Bridget Markham (original) (raw)

Bridget Markham (1579–1609), was a courtier to Anne of Denmark and 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. She was a cousin of the influential courtier Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford.