).
On 13 Feb 1898 Gilbert George Benson Boileau 6th Baronet was born to Francis James Boileau 5th Baronet (age 26).
On 13 Feb 1904 Princess Irene Glücksburg was born to Constantine I King Greece (age 35) and Sophia Hohenzollern Queen Consort Greece (age 33). He a great grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
On 13 Feb 1907 Gerald Hugh Grosvenor 4th Duke Westminster was born to Hugh William Grosvenor (age 22) and Mabel Florence Mary Creighton.
On 13 Feb 1914 William Gerald Charles Cadogan 7th Earl Cadogan was born to Gerald Oakley Cadogan 6th Earl Cadogan (age 44).
On 13 Feb 1915 Roderic Pratt was born to John Pratt 4th Marquess Camden (age 43) and Joan Marion Neville Marchioness Camden (age 38).
On 13 Feb 1925 Caroline Cecily Douglas-Scott-Montagu was born to John Douglas-Scott-Montagu 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (age 58) and Alice Pearl Crake Baroness Montagu (age 30).
On 13 Feb 1950 Peter Gabriel was born.
Marriages on the 13th February
On 13 Feb 1348 William Dampierre I Count Namur (age 24) and Jeanne Beaumont Count Soissons, Blois, Chatillon and Namur (age 25) were married. She by marriage Countess Namur. She the daughter of John Beaumont Count Soissons (age 60) and Margaret Nesle Countess Soissons (age 43). He the son of John Dampierre I Marquis Namur and Marie Artois. They were second cousins. He a great x 2 grandson of King Henry III of England. 
Before 13 Feb 1509 John Fleming 2nd Lord Fleming (age 44) and Margaret Stewart were married. She the daughter of Matthew Stewart 2nd Earl Lennox and Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Lennox (age 34). She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England. 
On 13 Feb 1585 William Russell 1st Baron Russell (age 25) and Elizabeth Long Baroness Russel Thornhaugh were married at Watford, Hertfordshire. He the son of Francis Russell 2nd Earl Bedford (age 58) and Margaret St John Countess Bedford.
On 13 Feb 1664 Francis Prujean (age 71) and Margaret Gorges were married.
Before 13 Feb 1707 Alexander Gordon 2nd Duke Gordon (age 29) and Henrietta Mordaunt Duchess Gordon were married. She the daughter of Charles Mordaunt 3rd Earl Peterborough 1st Earl Monmouth (age 49) and Carey Fraser Countess Peterborough and Monmouth (age 47). He the son of George Gordon 1st Duke Gordon (age 64) and Elizabeth Howard Duchess Gordon.
On 13 Feb 1711 James Berkeley 3rd Earl Berkeley (age 31) and Louisa Lennox Countess Berkeley (age 16) were married. She by marriage Countess Berkeley. She the daughter of Charles Lennox 1st Duke Richmond (age 38) and Anne Brudenell Duchess Richmond (age 40). He the son of Charles Berkeley 2nd Earl Berkeley and Elizabeth Noel Countess Berkeley (age 57). She a granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. 
Before 13 Feb 1748 John Prideaux (age 30) and Elizabeth Rolt (age 45) were married. They were second cousins.
On 13 Feb 1794 James Henry Blake 3rd Baronet (age 24) and Louisa Elizabeth Gage (age 28) were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square.
On 13 Feb 1797 Wilhelm Hesse-Kassel (age 19) and Princess Augusta of Prussia (age 16) were married. She the daughter of Frederick William II King Prussia (age 52) and Queen Frederica Louisa of Prussia (age 45). He the son of William Elector of Hesse (age 53) and Electress Wilhelmina Caroline Oldenburg (age 49). They were third cousins. He a great grandson of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King George I of Great Britain and Ireland.
Before 13 Feb 1803 Samuel Mitchell of Sheffield and Whiteley Wood and Elizabeth Brightmore were married.
On 13 Feb 1808 Charles Cockerell 1st Baronet (age 52) and Harriet Rushout (age 38) were married.
On 13 Feb 1809 William Eliot 2nd Earl St Germans (age 41) and Letitia Acourt were married at Heytesbury, Wiltshire [Map].
