Biography of Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard -1657

Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard was born to Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond and Mary Brereton Countess Thomond.

On 11th May 1623 Gilbert Gerard 2nd Baron Gerard died. His son [her future husband] Dutton [aged 10] succeeded 3rd Baron Gerard of Gerard's Bromley.

After 18th May 1625 [her future husband] Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard [aged 12] and Mary Fane Baroness Gerard [aged 19] were married. She by marriage Baroness Gerard of Gerard's Bromley. She the daughter of Francis Fane 1st Earl of Westmoreland [aged 45] and Mary Mildmay Countess of Westmoreland [aged 43].

On 24th June 1627 [her brother-in-law] Charles Cockayne 1st Viscount Cullen [aged 24] and [her sister] Mary O'Brien Viscountess Cullen [aged 18] were married at Church of St Gile's in the Fields. She the daughter of [her father] Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond [aged 39] and [her mother] Mary Brereton Countess Thomond [aged 47]. He the son of William Cockayne and Mary Morris Countess Dover [aged 62].

On 21st August 1636 Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard [aged 23] and Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard were married. She by marriage Baroness Gerard of Gerard's Bromley. She the daughter of Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond [aged 48] and Mary Brereton Countess Thomond [aged 56].

In 1639 [her brother-in-law] Edward Somerset 2nd Marquess Worcester [aged 36] and [her sister] Margaret O'Brien Marchioness of Worcester were married. She by marriage Marchioness Worcester. She the daughter of [her father] Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond [aged 51] and [her mother] Mary Brereton Countess Thomond [aged 59]. He the son of Henry Somerset 1st Marquess Worcester [aged 62] and Anne Russell Countess Worcester [aged 61]. They were fourth cousins.

On 26th July 1639 [her father] Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond [aged 51] died. His brother [her uncle] Barnabas succeeded 6th Earl Thomond.

In 1640 [her mother] Mary Brereton Countess Thomond [aged 60] died.

On 24th April 1640 [her husband] Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard [aged 27] died. His son [her step-son] Charles [aged 6] succeeded 4th Baron Gerard of Gerard's Bromley.

On 11th August 1642 [her brother-in-law] Charles Cockayne 1st Viscount Cullen [aged 40] was created 1st Viscount Cullen. [her sister] Mary O'Brien Viscountess Cullen [aged 33] by marriage Viscountess Cullen.

John Evelyn's Diary. 19th March 1652. Invited by Lady Gerrard, I went to London, where we had a great supper; all the vessels, which were innumerable, were of porcelain, she having the most ample and richest collection of that curiosity in England.

John Evelyn's Diary. 21st June 1653. My Lady Gerrard, and one Esquire Knight, a very rich gentleman, living in Northamptonshire, visited me.

John Evelyn's Diary. 28th October 1653. Went to London, to visit my Lady Gerrard, where I saw that cursed woman called the Lady Norton, of whom it was reported that she spit in our King's face as he went to the scaffold. Indeed, her talk and discourse was like an impudent woman.

John Evelyn's Diary. 10th May 1654. My Lady Gerrard treated us at Mulberry Garden [Map], now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceedingly cheated at; Cromwell and his partisans having shut up and seized on Spring Garden, which, till now, had been the usual rendezvous for the ladies and gallants at this season.

Around 1657 Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard died.

[her daughter] Elizabeth Gerard was born to Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard and Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard. She married before 1687 her fourth cousin William Spencer, son of William Spencer 2nd Baron Spencer and Penelope Wriothesley Baroness Spencer Wormleighton.