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2 unusual facts about Hunsdon


Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kildare

Her eldest daughter, Elizabeth was sent to the household of Princess Mary at Hunsdon, and it was during that time that the poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey would immortalise the ten year-old girl as "The Fair Geraldine" in his sonnet, The Geraldine which he wrote while he was briefly imprisoned for striking a courtier.

Hunsdon

Sir William Oldhall, the Lord of the Manor at the time, is known to have been a zealous Yorkist.


Anne Morgan

Anne Morgan, Baroness Hunsdon (1529- 1607), wife of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon

Anne Morgan, Baroness Hunsdon

Anne Morgan, Baroness Hunsdon (c.1529 – 19 January 1607) was the wife of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, by whom she had a total of 12 children.

Cuthbert Burbage

James Burbage then became Lord Hunsdon's man, and from 1583 on Hunsdon's Men, known as the Lord Chamberlain's Men from 1585, performed at the Theatre.

Elizabeth Carey

Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley (1576–1635), noblewoman and patron of the arts, daughter of Baroness Hunsdon

Playing company

That company of Hunsdon's, known to posterity as The Lord Chamberlain's Men, was organized somewhat like a modern joint-stock commercial company (the concept of which was just beginning to evolve in this era) at its re-formation in 1594, after the long plague closure.

The Shadow of Night

These were Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, well known as the patron of the acting company Lord Strange's Men; Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, the so-called "Wizard Earl;" and George Carey, who succeeded his father as Lord Hunsdon in 1596 and as Lord Chamberlain of England in 1597.


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