Lady of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I Elizabeth 'Bess' Throckmorton

1565 - 1647  (81 years)

• Name	Elizabeth 'Bess' Throckmorton  [1, 2]
  		Churchyard-St Margarets (England)
  Title	Lady of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I
  Birth	16 Apr 1565	Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	1647	Warwickshire, England   [2]
  Burial	Westminster, London, England   [2]
  	St Margarets Churchyard
  		Churchyard-St Margarets (England)
  Person ID	I7800	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Knight of the Shire Sir Nicholas Throckmorton,   b. Abt 1515, Warwickshire, England d. 12 Feb 1571, London, England (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Anne de Carew,   b. Abt 1519, Surrey, England d. 12 Feb 1570, Surrey, England (Age 51 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F2590	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Knight Sir Walter Raleigh,   b. 22 Jan 1552, Devon, England d. 29 Oct 1618, London, England (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	1591	England
  Marriage End	After Walter's beheading in 1618, Bess had his head embalmed, and carried it with her until she died. At that point, it was buried with his body.
  Family ID	F2598	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 16 Apr 1565 - Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, England Marriage - 1591 - England Death - 1647 - Warwickshire, England Burial - - Westminster, London, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  Bess Throckmorton

  
  

  Headstones

  Churchyard-St Margarets (England)

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees. [S251] Ancestry.com, UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Record for Sir Walter Raleigh https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60526&h=2616&indiv=try