Alice Spencer

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Alice Spencer was an English noblewoman and literary patron of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, noted for her influential connections at the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts.

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Alice Spencer canonical 3

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instanceOf English noblewoman ⓘ
literary patron ⓘ
associatedWith House of Egerton ⓘ
House of Stanley ⓘ
birthYear 1559 ⓘ
burialPlace St Mary the Virgin Church, Harefield ⓘ
child Anne Stanley, Countess of Castlehaven ⓘ
Elizabeth Stanley ⓘ
Frances Stanley ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England ⓘ
court Elizabethan court ⓘ
Jacobean court ⓘ
linked to: English royal court
deathYear 1637 ⓘ
era Elizabethan era ⓘ
linked to: English Renaissance

Jacobean era ⓘ
linked to: Stuart period
familyName Spencer ⓘ
father Sir John Spencer ⓘ
gender female ⓘ
givenName Alice ⓘ
influenced Elizabethan literature ⓘ
linked to: English Renaissance

Jacobean literature ⓘ
linked to: English Renaissance
mother Katherine Kitson ⓘ
nobleFamily Spencer family ⓘ
notableEvent hosted literary and courtly entertainments at Harefield ⓘ
subject of poetic dedications by Edmund Spenser ⓘ
notableFor influential connections at the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts ⓘ
support of poets and writers ⓘ
notableWork patronage of Edmund Spenser ⓘ
patronage of John Donne ⓘ
patronage of Samuel Daniel ⓘ
patronOf Edmund Spenser ⓘ
John Donne ⓘ
Samuel Daniel ⓘ
other late 16th-century and early 17th-century writers ⓘ
religion Church of England ⓘ
residence Harefield Place, Middlesex ⓘ
linked to: Harefield

Lathom House, Lancashire ⓘ
linked to: Lathom House
sibling Anne Spencer ⓘ
Elizabeth Spencer ⓘ
socialStatus aristocracy ⓘ
spouse Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby ⓘ
Sir Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth ⓘ
Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley ⓘ
title Countess of Derby ⓘ
Dowager Countess of Derby ⓘ
linked to: Countess of Derby

Viscountess Brackley ⓘ

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Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby → spouse → Alice Spencer ⓘ
subject linked to: 5th Earl of Derby