Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex
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title:
Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex
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Frances Radclyffe, Countess of Sussex was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I and the founder of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
She was the daughter of Sir William Sidney, of Penshurst Place in Kent, a prominent courtier during the reign of King Henry VIII, and his wife, the former Anne Packenham. She was the sister of Sir Henry Sidney, and aunt to both the poet Sir Philip Sidney and the first Sidney Earl of Leicester. In 1555, she married Thomas Radclyffe, Viscount FitzWalter, who
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16th-century English noblewoman
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Sidney,_Countess_of_Sussex
date created:
2007-08-25T07:47:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T20:26:50Z
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