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Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley

Elizabeth, Lady Berkeley (née Carey; 24 May 1576 – 23 April 1635), was an English courtier and arts patroness, the only child of George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, and Elizabeth Spencer.

She was the dedicatee of Thomas Nashe's 1593 Christ's Teares Over Jerusalem; Nashe also dedicated his Terrors of the Night to her in the following year (1594).[1] She translated two of Petrarch's sonnets into English in 1594.[2] Her wedding to Sir Thomas Berkeley on 19 February 1596, probably in Blackfriars, London, when she was nineteen years old, was one of the occasions that has been suggested that Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream was performed for the first time in public.[1] It has also been suggested that Elizabeth served as the model for "Lady Rimellaine" in Peter Erondell's book of manners The French Garden, written in 1605.[1] On 5 January 1606, at the wedding festivities of the Earl of Essex and Lady Frances Howard, Elizabeth was one of the female dancers representing the "Powers of Juno" in Ben Jonson's masque Hymenaei; there is an extant portrait of Elizabeth dressed in her masque costume.

She bore her husband a son and a daughter:

• George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley (7 October 1601 – 10 August 1658), who married Elizabeth Stanhope, the daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope, by whom he had issue.
• Theophila Berkeley (born 1596), who married Sir Robert Coke.

When her husband died in 1611, she paid off all his debts.[1] In 1618 she bought the estate of Cranford, Middlesex for the sum of £7,000 from the co-heirs of Sir Richard Aston.[3] In February 1622, she remarried Sir Thomas Chamberland (or Chamberlain), a Justice of the King's Bench. When he died on 17 September 1625, her second husband bequeathed a generous £10,000 to her son from her first marriage.[1]

She died on 23 April 1635 and was buried on 25 April in Cranford parish church.[1] Her white marble effigy is attributed to Nicholas Stone.[4]

