Bartholomew Iscanus
Bartholomew Iscanus( or Bartholomew of Exeter; died 1184) was a medieval Bishop of Exeter.
He came from Normandy and after being a clerk of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was made Archdeacon of Exeter in 1155.
He became bishop of Exeter in 1161.
He was known as having excellence in canon law and theology and during his time as bishop visited all the parishes in the diocese to investigate how well- managed they were.
Anne Cecil, Countess of Exeter
Anne Cecil, Countess of Exeter( c.1649–1704), was the wife of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter.
She was the only daughter of William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Cecil, and was born at Latimer, Buckinghamshire, the home of her grandmother, Christian Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire, where her parents were living at the time because their estate of Chatsworth had been sequestered by Parliament.
Her first marriage, in 1662, was to Charles, Lord Rich, son of the 4th Earl of Warwick.
The couple had no children, and Lord Rich died in 1664.
She married the earl, then known as Lord Burghley, on 2 May 1670.
Their son John, became the 6th Earl.
Other children included Elizabeth( 1687- 1708), later Countess of Orrery.
The earl and countess lived at Burghley House, where the earl accumulated a large art collection as a result of his European travels.
The countess joined her husband on three European tours.
A portrait of her, by Godfrey Kneller, hung in the" brown dining room" at Burghley.
Frances Cecil, Countess of Exeter (died 1669)
Frances Cecil, Countess of Exeter (2 December 1630 – 2 December 1669), formerly Lady Frances Manners, was the first wife of John Cecil, 4th Earl of Exeter.
She was a daughter of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland, and his wife, the former Frances Montagu.
The Countess of Exeter's sisters, Margaret, Elizabeth and Dorothy, all became countesses.
Another, Anne, became a Viscountess.
She married the earl on 8 December 1646.
Two of their children survived infancy:
The countess's portrait in miniature was painted in about 1646 (the year of her marriage) by Samuel Cooper, and is held by Burghley House.
Some sources give the date of her death as 1660, but the parish register of St Martin's Church, Stamford, shows her to have been buried in December 1669.
A few weeks after her death, the earl married Lady Mary Fane, daughter of Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland.
Margaret Cecil, Countess of Ranelagh
Margaret Cecil, Countess of Ranelagh( 1672/ 1673 – 21 February 1728) was an English courtier.
The Countess was one of the" Hampton Court Beauties" painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for Queen Mary II.
Anne Yelverton
Anne Yelverton( 1628–1698) was Countess of Manchester and Countess of Halifax.
Joan II, Countess of Burgundy
Joan II, Countess of Burgundy( 15 January 1292 – 21 January 1330), was Queen of France by marriage to Philip V of France, and ruling Countess of Burgundy and Countess of Artois.
She was the eldest daughter and heiress of Otto IV, Count of Burgundy, and Mahaut, Countess of Artois.
John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland
John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland (10 June 160429 September 1679), was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641 when he inherited the peerage.
John Pycot
John Pycot was Dean of Exeter between 1280 and 1283.
Implicated in the murder of one of the Bishop of Exeter's men, Walter Lechlade, in the close of Exeter Cathedral on 5 November 1283 following a local feud, he was banished in December 1285 to a monastery.
Frances Cecil, Countess of Exeter (died 1663)
Frances Cecil, Countess of Exeter( other married name was Smith; 1580 – 1663) was an English noblewoman.
Cecil was born in 1663, daughter of William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos( d. 1602), and his wife, Mary( d. 1624).
She first married Thomas Smith sometime before 1604, an English judge who died in November 1609.
The following year, in late 1610, she married Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, despite being 40 years his junior, younger than most of the earl's children.
Poet Ben Jonson praised the marriage in his" Gipsies Metamorphos'd"( 1621), writing" An old man's wife is the light of his life".
During the earl's lifetime, Frances enjoyed great prestige in the English court.
After a serious illness contracted in late 1622, Thomas died on February 1623.
Widowed again, Frances devoted herself to getting her daughter, Margaret, a husband, settling on MP Thomas Carey.
In the 1630s, the countess had her portrait painted by Anthony van Dyck.
This portrait was lost in the 19th- century, surviving in engraved and painted copies.
Frances lived another 30 years, as her daughter was widowed and remarried to Edward Herbert.
Cecil died in 1663, between 20 January and 17 July, when her will was signed and probated, respectively.
Thomas Cecil reserved a space for her in his monument at Westminster Abbey, but Frances chose instead to have her grave in the floor of Winchester Cathedral.
John Tuckfield
John Tuckfield( fl. 1550) of the City of Exeter, Devon, was a merchant, Alderman of Exeter, and member of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of Exeter who was Sheriff of Exeter in 1547 and Mayor of Exeter in 1549 – 1550.

Question: What nationality is Frances Cecil, Countess Of Exeter (Died 1669)'s father?
Answer: English