Anne Sutton

According to a bill produced in the Star Chamber by his political rival in Staffordshire, Gilbert Lyttelton,[2] in 1592 he had "left that virtuous lady his wife in London without sustenance, and took to his home a lewd and infamous woman, a base collier's daughter".

[8] Anne with seven other ladies put their names in a hat to award kisses to winners at a tournament for Prince Henry in April 1612.

[9] As a New Year gift in January 1613, Anne Dudley received from Frederick V of the Palatinate a chain of pearls and a diamond worth 1,000 marks, (£666-13s-8d).

[13] Anne married Hans Meinhard von Schönberg, the Palatine Ambassador to England, and resident diplomat at Heidelberg, in London on 22 March 1615.

[14] The wedding was celebrated with a masque of ballet planned by Elizabeth and Salomon de Caus, whose wife seems have been involved in supplying fabrics for costumes.

It was said in London in December 1613 that Schönberg came to England in part to entreat King James and Anne of Denmark not to recall Dudley from Heidelberg.

[23] In her 1644 will her sister, Mary (Dudley) Sutton, Countess of Home, left her nephew, Frederick Schomberg, a purse of gold coins.