Philippa Coningsby

Philippa Congsby (née Fitzwilliam; 1530, Milton, Northamptonshire – 1596) married to Sir Thomas Coningsby and had 11 children.[2][3]

Lady Coningsby in 1578, painting by George Gower[1]

As wife of Sir Thomas Coningsby she lived at Leominster and Hampton Court, Herefordshire. Coningsby wrote in a letter to Sir Robert Cecil that his wife was his "near kinswoman".[4]

References
  1. Art, Indianapolis Museum of; Janson, Anthony F.; Fraser, A. Ian (1980), 100 masterpieces of painting: Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Museum
  2. "Coningsby, Thomas (d.1625)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  3. "Phillipa Fitzwilliam". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  4. HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 11 (Dublin, 1906), pp. 114, 161.
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