Anne Lee, Countess of Rochester
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Anne Wilmot Countess of Rochester (5 November 1614 – 15 March 1695 or 18 March 1696) was born in Wootton Bassett
, Wiltshire
, or Lydiard Tregoze
, Wiltshire
, the daughter of Sir John St John, 1st Baronet of Lydiard Tregoze
and Anne Leighton.
Anne St. John was married on 2 October 1632 to Sir Francis Henry Lee, 2nd Baronet
of Ditchley
son of Sir Henry Lee, 1st Baronet
and Eleanor Wharton. Anne was married a second time in 1644 to Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester
, son of Charles Wilmot, 1st Viscount Wilmot
and Sarah Anderson.
by Henry Wilmot
Wootton Bassett
Royal Wootton Bassett , informally known as Wootton Bassett, is a small market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 11,043 in 2001...
, Wiltshire
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...
, or Lydiard Tregoze
Lydiard Tregoze
Lydiard Tregoze is a small village and civil parish on the western edge of Swindon in the County of Wiltshire, in the south west of England. It has in the past been spelt as Liddiard Tregooze and in other ways.-History:...
, Wiltshire
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...
, the daughter of Sir John St John, 1st Baronet of Lydiard Tregoze
Lydiard Tregoze
Lydiard Tregoze is a small village and civil parish on the western edge of Swindon in the County of Wiltshire, in the south west of England. It has in the past been spelt as Liddiard Tregooze and in other ways.-History:...
and Anne Leighton.
Anne St. John was married on 2 October 1632 to Sir Francis Henry Lee, 2nd Baronet
Lee Baronets
- Lee Baronets, of Quarendon, Buckinghamshire :This branch of the family owned Ditchley House, current home of the Ditchley Foundation. The last male heir of the Lees of Quarendon, was the 4th Earl of Lichfield Robert Lee, a grandson of Charles II...
of Ditchley
Ditchley
Ditchley is a country house and estate about northeast of Charlbury in Oxfordshire.-Archaeology:There are remains of a Roman villa on the Ditchley Park estate at Watts Wells, less than southeast of the house...
son of Sir Henry Lee, 1st Baronet
Lee Baronets
- Lee Baronets, of Quarendon, Buckinghamshire :This branch of the family owned Ditchley House, current home of the Ditchley Foundation. The last male heir of the Lees of Quarendon, was the 4th Earl of Lichfield Robert Lee, a grandson of Charles II...
and Eleanor Wharton. Anne was married a second time in 1644 to Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester
Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester
Lieutenant-General Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester , known as The Lord Wilmot between 1643 and 1644 and as The Viscount Wilmot between 1644 and 1652, was an English Cavalier who fought for the Royalist cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.-Early life:Wilmot's family was descended from...
, son of Charles Wilmot, 1st Viscount Wilmot
Charles Wilmot, 1st Viscount Wilmot
Charles Wilmot, 1st Viscount Wilmot of Athlone was an English soldier active in Ireland.-Life:He was the son of Edward Wilmot of Culham and Elizabeth Stafford...
and Sarah Anderson.
Children
by Francis Henry Lee- Sir Henry Lee, 3rd BaronetLee Baronets- Lee Baronets, of Quarendon, Buckinghamshire :This branch of the family owned Ditchley House, current home of the Ditchley Foundation. The last male heir of the Lees of Quarendon, was the 4th Earl of Lichfield Robert Lee, a grandson of Charles II...
of Quarendon (d. 1659) who married ca. 1655 Anne Danvers (d. 1659) daughter of Sir John Danvers of Cornbury; they had two daughters Eleanora or Ellen, Countess of Abingdon and Anne (Nan), Lady Wharton (dsp 1686). - Sir Francis Lee, 4th BaronetSir Francis Lee, 4th BaronetSir Francis Henry Lee, 4th Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1667....
of Quarendon who married Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe (she later married Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of LindseyRobert Bertie, 3rd Earl of LindseyRobert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey, 16th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, PC, FRS was a British Hereditary Peer. He was the son of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey and Martha Cokayne. His mother died shortly after his birth about July 1641.From 1661 to 1666 he was Member of Parliament for Boston in...
); they had issue two sons, Edward Lee, 1st Earl of LichfieldEdward Lee, 1st Earl of LichfieldSir Edward Henry Lee, 5th Baronet, of Ditchley and of Quarendon, created 1st Earl of Lichfield was an English peer. He was a staunch tory and followed James II to Rochester, Kent after the king's escape from Whitehall in December 1688...
, and Francis. - Infant daughter (died 1640)
by Henry Wilmot
- John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of RochesterJohn Wilmot, 2nd Earl of RochesterJohn Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester , styled Viscount Wilmot between 1652 and 1658, was an English Libertine poet, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry. He was the toast of the Restoration court and a patron of the arts...
(1 April 1647 – 26 July 1680) married Elizabeth MaletElizabeth Wilmot, Countess of RochesterElizabeth Wilmot, Countess of Rochester was an English heiress and the wife of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, the "libertine." She was born Elizabeth Malet, the daughter of John Malet of Enmore Castle and Unton Hawley....
. They had one son, Charles, who died young, and three daughters who married into the peerage.
External links
- http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=3501Letters from Anne Wilmot to her son John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of RochesterJohn Wilmot, 2nd Earl of RochesterJohn Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester , styled Viscount Wilmot between 1652 and 1658, was an English Libertine poet, a friend of King Charles II, and the writer of much satirical and bawdy poetry. He was the toast of the Restoration court and a patron of the arts...
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