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Biography of Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven 1580-1647

Paternal Family Tree: Stanley

Maternal Family Tree: Margaret Donnington Countess Bath 1509-1561

Around 1579 [her father] Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby (age 20) and [her mother] Alice Spencer Countess Derby (age 29) were married. He the son of [her grandfather] Henry Stanley 4th Earl of Derby (age 47) and [her grandmother] Margaret Clifford Countess Derby (age 39). He a great x 2 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

In May 1580 Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven was born to Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby (age 21) and Alice Spencer Countess Derby (age 30) at Harefield. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

On 16 Apr 1594 [her father] Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby (age 35) died from poisoning. His brother [her uncle] William (age 33) succeeded 6th Earl Derby. Baron Mohun of Dunster and Baron Stanley abeyant.

On 20 Oct 1600 [her step-father] Thomas Egerton 1st Viscount Brackley (age 60) and [her mother] Alice Spencer Countess Derby (age 51) were married.

In 1602 William Brydges 4th Baron Chandos (age 50) died. His son [her future husband] Grey (age 22) succeeded 5th Baron Chandos of Sudeley. Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 21) by marriage Baroness Chandos of Sudeley.

On 28 Feb 1607 Grey Brydges 5th Baron Chandos (age 27) and Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 26) were married. She the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby and Alice Spencer Countess Derby (age 57). She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

Before Nov 1609 Thomas Smith (age 53) and [her sister-in-law] Frances Brydges (age 29) were married. The difference in their ages was 24 years.

In 1610 Thomas Cecil 1st Earl Exeter (age 67) and [her sister-in-law] Frances Brydges Countess Exeter (age 30) were married. She by marriage Countess Exeter. The difference in their ages was 37 years.

In 1611 [her son] Robert Brydges was born to [her husband] Grey Brydges 5th Baron Chandos (age 31) and Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 30).

Before 1612 [her future husband] Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl Castlehaven (age 18) and Elizabeth Barnham Countess Castlehaven (age 19) were married. He the son of George Tuchet 1st Earl Castlehaven (age 60) and Lucy Mervyn Baroness Audley and Tuchet.

In 1612 [her daughter] Anne Brydges was born to [her husband] Grey Brydges 5th Baron Chandos (age 32) and Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 31).

In 1619 [her daughter] Elizabeth Brydges Countess Castlehaven was born to [her husband] Grey Brydges 5th Baron Chandos (age 39) and Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 38).

On 09 Aug 1620 [her son] George Brydges 6th Baron Chandos was born to [her husband] Grey Brydges 5th Baron Chandos (age 40) and Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 40).

In 1621 [her son] William Brydges 7th Baron Chandos was born to [her husband] Grey Brydges 5th Baron Chandos (age 41) and Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 40).

On 10 Aug 1621 [her husband] Grey Brydges 5th Baron Chandos (age 41) died. His son [her son] George (age 1) succeeded 6th Baron Chandos of Sudeley.

On 22 Jul 1624 Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl Castlehaven (age 31) and Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 44) were married at Harefield. She by marriage Countess Castlehaven. She the daughter of Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby and Alice Spencer Countess Derby (age 75). He the son of George Tuchet 1st Earl Castlehaven and Lucy Mervyn Baroness Audley and Tuchet. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

Execution of Lord Castlehaven

On 14 May 1631 [her husband] Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl Castlehaven (age 38) was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map] for the unnatural crime of sodomy in accordance with the 1533 Buggery Act, committed with his page Laurence (or Florence) FitzPatrick, who confessed to the crime and was executed; and assisting Giles Browning (alias Broadway), who was also executed, in the rape of his wife Anne, Countess of Castlehaven (age 51), in which Lord Castlehaven was found to have participated by restraining her. His son [her future son-in-law] James (age 14) succeeded 3rd Earl Castlehaven, 3rd Baron Audley of Orier in England. He didn't succeed to his father's English titles Baron Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire and Baron Tuchet forfeit as a result of his father's attainder.

On 23 Jan 1637 [her mother] Alice Spencer Countess Derby (age 87) died.

On 14 Dec 1637 [her son] George Brydges 6th Baron Chandos (age 17) and [her daughter-in-law] Susan Montagu Baroness Chandos were married. She by marriage Baroness Chandos of Sudeley. She the daughter of Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester (age 74) and Margaret Crouch Countess Manchester (age 32). He the son of [her former husband] Grey Brydges 5th Baron Chandos and Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 57). He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

Around 08 Oct 1647 Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven (age 67) died.

Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven 1580-1647 appears on the following Descendants Family Trees:

Royal Ancestors of Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven 1580-1647

Kings Wessex: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 3 Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Kings Scotland: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 6 Grand Daughter of Charles "Beloved Mad" VI King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven 1580-1647

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Stanley 1st Earl of Derby 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: George Stanley 9th Baron Strange Knockin 5th Baron Mohun Dunster 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Neville Baroness Stanley 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Stanley 2nd Earl of Derby 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Strange 8th Baron Strange Knockin 4th Baron Mohun Dunster 8 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Strange 9th Baroness Strange of Knockin 5th Baroness Dunster 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Jacquetta Woodville Baroness Strange and Mohun 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward Stanley 3rd Earl of Derby 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Hastings 1st Baron Hastings 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Hastings 2nd Baron Hastings Baron Botreaux, Hungerford and Moleyns 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Neville Baroness Bonville and Hastings 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Hastings Countess Derby 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Hungerford 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Hungerford Baroness Hastings, 4th Baroness Hungerford, 5th Baroness Botreaux and 2nd Baroness Moleyns 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Percy 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandFather: Henry Stanley 4th Earl of Derby 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Howard 4 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Mowbray Baroness Grey Ruthyn 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Howard 2nd Duke of Norfolk 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Moleyns 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Moleyns 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Dorothy Howard Countess Derby 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Philip Tilney

Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh Tilney

Great x 2 Grandmother: Agnes Tilney Duchess Norfolk

Father: Ferdinando Stanley 5th Earl of Derby 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: John "Butcher" Clifford 9th Baron Clifford 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry "Shepherd Lord" Clifford 10th Baron Clifford 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Bromflete Baroness Clifford 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Clifford 1st Earl of Cumberland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John St John 7 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne St John Baroness Clifford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Bradshaigh

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Clifford 2nd Earl of Cumberland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Percy 4th Earl of Northumberland 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Percy 5th Earl of Northumberland 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Herbert Countess Northumberland 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Percy Baroness Clifford 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Spencer of Spencer Combe

Great x 3 Grandmother: Katherine Spencer Countess Northumberland 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Beaufort Countess Ormonde 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandMother: Margaret Clifford Countess Derby Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Brandon

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Brandon 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Wingfield 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Bruyn aka Darcy

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bruyn

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Darcy

Great x 1 Grandmother: Eleanor Brandon Countess Cumberland Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund Tudor 1st Earl Richmond 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: King Henry VII of England and Ireland 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Beaufort Countess Richmond 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Tudor Queen Consort France Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: King Edward IV of England 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth York Queen Consort England Daughter of King Edward IV of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Anne Stanley Countess Castlehaven 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Spencer

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Spencer

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Spencer

Great x 4 Grandfather: Peter Empson

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Empson

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Spencer

Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabella Graunt

GrandFather: John Spencer

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Knightley

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Knightley

Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Knightley

Great x 1 Grandmother: Susan Knightley

Mother: Alice Spencer Countess Derby

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Kitson

GrandMother: Katherine Kitson

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Donnington of Stoke Newington

Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Donnington Countess Bath