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Susan Herbert (née de Vere), Countess of Montgomery (26 May 1587 – 1629), was an English court office holder. She served as lady-in-waiting to the queen consort of England and Scotland, Anne of Denmark. She was the youngest daughter of Elizabethan courtier, and poet Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
Hace 2 días · Lady Susan de Vere, Countess of Montgomery, youngest daughter of Edward 17th Earl of Oxford and his first wife Anne Cecil (daughter of William Cecil, Lord Burghley and his wife Mildred), was buried in the chapel of St Nicholas at Westminster Abbey on 1st February 1629.
20 de feb. de 2024 · It was a brilliant match - seventeen-year-old Susan de Vere married Philip Herbert, soon to be Earl of Montgomery, on 27 December 1604. The young couple had contracted to each other in secret, but King James himself took up their cause and gave away the bride during the lavish court festivities that included a masque…
On 27 December 1604, six months after the death of her father, Susan de Vere married Philip Herbert, Earl of Montgomery (1584–1650), the son of Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621). (As we recall, Mary Herbert was the learned and beautiful sister of Sir Philip Sidney.)
National Biography (ODNB): Herbert [née de Vere], Susan, countess of Montgomery, by Edwina Christie. The titled subject, identified as ‘courtier and literary patron’, is portrayed to be a woman we would honor as a luminous star were she in the current court circle. Once you scroll past the peculiarly selective
The Countess of Montgomery died by 1 February 1628/9, when she was interred in the tomb erected by her grandfather for her mother, Anne, and her grandmother, Mildred Cecil, in the chapel of St Nicholas at Westminster Abbey.
Museum number. 1866,1114.570. Description. The Pembroke family: Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, seated with his first Countess Susan Vere, surrounded by other members of his family, his sons Charles Lord Herbert, Philip (later 5th Earl), William, James and John, his daughter Anne Sophia, Countess of Carnarvon, his son-in-law Robert Dormer