On 13 Feb 1884 George Godolphin Osborne 10th Duke Leeds (age 21) and Katherine Frances Lambton Duchess Leeds (age 21) were married. She the daughter of George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton 2nd Earl Durham and Beatrix Frances Hamilton Countess Durham. He the son of George Godolphin Osborne 9th Duke Leeds (age 55) and Fanny Georgiana Pitt-Rivers Duchess Leeds (age 47). She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland. 
On 13 Feb 1947 John Ian Robert Russell 13th Duke Bedford (age 29) and Lydia Yarde-Buller Duchess Bedford (age 29) were married. She the daughter of John Yarde-Buller 3rd Baron Churston and Jessie Smither aka Denise Orme Duchess Leinster (age 61). He the son of Hastings William Russell 12th Duke Bedford (age 58) and Louisa Crommelin Roberta Jowitt Whitwell Duchess Bedford.
Deaths on the 13th February
On 13 Feb 858 Kenneth MacAlpin King Picts died.
On 13 Feb 999 Archbishop Ethelgar died.
On 13 Feb 1067 Geoffrey Arles 2nd Count Provence Count Forcalquier died. His niece Adelaide Arles Countess Forcalquier succeeded Countess Forcalquier.
On 13 Feb 1131 Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey (age 46) died.
On 13 Feb 1214 Theobald of Bar I Count of Bar (age 54) died. His son Henry of Bar II Count of Bar succeeded II Count Bar.
On 13 Feb 1293 Obizzo Este II Marquis of Ferrara (age 46) died.
On 13 Feb 1323 William Liath Oughter De Burgh died.
On 13 Feb 1375 Ralph Russell (age 56) died.
Before 13 Feb 1462 Joan Willoughby 7th Baroness Willoughby Eresby (age 37) died. Her son Robert Welles 8th Baron Willoughby 8th Baron Welles succeeded 8th Baron Willoughby de Eresby.
On 13 Feb 1468 Juana Enríquez Queen Consort Aragon (age 43) died at Tarragona.
On 13 Feb 1539 Isabella Este (age 64) died.
On 13 Feb 1542 Queen Catherine Howard (age 19) and Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford (age 37) were beheaded at Tower Green [Map]. Henry Howard (age 26) attended. They were both buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map].
Mary Boleyn (age 43) was the heir of Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford (age 37) being the sister of her deceased husband George Boleyn Viscount Rochford.
Before 13 Feb 1560 Katharine Bulkeley Abbess Gostow died. On 13 Feb 1560 she was buried at Cheadle [Map].
On 13 Feb 1561 Francis I Duke Nevers (age 44) died.
On 13 Feb 1571 William Mildmay died.
On 13 Feb 1583 Thomas Ravenscroft of Bretton (age 68) died.
On 13 Feb 1602 Dean Alexander Nowell (age 85) died.
On 13 Feb 1604 Catherine Bourbon (age 45) died.
On 13 Feb 1607 Mary Hardwick (age 86) died.
On 13 Feb 1608 Bess of Hardwick (age 81) died. She was buried in All Saints Church, Derby [Map]. Her monument, which she had constructed before her death, was designed by Robert Smythson (age 38). She left nothing in her will for her 'bad son' Henry Cavendish (age 57). He did, however, inherit Chatsworth House [Map] which he subsequently sold in 1609 to his brother William Cavendish 1st Earl Devonshire (age 55) for £10,000.
The date of her funeral somewhat complicated. Rawsons 1910 book "Bess of Hardwick and her Circle" quotes Simpson's National Records of Derby for 1608: "The old Countess of Shrewsbury died about Candlemas this year, whose funeral was about Holy Thursday. A great frost this year. The witches of Bakewell hanged." Holy Thursday, the Feast of the Ascension, is thirty-nine days after Easter. Easter in 1608 was on the 6th of April, putting Holy Thursday on the 15th of May.
