Bridget Markham

Bridget Markham (1579–1609), was a courtier to Anne of Denmark and the subject of poems.

Bridget was a daughter of Sir James Harington (1542–1614) of Ridlington, Rutland, and Frances Sapcote (d. 1599) daughter and co-heir of Robert Sapcote of Elton, Huntingdonshire.[1] She was a cousin of the influential courtier Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford.[2]

  1. ^ Simon Healy, 'HARINGTON, Sir James (c.1555-1614)', The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010.
  2. ^ Edmund Gosse, Life and Letters of John Donne, vol. 1 (London, 1899), p. 229.