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Paternal Family Tree: Williams aka Cromwell
Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Bourchier 1598-1665
On 22nd August 1620 [her father] Oliver Cromwell (age 21) and [her mother] Elizabeth Bourchier (age 22) were married.
In 1637 Mary Cromwell Countess Fauconberg was born to Oliver Cromwell (age 37) and Elizabeth Bourchier (age 39).
On 3rd July 1651 [her future husband] Thomas Belasyse 1st Earl Fauconberg (age 24) and Mildred Saunderson were married. They were fourth cousin once removed.
Around 1657 John Michael Wright (age 39). Portrait of Mary Cromwell Countess Fauconberg (age 20).
On 18th November 1657 Thomas Belasyse 1st Earl Fauconberg (age 30) and Mary Cromwell Countess Fauconberg (age 20) were married. She by marriage Viscountess Faunconberg. She the daughter of Oliver Cromwell (age 58) and Elizabeth Bourchier (age 59).
On 3rd September 1658 [her father] Oliver Cromwell (age 59) died at Whitehall Palace [Map]. His son [her brother] Richard (age 31) succeeded Lord Protector.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 22nd April 1661. King's Going from ye Tower to White Hall1. Up early and made myself as fine as I could, and put on my velvet coat, the first day that I put it on, though made half a year ago. And being ready, Sir W. Batten (age 60), my Lady, and his two daughters and his son and wife, and Sir W. Pen (age 39) and his son and I, went to Mr. Young's, the flag-maker, in Corne-hill2; and there we had a good room to ourselves, with wine and good cake, and saw the show very well.
In which it is impossible to relate the glory of this day, expressed in the clothes of them that rid, and their horses and horses clothes, among others, my Lord Sandwich's (age 35). Embroidery and diamonds were ordinary among them. The Knights of the Bath was a brave sight of itself; and their Esquires, among which Mr. Armiger was an Esquire to one of the Knights. Remarquable were the two men that represent the two Dukes of Normandy and Aquitane. The Bishops come next after Barons, which is the higher place; which makes me think that the next Parliament they will be called to the House of Lords. My Lord Monk (age 52) rode bare after the King, and led in his hand a spare horse, as being Master of the Horse. The King, in a most rich embroidered suit and cloak, looked most noble. Wadlow3, the vintner, at the Devil [Map]; in Fleetstreet, did lead a fine company of soldiers, all young comely men, in white doublets. There followed the Vice-Chamberlain, Sir G. Carteret (age 51), a company of men all like Turks; but I know not yet what they are for.
The streets all gravelled, and the houses hung with carpets before them, made brave show, and the ladies out of the windows, one of which over against us I took much notice of, and spoke of her, which made good sport among us. So glorious was the show with gold and silver, that we were not able to look at it, our eyes at last being so much overcome with it.
Both the King (age 30) and the Duke of York (age 27) took notice of us, as he saw us at the window. The show being ended, Mr. Young did give us a dinner, at which we were very merry, and pleased above imagination at what we have seen. Sir W. Batten going home, he and I called and drunk some mum4 and laid our wager about my Lady Faulconbridge's name5, which he says not to be Mary, and so I won above 20s. So home, where Will and the boy staid and saw the show upon Towre Hill, and Jane at T. Pepys's, The. Turner (age 9), and my wife at Charles Glassecocke's, in Fleet Street. In the evening by water to White Hall to my Lord's, and there I spoke with my Lord. He talked with me about his suit, which was made in France, and cost him £200, and very rich it is with embroidery. I lay with Mr. Shepley, and Coronacion Day.
Note 1. The king in the early morning of the 22nd went from Whitehall to the Tower by water, so that he might proceed from thence through the City to Westminster Abbey, there to be crowned.
Note 2. The members of the Navy Office appear to have chosen Mr. Young's house on account of its nearness to the second triumphal arch, situated near the Royal Exchange [Map], which was dedicated to the Navy.
Note 3. Simon Wadlow was the original of "old Sir Simon the king", the favourite air of Squire Western in "Tom Jones". "Hang up all the poor hop-drinkers, Cries old Sim, the king of skinkers". Ben Jonson, Verses over the door into the Apollo.
Note 4. Mum. Ale brewed with wheat at Brunswick. "Sedulous and stout With bowls of fattening mum". J. Phillips, Cyder, Vol. ii. p. 231.
Note 5. Mary (age 52), third daughter of Oliver Cromwell, and second wife of [her husband] Thomas Bellasis (age 62), second Viscount Fauconberg, created Earl of Fauconberg, April 9th, 1689.
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Samuel Pepys' Diary. 12th June 1663. At noon to the Exchange [Map] and so home to dinner, and abroad with my wife by water to the Royall Theatre [Map]; and there saw "The Committee", a merry but indifferent play, only Lacey's part, an Irish footman, is beyond imagination. Here I saw my [her husband] Lord Falconbridge (age 36), and his Lady, my Lady Mary Cromwell (age 26), who looks as well as I have known her, and well clad; but when the House began to fill she put on her vizard1, and so kept it on all the play; which of late is become a great fashion among the ladies, which hides their whole face.
Note 1. Masks were commonly used by ladies in the reign of Elizabeth, and when their use was revived at the Restoration for respectable women attending the Theatre [Map], they became general. They soon, however, became the mark of loose women, and their use was discontinued by women of repute. On June 1st, 1704, a song was sung at the Theatre [Map] in Lincoln's Inn Fields called "The Misses' Lamentation for want of their Vizard Masques at the Theatre [Map]". Mr. R. W. Lowe gives several references to the use of vizard masks at the Theatre [Map] in his interesting biography, "Thomas Betterton (age 27)"..
In 1665 [her mother] Elizabeth Bourchier (age 67) died.
On 9th April 1689 a number of new peers were created at the Coronation William III and Mary II ...
Charles Paulet 1st Duke Bolton (age 59) was created 1st Duke Bolton.
Charles Mordaunt 3rd Earl Peterborough 1st Earl Monmouth (age 31) was created 1st Earl Monmouth. Carey Fraser Countess Peterborough and Monmouth (age 29) by marriage Countess Monmouth.
[her husband] Thomas Belasyse 1st Earl Fauconberg (age 62) was created 1st Earl Fauconberg. Mary Cromwell Countess Fauconberg (age 52) by marriage Countess Fauconberg.
William Bentinck 1st Earl of Portland (age 39) was created 1st Earl of Portland.
On 31st December 1700 [her husband] Thomas Belasyse 1st Earl Fauconberg (age 73) died without issue. Earl Fauconberg extinct. His nephew Thomas succeeded 3rd Viscount Faunconberg, 4th Baronet Belasyse of Newborough. Bridget Gage Viscountess Fauconberg (age 25) by marriage Viscountess Faunconberg.
On 14th March 1713 Mary Cromwell Countess Fauconberg (age 76) died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 26 Grand Daughter of King Alfred "The Great" of Wessex
Kings England: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Kings Franks: Great x 28 Grand Daughter of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
Kings France: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 3 Grandfather: Morgan Williams
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Cromwell aka Williams 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Cromwell 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Cromwell 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Glossop
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Cromwell aka Williams 15 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Murfyn
Great x 2 Grandmother: Frances Mirfyn
GrandFather: Robert Cromwell 16 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Warren of Feering in Essex
Great x 2 Grandfather: Ralph Warren
Great x 1 Grandmother: Joan Warren
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Lake alias Davy of Cornwall
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Trelake
Father: Oliver Cromwell 17 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Steward
GrandMother: Elizabeth Steward
Mary Cromwell Countess Fauconberg 18 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
GrandFather: John Bourchier
Mother: Elizabeth Bourchier