Catherine Carey
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Catherine Carey, after her marriage Catherine Knollys and later known as both Lady Knollys and Dame Catherine Knollys, was chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I, who was her first cousin.
Portrait often identified as Catherine, 1562
Catherine's mother, Mary Boleyn, was the sister of Anne Boleyn and a mistress of King Henry VIII of England
Lettice Knollys, Catherine's daughter
Lettice Knollys
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Lettice Knollys was an English noblewoman and mother to the courtiers Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Penelope, Lady Rich. She was Countess of Essex during her first marriage to Walter Devereu
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…of Sir Ambrose Cave and Margaret Willington. Their daughter Lettice Knollys (1583–1655) married before 19 June 1602 William Paget, 4th Baron Paget. Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex and of Leicester (8 November 1543 – 25 December 1634). She married first Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, secondly Robert Dudley…
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, Lettice Knollys' first husband in 1572, aged 32
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1575, aged about 43
Dorothy and Penelope Devereux, the daughters of Lettice Knollys, c. 1580