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unusual facts about Mary FitzRoy, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset


Mary Howard

Mary FitzRoy, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset (1519-1557), née Lady Mary Howard, lady-in-waiting, wife of Henry Fitzroy, daughter of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk and daughter-in-law of Henry VIII


Devonshire MS

The Devonshire MS (British Library, MS Add. 17492) is a verse miscellany from the 1530s and early 1540s, compiled by three women who attended the court of Anne Boleyn: Mary Shelton, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), and Lady Margaret Douglas.

Mary FitzRoy, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset

However, the marriage was not to last as FitzRoy died of consumption within three years.


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