HOWARD, Frances ¹

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Frances married Robert KER 'OR CARRE' 1st Earl of Somerset, son of Sir Thomas KER of Ferniehirst and Janet SCOTT, on 26 December 1613 in Chapel of Whitehall, London, England.¹ (Robert KER 'OR CARRE' 1st Earl of Somerset was born about 1587, died in July 1645 in London, England ¹ and was buried on 17 July 1645 in St Paul's, Covent Garden, London ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (Robert Ker) was married, 26 December 1613, in the chapel of Whitehall, in the presence of the King and Queen, to Lady Frances Howard, third daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Suffolk, K.G., Lord High Treasurer of England, the divorced wife of Robert, Earl of Essex. He and his Countess were tried for, and convicted of, the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 24 May 1616. They were both sentenced to death, but were only imprisoned. He was freed from imprisonment in the Tower 17 January 1621-22, 2 but ordered to be confined to the house of Viscount Wallingford. He obtained a pardon under the Great Seal 7 October 1624."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ¹