Elizabeth Trevannion, Countess of Monmouth

Elizabeth Trevannion, Countess of Monmouth (born ca. 1570 – died before 1641) was an English noblewoman born in Cornwall, England to Sir Hugh Trevannion and Sybilla Morgan. Elizabeth married twice first on 20 August, 1593 to Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth son of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and Anne Morgan. More than twenty years after Robert's death Elizabeth married a second time to Henry Widdrington.

Children

by Robert Carey
*Lady Philadelphia Carey (born before 1596 – died 1654) married Sir Thomas Wharton
*Thomas Carey (ca. 1604 – 1631) married Margaret Smith
*Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth (15 January, 1595 – 13 June, 1661) married Martha Cranfield

References

* [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=ancestorsearchresults.asp familysearch] Accessed April 1, 2008
*Banks, T. C. "The Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England: Or, An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Lives, Public Employments, and Most Memorable Actions of the English Nobility Who Have Flourished from the Norman Conquest to ... 1806 [-1837] ." (pp. 586-7) London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, for J. White, Horace's Head, Fleet-street, 1807. [http://books.google.com/books?id=8TUvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA586&dq=Sir+thomas+Wharton&lr=&as_brr=1&ei=sSzyR7qJIJ2QjgGuiv2sDQ#PPA587,M1 googlebooks] Retrieved April 1, 2008