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Mary Belasyse, nee Cromwell (1637–1713)

Mary was the third daughter of Oliver Cromwell. Her marriage to Thomas Belasyse in 1657, making her Countess Faunconberg, would last for 43 years. According to several historians Mary was more like her father in temperament than any of her brothers or sisters.

There is an unproven theory that Mary rescued her father’s headless corpse from Tyburn, and had it buried at the Belasyse family home, at Newburgh....

c. 1690
Oil on Canvas
74.0 x 62.0cm
B005
Image and text © The Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon