Alice Spencer

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Alice Spencer was an English noblewoman and literary patron of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, noted for her influential connections at the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts.

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instanceOf English noblewoman
literary patron
associatedWith House of Egerton
House of Stanley
birthYear 1559
burialPlace St Mary the Virgin Church, Harefield
child Anne Stanley, Countess of Castlehaven
Elizabeth Stanley
Frances Stanley
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of England
court Elizabethan court
Jacobean court
linked to: English royal court
deathYear 1637
era Elizabethan era
linked to: English Renaissance

Jacobean era
linked to: Stuart period
familyName Spencer
father Sir John Spencer
gender female
givenName Alice
influenced Elizabethan literature
linked to: English Renaissance

Jacobean literature
linked to: English Renaissance
mother Katherine Kitson
nobleFamily Spencer family
notableEvent hosted literary and courtly entertainments at Harefield
subject of poetic dedications by Edmund Spenser
notableFor influential connections at the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts
support of poets and writers
notableWork patronage of Edmund Spenser
patronage of John Donne
patronage of Samuel Daniel
patronOf Edmund Spenser
John Donne
Samuel Daniel
other late 16th-century and early 17th-century writers
religion Church of England
residence Harefield Place, Middlesex
linked to: Harefield

Lathom House, Lancashire
linked to: Lathom House
sibling Anne Spencer
Elizabeth Spencer
socialStatus aristocracy
spouse Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby
Sir Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth
Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
title Countess of Derby
Dowager Countess of Derby
linked to: Countess of Derby

Viscountess Brackley

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Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby spouse Alice Spencer
subject linked to: 5th Earl of Derby