Quem se casou com William Stanley, 6º Conde de Derby?

William Stanley, 6.º Conde de Derby (* 20 de Julho de 1561 – 29 de Setembro de 1642) foi um nobre inglês.

Foi filho de Henry Stanley, 4.º Conde de Derby e de Lady Margaret Clifford. Sua mãe foi herdeira presuntiva da Isabel I de Inglaterra.

Seus avós maternos foram Henry Clifford, 2.º Conde de Cumberland e Lady Eleanor Brandon. Eleanor foi a trigésima filha de Charles Brandon, 1.º Duque de Suffolk e de Mary Tudor. Mary foi a quinta filha de Henrique VII de Inglaterra e de Isabel de York.

Stanley casou-se com Elizabeth de Vere, filha de Eduardo de Vere, 17.º Conde de Oxford e de Anne Cecil.

Elizabeth Stanley (née de Vere), Countess of Derby, Lord of Mann (2 July 1575 – 10 March 1627), was an English noblewoman and courtier. She was the eldest daughter of the Elizabethan courtier and poet Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

She was the Lord of Mann from 1612 to 1627, and prior to holding the title, she had taken over many administrative duties appertaining to the Isle of Man's affairs. Elizabeth was the first female to rule as the island's head of state.

She served as a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth I of England before her marriage to William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby. Her wedding or (more likely) that of Elizabeth Carey to Thomas, son of Lord Berkeley, was the occasion for the first performance of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Elizabeth Stanley (née de Vere), Countess of Derby, Lord of Mann (2 July 1575 – 10 March 1627), was an English noblewoman and courtier. She was the eldest daughter of the Elizabethan courtier and poet Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.

She was the Lord of Mann from 1612 to 1627, and prior to holding the title, she had taken over many administrative duties appertaining to the Isle of Man's affairs. Elizabeth was the first female to rule as the island's head of state.

She served as a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth I of England before her marriage to William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby. Her wedding or (more likely) that of Elizabeth Carey to Thomas, son of Lord Berkeley, was the occasion for the first performance of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.