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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 6 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 (now lost) Juno and Hymenaeus.
of Susan Vere, the ODNB might easily have reproduced the charming pen drawing identified as ‘The Countess of Montgomery/Thomyris Queen of Stygia’ by artist Inigo Jones, costumed for Ben Jonson’s Masque of Queens, 1609. The ODNB article describes Lady Susan as ‘a prominent favourite of Queen Anne and
Elizabethan courtier poet. Susan de Vere, Countess of Montgomery was an English noblewoman and the youngest daughter of Elizabethan courtier, poet, and playwright Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
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.
Wilton House catalogue – but his ‡rst wife, Lady Susan Vere. If so, then the suggestion might be put forth that the substitution of Countess Anne for Countess Susan as the Earl’s Lady in the Van Dyck may have something to do with the authorship issue.5 ˜us, the identity of the Countess takes on special import.
