Lady Anne Cecil was the daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, son of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Secretary of State to Elizabeth I and James I. The proposed marriage to the future 10th Earl of Northumberland met with disapproval from the 9th Earl, who blamed the 1st Earl of Salisbury for his imprisonment in the Tower of London. Despite eventually relenting, believing in his son's right to choose a wife for himself, he remarked that "the blood of Percy would not mix with the blood of Cecil ‘if you poured it in a dish'" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
Anne died of smallpox in 1637, aged 25, and was buried in the Percy family vault at St Mary's Church, Petworth, West Sussex. A friend of the 10th Earl remarked that her death "had the least outward power on him of any man he knew" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). He later remarried to Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Suffolk.
Anne died of smallpox in 1637, aged 25, and was buried in the Percy family vault at St Mary's Church, Petworth, West Sussex. A friend of the 10th Earl remarked that her death "had the least outward power on him of any man he knew" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). He later remarried to Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Suffolk.
Lady Anne Cecil was the daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, son of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Secretary of State to Elizabeth I and James I. The proposed marriage to the future 10th Earl of Northumberland met with disapproval from the 9th Earl, who blamed the 1st Earl of Salisbury for his imprisonment in the Tower of London. Despite eventually relenting, believing in his son's right to choose a wife for himself, he remarked that "the blood of Percy would not mix with the blood of Cecil ‘if you poured it in a dish'" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).
Anne died of smallpox in 1637, aged 25, and was buried in the Percy family vault at St Mary's Church, Petworth, West Sussex. A friend of the 10th Earl remarked that her death "had the least outward power on him of any man he knew" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). He later remarried to Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Suffolk.
Anne died of smallpox in 1637, aged 25, and was buried in the Percy family vault at St Mary's Church, Petworth, West Sussex. A friend of the 10th Earl remarked that her death "had the least outward power on him of any man he knew" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). He later remarried to Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Suffolk.
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