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Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby (4 May 1559 – 23 January 1637) was an English noblewoman from the Spencer family and noted patron of the arts. Poet Edmund Spenser represented her as "Amaryllis" in his eclogue Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (1595) and dedicated his poem The Teares of the Muses (1591) to her.
Apr 11, 2023 · One of the most powerful women of Tudor and Stuart England, Alice Spencer (1560–1637)—an ancestor of the late Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales—was born to well-to-do sheep farmers and rose to become the formidable matriarch of one of the most prominent families in British history.
- Loren Kling
Alice became Countess of Derby upon her husband succeeding to the earldom of Derby on 25th September 1593. She would later retain this title during her second marriage to the 1st Viscount of Brackley, as countess was naturally more prestigious.
Alice Spencer (c. 1560-1637) Lady Strange, Countess of Derby (via her first husband Ferdinando Stanley of Lancashire, Lord Strange and 5 th Earl of Derby); Baroness Ellesmere and Viscountess Brackley (via her second husband Sir Thomas Egerton of Cheshire);
A great dynast, Alice – who continued to style herself Countess of Derby even after her second marriage – engineered socially and financially advantageous matches for her daughters.
- Elizabeth Goldring
Jul 5, 2019 · This is the resting place of Alice Spencer Stanley Egerton, dowager countess of Derby, who died on 26 January 1637. The countess also left her mark a few hundred yards away with almshouses she established in her will, ‘for the relief and maintenance of six poor women of the said parish to reside’. 2
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Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby (4 May 1559 – 23 January 1637) was an English noblewoman from the Spencer family and noted patron of the arts. Poet Edmund Spenser represented her as "Amaryllis" in his eclogue Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (1595) and dedicated his poem The Teares of the Muses (1591) to her.
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