Elizabeth Throckmorton

Elizabeth Throckmorton whose religious name was Elizabeth Teresa Pulcheria (1694 – April 4, 1760) was an Englishwoman who served as prioress of the Convent of Our Blessed Lady of Syon in Paris.

Life Throckmorton was born in 1694. She was one of the eleven children of Lady Mary (born Yate) and Sir Robert Throckmorton (1662–1721), third baronet, of Coughton Court in Warwickshire.

She suffered from "the King's Evil" or scrofula (Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis). This was believed to be treatable by touching the King. She chose to meet and touch the Old Pretender at St Germain en Laye in the hope of relief in 1704. In 1729 her brother Sir Robert Throckmorton, 4th Baronet, commissioned four paintings from Nicolas de Largillière. One was of Elizabeth, another was of Anne Throckmorton, another of his cousin Frances Woollascot and the last was of himself. All the portraits would have been together, but Elizabeth's portrait is in the collection of the American National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.