Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel

Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel

Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel (pronEng|ə'liθiə 'haʊərd [ [http://www.behindthename.com/name/alethea Behind the Name] ] ; Sheffield, Yorkshire, 1585 – Alkmaar, May 24, 1654), née Lady Alethea Talbot, was the wife of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel. She was the youngest daughter of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury and his wife Mary Cavendish; and the sister of two other countesses: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent.

Life

In September, 1606, she married to Thomas Howard, and they had four children:
*James Howard, Baron Maltravers (1607-1624)
*Henry Frederick Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel (1608-1652)
*William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford (1614-1680)
*Lady Mary Anne Howard (c. 1615-1658)

Along with her sister Elizabeth, and their cousin Arbella Stuart, she performed in a masque celebrating the investiture of Henry Stuart as Prince of Wales in 1610.

In 1614 they were living in Rome. The Earl of Arundel was one of the first Englishmen to buy antique statues. In 1622 the couple lived in Venice in the Palazzo Mocenigo facing the Canal Grande.

Alethea and her husband accompanied the Elector Palatine and his bride as far as Heidelberg on their marriage in 1613.

1620, aged 34, Rubens painted Alethea Talbot, Countess of Arundel, and her retinue in Antwerp when she was on her way to Italy.

In 1642 she and her husband fled to the Netherlands and lived there in exile. When the Earl of Arundel died in Padua, Alethea inherited the collection of 600 paintings and drawings and 200 statues from her husband, which he had bought with her money. The collection was worth £100.000. Her eldest son and youngest argued in court.

Alethea lived in Amersfoort, Alkmaar and in Amsterdam at Singel 292, an elegant house, with a court yard facing Herengracht. [S.A.C. Dudok van Heel (1991) De graaf en graven van Arundel in ballingschap in de Nederlanden en in Italie. In: Maandblad Amstelodamum, p. 31-34.]

In 1651, she succeeded to the title of Baroness Furnivall, a title of her father's that had been in abeyance since his death in 1616. Like her sister, Elizabeth, Alethea was interested in the use of herbs and other foodstuffs for medical purposes. Her recipes were published under the title "Natura Exenterata" fact|date = August 2007

Ancestry

References

ources

* L. Cut, Notes on the collections formed by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, and Surry, K. G. In: The Burlington Magazine 1911/12, XX, pp. 97-100, 233-236 and 341-343.
* M. F. S. Hervey, The life, correspondence and collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, Cambridge 1921, Appendix V, The Arundel inventory, p. 473-500.
* D. Howarth, Lord Arundel and his circle, New Haven/London 1985.
* F.H.C. Weijtens (1971) De Arundel-Collectie : commencement de la fin, Amersfoort 1655.

External links

* http://www.shafe.co.uk/art/early_stuart_16_-_collecting_under_charles_i.asp
* http://www.geocities.com/decklyduck/Family/pafg10.htm
* http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=163710&sectioncode=22


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