Ethel Carleton Williams "Bess of Hardwick", 1959, has a note: "9. The date of Bess of Hardwick's funeral is uncertain. The date on the coffin plate is said to be February 1608 (Cox and Hope, Chronicles of the Collegiate Church of All Saints, Derby), but on 31 March 1608 Gilbert Talbot wrote to Robert Cecil, excusing himself for not attending St George's Feast on the ground that his mother-in-law's funeral was to be on St George's Day (23 April). Later, on 3rd of April, the Earl of Arundel wrote to Gilbert (his father-in-law), 'the funeral at Derby is appointed to be either on the fourth or fifth of May, which Garter yet knoweth not, but rather thinketh on the fourth because the other is a holy day'".
Neither of which provide a definite answer. The former being around the 15th of May, the latter 'rather thinketh' the 4th of May. Are there any other contemporary sources available?
On 13 Feb 1614 Thomas Cambell (age 78) died.
On 13 Feb 1633 James Home 2nd Earl of Home (age 26) died. His half fifth cousin once removed James Home 3rd Earl of Home (age 17) succeeded 3rd Earl of Home. Jean Douglas Countess Home by marriage Countess of Home.
On 13 Feb 1639 Katherine Anderson Lady Dunham Massey (age 71) died at Bowdon Chester.
On 13 Feb 1656 Ferdinando Hastings 6th Earl Huntingdon (age 48) died. His son Theophilus Hastings 7th Earl Huntingdon (age 5) succeeded 7th Earl Huntingdon, 12th Baron Botreaux, 11th Baron Hungerford, 9th Baron Moleyns and 9th Baron Hastings.
On 13 Feb 1660 Charles Gustav X King Sweden (age 37) died. His son Charles XI King Sweden (age 4) succeeded XI King Sweden.
On 13 Feb 1662 Princess Elizabeth Stewart Queen Bohemia (age 65) died of pneumonia shortly after midnight. She was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].
On 13 Feb 1662 William Monson (age 95) died.
On 13 Feb 1669 Peter Venables Baron Kinderton (age 64) died.
On 13 Feb 1672 Thomas Ingram (age 57) died. He was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].
On 13 Feb 1682 George Lynne (age 36) died.
On 13 Feb 1716 Jane Bowden died at Sandywell, Gloucestershire.
On 13 Feb 1722 William Bowyer 2nd Baronet (age 83) died. His grandson William Bowyer 3rd Baronet (age 12) succeeded 3rd Baronet Bowyer of Denham Court.
On 13 Feb 1734 Catherine Tufton (age 41) died.
Around 13 Feb 1741 William Towneley (age 26) died.
On 13 Feb 1743 Elizabeth Gerard Duchess Brandon (age 63) died.
On 13 Feb 1744 Pierre Gobert (age 82) died.
On 13 Feb 1758 John Werden 2nd Baronet (age 74) died without male issue. Baronet Werden of Cholmeaton in Cheshire extinct.
On 13 Feb 1767 Richard Knightley (age 81) died.
On 13 Feb 1769 Mary Fitzwilliam Countess Pembroke and Montgomery (age 61) died.
On 13 Feb 1786 Cæsar Hawkins 1st Baronet (age 75) died. His grandson Cæsar Hawkins 2nd Baronet succeeded 2nd Baronet Hawkins of Kelston in Somerset.
On 13 Feb 1797 Robert Burdett 4th Baronet (age 80) died. His grandson Francis Burdett 5th Baronet (age 27) succeeded 5th Baronet Burdett of Bramcote in Warwickshire.
On 13 Feb 1800 Hew Dalrymple 3rd Baronet (age 53) died.
On 13 Feb 1809 Diana Beauclerk (age 68) died.
On 13 Feb 1818 Richard Croft 6th Baronet (age 56) shot himself as a consequence of the death of Princess Charlotte Augusta Hanover to whom he had been physician during her labour. A copy of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost was found open with the passage (Act V, Scene II): "Fair Sir, God save you! Where is the Princess?". He was buried at St James' Church, Piccadilly.His son Thomas Elmsley Croft 7th Baronet (age 19) succeeded 7th Baronet Croft of Croft Castle in Herefordshire.
On 13 Feb 1826 John Wright of Kelvedon (age 62) died.
On 13 Feb 1830 Robert Meyricke (age 85) died.
