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About Philippa Raleigh
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Anthony_Ashley,_1st_Baronet
In 1622, two years after his wife, Jane, died from smallpox, Sir Anthony married 19-year-old Philippa Sheldon. Philippa was the sister of Elizabeth Sheldon, who was married to Christopher (Kit) Villiers, 1st Earl of Anglesey, brother of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. Through this marriage, Ashley cemented a political alliance with the most powerful man at court.
As an old man his marriage with a relative of the leading court favourite caused John Chamberlain to comment (to Dudley Carleton, 4 Jan. 1622): “on Thursday night last Sir Anthony Ashley in his dotage married Mistress Shelton, a young gentlewoman of the kindred, by whom he hath promise or expectation to become some great man.”
After Ashley died, his wife Philippa went on to marry Carew Raleigh, son of Sir Walter Raleigh, while his daughter, Anne, inherited the family estates at Wimborne St Giles, then conveyed to her husband, Sir John Cooper, 1st Baronet, of Rockbourne.
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- https://archive.org/details/cu31924092524374/page/n220/mode/1up?vie... listed as daughter of — Weston.
- http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/as... married 3 Jan. 1622, Philippa, da. of Sir Thomas Shelton, sp
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