Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland, (1578–1632) was an English nobleman, in what year, did three women, the "Witches of Belvoir", were accused of witchcraft, for having allegedly caused the deaths of his two young sons?
Witches of Belvoir The Belvoir Witches were three women, a mother and her two daughters, accused of witchcraft in England around 1618. The mother, Joan Flower, died on the way to her trial, and the two daughters, Margaret and Philippa, were supposed to be hung in Lincoln. It is said that Phillipa drugged the guards and managed to escape and making her way to Kent where she died after having 3 children.
Dorothy Bray, Baroness Chandos Dorothy Bray, Baroness Chandos (c. 1524 – 31 October 1605) was an English noblewoman, who served as a Maid of Honour to three queens consort of King Henry VIII of England; Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. From 1541 to 1543, she had an affair with the latter's brother, William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, whose own wife, Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier had eloped with a lover.