On 13 Feb 1835 Georgiana Charlotte Graham Countess Nottingham Winchelsea (age 41) died at Haverholme Priory, Lincolnshire [Map].
On 13 Feb 1845 Kenneth Alexander Howard 1st Earl of Effingham (age 77) died. His son Henry Howard 2nd Earl of Effingham (age 38) succeeded 2nd Earl of Effingham, 12th Baron Howard of Effingham. Eliza Drummond Baroness Howard (age 34) by marriage Countess of Effingham.
On 13 Feb 1847 Elizabeth Hoey Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford died.
On 13 Feb 1853 Jane Naper Lady Cornewall died.
On 13 Feb 1861 Gilbert Hervey West (age 80) died at Honiton, Devon.
On 07 Feb 1865 Margaret Bourne (age 38) died at Elm House, Wavertree. She was buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Wavertree [Map] on 13 Feb 1865.
On 13 Feb 1867 John Mack of Paston Hall (age 69) died.
On 13 Feb 1872 Karoline Adelheid Pauline Rottenburg (age 66) died.
On 13 Feb 1876 Theodosia Brabazon Countess Gosford (age 65) died.
On 13 Feb 1881 Richard Courtenay Musgrave 11th Baronet (age 42) died. His son Richard George Musgrave 12th Baronet (age 8) succeeded 12th Baronet Musgrave of Hartley Castle in Westmoreland.
On 13 Feb 1885 Reverend George Francis Coke (age 55) died.
On 13 Feb 1887 Henry Legge (age 83) died.
On 13 Feb 1890 James Lorimer (age 71) died.
On 13 Feb 1897 Louisa Emily Macdonald died.
On 13 Feb 1907 Wentworth Beaumont 1st Baron Allendale (age 77) died. His son Wentworth Canning Blackett Beaumont 1st Viscount Allendale (age 46) succeeded 2nd Baron Allendale of Allendale and Hexham in Northumberland.
On 13 Feb 1909 Dudley Gordon Alan Duckworth-King 5th (age 57) died. His son George Henry James Duckworth-King 6th Baronet (age 17) succeeded 6th Baronet King of Bellevue in Kent.
On 13 Feb 1912 Princess Laura Williamina Seymour (age 79) died.
On 13 Feb 1916 John Alexander Thynne (age 20) died.
On 13 Feb 1917 Blanche Osborne (age 75) died.
On 13 Feb 1922 Reverend Lewis Richard Charles Bagot (age 75) died.
On 13 Feb 1931 Eva Fitzgerald (age 76) died.
On 13 Feb 1938 Archibald Edward Douglas (age 87) died.
On 13 Feb 1942 William St John Brodrick 1st Earl of Midleton (age 85) died. His son George Brodrick (age 53) succeeded 2nd Earl Midleton, 9th Viscount Midleton of Midleton in Cork, 9th Baron Brodrick of Midleton in Cork, 7th Baron Brodrick of Peper Harrow in Surrey.
On 13 Feb 1952 Oliver Hugh Stanley (age 72) died.
On 13 Feb 1955 Gervas Pierrepont 6th Earl Manvers (age 73) died. Earl Manvers, Viscount Newark, Baron Pierrepont of Holme Pierrepoint extinct.
On 13 Feb 1955 John Frankland-Payne-Gallwey 4th Baronet (age 65) died. His first cousin Reginald Frankland Payne-Gallwey 5th Baronet (age 65) succeeded 5th Baronet Payne-Gallwey of Hampton Hill.
On 13 Feb 1965 Gloria aka Maria Mercedes Morgan (age 60) died.
On 13 Feb 1972 Major Archibald Edward Cubitt (age 71) died.
On 13 Feb 1975 Richard David Harvey Blunt 11th (age 62) died. His son David Richard Reginald Blunt 12th Baronet (age 36) succeeded 12th Baronet Blunt of the City of London.
On 13 Feb 1978 Guy Randolph Westmacott (age 86) died.
On 13 Feb 2014 Mary Cecilia Leveson-Gower (age 96) died.
On 13 Feb 2019 Shaun Agar 6th Earl Normanton (age 73) died.
