Elizabeth Manners, 15th Baroness Ros, 15th Baroness Ros of Helmsley in her own right from 1587, wife of Sir William Cecil, later 2nd Earl of Exeter.
Dates: c.1574/75–1591
Biography
Only child and heir of Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland. On her father’s death the Earldom of Rutland passed to his brother John Manners, while the Barony of Ros descended to Elizabeth. She married William Cecil in January 1589 and died in childbed on 1 May 1591, aged about sixteen. Her son William inherited the Ros barony.
Notes / Sources
Westminster Abbey, Elizabeth Cecil, Baroness Ros — https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/elizabeth-cecil
The Complete Peerage, Ros or Roos — https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Complete_Peerage_Ed_2_Vol_4.djvu/755
British Armorial Bindings, Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland — https://armorial.bibsoc.org.uk/stamp-owners/MAN002.html
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Manners/Ros female succession into Cecil of Exeter
Father: Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland
Mother: Isabel Holcroft, daughter of Sir Thomas Holcroft
Spouse(s): William Cecil, later 2nd Earl of Exeter, married 13 January 1589
Children / next generation: William Cecil, 16th Baron Ros
Armorial Registry
Ros of Helmsley — Elizabeth Manners, suo jure Baroness Ros, and the female transmission into Cecil
Branch: Female Ros succession through the Manners of Rutland into Cecil of Exeter
Issued / recorded: 1587-04-14
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