Biography of Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield 1609-1667
Paternal Family Tree: Wotton
On 06 Jun 1608 [her father] Thomas Wotton 2nd Baron Wotton (age 21) and [her step-mother] Mary Throckmorton (age 18) were married.
In 1609 Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield was born to Thomas Wotton 2nd Baron Wotton (age 22).
In 1628 Henry Stanhope and Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 19) were married. He the son of Philip Stanhope 1st Earl Chesterfield (age 44) and Catherine Hastings Countess Chesterfield.
On 02 Apr 1630 [her father] Thomas Wotton 2nd Baron Wotton (age 43) died. Baron Wotton extinct. His daughter Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 21) inherited Boughton aka Bocton Place, Kent [Map].
In 1634 [her son] Philip Stanhope 2nd Earl Chesterfield was born to [her husband] Henry Stanhope and Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 25).
On 29 Nov 1634 [her husband] Henry Stanhope died.
Around 1635 Anthony Van Dyck (age 35). Portrait of Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 26).
On 09 May 1643 [her son] Charles Kirkoven 1st Earl Bellomont was born to [her husband] Jehan Lord of Heenvliet (age 48) and Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 34) at The Hague.
In 1652 [her son] Philip Stanhope 2nd Earl Chesterfield (age 18) and [her daughter-in-law] Anne Percy 2nd Countess Chesterfield (age 17) were married. She by marriage Countess Chesterfield. She the daughter of Algernon Percy 10th Earl of Northumberland (age 49) and Anne Cecil. He the son of [her former husband] Henry Stanhope and Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 43).
After 1654 [her son] Philip Stanhope 2nd Earl Chesterfield (age 20) and [her daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Butler Countess Chesterfield (age 13) were married. She by marriage Countess Chesterfield. She the daughter of James Butler 1st Duke Ormonde (age 43) and Elizabeth Preston Duchess Ormonde (age 38). He the son of [her former husband] Henry Stanhope and Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 45).
Before 1655 [her son-in-law] Charles Stanley 8th Earl of Derby (age 26) and [her daughter] Dorothea Helena Kirkoven Countess Derby (age 24) were married. She by marriage Countess Derby. She the daughter of [her husband] Jehan Lord of Heenvliet (age 60) and Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 45). He the son of James Stanley 7th Earl of Derby and Charlotte Thouars Countess Derby (age 55). He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
In 1660 Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 51) was created 1st Countess Chesterfield.
On 07 Mar 1660 [her husband] Jehan Lord of Heenvliet (age 65) died.
Before 1662 [her son-in-law] William Alington 1st and 3rd Baron Alington (age 21) and [her daughter] Catherine Stanhope Baroness Alington were married. She by marriage Baroness Alington of Killard. She the daughter of [her former husband] Henry Stanhope and Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 52). They were third cousin once removed.
On 24 Oct 1664 [her husband] Daniel O'Neill (age 52) died.
After Jul 1665 [her son] Philip Stanhope 2nd Earl Chesterfield (age 31) and [her daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Dormer Countess Chesterfield (age 12) were married. She by marriage Countess Chesterfield. She the daughter of Charles Dormer 2nd Earl Carnarvon (age 32) and Elizabeth Capell Countess Carnarvon (age 32). He the son of [her former husband] Henry Stanhope and Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 56). They were third cousin once removed.
On 09 Apr 1667 Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 58) died. Earl Chesterfield extinct. Her son [her son] Charles Kirkoven 1st Earl Bellomont (age 23) inherited Boughton aka Bocton Place, Kent [Map].
Evelyn's Diary. 02 Jun 1676. We returned in the evening by Hampstead, to see [her son] Lord Wotton's (age 33) house and garden (Bellsize House), built with vast expense by Mr. O'Neale, an Irish gentleman who married Lord Wotton's mother, Baroness Stanhope. The furniture is very particular for Indian cabinets, porcelain, and other solid and noble movables. The gallery very fine, the gardens very large, but ill kept, yet woody and chargeable. The soil a cold weeping clay, not answering the expense.
[her daughter] Mary Stanhope was born to Henry Stanhope and Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield.
[her son] Wotton Stanhope was born to Henry Stanhope and Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield.
[her daughter] Catherine Stanhope Baroness Alington was born to Henry Stanhope and Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield.
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Wotton
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Wotton of Boughton Malherbe
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Wotton of Boughton Place in Kent
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Wotton
GrandFather: Edward Wotton 1st Baron Wotton
Father: Thomas Wotton 2nd Baron Wotton