Dorothy Kitson

Dorothy Kitson
Born	1531
Died	1577 (aged 45–46)
Spouse(s)	Sir Thomas Pakington Thomas Tasburgh
Children	Sir John Pakington Henry Pakington Robert Pakington Thomas Pakington Margaret Pakington Katherine Pakington Mary Pakington
Parent(s)	Sir Thomas Kitson, Margaret Donnington

Dorothy Kitson (1531 – 1577) later, Dorothy, Lady Pakington, was the daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson, a wealthy London merchant and the builder of Hengrave Hall in Suffolk. Her first husband was Sir Thomas Pakington, by whom she was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Sir John "Lusty" Pakington. After Sir Thomas Pakington's death she married Thomas Tasburgh. She was one of the few women in Tudor England to nominate burgesses to Parliament and to make her last will while her husband, Thomas Tasburgh, was still living. Her three nieces are referred to in the poems of Edmund Spenser.

Dorothy Kitson was the daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson by his second wife, Margaret Donnington (d. 12 January 1561), the only child of John Donnington (d.1544) of Stoke Newington, a member of the Worshipful Company of Salters, and Elizabeth Pye. By her father's first marriage to a wife whose name is unknown she had a half sister, Elizabeth Kitson, who was the first wife of Edmund Croftes (d. 14 February 1558) of Westow Hall in Little Saxham, Suffolk.

By her father's second marriage she had a brother and three sisters:

After Sir Thomas Kitson's death, Dorothy's mother, Margaret, married secondly Sir Richard Long (d.1546) of Wiltshire, Great Saxham and Shingay, Cambridgeshire, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Henry VIII, by whom she had a son, Henry Long, and three daughters, Jane, Katherine and Mary. She married thirdly, in 1548, John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath (d.1560), by whom she had two daughters, Susan and Bridget.

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