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Mary Cromwell, Countess Fauconberg
Mary Cromwell, Countess Fauconberg (9 February 1637 (christened) – 14 March 1713) was an English noblewoman, the third daughter of Oliver Cromwell and his wife Elizabeth Bourchier.
Biography.
Born in either late 1636 or early 1637, Mary Cromwell was christened on 9 February 1637. On 19 November 1657 she married Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg, at Hampton Court, and became Countess Fauconberg. Fauconberg had been previously married to Mildred Saunderson, who had died. Lady Fauconberg's
Club, post-restoration political club of which Fauconberg was a member. The Green Ribbon had been used as the badge of the Levellers in the English Civil Wars, in which many of them had fought, and was an overt reminder of their radical origins.
- – ship built at Whitby that became a Greenland whaler and was lost there in 1821.
References.
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Sources.
- Grant, Peter, "Belasyse [née Cromwell], Mary, Countess Fauconberg (bap. 1637,