Henrietta d'Auverquerque, Countess of Grantham

Henrietta d'Auverquerque
Countess of Grantham
Born	Henrietta Butler
Died	11 October 1724
Noble family	Butler
Spouse(s)	Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham
Issue	Henry, Viscount Boston Thomas, Viscount Boston Lady Frances de Nassau d'Auverquerque Emilia Mary Lady Henrietta de Nassau d'Auverquerque
Father	Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory
Mother	Emilia van Nassau-Beverweerd

Henrietta d'Auverquerque, Countess of Grantham (died 11 October 1724),[1] formerly Lady Henrietta Butler, was an English noblewoman and the wife of Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham.

History

Henrietta was the youngest daughter of Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory, and a sister of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, a well-known Jacobite nobleman. Her mother, Emilia, was a Dutch noblewoman; Henrietta was thus a first cousin of her husband, whose father was Emilia's brother. They were married on 12 January 1697 and had the following issue:[2]

• Henry (1697–1718), styled Viscount Boston
• Thomas (1700–1730), styled Viscount Boston, who died unmarried.
• Lady Frances de Nassau d'Auverquerque (died 1772), who married Captain (later Lieutenant-Colonel) William Elliot of Wells, and had one child who died in infancy
• Emilia Mary (c.1702–1712)
• Lady Henrietta de Nassau d'Auverquerque (1712–1747), who married William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper, and was the mother of George Clavering-Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper[3]

From 1718 until her death in 1724, the countess was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline of Ansbach, then Princess of Wales.[4]

References

1. L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 48.
2. Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords (1869). Journals of the House of Lords. H.M. Stationery Office. pp. 16–.
3. Hugh Belsey, ‘Cowper, George Nassau Clavering, third Earl Cowper (1738–1789)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 26 April 2010
4. "Household of Queen Caroline 1727-37". Institute of Historical Research. Archived from the original on 15 March 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2018.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ossory, Thomas Butler, Earl of". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 354.