Elizabeth Wilmot, Countess of Rochester [SEP] date of death
Elizabeth Wilmot, Countess of Rochester
Elizabeth Wilmot, Countess of Rochester (; 1651 – 20 August 1681) was an English heiress and the wife of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, the "libertine". She was born Elizabeth Malet, the daughter of John Malet, of Enmore Manor, and Unton Hawley, daughter of Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley.
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John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester became infatuated with Elizabeth Malet and asked for her hand in marriage. She refused to marry the earl
Graham Greene corrects Pepys. He writes about the Heiress of the West.
Elizabeth Malet later forgave Rochester, and they were married on 29 January 1667.
After the couple married, Rochester spent much of his time in London, where he engaged in public affairs, most famously with the actress Elizabeth Barry. Elizabeth Wilmot stayed in his house, Adderbury House in Oxfordshire, along with Rochester's mother Anne Wilmot, Countess of Rochester, her mother Elizabeth Hawley, and Rochester's nieces Eleanor and Anne Lee (later