Elizabeth Hatton

[4] William Hatton had earlier married, in June 1589, Elizabeth Gawdy, the daughter and heiress of Sir Francis Gawdy (died 1605) and Elizabeth Coningsby,[5][6][7][8] who died soon after the marriage, leaving an only daughter, Frances Hatton (1590–1623), who on 24 February 1605 married Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick.

Subsequently, all involved parties to the marriage were prosecuted for breaching ecclesiastical law, and Sir Edward had to sue for a royal pardon.

[15] By 1604, Elizabeth's marriage to Sir Edward Coke had deteriorated, and she was said to have become a formidable character and thorn at her husband's side.

It was said the Spanish ambassador Gondomar told King James that she refused Coke access to Hatton House (Ely Place) in Holborn.

[citation needed] When James VI of Scotland set out to claim the English throne after the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, the Cokes immediately began ingratiating themselves with the new monarch and his family.

[24] The group sent a comic letter to Dudley Carleton, in the spirit of a masque, explaining their arrival deposited on the shore by Neptune, in hope of an introduction to the King and Queen of Bohemia.

[13][27][28][29] Elizabeth opposed the match (presumably because Villiers was generally believed to be insane) and sent her daughter Frances away from Hatton House in Holborn without informing her husband.

The marriage was a disastrous failure, and, in 1621, Frances eloped with Sir Robert Howard, with whom she lived in an unofficial union for many years.

[citation needed] Hatton died on 3 January 1646, and was buried in the parish church of St Andrew Holborn.