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Gulielma Maria Posthuma Penn ( née Springett; February 1644 – 23 February 1694) was the first wife of William Penn, the notable Quaker writer, religious thinker and founder of Pennsylvania . Early life. Gulielma was the daughter of Sir William Springett and Mary Penington (née Proude).
William Penn (24 October [ O.S. 14 October] 1644 – 10 August [ O.S. 30 July] 1718) was an English writer, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania during the British colonial era.
Gulielma Maria Springett, born a few months before William Penn in ^1644, was the posthumous daughter of Sir William Springett, a lawyer and a knight who died while fighting on Cromwell's side during the English Civil War.
Born in 1644, Gulielma Maria Springett was the posthumous daughter of Sir William Springett, a lawyer and a knight who died while fighting on Oliver Cromwell 's side during the English Civil War.
Gulielma Maria Springett was born on 23 February 1644, in Thakeham, Sussex, England as the daughter of Sir William Springett and Mary Proude Springett. She married William Penn on 4 April 1672, in Hertfordshire, England.
Jun 11, 2024 · Penn first married Gulielma Maria Springett (1644–1694), daughter of William S. Springett (the Posthuma in her name indicates that her father had died prior to her birth) and Lady Mary Proude Penington.
My Dear Wife, Remember thou was the love of my youth, and much the joy of my life - the most beloved as well as the most worthy of all my earthly comforts; and the reason of that love was more thy inward than thy outward excellencies, which yet are many.
