13-486: (Redirected from Sue Gray ) Susan or Sue Grey or Gray may refer to: Susan Grey, Countess of Kent (born 1554), English aristocrat Susan McGreivy (née Gray; born 1939), American swimmer and activist Sue Gray (political adviser) (born 1957), British civil servant and special adviser Sue Gray (RAF officer) (born 1963), British air marshal Sue Grey (lawyer) (born 1962/63), New Zealand antivaxxer Susan Grey,
26-612: A fictional character in Grey's Anatomy See also [ edit ] Suzanne Gray , British meteorologist [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_Grey&oldid=1246554143 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
39-504: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Susan Grey, Countess of Kent Susan Bertie (born 1554) was the daughter of Catherine, Duchess of Suffolk , née Willoughby, by her second husband, Richard Bertie . Susan was the noblewoman memorialized by poet Emilia Lanier ( née Aemilia Bassano) at the beginning of the Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) as
52-573: Is mentioned in the Annales Rerum Gestarum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnate Elizabetha by William Camden , in the entry for year 1573: "18. Not long after dyed also Reginald Grey Earle of Kent, whom the Queene a yeare before had raised from a private man to the honour of Earle of Kent, after that this title had lyen asleepe the space of fifty yeares from the death of Richard Grey Earle of Kent, who had set his Patrimony flying, and
65-460: The "daughter of the Duchess of Suffolk." 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. Widowed at age nineteen, Susan, Dowager Countess of Kent, married Sir John Wingfield in 1581 at age twenty-seven. Susan was the first child of her mother's second marriage. Born one year after Susan
78-475: 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 painted in 1562. In 1570, at the age of sixteen, Susan married Reginald Grey of Wrest , and left Grimsthorpe . Known at the time of his marriage as "Master Grey", Susan's husband
91-452: The new Earl of Kent 's inherited residence, may at this time have been invited to live at Court. If so, the invitation was presumably issued at the behest of Queen Elizabeth I , who often kept a benevolent watch over younger ladies of the peerage in Susan's situation – certainly the queen would take an angry interest in Susan's remarriage in 1581. Her second husband, Sir John Wingfield ,
104-709: Was a brother, Peregrine Bertie , who later succeeded his mother as the 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby . The dowager duchess and her second husband, devout Protestants , went into exile on the Continent with Susan and her brother for the remainder of the Catholic Queen Mary 's reign, only returning in 1559 to the duchess’s elaborate manor house of Grimsthorpe in Lincolnshire after the accession of Queen Elizabeth , Susan being five years of age. A record of clothes bought for Susan, her siblings, and
117-554: Was a nephew of Bess of Hardwick . They had two sons, Peregrine Wingfield, born in Holland , presumably named after her brother, and Robert Wingfield. Wingfield died in 1596 during the capture of Cadiz , widowing Susan and leaving her without means of support. Elizabeth I granted her a £100 pension for life the next year. Aemilia Lanyer called Susan Bertie "the Mistris of my youth, / The noble guide of my ungovern'd dayes." The poet
130-597: Was acknowledged by Elizabeth I as Earl of Kent by 30 December 1571, as the result of a campaign by his mother in law Catherine, Duchess of Suffolk . Susan became known as Countess of Kent as a result. A year later, on 15 March 1573, the earl died. 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 Henry Lord Grey of Ruthin . Susan Bertie Grey, now nineteen and Dowager Countess of Kent, and presumably unable to continue living in
143-422: Was an English peer. He was a son of Henry Grey (1520–1545) and Margaret St John. His paternal grandparents were Henry Grey, 4th Earl of Kent and Anne Blennerhassett. Reginald Grey was educated at St John's College, Cambridge . In 1570, Gray married Susan Bertie , daughter of Katherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk and her second husband Richard Bertie . There were no known children from this marriage. He
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#1732780853202156-417: Was educated under the direction of the dowager Countess of Kent, whose Protestant humanist 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. Reginald Grey, 5th Earl of Kent Reginald Grey, 5th Earl of Kent (before 1541 – 17 March 1573)
169-407: Was elder Brother to this mans Grandfather. In this honour succeeded unto him Henry his Brother." This was a reference to the state of the title at this point. His great-uncle Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent had wound up heavily in debt, probably through gambling , and was forced to alienate most of his property. Henry Grey had inherited the claim to the title but little property and lived mostly as
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