Elizabeth Spencer Baroness Hunsdon - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

Elizabeth Spencer Baroness Hunsdon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Family, Facts, Age, Net Worth, Biography and More in FamedBorn.com


How to Pronounce Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon

#50
Most Popular
Boost
Jun 29, 1552 Althorp, England, United Kingdom Died on 25 Feb 1618 (aged 65)

English Baroness

Cancer

About Elizabeth Spencer Baroness Hunsdon

  • Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon (29 June 1552 – 25 February 1618) was an English noblewoman, scholar, and patron of the arts.
  • She was the inspiration for Edmund Spenser's Muiopotmos, was commemorated in one of the poet's dedicatory sonnets to the Faerie Queene, and was represented as "Phyllis" in the latter's pastoral poem Colin Clouts Come Home Againe.
  • She herself translated Petrarch.
  • Her first husband was George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, grandson of Mary Boleyn, elder sister of Anne Boleyn, mother of Queen Elizabeth I.

Search Celebrity

    Celebrity of the day
    English singer-songwriter, rapper and actor

    Dappy

    English singer-songwriter, rapper and actor