DescriptionA rich widow of Lincolnshire - geograph.org.uk - 425262.jpg
English: Monument in St Lawrence's Church, Snarford, Lincolnshire to Frances Wray and her second husband Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick (died 1619). Probably by famous sculptor Epiphanius Evesham, it shows the couple in low relief ... as if in a Jacobean miniature painting. Born in 1568 the second daughter of Sir Christopher Wray, Lord Chief Justice to Queen Elizabeth I, Frances Wray was described as 'a person of shining conversation and eminent bounty'. She married Sir George St.Pol at the age of fifteen and after 30 years of marriage found herself as a wealthy widow. Three years later in 1616 she married the even wealthier Robert Lord Rich, when he died in 1619 she was one of the richest women in Lincolnshire. She died at Snarford in 1634 aged 66. Showing quartered arms of Rich (Gules, a chevron between three crosses botonée or) impaling quartered arms of Wray (Azure, on a chief or three martlets gules)
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