Henrietta d'Auverquerque | |
Countess of Grantham | |
Birth Name: | Henrietta Butler |
Death Date: | 11 October 1724 |
Noble Family: | Butler |
Spouse: | Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham |
Issue: | Henry, Viscount Boston Thomas, Viscount Boston Lady Frances de Nassau d'Auverquerque Emilia Mary Lady Henrietta de Nassau d'Auverquerque |
Father: | Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory |
Mother: | Emilia van Nassau-Beverweerd |
Henrietta d'Auverquerque, Countess of Grantham (died 11 October 1724),[1] formerly Lady Henrietta Butler, was an English noblewoman and the wife of Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham.
Henrietta was the youngest daughter of Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory, and a sister of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, a well-known Jacobite nobleman. Her mother, Emilia, was a Dutch noblewoman; Henrietta was thus a first cousin of her husband, whose father was Emilia's brother. They were married on 12 January 1697 and had the following issue:[2]
From 1718 until her death in 1724, the countess was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline of Ansbach, then Princess of Wales.[4]