Philippa Coningsby ( Fitzwilliam (died 1596) was an English aristocrat, a daughter of William FitzWilliam of Milton. She married Sir Thomas Coningsby and had 11 children.

As wife of Sir Thomas Coningsby she lived at Leominster and Hampton Court, Herefordshire, where their monogram "TCP" was carved in several places. Coningsby wrote in a letter to Sir Robert Cecil that his wife was his "near kinswoman". In 1617, an unmarried cousin of her husband, Joyce Jeffreys, who was born at Ham Castle at Clifton-upon-Teme, joined the household to be a "perpetual companion" to Philippa Coningsby.

Philippa Coningsby

Although the date of her death is frequently given as 1596, she lived into the 1620s. She was buried at Hope under Dinmore.

Philippa Coningsby

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1596 deaths

16th-century English people

People from West Northamptonshire District

Wives of knights

Philippa Coningsby