Anne Sackville, Countess of Dorset

She was the daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorp and his wife, the former Katherine Kitson.

A revised version of Edmund Spenser's poem, "Mother Hubberd's Tale", published in 1590, was dedicated to Anne as "the Lady Compton and Mountegle".

[3] Anne married the future earl on 4 December 1592, a year after the death of his first wife, the former Lady Margaret Howard.

Whereas his first marriage had been a happy one, he described his second wife in his will as one "whom without great grief and sorrow inconsolable I cannot remember, in regard of her exceeding unkindness and intolerable evil usage towards myself and my late good lord and father deceased".

[5] In March 1610 Anne, Countess of Dorset, argued and fought with officers sent to administer Lord Compton's estate, and was sent to the Fleet Prison.