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Carey,_Lady_Berkeley

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• Elizabeth Carey1
• F, #112357, b. 24 May 1576, d. 23 April 1635
• Father Sir George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon1 b. c 1554, d. 8 Sep 1603
• Mother Elizabeth Spencer1 b. c 1553
• Elizabeth Carey was born on 24 May 1576.1 She married Sir Thomas Berkeley, son of Sir Henry Berkeley, 7th Lord Berkeley and Katharine Howard, on 19 February 1596 at Blackfriars, London, Middlesex, England.1 Elizabeth Carey died on 23 April 1635 at Cranford, Middlesex, England, at age 58.1 She was buried on 25 April 1635 at Cranford, Middlesex, England.1
• Family Sir Thomas Berkeley b. 11 Jul 1575, d. 22 Nov 1611
• Child
  • Sir George Berkeley, 8th Lord Berkeley+1 b. 7 Oct 1601, d. 10 Aug 1658
• Citations
• [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. II, p. 139.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3741.htm#... ____________
• Hon. Elizabeth Carey1
• F, #27966, b. 24 May 1576, d. 23 April 1635
• Last Edited=19 Sep 2004
• Hon. Elizabeth Carey was born on 24 May 1576.1 She was the daughter of George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon.1 She was baptised on 7 June 1576.2 She married Sir Thomas Berkeley, son of Henry Berkeley, 7th Lord Berkeley and Lady Katherine Howard, on 19 February 1595 at Blackfriars, London, England.2,1 She died on 23 April 1635 at age 58.2 She was buried on 25 April 1635.1
• From 19 February 1595, her married name became Berkeley.2 In 1618 she purchased the estat eof Cranford, Middlesex for £7,000 from the coheirs of Sir Richard Aston.1
• Children of Hon. Elizabeth Carey and Sir Thomas Berkeley
  • Theophila Berkeley3
  • George Berkeley, 8th Lord Berkeley+ b. 7 Oct 1601, d. 10 Aug 1658
• Citations
• [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 139. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VI, page 629.
• [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 140.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p2797.htm#i27966 ______________________
• Elizabeth CAREY
• Born: 24 May 1576
• Died: 23 Apr 1635
• Buried: Cranford Church, Middlesex, England
• Notes: a patron of the arts; Thomas Nashe dedicated his Terrors of the Night to her in 1594 and Peter Erondell probably used her as his model for Lady Ri-mellaine in his manual on proper behavior, The French Garden (1605). Erondell had been his French tutor. On 19 Feb 1595, Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Berkeley. Elizabeth paid off her husband's debts. In Feb 1622 she took Sir Thomas Chamberlain, a justice of the King’s Bench, as her second husband. He provided generously for her and left her son £10,000.
• Father: George CAREY (2º B. Hundson)
• Mother: Elizabeth SPENCER (B. Hundson /B. Eure of Witton)
• Married 1: Thomas BERKELEY (Sir)
• Children:
  • 1. George BERKELEY (8° B. Berkeley)
  • 2. Teophila BERKELEY
• Married 2: Thomas CHAMBERLAIN (Sir) (d. 17 Sep 1625)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CAREY.htm#Elizabeth CAREY1 __________________
• Lady Elizabeth Carey Berkeley
• Birth: 1576
• Death: Apr. 23, 1635
• Family links:
• Parents:
• George Carey (1547 - 1603)
• Spouse:
• Thomas Berkeley (1575 - 1611)*
• Children:
  • Theophila Berkeley Coke (1596 - 1643)*
  • George Berkeley (1601 - 1658)*
  • Henry Berkeley (1611 - 1612)*
• Inscription:
• Here lieth the body of the most virtuous and prudent Lady, ELIZABETH Lady BERKELEY, widow, daughter and sole heir of HENRY CAREY Lord HUNSDON, son and heir of WILLIAM CAREY, and the Lady MARY his wife, second daughter and coheir of THOMAS BULLEN, Earl of ORMOND and WILTSHIRE, father also of Queen ANN BULLEN, wife to King HENRY the VIIIth, mother of Queen ELIZABETH, late Queen of England; which Lady BERKELEY, after her pious pilgrimage of 59 years, surrendered her soul into the hands of her Redeemer, the 23d day of APRIl, A.D. 1635.
• Canet Tuba, et Mortui excitabuntur Incorrupti. Ubi Tuus, O Sepulchrum, Aculeus.
• Burial: St Dunstan Church, Cranford, London Borough of Hounslow, Greater London, England
• Plot: Chancel
• Find A Grave Memorial# 138465981
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=138465981 ___________________________
• BERKELEY, Sir Thomas (1575-1611), of Caludon Castle, nr. Coventry, Warws.
• b. 11 July 1575, 2nd but o. surv. s. of Henry, 7th Lord Berkeley (d.1613), of Caludon Castle and Berkeley Castle, Glos. and his 1st w. Katherine, da. of Henry Howard, styled earl of Surrey. educ. privately (Edward Cowper) by 1584; Magdalen, Oxf. 1590;1 G. Inn 1598;2 travelled abroad (France, Italy, Low Countries) 1600, 1608, 1610-11. m. 19 Feb. 1596 (with £1,000) Elizabeth (d. 23 Apr. 1635), da. and h. of George Carey†, 2nd Bar. Hunsdon, 2s. 1da.; 4 other ch. d.v.p.3 KB 25 July 1603.4 d. 22 Nov. 1611.5
• Offices Held
  • Commr. sewers, Glos. 1607;6 alderman, Coventry 1611.7
• Berkeley’s ancestry can be traced back to Eadnoth the Staller, an official at the court of Edward the Confessor. Eadnoth’s grandson, Robert Fitz Harding, was granted the barony of Berkeley by Henry II, and the family supplied a representative for Gloucestershire as early as 1290.8 John Smith*, their servant and chronicler, bestowed on Berkeley’s father the sobriquet of ‘Henry the Harmless’. The latter’s feckless extravagance rendered him unfit for responsible office, but the obsolete splendour of his retinue (many of them local gentry) and his reputation as ‘the best landlord in England’ might have put a county seat at his disposal, but for the lack of a qualified candidate. Berkeley was born at Caludon in 1575, but only after his parents had undergone a long course of medical treatment, his elder brother having died aged two in the early 1560s. Queen Elizabeth, who was visiting her favourite Leicester at Kenilworth, became his godmother. An accident in childhood left his head and neck permanently awry, but his education (unlike his father’s) was not neglected. Smith joined the household from Derby grammar school as attendant and fellow pupil to the young heir in 1584, and accompanied him to Oxford six years later. Unfortunately, Berkeley fell ill at the university of ‘a burning fever ... from the dregs whereof his future days were never cleared’.9 At the age of 20 he married ‘a wife answerable to his estate and calling’, and much his