Birth year 1540 celebrities
Birth year 1540
Margaret Howard (née Audley), Duchess of Norfolk (1540 – 9 January 1564) was the sole surviving child of Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden and Lady Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset and Margaret Wotton.
Georgette de Montenay (1540 Toulouse – 1581 Sainte-Germaine near Toulouse), was the French author of Emblemes ou devises chrestiennes, published in Lyons between 1567-71. Montenay has always been regarded as a lady-in-waiting to Jeanne d’Albret, th
Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray (c. 1540 – 16 July 1588) was a Scottish noblewoman. She was the wife of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland and the illegitimate half-brother of Mary, Queen of Scots, making her a sister-in-law of the
Charles II Francis of Austria (German: ) (3 June 1540 – 10 July 1590) was an Archduke of Austria and ruler of Inner Austria (Styria, Carniola and Carinthia) from 1564. He was a member of the House of Habsburg.
Lady Catherine Grey (also Katherine) (25 August 1540 – 26 January 1568), Countess of Hertford, was the young