Elizabeth Southwell (courtier)

She was appointed maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth in 1599 to replace Margaret Ratcliffe, and joined the court in January 1600.

[8] A letter of the Earl of Worcester describing the household in 1604 mentioned that "of late the Lady Sothwell [is] for the drawing chamber".

[9] She left England with her cousin Robert Dudley, the son of Douglas, Lady Sheffield and the Earl of Leicester, in 1605.

Rowland Whyte heard that Dudley had lodged Southwell and her servant Mistress Rice in a nunnery at Brussels.

She died in 1631 and was buried in San Pancrazio, Florence where there was formerly a Latin inscription including her age, given as 37 years.