Philippa Coningsby

Philippa Coningsby (née Fitzwilliam (died 1596) was an English aristocrat, a daughter of William FitzWilliam of Milton. She married Sir Thomas Coningsby and had 11 children.[2][3]

Lady Coningsby in 1578, painting by George Gower[1]

As wife of Sir Thomas Coningsby she lived at Leominster and Hampton Court, Herefordshire, where their monogram "TCP" was carved in several places. Coningsby wrote in a letter to Sir Robert Cecil that his wife was his "near kinswoman".[4] In 1617, an unmarried cousin of her husband, Joyce Jeffreys, who was born at Ham Castle at Clifton-upon-Teme, joined the household to be a "perpetual companion" to Philippa Coningsby.[5]

Although the date of her death is frequently given as 1596, she lived into the 1620s. She was buried at Hope under Dinmore.

References
  1. Art, Indianapolis Museum of; Janson, Anthony F.; Fraser, A. Ian (1980), 100 masterpieces of painting: Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Museum
  2. "Coningsby, Thomas (d.1625)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  3. "Phillipa Fitzwilliam". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  4. HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 11 (Dublin, 1906), pp. 114, 161.
  5. Judith M. Spicksley, The business and household accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, spinster of Hereford (Oxford, 2012), p. 11.
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