Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond (died 1639)

Frances Stewart, Duchess of Lennox

English noblewoman (1578–1639)

Frances Stewart (née Howard), Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, Countess of Hertford was the daughter of a younger son of the Duke of Norfolk. An orphan of small fortune, she rose to be the only duchess at the court of James I of England. She married the son of a London alderman…