Teresa Sampsonia (born Sampsonia; after marriage Lady Shirley, 1589–1668) was a Circassian-English noblewoman of Safavid Iran. She was the wife of the Elizabethan English adventurer Robert Shirley, whom she accompanied on his travels and embassies across Europe in the name of the Safavid emperor Abbas the Great (r. 1588–1629).
Teresa Sampsonia (born Sampsonia; after marriage Lady Shirley, 1589–1668) was a Circassian-English noblewoman of Safavid Iran. She was the wife of the Elizabethan English adventurer Robert Shirley, whom she accompanied on his travels and embassies across Europe in the name of the Safavid emperor Abbas the Great (r. 1588–1629).
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