Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde

Frances Burke
Countess of Clanricarde Dowager Countess of Essex
The Countess of Essex, and her son Robert by Robert Peake the Elder, 1594
Born	1567 (1567) England
Died	17 February 1633(1633-02-17) (aged 65–66) Kent, England
Buried	Tonbridge
Noble family	Devereux (by marriage)
Spouse(s)	Philip Sidney ​ ​ (m. 1583; died 1586)​ Robert Devereux ​ ​ (m. 1590; died 1601)​ Richard Burke ​ (m. 1603)​
Issue	Elizabeth Manners, Countess of Rutland The 3rd Earl of Essex Lady Dorothy Devereux Frances, Duchess of Somerset The 1st Marquess of Clanricarde Honora Paulet, Marchioness of Winchester
Father	Sir Francis Walsingham
Mother	Ursula St. Barbe

Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde, Dowager Countess of Essex (née Walsingham, formerly Devereux and Sidney; 1567 – 17 February 1633) was an English noblewoman. The daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's Secretary of State, she became the wife of Sir Philip Sidney at age 16. Her second husband was Queen Elizabeth's favourite, Robert Devereaux Earl of Essex, with whom she had five children. Two years after his execution in 1601, she married Richard Burke, Earl of Clanricarde, and went to live with him in Ireland.