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Lucy Herbert, in religion Teresa Joseph.
Born: 1669.
Died: 19 Jan 1744 in Bruges, aged 75.

father: Lord William Herbert 1st earl/duke of Powis of Powis Castle, Powys, Wales
mother: Lady Elizabeth Somerset of Raglan Castle, Monmths

Augustinians, Bruges choir nun.
She was clothed 17 Mar 1692.

She professed 1 Jun 1693.

Procuratrix 1699 - 1709
Prioress 1709 Mar - 1744

creator: A daily exercise and devotion for the gentlewomen pensioners, Douai, 1712
creator: Several excellent methods of hearing Mass, Bruges, John de Cock, 1722
creator: Motives to excite us ....
subject: Portrait in secular clothes, Powis Castle
subject: portrait in habit holding book in convent
sponsor: building of convent chapel

She was the kinswoman of Frances Herbert, Elizabeth Browne.
She was the great aunt of Jane Throckmorton.
She was the niece of Anne Somerset .

Sources: CR; Bruges Annals I: 158-9, 266, 390-1; Bruges Annals II: 92-4; bib dict; BB AE-29: 186-8; Tayler, Nithsdale: 12, 13, 14.

Family tree (Herbert of Powys)
Family tree (Somerset earls of Worcester)

Notes:

Her mother was with the Jacobite court in exile, was governess to the future James III and companion to Mary of Modena. Brought to the convent by Lewis Sabrand SJ, Henrietta Maria's chaplain.

Spent some time with the Benedictines, Pontoise before professing at Bruges.

Great-great-niece of Frances Herbert LA127. Widowed sister, Anne Lady Carrington came to live in convent Aug 1701-Apr 1702 & Sep 1712-Sep 1713 etc. Husband left 500 florins to Lucy Herbert. see Tayler p14, 15. Recd detailed account of her sister's husband's escape see Tayler pp46-58

1716-7 Lucy Herbert received her sister Winifred at Bruges where she was nursed back to health. Tayler p80-5 Letter to her brother 1733 Tayler pp 231-4.

Her sister, Winfred, married William Maxwell, 5th earl of Nithsdale. Following his capture and imprisonment in the Tower of London following the 1715 Jacobite rebellion, she helped him escape the day before his execution. On her way to France to meet up with her escaped husband, she stayed at the convent from 12 August to 14 September 1716 (I Ann 332-3).

Professed 26 religious for the choir, and 15 lay sisters: buried 45 nuns and 11 lay sisters: see II ann 94.