Catherine Fenton Boyle (1588-1629) - Find a Grave Memorial

Irish Aristocracy. Born Catherine Fenton the daughter of Sir Geoffrey Fenton and Alice Weston. She became the second wife of Sir Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork in July 1603. As a result of her marriage she was styled as Lady Boyle and as Countess of Cork. The couple had 15 children including the scientist The Honorable Robert Boyle, who was their 14th child. She died in Dublin, Ireland and was buried almost a month later in the National Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Patrick, Dublin, within an elaborate tomb her husband had commissioned depicting himself, his two wives, and his 15 children.

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Inscription

This Monument was erected for the Right Honorable Sir Richard Boyle, Knight, Lord Boyle, Baron of Youghall, Viscount of Dungarvan, Earl of Corke, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, of the King's Privy Counsell of this realm, and one of the Lordes Justices for the Government of this Kingdom ; in memorie of his most dear, vertuous and religious Wife, the Ladie Katherine, Countess of Corke, and their Posterity, as also of her Grandfather Dr. Robert Weston, sometime Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and one of the Lordes Justices for the Government thereof ; whose daughter, Alice Weston, was married to Sir Geoffray Fenton, Knight, principal Secretary of State in this Realm, and they had issue, the said Ladie Katherine, Countess of Corke, who lieth here interred with her said Father and Grandfather, who vertues she inherited on earth and lieth here intombed with them, all expecting a joyfull resurrection. Quae obiit decimo sexto Februarii 1629.