Elizabeth Hatton
English noblewoman (1578-1646)
Elizabeth, Lady Coke (née Cecil; 1578 – 3 January 1646), was an English court office holder. She served as lady-in-waiting to the queen consort of England, Anne of Denmark. She was the daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, and Dorothy Neville, and the granddaughter of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. She was the wife of Sir William Hatton and later of Sir Edward Coke.
Early life
Elizabeth Cecil was the daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter and Dorothy Neville (1548–1609). Her maternal grandfather was John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer and her maternal grandmother was Lady Lucy Somerset, daughter of Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester and his first wife Margaret Courtenay. Her paternal grandfather was William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and her paternal grandmother was Mary Cheke (died February 1543).
Marriage to William Hatton
In the early 1590s, Elizabeth married Sir William Hatton (formerly Newport) (1560–1597), the son of John Newport (d. 1566) of Hunningham, Warwickshire, and his wife, Dorothy Hatton (d. 1566x70), the sister of Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor, Sir Christopher Hatton.
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