Top Celebrity Names Starting With Countess

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   Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

   1930 - 2002 Female
   

   Queen, King, Uncle

   
   

   Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II and the younger daughter of King George VI. Margaret spent much of her childhood years in the company of her older sister and parents. Her life changed dramatically in 1936, when her paternal uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated to marry the divorced American Wallis Simpson.… read more

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   Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery

   1851 - 1890 Female
   

   Countess of Rosebery

   
   

   Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery was the daughter of Mayer de Rothschild and his wife Juliana, née Cohen. Upon the death of her father in 1874 she became the richest woman in Britain.

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   Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

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   Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

   1720 - 1720 Female
   

   Countess and Poet

   
   

   Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea was born in Sydmonton, Hampshire, the third child of Sir William Kingsmill of Sydmonton Court, and his wife, Anne Haslewood. She was well educated as her family believed in good education for girls as well as for boys. In 1682, Anne Kingsmill went to St James's Palace to become a Maid of Honour to Mary of Modena (wife of James, Duke of York, who later became King James II.… read more

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   Susanna Montgomery, Countess of Eglinton

   1690 - 1780 Female
   

   Baronet, Earl

   
   

   Susanna Montgomery, Countess of Eglinton, was the daughter of Sir Archibald Kennedy, 1st Baronet of Culzean and the third wife of Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton. Born in 1690, she died at Auchans on 18 March 1780 at the age of 90. She had been a widow for nearly 51 years. The surname of the family is often rendered as Montgomerie and she signed herself as S. Eglintoune.… read more

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   Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby

   1443 - 1509 Female
   

   Countess, King, Matriarch

   
   

   Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby was the mother of King Henry VII and paternal grandmother of King Henry VIII of England. She was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses, an influential matriarch of the House of Tudor and foundress of two Cambridge colleges. In 1509, she briefly served as regent of England for her grandson.… read more

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   Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

   1473 - 1541 Female
   

   Peeress

   
   

   Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury was an English peeress, one of two women in sixteenth-century England to be a peeress in her own right with no titled husband, the daughter of George of Clarence, the brother of King Edward IV and King Richard III. She was among the few surviving members of the Plantagenet dynasty after the Wars of the Roses; she was executed in 1541 at the command of King Henry VIII, who was her cousin Elizabeth's son.… read more

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   Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach

   1696 - 1776 Female
   

   Abess of Thorn and Abbess of Essen

   
   

   Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach was the Princess-abbess of Essen Abbey and Thorn Abbey. She reigned Essen Abbey from 1726 to 1776, the longest of any Essen abbess Her reign was marked by disputes between the Abbey and the City, which were caused by her counselors. She founded the Princess Francisca Christina Foundation, which still maintains the orphanage she founded in Essen-Steele.… read more

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   Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray

   1540 - 1588 Female
   

   Noblewoman, Earl, Regent

   
   

   Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray was a Scottish noblewoman having been the eldest daughter of William Keith, 4th Earl Marischal. She was the wife of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland and the illegitimate half-brother of Mary, Queen of Scots, making her a sister-in-law of the Scottish queen. As the wife of the regent, Lady Moray was the most powerful woman in Scotland from 1567 until her husband's assassination in 1570.… read more