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Susan Bertie, Countess of Kent

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A record of clothes bought for Susan, her siblings, and the Bertie household in 1561 mentions Susan's farthingale, her Dutch gown of crimson satin, a gold cawl or hairnet, the finding of a brooch she lost, and a lute bought for her and her brother Peregine. A portrait of Peregine and Susan was
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circle had a profound influence on the young Lanyer. The practice of being sent from one's family to be trained up in service in an aristocratic household, like that of Susan's, was then widespread.
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called Susan Bertie "the Mistris of my youth, / The noble guide of my ungovern'd dayes." The poet was educated under the direction of the dowager Countess of Kent, whose
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Because the Earl and Countess of Kent had been childless, the heir to the earldom was the earl's thirty-three-year-old younger brother, styled until then
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following her mother's intervention. Widowed at age nineteen, Susan, Dowager Countess of Kent, married Sir John Wingfield in 1581 at age twenty-seven.
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in Susan's situation – certainly the queen would take an angry interest in Susan's remarriage in 1581.
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Susan was the first child of her mother's second marriage. Born one year after Susan was a brother,
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on the Continent with Susan and her brother for the remainder of the Catholic Queen
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Portrait of Susan Bertie by the Master of the Countess of Warwick, 1567
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by 30 December 1571, as the result of a campaign by his mother in law
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as a result. A year later, on 15 March 1573, the earl died.
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Catherine, Duchess of Suffolk
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Baron Willoughby de Eresby
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