Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford was an English nobleman and politician.
copy by George Perfect Harding of a portrait by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford was a major aristocratic patron of the arts and literature in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, the primary non-royal performer in contemporary court masques, a lett
Edward Russell, 3rd Earl of Bedford
…Elizabeth Brydges or her younger sister Catherine Brydges, who married Bedford's cousin and eventual heir, Francis Russell. At the age of 22 he married Lucy Harington, the 13-year-old daughter of John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton, on 13 December 1594, at St Dunstan's on Stepney Green. The marriage brought…
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Drawing for the costume of Penthesilea for the Countess of Bedford by Inigo Jones.