Mary Darcy

Mary Kitson [1]

• F, #172586,
• b. 1566
• Last Edited=22 Feb 2011

Mary Kitson was born in 1566.[3] She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson and Lady Elizabeth Cornwallis.[1],[3]

She married Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers, son of John Darcy, 2nd Baron Darcy of Chiche and Frances Rich. Her married name became Darcy.[1] (She apparently was also titled as Countess Rivers.)

Children of Mary Kitson and Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers

• 1. Penelope Darcy+[4]
• 2. Elizabeth Darcy, Countess Rivers+[1] b. 1584, d. 9 Mar 1650/51

Citations

• 1. [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 XI, page 458. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2. [S3409] Caroline Maubois, "re: Penancoet Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 2 December 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Penancoet Family."
• 3. [S1517] Dale Parker Anderson, "re: Purcell Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 8 November 2005. Hereinafter cited as "re: Purcell Family."
• 4. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 1500. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• From Darryl Lundy's Peerage page on Mary Kitson: http://www.thepeerage.com/p17259.htm#i172586 ______________
• Mary KYTSON
• Born: ABT 1567, Hengrave, Suffolk, England
• Died: 28 Jun 1644, Colchester, Essex, England
• Notes: when her mother died, took over the patronage of John Wilbye, the madrigalist. Lord Darcy suspected Mary of "unbecoming flirtations, if not outright adultery". Their formal separation in 1594 left Mary with £300 a year and, eventually, the Kytson estates.
• Father: Thomas KYTSON (Sir)
• Mother: Elizabeth CORNWALLIS
• Married: Thomas DARCY (1° E. Rivers) BEF 20 Apr 1583, England
• Children:
  • 1. Elizabeth DARCY (C. Rivers)
  • 2. Penelope DARCY
  • 3. Edward DARCY
  • 4. Thomas DARCY
  • 5. Mary DARCY
  • 6. Susan DARCY
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/KYTSON.htm#Mary KYTSON1 ______________________
• Mary Kitson1
• F, #112502, b. circa 1566, d. 5 June 1644
• Father Sir Thomas Kitson1 b. bt 11 Sep 1540 - 31 Dec 1540, d. 1603
• Mother Elizabeth Cornwallis1 b. c 1547, d. 2 Aug 1628
• Mary Kitson was born circa 1566 at of Hengrave, Suffolk, England.1 She married Thomas Darcy, 3rd Baron Darcy of Chiche, 1st Viscount Colchester, 1st Earl Rivers, son of Sir John Darcy, 2nd Baron Darcy of Chiche and Frances Rich, circa 20 April 1583.1 Mary Kitson left a will on 7 May 1644.1 She died on 5 June 1644; Buried at Trinity Church, Colchester.1 Her estate was probated on 16 November 1644.1
• Family Thomas Darcy, 3rd Baron Darcy of Chiche, 1st Viscount Colchester, 1st Earl Rivers b. c 1565, d. 21 Feb 1640
• Child
  • Elizabeth Darcy+1 b. c 1584, d. 9 Mar 1651
• Citations
• 1.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. IV, p. 79.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3746.htm#... ________________
• Mary Kitson Darcy
• Birth: May 7, 1567 Suffolk, England
• Death: Jun. 28, 1644 Colchester, Essex, England
• Countess River. She was the younger daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk, and of his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Cornwallis of Brome in Suffolk. Her paternal grandfather, also Sir Thomas Kitson, was a famous Tudor Merchant Adventurer and Sheriff of London, with commercial interests in London and the Low Counties. He acquired the Hengrave estate from the Duke of Buckingham in 1521, and built Hengrave Hall, one of the finest Tudor houses in the country, over the following decade. Further acquisitions followed the dissolution of the abbey of St. Edmund in the late 1530s, and by the time of his death in 1540 Sir Thomas was amongst the larger landowners in Suffolk. Her most notable legacy, is the series of portraits she commissioned, and four of which are known today.
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• Thomas Darcy (1565 - 1640)
• Children:
  • Elizabeth Darcy Savage (1584 - 1650)*
  • Penelope Darcy Gage (1593 - 1661)*
• Burial: Holy Trinity Church, Colchester, Colchester Borough, Essex, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 74089939
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=74089939 ____________________
• Sir Thomas Kitson (1485 – 11 September 1540) was a wealthy English merchant, Sheriff of London, and builder of Hengrave Hall in Suffolk. .... etc.
• Sir Thomas Kitson (1540–1603), who married firstly Jane Paget, the daughter of William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, by whom he had no issue, and secondly Elizabeth Cornwallis, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Cornwallis (d.1604), by whom he had a son who died as an infant and two daughters, Margaret, who married Sir Charles Cavendish (November 1553 – 4 April 1617) (son of Sir William Cavendish by his wife Bess of Hardwick) by whom she had no issue,[7] and Mary, who married Thomas Darcy, 3rd Baron Darcy of Chiche.[8]
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kitson ________________________
• When Sir Thomas Kitson died on 11 September 1540, he left Hengrave and all his other property to his wife, Dame Margaret (née Donnington). With her he had a posthumous son, afterwards Sir Thomas Kitson, and four daughters, Katherine, Dorothy, Frances and Anne. Just two months after her first husband's death, Dame Margaret married Sir Richard Long (c.1494-1546) of Shengay, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Henry VIII. The marriage settlement of Dame Margaret and her third husband, John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath, in 1548, gave her complete control over the extensive personal property she brought into their marriage, including the right to devise it by will should she predecease him. Hengrave eventually passed down the female Kitson line, and on the death of Elizabeth Kitson in 1625 the house was inherited by her daughter Mary Kitson, who had married Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers. By her granddaughter Penelope Darcy’s marriage to Sir John Gage, 1st Baronet, the house passed into the Gage family.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hengrave_Hall _______________________
• Dorothy Kitson (1531 – 1577) later, Dorothy, Lady Pakington, was the daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson, a wealthy London merchant and the builder of Hengrave Hall in Suffolk. ... etc.
• By her father's second marriage she had a brother and three sisters:
• Sir Thomas Kitson (1540–1603), who married firstly Jane Paget, the daughter of William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, by whom he had no issue, and secondly Elizabeth Cornwallis, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, by whom he had a son who died as an infant and two daughters, Margaret, who married Sir Charles Cavendish (November 1553 – 4 April 1617), son of Bess of Hardwick and Sir William Cavendish, by whom she had no issue,[5] and Mary, who married Thomas Darcy, 3rd Baron Darcy of Chiche.[6]
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Kitson _________________________

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