Susan de Vere, Countess of Montgomery was an English noblewoman and the youngest daughter of Elizabethan courtier, poet, and playwright Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
Background
Lady Susan was born on 26 May 1587, the youngest daughter of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford and Anne Cecil, the daughter of statesman William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Queen Elizabeth"s chief advisor and leading member of her Privy Council.
Career
She had two older sisters, Lady Elizabeth and Lady Bridget. She also had an illegitimate half-brother, Edward, born out of wedlock to Anne Vavasour, who had an intimate relationship with the Earl. In 1591 Susan"s father married for the second time to Elizabeth Trentham.
The second Lady Oxford gave birth to a son, Henry, who later succeeded as 18th Earl of Oxford.
Lady Anna Sophia Herbert, married Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon and had issue. Sir Charles Herbert (c 1619–1635), married Mary Villiers, daughter of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham and had no issue.
Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke (c 1621–1669) Honorary James Herbert (c 1623–1677), of Kingsey, Buckinghamshire She died in 1628 or 1629, and was interred at Westminster Abbey, London.