Philippa Coningsby ( née Fitzwilliam (died 1596) was an English aristocrat, a daughter of William FitzWilliam of Milton. She married Sir Thomas Coningsby and had 11 children. [2] [3]
As wife of Sir Thomas Coningsby she lived at Leominster and Hampton Court, Herefordshire, where their monogram "TCP" was carved in several places. Coningsby wrote in a letter to Sir Robert Cecil that his wife was his "near kinswoman". [4]
She died in 1596, and was buried at Hope under Dinmore.
In 1617, an unmarried cousin of her husband, Joyce Jeffreys, who was born at Ham Castle at Clifton-upon-Teme, joined the household to be a "perpetual companion" to the younger Philippa Coningsby. [5]
References
- ^ Art, Indianapolis Museum of; Janson, Anthony F.; Fraser, A. Ian (1980), 100 masterpieces of painting: Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Museum
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ "Phillipa Fitzwilliam". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ^ HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 11 (Dublin, 1906), pp. 114, 161.
- ^ Judith M. Spicksley, The business and household accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, spinster of Hereford (Oxford, 2012), p. 11.