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Katherine Ferrers (4 May 1634 – c. 13 June 1660) was an English gentlewoman and heiress. According to popular legend, she was also the "Wicked Lady", a highwaywoman who terrorised the English county of Hertfordshire before dying from gunshot wounds sustained during a robbery.
5 de dic. de 2016 · Hertfordshire has its share of villainesses, as well as heroines, and chief among them is ‘The Wicked Lady’, Katherine Ferrers. Born in the mid-seventeenth century, Ferrers was a scion of a respectable and wealthy family, and heir to a considerable estate in Hertfordshire.
6 de ago. de 2022 · Nicknamed The Wicked Lady, notorious highway-woman Lady Katherine Ferrers' chilling life is a tale that's captured the imagination of many. The Wicked Lady - fictionalised in two movies,...
11 de mar. de 2017 · The story of Lady Katherine Ferrers is brimming with classic romance: the young, orphaned heiress, forced into a marriage of convenience, turns to a scandalous life of crime with her handsome lover. You can read about the legend and my take on it here.
13 de may. de 2024 · Lady Katherine Ferrers, an 18-year old member of the aristocracy. Lady by day, outlaw by night. But why should she turn to crime?
27 de dic. de 2023 · December 27, 2023. Heritage. Katherine Ferrers – The unfairly named “Wicked Lady” Katherine Ferrers was an English gentlewoman and heiress, who allegedly resorted to highway robbery to settle her dwindling fortune, leading to her legendary name as the “Wicked Lady.”
The Wicked Lady of Markyate, was a girl or woman who went by the name of Katherine Ferrers. She was the daughter of a rich and noble family. She was married at age 12 to a 16 year old named Tom Fanshawe, whose royalist family suffered in the Civil war. Her fortune was whittled away by the Fanshawe’s.
