Mary de Vere

Mary de Vere (died circa 24 June 1624), married names Bertie and Hart was a noblewoman of the sixteenth century.

In 1577 the hard-drinking, straight-talking Peregrine Bertie successfully courted Mary, sister of the Earl of Oxford, a lady known, in the words of Mark Anderson, “for her quick temper and harsh tongue.” Though the unlikely couple met the resistance of Oxford and others, they were married within a year. Oxfordians, such as Anderson, believe there is little doubt Bertie, his mother, Catherine Willoughby and Mary de Vere, were variously lampooned, in The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter's Tale and Twelfth Night.^[1]

After Bertie's death, she married Sir Eustace Hart after 1601.

References

1. ^ Mark Anderson, Shakespeare By Another Name (New York: Gotham Books, 2005), pp. 128–132.

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