Elizabeth Danvers

Elizabeth Neville
Monument to Elizabeth Neville in St Michael's Church, Stowe, Northamptonshire
Born	c.1545
Died	1630
Noble family	House of Neville
Spouse(s)	Sir John Danvers
Issue Sir Charles Danvers Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby Sir John Danvers Lucy Danvers Elizabeth Danvers Eleanor Danvers Anne Danvers Catherine Danvers Mary Danvers Dorothy Danvers
Father	John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer
Mother	Lucy Somerset

Elizabeth Danvers née Neville, later Elizabeth Carey by remarriage (1545/50–1630), was an English noblewoman. She was the mother of Sir Charles Danvers, executed in 1601 for his part in the rebellion of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and of Sir John Danvers, one of the commissioners who tried King Charles I and signed the King's death warrant.

Elizabeth Neville, born between 1545 and 1550, was the youngest daughter of John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer, and Lucy Somerset, the daughter of Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester, by his second wife, Elizabeth Browne, the daughter of Sir Anthony Browne, Lieutenant of Calais, by his second wife, Lucy Neville, daughter of John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu. She had three elder sisters:

The antiquarian and biographer, John Aubrey, whose ancestor she was, describes her in his Brief Lives (1693), stating that she had Chaucer at her fingers' ends:

Elizabeth Danvers, his mother, an Italian, prodigeous parts for a Woman. I have heard my father’s mother say that she had Chaucer at her fingers' ends. A great Politician; great Witt and spirit, but revengeful: knew how to manage her estate as well as any man; understood Jewels as well as any Jeweller. Very Beautiful, but only short-sighted. To obtain Pardons for her Sonnes she maryed Sir Edmund Carey, cosen-german to Queen Elizabeth, but kept him to hard meate.

Elizabeth married firstly, Sir John Danvers (1540 – 10 December 1594) of Dauntsey, Wiltshire, the son of Sylvester Danvers (1518 – 1549?) and his first wife, Elizabeth Mordaunt, second daughter of John Mordaunt, 1st Baron Mordaunt of Turvey, and the grandson of Thomas Danvers (d.1532) and Margaret Courtenay, the youngest daughter of Sir William Courtenay (1451–1512) of Powderham Castle, Devon, by Cecily Cheney, the daughter of Sir John Cheney of Pincourt.