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Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland, Née Russell (1560-1616)

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Abstract Margaret clifford was the daughter of the Earl of Bedford, who had George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, as his ward: Bedford took the opportunity to bring his ward’s fortune into the family by betrothing him to his daughter. Clifford’s mother was Lady Eleanor Brandon, younger daughter of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII: he was thus the first cousin of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey. They married in 1577, and the marriage collapsed in 1591, whereupon she took her daughter, Anne Clifford, and they went to live with her sister Anne, Countess of Warwick. Both were cultivated patronesses supporting such writers as Edmund Spenser and Samuel Daniel (whom she hired as her daughter Anne’s tutor), and notably,
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Title: Margaret Clifford, Countess of Cumberland, Née Russell (1560-1616)
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Abstract Margaret clifford was the daughter of the Earl of Bedford, who had George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, as his ward: Bedford took the opportunity to bring his ward’s fortune into the family by betrothing him to his daughter.
Clifford’s mother was Lady Eleanor Brandon, younger daughter of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII: he was thus the first cousin of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey.
They married in 1577, and the marriage collapsed in 1591, whereupon she took her daughter, Anne Clifford, and they went to live with her sister Anne, Countess of Warwick.
Both were cultivated patronesses supporting such writers as Edmund Spenser and Samuel Daniel (whom she hired as her daughter Anne’s tutor), and notably,.

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