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Elizabeth Wray, 3rd Baroness Norreys of Rycote

1603 – 1645

English noblewoman and baroness

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Lived 1603 – 1645 (aged 41–42). Elizabeth Wray, 3rd Baroness Norreys of Rycote was a politician.

Elizabeth Wray, 3rd Baroness Norreys (; – 28 November 1645), was an English noblewoman. She was the wife of Edward Wray, Groom of the Bedchamber to King James I of England, with whom she eloped in 1622, and incurred the king's displeasure as she was his ward. Elizabeth and her elopement was allegedly the inspiration for Orlando Gibbons' Fantazies.

Family Elizabeth was born around 1603, the only child of Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire, and Bridget de Vere, daughter of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, by Anne Cecil. Elizabeth's aunt was Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Derby and Lord of Mann. Elizabeth had another aunt Lady Susan de Vere, whose husband Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke was rumoured to have been Elizabeth's lover prior to her marriage.

Elizabeth died in November 1645, aged about 42. She was buried on 28 November 1645.

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Born
1603
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Died
1645
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Elizabeth Norris, Baroness Norris

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English noblewoman and baroness

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Elizabeth Wray, 3rd Baroness Norreys of Rycote was born in 1603.

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Elizabeth Wray, 3rd Baroness Norreys of Rycote died in 1645.

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Elizabeth Wray, 3rd Baroness Norreys of Rycote was a politician.

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· Wikipedia: Elizabeth Wray, 3rd Baroness Norreys of Rycote

· Wikidata: Q5363756

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