Katherine (1652-1709), who married, first, Louis-Jacques, Marquis du Puissar (died 1701)[3] and second, William Villiers, a son of George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison, and thus her cousin[4]
Frances became governess to the two young princesses, the daughters of the Duke of York (the future King James II of England) in 1669, after the death of their mother, Anne Hyde, whose father, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, was a friend of the Villiers family. She was one of many relatives of Barbara Villiers to be benefitted by the position of her niece.[8] She was described as "gentle and kind hearted", and her daughters became the playmates of the princesses.[8]
She did not approve of the nature of princess Mary's correspondence with Frances Aspley.[9]
When Princess Mary left for Holland in 1677, as the wife of William of Orange, Frances's eldest son, Edward, went with the couple as Mary's Master of Horse.[6] Frances died of smallpoxatSt James's Palace, where the household of the princesses was based.[6] She was buried at Westminster Abbey.[5] She was succeeded as royal governess by Henrietta Hyde.[10]
^Joseph Lemuel Chester, ed. (1876). The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church Or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. p. 25.
^John Bernard Burke (1845). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn. p. 552.
^ abJoseph Lemuel Chester, ed. (1876). The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church Or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. p. 192.
^ abcWilson, John (1976). Court satires of the Restoration. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. pp. 290–291. ISBN9780814202494.
^G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 293.
^ abPowell, R. (2010). Royal Sex: The Scandalous Love Lives of the British Royal Family. Storbritannien: Amberley Publishing
^Waller, M. (2007). Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown. Storbritannien: St. Martin's Press.
^Wilson, J. H. (1976). Court Satires of the Restoration. USA: Ohio State University Press. p. 60
