Francesca Szebula was born about 1659, in Ashover, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom. She married Adam Crich about 1686, in Ashover, Derbyshire, England. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 6 January 1719, in her hometown, at the age of 61, and was buried in Ashover, Derbyshire, England.
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The Glorious Revolution brought the downfall of Catholic King James II and the reign of his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange.
form of Frances , now widely used in the English-speaking world. Originally a vocabulary word meaning ‘French’, it was bestowed from the 13th century onwards in honour of St Francis of Assisi. It has also been used independently as an English name. Its most famous bearer was Francesca di Rimini , daughter of Giovanni da Polenta , Count of Ravenna. A legendary beauty, she was betrothed by her father to the misshapen Giovanni Malatesta, Lord of Rimini, in return for military support. Malatesta's good-looking younger brother, Paolo, acted as his proxy in the betrothal, but Francesca and he fell in love. They were discovered, and put to death by Malatesta in 1289 . Their tragedy is enshrined in the Fifth Canto of Dante's Inferno, as well as in several other works of literature and in a symphonic fantasy by Tchaikovsky .
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