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Persoonlijke gegevens Mary Beaumont of Glenfield; Countess of Buckingham 

• Zij is geboren in het jaar 1570 in Glenfield, Leicestershire, England.Bron 7
• (Alt. Death) op 19 april 1632: Alt. Death.Bron 6
• Zij is overleden op 19 april 1632 in Gatehouse, Whitehall, England, zij was toen 62 jaar oud.Bron 7
• Een kind van Anthony Beaumont en Mary Anne Armstrong
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van Mary Beaumont of Glenfield; Countess of Buckingham

(1) Zij is getrouwd met George de Villiers.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1620, zij was toen 50 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Susan de Villiers  ± 1590-???? 
2. John Villiers  
3. John de Villiers  ± 1590-± 1657
4. Christopher de Villiers  ± 1606-1630 
5. George de Villiers  1592-1628 

(2) Zij is getrouwd met William (Sir) Rayner.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 19 juni 1606, zij was toen 36 jaar oud.Bronnen 6, 7

(3) Zij is getrouwd met Thomas Compton.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Notities over Mary Beaumont of Glenfield; Countess of Buckingham

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Stanton's Wanton Wench  The Countess of Buckingham, suspected of poisoning King James I By Sandra Ford and Jean Heald According to the Complete Peerage, Mary Beaumont was a notable beauty. She was born in 1570, being the daughter of Anthony Beaumont of Glenfield, Leics. by his wife, daughter of Thomas Armstrong of Corby, Lincs.  Arthur Wilson stated that she was "allied and yet a servant" to Lady Beaumont of Cole Orton while Roger Coke said that she was kitchen maid to old Sir George Villiers of Brokesby, Lincs. He married her as his second wife, and she bore him children. A son, George Villiers, became a favourite of King James I, who created him Earl of Buckingham in 1616/17. This husband died in 1605/6.  Dame Mary was remarried on 19th June 1606 at Goadby, Leics. to her second husband, Sir William Rayner of Orton Longueville, Hunts, who died only four months later. He had been knighted in December 1603, the year in which he was Sheriff of Nottingham. He was "in occupation of the Manor" at Stanton on the Wolds  We have come across an account of this marriage and events at Stanton in a newspaper cutting of 12th September 1925, entitled "Old Notts. Marriage Romances" by R. W. Marston of High Barnet, which is kept in the Local History Library (Scrapbook i 91). We reproduce the text:  Particulars of an old Notts. matrimonial romance, in which an octogenarian bridegroom figures, are contained in the Star Chamber proceedings of James l's reign. The affair must have caused considerable gossip in several Nottinghamshire villages, and although we are left in doubt as to the outcome of the case, an interesting and connected story may be evolved from the documentary evidence produced at the trial. The old spelling of names is retained as in the proceedings.  About the year 1606, Sir William Rayner of Stanton-upon-the-Wolds, being 80 years of age, and of weak state of body, contracted and concluded marriage with one Dame Mary Villiers, widow of Sir George Villers, "which marriage", according to the Attorney General of the time was "compassed by the enticement and persuasions of the said Dame Mary Villiers and one Walter Whalley, of Cotgrave, gentleman, and of John Waldrome, of Owthorpe'. Sir William Reyner was "ordinarily residing at his home at Stanton-upon-the-Woldes in your Highness's County of Nottingham". but on September 23rd he committed the charge and care of it to his servants and "did with as good speed as the state of his body would permit, repair unto his house at Overton, in some extremity of sickness which was not a little increased by disappointment".  During his absence Dame Mary Rayner "entered into the dwelling house at Stanton, and with false keys, picklockes, and other instruments and engines, broke open the doors and locks of the parlors, chambers, studies and closets, and did rifle and ransack the said chambers, parlors, studies, closeltes, chestes, trunckes, and cubbordes and did convey away £2,000 in money; and they did break open the door or lock of the wool house of the said Sir William Reyrer, and conveyed away wool to the value of £300 -  John Siston, Win. Bringhurst, Robert Man, and Win. Warde "say they were all servants to Sir George Villiers, deceased, former husband to Dame Mary Rayner. They all know that Sir Win. Reyner was an earnest suitor for marriage unto Dame Mary, and married her.  "Sir William told them that he had given her authority to make money by the sale of any of the stock of cattle at Goadby, and that he let her alone, and did not meddle himself, and therefore willed them to ask money from her and not from him when they wanted any about any affairs.  'About September 24th they accompanied her from her house at Goadby to Stanton, as often times before they had done, from whence, shortly after they were come thither the same day, Dame Mary sent Siston and Bringhurst to Nottingham, and while they were away she sent Hacke away with his cart from Stanton to Goadby laden with two trunks and certain feather beds.  "She delivered to Siston £20 in a bag to be carried from thence to Goadby. ]acke saith that he was tenant to Dame Mary, and always at her commandment with his cart for boones and work days. "The four servants say they attended Dame Mary, their lady and mistress, from Goadby to Stanton, where certain chapmen from Leicester met her, to whom she sold the wool there lying, she having the key of the woolhouse door for one of the locks, but not for the other, there being two upon the door."  By her command two of the servants wrenched out the staple 'and she opened the door and some of the wool was laden in packs upon horses by the woolmen and the rest was laid into Sir Win. Reyner's waines by the lady's appointment; but the said wool was in the carrying of it to Leicester stayed by Sir Robert Pierpoint, Esquire, and divers others with him, and brought back to Stanton, and there has remained ever since.  "Liston saith that he was sent to London about Michaelmas last with certain plate to borrow money thereupon which he did of which plate the one half was Sir George Villiers in his life time and the other Sir William Rayner's. He pawned it in London by commandment of his lady for £60, to be redeemed at a day not yet come."  There is no mention of his wife in the will of Sir William Rayner made on 27th October 1606, which we found in the Public Record Office. Notably, one of the witnesses was Walter Whalley, who had been implicated in encompassing the marriage. Amongst abstracts, which we obtained from the Borthwick Institute, York, of five caveats "against proving the will or granting administration of the goods of Sir William Rayner, knight, late of Stanton on the Wolds, deceased" appearing in the Nottingham Deanery probate book was one: 'before Christmas day next, without calling Mary Rayner, widow, his relict who lives at Goadby in the county of Leicester, or William Fothergill, her proctor, who entered this caveat on II November 1606".  Dame Mary 's third husband was Sir Thomas Compton, brother of William, 1st Earl of Northumberland. By 1617, her son, George Villiers, had become the Earl of Buckingham and held the monopoly on the King's patronage. D.H. Wilson wrote in his book, James VI and 1(1956), "His mother, Lady Compton, a rapacious and predatory old termagant, made it her business to trade upon her song s influence in order to advance her family and to provide wealthy husbands for her "numerous and beautiful female kindred" who came in droves to London ... Buckingham was soon begging her to stay away from court...". On 1st July 1618 she was created Countess of Buckingham for life "and when she failed to appear in London after the creation ... it was thought that a bargain had been struck to be rid of her."  Her many schemings included seeking wealthy wives for her sons, Buckingham's brothers, John and Christopher, causing a satirical verse to be composed:- 'Above in the skies shall Gemini rise, And Twins the court shall pester, George shall call up his brother Jack  And Jack his brother Kester'. On 5th March 1625, King James fell ill and did not recover as was expected. According to the account of D.H. Wilson, Buckingham and his mother administered remedies of a country practitioner without the knowledge of the royal physicians. The King grew worse and Buckingham was accused of poisoning. His mother knelt before James craving justice against accusations that she and her son had poisoned him. James responded, 'Poisoned me?' before fainting. He died on 24th March.  Sir Thomas Compton died in April 1626, but his wife, the Countess of Buckingham, lived on until she died aged 62 at the Gate House, Whitehall on 19th April, 1632 and was buried three days later in Westminster Abbey.  Antonia Fraser, in her book, King James VI and I (1974), wrote that, "As late as the trial of Charles I, the charge of causing his Father's death by poison in association with Buckingham was still brought up against him."

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