A Reminder from Trixie the Cat!
Just a couple of days to Lord Montagu’s talk on the Southampton tomb on Monday!
For Your Cat, the big question is whether Mary Southampton’s coffin was placed ‘as near as may be’ near to her first husband, the Second Earl of Southampton.
Her son, Henry, Third Earl of Southamton. was busy in Titchfield at the time trying to establish industry in the area – and he had never got on with his mother.
In fact Mary went as far as to say that her son ‘never was kind to me’ – and that he had been ‘unnatural and undutiful’.
Mary had married Thomas Heneage in 1594 – but he had died soon afterwards. She went on to a third marriage with William Harvey – who was little older than her son – and the third Earl was furious that she intended to go ahead with the ceremony while he was in jail, for angering the Queen with his own marriage to Elizabeth Vernon.
Mary – when she made her plea in her will to be interred near her first husband – made Harry a gift of sixteen loose diamonds to be set into a George of gold for him to wear in memory of her – and the ‘best’ part of her goods – if not the ‘most’ which she left to her new husband.
Did the bribe work?
Was she placed near her first husband?
Was her body even placed in the tomb?
Lord Montague will reveal all!
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