Elizabeth Knightley (née Seymour), Lady Knightley
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
1591
Lady Elizabeth (1550?-1602) was the daughter of Edward Seymour, first Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of King Edward VI. She married the wealthy Puritan Sir Richard Knightley of Fawsley. The Latin inscription on her bracelets is a contraction of a verse in the Vulgate Latin text of St. Paul's Letter to the Philippians (1:21): mihi enim vivere Christus est et mori lucrus (For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain).
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