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Dorothy Kitson (1531 – 1577) later, Dorothy, Lady Pakington, was the daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson, a wealthy London merchant and the builder of Hengrave Hall in Suffolk. Her first husband was Sir Thomas Pakington, by whom she was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Sir John "Lusty" Pakington. After Sir Thomas Pakington's death she married Thomas Tasburgh. She was one of the few women in Tudor England to nominate burgesses to Parliament and to make her last will while her husband, Thomas Tasburgh, was still living. Her three nieces are referred to in the poems of Edmund Spenser. ==Family== Dorothy Kitson was the daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson by his second wife, Margaret Donnington (d. 12 January 1561), the only child of John Donnington (d.1544) of Stoke Newington, a member of the Worshipful Company of Salters,〔.〕 and Elizabeth Pye.〔.〕 By her father's first marriage to a wife whose name is unknown she had a half sister, Elizabeth Kitson, who was the first wife of Edmund Croftes (d. 14 February 1558) of Westow Hall in Little Saxham, Suffolk.〔.〕 By her father's second marriage she had a brother and three sisters: *Sir Thomas Kitson (1540–1603), who married firstly Jane Paget, the daughter of William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, by whom he had no issue, and secondly Elizabeth Cornwallis, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, by whom he had a son who died as an infant and two daughters, Margaret, who married Sir Charles Cavendish (November 1553 – 4 April 1617), son of Bess of Hardwick and Sir William Cavendish, by whom she had no issue, and Mary, who married Thomas Darcy, 3rd Baron Darcy of Chiche.〔.〕 *Katherine Kitson, who married Sir John Spencer (1524 – 8 November 1586) of Althorpe, Northamptonshire, and Wormleighton, Warwickshire, by whom she had four sons, John, Thomas, William and Richard, and six daughters.〔.〕 Among her daughters were Elizabeth Spencer, who married, in 1574, George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, eldest son of Queen Elizabeth's cousin, Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon; Anne Spencer, who in 1575 married William Stanley, 3rd Baron Monteagle (c.1529-1581), and in 1592 Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset; and Alice Spenser, who in 1579 married Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby (c.1559-1594). The three Spencer sisters are referred to as 'Phyllis, Charillis, and sweet Amaryllis’ in the poet Edmund Spenser's ''Colin Clout’s Come Home Again'' (1595).〔.〕 *Frances Kitson, who married firstly John Bourchier, 5th Baron FitzWarin, eldest son of John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath, by whom she had a son, William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath, and secondly William Barnaby of Great Saxham, Suffolk.〔 *Anne Kitson, who married, as his first wife, Sir William Spring of Pakenham, Suffolk.〔; .〕 After Sir Thomas Kitson's death, Dorothy's mother, Margaret, married secondly Sir Richard Long (d.1546) of Wiltshire, Great Saxham and Shingay, Cambridgeshire, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Henry VIII, by whom she had a son, Henry Long, and three daughters, Jane, Katherine and Mary.〔 She married thirdly, in 1548, John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath (d.1560), by whom she had two daughters, Susan and Bridget.〔.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dorothy Kitson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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