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Frederica Mildmay
Countess FitzWalter
suo jure Countess of Mértola
Frederica, Countess FitzWalter (circle of Joseph Highmore, 1727)
Full name
Frederica Susanna Mildmay (née Schomberg)
Born1687
Berlin
Died7 August 1751 (aged 63–64)
Spouse(s)Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl of Holderness
(m. 1715–21; his death)
Benjamin Mildmay, 1st Earl FitzWalter
(m. 1724–51; her death)
IssueRobert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
Caroline Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian
FatherMeinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg
MotherRaugravine Karoline von der Pfalz

Frederica Susanna Mildmay, Countess FitzWalter, 3rd Countess of Mértola (née Schomberg, previously Frederica Darcy, Countess of Holderness; 1687 – 7 August 1751)[1] was a British peeress.

Life

Frederica was the eldest surviving daughter, and co-heir,[2] of Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg,[3] and his second wife, Raugravine Karoline Elisabeth von der Pfalz, a daughter of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine. On 26 May 1715, she married Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl of Holderness, and they had two surviving children:

On the death of the countess' father in 1719, she inherited his Portuguese countship of Mértola as his eldest surviving child. Her husband died in 1721 and on 18 June 1724,[5] she married Hon. Benjamin Mildmay, who was later created Earl FitzWalter in 1730. They had one child, who died in infancy.[1]

Via cognatic primogeniture, she was the most senior descendant of James I of England to be Protestant, but she was passed over for Sophia of Hanover. Her cognatic heir is Anthea Theresa Lycett (born Marcia Anne Miller), Countess of Mértola, eldest daughter of Diana, Baroness Conyers and Fauconberg and Countess of Mértola.

The countess was survived by her elderly second husband; on her death, at the age of 63, she was buried in the Mildmay family vault at St Mary's Church, Chelmsford, where he was also later buried.[1]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ a b c Thomas Wright (1836). The history and topography of ... Essex. p. 80.
  2. ^ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Henry Colburn. 1860. p. 228.
  3. ^ Horace Walpole (1985). Memoirs of King George II: January 1751-March 1754. Yale University Press. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-300-03197-3.
  4. ^ Agnew, David Carnegie A. (1886). Protestant Exiles from France, Chiefly in the Reign of Louis XIV. Turnbull & Spears. p. 318.
  5. ^ Richard K. Evans; New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007). The ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales: for twelve generations. New England Historic Genealogical Society. ISBN 978-0-88082-208-4.
Titles of nobility
Preceded by Countess of Mértola
1719–1751 		Succeeded by

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