Brilliana Conway (1600-1643)
Daughter of Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway
and Dorothy Tracy, of Toddington
Born circa 1600
Died October 1643
Married 22 July 1623
Sir Robert Harley,
son of Thomas Harley, of Bampton
and Margaret Corbet, of Moreton-Corbet
baptised 1 March 1579
Died 6 November 1656
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Lady Brilliana Harley was celebrated for her gallant defence of Brampton
Castle, during the civil wars, when invested, in 1643, by the rebels, whom
she forced to raise the siege after seven weeks of unavailing hostility.
Her Ladyship dying, however, in the October following, the besiegers returned
to the castle, which, after a second gallant resistance, being forced to
surrender, was burnt to the ground.
Source: Leo van de Pas |
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