Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond [SEP] father
Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond
Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Duchess of Lennox (1622–1685), formerly Lady Mary Villiers, was the daughter of the George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Katherine Manners, 19th Baroness de Ros.
On 8 January 1634, at the age of 12, she married the 15-year-old Charles, Lord Herbert, eldest son of the 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Montgomery, but was widowed in 1635 when her young husband died of smallpox.
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- 2nd creation (1623)
- Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond (1578–1639), one of the great beauties and the only duchess at the court of James I of England, she was also the patron of Captain John Smith of the Virginia Colony. Wife of Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and 1st Duke of Richmond
- 3rd creation (1641)
- Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond (née Lady Mary Villiers; 1622–1685), wife of James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond