1610-1630) was a courtier to Anne of Denmark, wife of James VI and I. Bridget Annesley was a daughter of Robert Annesley of Rathverd or Rathuard and Newport Pagnell, an undertaker of the plantations in Munster, and Beatrix Cornwall, a daughter of John Cornwall of Moor Park, Hertfordshire.
[1] Bridget Annesley became one of the servants of Anne of Denmark, called maids of honour or "chamberers", a lady of the bedchamber in 1609.
[5] Bridget Annesley may have helped her brother gain the favour of the king's new favourite George Villiers, who could assist his friends in careers and appointments.
[8][9] Bridget walked in the funeral procession with the ladies of the Privy Chamber, listed as "Mrs Anslow".
[11] Connections made in the queen's household were strengthened in 1637 when her niece Beatrice Annesley, Francis Annesley's daughter, married James Zouch, the son of Dorothea Silking, her Danish colleague in the queen's bedchamber, and Sir Edward Zouch of Woking.