superior in character, intelligence and court connections.10 The wedding may have been graced by a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in its final version.11 The bride’s portion was only £1,000 in cash, but on her parents’ death she was to have lands in Kent worth nearly £1,000 p.a. Initially the young couple had ‘no houses wherein to settle themselves’ and were forced to ‘sojourn with friends or hire where they [might] for money’; but they were residing at Caludon by about 1598, when they added a banqueting house. Lord Berkeley initially allowed his son an annuity of £600, later reduced to £500, but, ‘profuse in expenses beyond his ordinary means’, he lived at the rate of some £2,100.12 He borrowed largely, at first from Coventry tailors and later from London scriveners and, partly with, and partly without, his father’s privity, sold land and reversions to the value of £7,150. ‘Inconstant and too sudden in his determination’, he made the first of three unexpected and apparently unlicensed trips abroad in 1600.13
• Either as an official messenger or, like his wife’s uncle, Sir Robert Carey*, ‘of his own motion’, Berkeley went to Scotland with the news of James I’s accession; and the new reign brought some improvement in status for the family. Lord Berkeley was appointed lord lieutenant of Gloucestershire, while Berkeley himself received the order of the Bath, and was returned as senior knight of the shire to the first Jacobean Parliament.14 He is mentioned only once in the records, as a member of the committee sent to the Lords to request a conference about wardship (26 Mar. 1604), and this is probably an error for Sir Maurice Berkeley.15 While in London, he lodged with his mother-in-law in Blackfriars. His financial embarrassments continued. In 1606 his wife had to sell her reversionary interest to the Kentish lands, and three years later she attempted, with Smith’s assistance, to impose some restraint on his expenditure. Enraged at their interference, he fled abroad, missing the last two sessions of Parliament, and returned a Catholic and an incurable invalid.16 During the few remaining months of his life at Caludon he may have joined with his father in presenting 29 volumes to the library of the free school at Coventry, for which he was appointed to the corporation.17 He died intestate on 22 Nov. 1611, ‘a most gentle and mild death’, and was buried at St. Michael’s, Coventry. According to Smith, Berkeley’s widow took out letters of administration for his estate but it has not been possible to confirm this.18 Berkeley’s son George became the ward of Henry Howard, earl of Northampton, succeeding to the peerage in 1613, and his grandson, later the 9th Lord, was returned for Gloucestershire under the Protectorate.19
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/be... ______________________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 04
• Berkeley, George (1601-1658) by James McMullen Rigg
• BERKELEY, GEORGE (1601–1658), eighth Baron Berkeley (since the writ of 1421), and thirteenth baron (since the writ of 1295) [see Berkeley, Family of], son of Sir Thomas Berkeley, by Elizabeth Cary, daughter of George, Lord Hunsdon, was born at Lowlayton on 7 Oct. 1601, and succeeded to the honours of Berkeley, Mowbray, Segrave and Bruce, on 26 Nov. 1613, by the death of his grandfather, Henir. He married, 13 April 1616, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudborn, Suffolk. The ceremony was performed in the church of Great Bartholomew, Liondon, in the presence of the parents of the contracting parties, who were respectively thirteen and nine years of age. The bride continued to reside with her father at St. John Jerusalem (St. John's Square, Clerkenwell). In the following year the bridegroom was made a knight of the Bath on the occasion of the creation of Charles Prince of Wales (3 Nov.) In 1619 (21 May) he was entered as a canon-commoner at Christ Church, Oxford, having hitherto been under the care of tutors. Here he 'was actually,' says Wood, 'created M.A.' 18 July 1623. He was regarded by his family as a linguist, and, as he spent most of his time in foreign travel, probably he succeeded in picking up a smattering of modernlanguages. He appears to have had landed property in Carolina. He showed his appreciation of an eccentric genius by presenting Burton, who had previously (1621) dedicated the 'Anatomy of Melancholy' to him, to the living of Segrave in Leicestershire in 1630. He died in 1658, and was buried at Cranford, Middlesex. He had two sons, of whom the elder, Charles, was drowned while crossing the Channel, 27 Jan. 1641. The younger, George [q. v.], succeeded to the family honours, and in 1679 was created Viscount Dursley and Earl of Berkeley.
• [Fosbrooke's Berkeley MSS. p. 217; Berkeley Peerage Claim, vol. ii. Auths. and Precs. p. 174; Wood's Fasti Oxon. i. 418; Cal. State Papers; Dom., (1627-1628) 169, (1638-1639) 478; Nichols's Leicestershire, iii. 414 ; Collins's Peerage (Brydges), Berkeley Title; Cal. State Papers, Colonial (l574-1660) 116; Kennet's Register, 321.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Berkeley,_George_(1601-1658)_(DNB00) __________________
• George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley (1601 – 10 August 1658) was a seventeenth-century English nobleman and a prominent patron of literature in his generation.[1]
• George Berkeley, baptized 26 October 1601 at Low Leyton, Essex, was the only surviving son of Sir Thomas Berkeley (11 July 1575 – 22 November 1611) and Elizabeth Carey, daughter and sole heir of George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon. He was the grandson of Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley (d. 26 November 1613), by his first wife, Katherine Howard (d. 7 April 1596), third daughter of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Frances de Vere, daughter of John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford and Elizabeth Trussell.[2]
• .... etc.
• Berkeley married, on 13 April 1614, Elizabeth Stanhope, the second daughter and coheir of Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudbourne, Suffolk, by Anne Reade (b. 21 December 1604), the daughter of Sir William Reade of Osterley, Middlesex.[7]
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Berkeley,_8th_Baron_Berkeley _________________________