Women / Persons ~ P10500
Frances Howard
Alternate Names:
- Frances Carr
- The Right Honourable Countess of Essex
- The Right Honourable Countess of Somerset
Gender: Female
Life Dates: ca. 1590 - 1632
Types:
- Countess
- divorced or separated
- English
- Murderess
- Sexual agency, transgression (hetero)
- Wife of notable man
Note: First marriage annulled, poisoned Sir Thomas Overbury, convicted of murder (alongside her second husband) but pardoned by James 1 and spared execution