Sophia Zouch, Daughter of Sir Edward Zouch of Woking, wife of Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon, Dowager Viscountess Wimbledon from 16 November 1638, second wife of Sir Robert King of Boyle Abbey.
Dates: c. 1618 – 12 November 1691
Biography
Sophia was born into the Woking branch of the Zouch family. She married Edward Cecil in September 1635, when she was approximately seventeen and he was sixty-three. Their son Algernon died in infancy. After Cecil's death in 1638, Sophia married Sir Robert King of Boyle Abbey, an Anglo-Irish landowner, politician and administrator, probably about 1641. They had a daughter, Elizabeth King, who married Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 2nd Baronet. Sophia died on 12 November 1691 and was buried at Ketton in Suffolk, where her memorial is associated with the Barnardiston family history.
Notes / Sources
The Peerage, Sophia Zouch — https://thepeerage.org/p1693.htm
The Cecil Family, digitised historical genealogy — https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/The_Cecil_family%2C_%28IA_cu31924027932239%29.pdf
Kedington alias Ketton and the Barnardiston family, Suffolk Institute — https://suffolkinstitute.pdfsrv.co.uk/customers/Suffolk%20Institute/2024/02/02/1865%20008.%20Kedington%20alias%20Ketton%2C%20and%20the%20Barnardiston%20family%20-%20pages%20123%20-%20182.pdf
Robert King, Irish biographical study from Trinity College Dublin — https://www.tara.tcd.ie/bitstreams/36c90830-e92f-4d7b-8de0-0d840e596144/download
Dorothy Silking biography — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Silking
Family / Armorial Context
Family / cadet branch: Zouch of Woking and Hoe Bridge; King of Boyle Abbey marital continuation
Father: Sir Edward Zouch of Woking, Knight Marshal of the King's Household
Mother: Dorothea Silking, a Danish courtier and chamberer to Anne of Denmark
Spouse(s): Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon, married September 1635; died 16 November 1638; Sir Robert King of Boyle Abbey and Kingsborough, married probably c. 1641; died 1657
Children / next generation: Algernon Cecil, son of Edward Cecil and Sophia Zouch, born December 1636 and died in infancy; Elizabeth King, born c. 1651, daughter of Sophia Zouch and Sir Robert King; married Sir Thomas Barnardiston, 2nd Baronet
Armorial Registry
Sophia Zouch of Woking — Zouch daughter, Dowager Viscountess Wimbledon and second wife of Sir Robert King
Branch: Daughter-line of the Woking and Hoe Bridge Zouches; subsequently the King of Boyle Abbey marital branch
Issued / recorded: c. 1618
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