# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-custis-lee
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:28:00.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-custis-lee"
name: "Mary Custis Lee"
slug: "mary-custis-lee"
description: "Mary Custis Lee was an American heiress and the eldest daughter of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. Throughout the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, she remained distant from her family. Spending much of her time traveling, she did not attend the funerals for her sisters nor those for her parents. Somewhat eccentric, she used her inheritance from the sale of Arlington House to fund trips abroad. She spent time in the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Russia, Monaco, Ottoman Empire, Ceylon, the Dutch East Indies, Palestine, Egypt, Sudan, Australia, China, India, Japan, Mexico, and Venezuela. During her travels, she used her social status as the daughter of Robert E. Lee to obtain audiences with foreign royalty, nobility, and political leaders including Queen Victoria, Pope Leo XIII, and an Indian maharaja."
tagline: "(1835-1918) confederate heiress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LEE%2C_MARY_CUSTIS_LCCN2016866128.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1835"
deathDate: "1918"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.14
  momentum:             4.875555555555557
  historical:           1.653825333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  34
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Custis_Lee"
    title: "Mary Custis Lee"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75763254"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations