Susan Bertie, Countess of Kent

Portrait of Susan Bertie by the Master of the Countess of Warwick, 1567

Susan Bertie (born 1554) was the daughter of Catherine, Duchess of Suffolk, née Willoughby, by her second husband, Richard Bertie.[1] Susan was the noblewoman memorialized by poet Emilia Lanier (née Aemilia Bassano) at the beginning of the Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) as the "daughter of the Duchess of Suffolk."[2] At sixteen years of age, Susan Bertie married Reginald Grey of Wrest, who was later restored as the fifth Earl of Kent following her mother's intervention.[3] Widowed at age nineteen, Susan, Dowager Countess of Kent, married Sir John Wingfield in 1581 at age twenty-seven.[4]

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  2. ^ "Susan BERTIE (C. Kent)". www.tudorplace.com.ar. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
  3. ^ O'Rourke, Kirsty (21 March 2023). "A Forgotten Elizabethan Noblewoman: Katherine Bertie, Dowager Duchess of Suffolk and Baroness Willoughby de Eresby". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  4. ^ "WINGFIELD, Sir John (D.1596), of Withcall, Lincs. | History of Parliament Online".