Lady Elizabeth Manners

Baroness of Ros

Father:

Mother:

Lord Edward Manners 3rd Earl of Rutland

Lady Isabel Holcroft - Manners

Born: Jan 1572/5  Died: Died: 1 May 1591, Tower Street, All Hallows, Barking, Essex, England

Buried: 19 May 1591, Westminster Abbey, London, England

Married:

Children:

William CECIL (2° E. Exeter) Jan 1589 Born: 2 Jan 1566, Burghley House, Stamford, Lincoln  Acceded: 1623  Died: 6 Jul 1640, Exeter House, St.John's, Clerkenwell

Buried: 9 Jul 1640, Westminster Abbey, London, England

1. William CECIL (17° B. Ros) Born: May 1590, Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire  Christened: 4 Jun 1590 Acceded: 1 May 1591 Died: 27 June 1618

Personnel Information

Elizabeth died at the house of her grandfather Sir Thomas Holcroft, in Tower-street, London, Apr 12, 1591; and was buried in the chapel of St. Nicholas in Westminster Abbey; where a monument was erected for her on the West side of the chapel, situated “on the West side of the chapel, seemingly very ancient by the white spongy stone where as it is made, on which is the image of lady veiled, and leaning on her left arm. The monument,” “hath no inscription; but, as appears by the arms and the heralds register, was erected to the lady Elizabeth, commonly called the lady Ros.” This lady left an only son, William, not quite a year old, who, at his mother’s funeral, was proclaimed, after the service in the church, by the title of “lord Rod, of Hamlake, Trusbut, and Belvoir;” and afterwards, in the reign of King James, claimed those baronies, in right of his mother, against Francis Earl of Rutland; when the King determined that he should be lord Ros of Holderness, and have the ancient seat of the lords Ros in paliament; but that title of lord Ros of Hamlake, Trusbut, and Belvoir, should still remain to the Earl of Rutland. The lord Ros of Holderness was sent Ambassador to the Emperor Matthias, in Spain, whence he returned the next year; and in 1618, having traveled into Italy, he died, without issue, at Naples, not without suspicion of being poisoned. On his death, the title of lord Ros reverted indisputably to the Rutland family.