Background
On 8 January 1634, at the age of 12, she married the 15-year-old Charles, Lord Herbert, eldest son of the 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Montgomery, but was widowed in 1635 when her young husband died of smallpox.
On 8 January 1634, at the age of 12, she married the 15-year-old Charles, Lord Herbert, eldest son of the 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Montgomery, but was widowed in 1635 when her young husband died of smallpox.
They had two children:
Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmond and 5th Duke of Lennox (1649-1660)
Lady Mary Stewart, married the 1st Earl of Arran (1651-1668)
Maureen East. Mulvihill has built a case for Mary Villiers as the author of the poems published under the pseudonym Ephelia, including Female Poems..by Ephelia (1679). Mary Stewart, Duchess of Richmond depiction in art