- Lady Blanche Arundell
Lady Blanche Arundell nèe Somerset (1583 –
28 October ,1649 ) was born toEdward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester andLady Elizabeth Hastings . On11 May ,1607 she marriedThomas Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Wardour son ofThomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour andLady Mary Wriothesley .On
2 May ,1643 , during the absence of her husband she bravely defendedWardour Castle for nine days with only herself, her children, a few maid-servants, and twenty-five men against thirteen hundred men and artillery commanded by two Parliamentary officers, SirEdward Hungerford and ColonelEdmund Ludlow . She finally was forced to surrender but on her husband's return the parliament forces were soon dislodged.References
*Cooper, Thompson. "Arundell, Blanche, Lady." "A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries: and More Particularly of Distinguished Natives of Great Britain and Ireland." London: Bell, 1873. [http://books.google.com/books?id=PfIMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA86&dq=Blanche+Somerset&as_brr=1&ei=B2l6R-7qKYWoiQGlvqhy googlebooks] Accessed January 1, 2006
*Goddard, Edward Hungerford. "The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine." (p. 41) Devizes, Eng: The Society] , 1854. [http://books.google.com/books?id=zTYGAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA41&dq=blanche+arundell&lr=&as_brr=1 googlebooks] Retrieved March 16, 2008
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