Theodosia Harington, Lady Dudley

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Theodosia Harington (died 1649) was an English aristocrat who was abandoned by her husband, but maintained connections at court through her extensive family networks.

She was the eighth daughter of Sir James Harington of Exton, Rutland, a lawyer and long-serving MP, and Lucy Sidney of Penshurst.[1]

She died at Norwich, the home of her daughter Margaret Hobart, in 1649 or 1650, and was buried at St Margaret's, Westminster on 12 January 1650.[16]

She made her will on 11 September 1649. She had lent £5 to the Scots Army and £150 to Parliament. She left a farm at Playsted Marshall and land at Hemlinton near Norwich to her Hobart grandsons. She left a piece of silver plate to her "noble freinde and loveinge neice the Countisse of Livenstayne". This was her niece Elizabeth Dudley, daughter of John Dudley, Countess of Löwenstein, and a lady in waiting to Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, known as the "Wise Widow", or "Dutch Bess Dudly" or "Dulcinea".[17]

A portrait of "Theodosia lady Duddeley", attributed to Cornelius Johnson was formerly at Castle Donington.[18]

Family

In 1581 she married Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley (1567-1643). She was afterwards usually known as "Lady Dudley". They had five children.

Harington had a son and four daughters:

• Ferdinando Sutton (1588–1621), who married Honora Seymour, a daughter of Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp.
• Mary Sutton (1586–1645), who married Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home.
• Anne Sutton (died December 1615), "Mistress Dudley", lady in waiting to Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia who married on 23 March 1615 Hans Meinhard von Schönberg,[19] the Palatine Ambassador to England, she died of a fever after giving birth to Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg.[20]
• Margaret Sutton, who married Sir Miles Hobart of Fleet Street and Little Plumstead, Norfolk, a son of Sir Henry Hobart and Dorothy Bell.[21] They had sons Miles, Tom, John and James. She was buried at St Margaret's, Westminster.[22] There were several people called "Miles Hobart" in this period.
• Theodosia Sutton.