Elizabeth Medora Leigh

Elizabeth Medora Leigh ( born April 15, 1814, Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire, † August 28 1849 in Versols -et- Lapeyre, Aveyron ) was a British adventurer and probably the illegitimate daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron.

Life

Elizabeth Medora Leigh was officially the third daughter of the royal equerry George Leigh (1782 -? ) And his wife, The Honourable Augusta Byron ( 1783-1851 ); because their mother was separated from her husband since 1811, it is considered biographical likely that she was the daughter of her mother's half-brother, Lord Byron ( 1788-1824 ), was.

At the age of 16, she had a love affair with Henry Trevanion, the husband of her older sister Georgiana (1808 - ). From the union a daughter, Marie Violette (1834-1873), out. She and her daughter have been for years financially and emotionally by Lady Byron (1792-1860) and later supported by the only legitimate daughter of Lord Byron, Lady Ada Lovelace ( 1815-1852 ). Later she entered another affair with a French officer. This ultimately ended with his servant, a former sergeant named Jean -Louis Taillefer. The joint compound was a son, Elie (1846-1900), out. On August 23, 1848 married the two lovers, and thus gave the children a legitimation. The following year, died Madame Taillefer from the consequences of tuberculous meningitis and was buried in the cemetery of Versols -et- Lapeyre.

Worth mentioning

• Her daughter Marie -Violette joined in 1856 as a sister of St. Hilaire in a nunnery at, and her son was a Roman Catholic priest in Aveyron.