Philippa Coningsby Explained

Philippa Coningsby (Fitzwilliam (died 1596) was an English aristocrat, a daughter of William FitzWilliam of Milton. She married Sir Thomas Coningsby and had 11 children.^{[1] [2]}

As wife of Sir Thomas Coningsby she lived at Leominster and Hampton Court, Herefordshire, where their monogram "TCP" was carved in several places. Coningsby wrote in a letter to Sir Robert Cecil that his wife was his "near kinswoman".^[3]

She died in 1596, and was buried at Hope under Dinmore.

In 1617, an unmarried cousin of her husband, Joyce Jeffreys, who was born at Ham Castle at Clifton-upon-Teme, joined the household to be a "perpetual companion" to the younger Philippa Coningsby.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Coningsby, Thomas (d.1625).
2. Web site: Phillipa Fitzwilliam . www.thepeerage.com . 2011-04-21.
3. HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 11 (Dublin, 1906), pp. 114, 161.
4. Judith M. Spicksley, The business and household accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, spinster of Hereford (Oxford, 2012), p. 11.