Overview
Lady Elizabeth Danvers née Neville, later Lady Elizabeth Carey by remarriage (1545/50–1630) was an English noblewoman. She was the mother of Sir Charles Danvers, executed in 1601 for his part in the rebellion of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and of Sir John Danvers, one of the commissioners who tried King Charles I and signed the King's death warrant.
Family
Elizabeth Neville, born between 1545 and 1550, was the youngest daughter of John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer, and Lucy Somerset, the daughter of Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester, by his second wife, Elizabeth Browne, the daughter of Sir Anthony Browne, Lieutenant of Calais, by his second wife, Lucy Neville, daughter of John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu. She had three elder sisters:
Katherine Neville (1545/6 – 28 October 1596), who married firstly, Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland, and secondly, Francis Fitton of Binfield, Berkshire.
Dorothy Neville (1548–1609), who married Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, eldest son of Lord Burghley.
Lucy Neville (c.1549 – April 1608), who married Sir William Cornwallis (c.1551–1611) of Brome, Suffolk.
Life
The antiquarian and biographer, John Aubrey, whose ancestor she was, describes her in his Brief Lives (1693), stating that she had Chaucer at her fingers' ends:
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