Mary Sackville, Countess of Falmouth and Dorset

Mary Sackville, Countess of Falmouth and Dorset (1645 – 1679, née Bagot) was a British courtier and mistress of King Charles II.

[2] The King rewarded her with grants of land, including Somerset House, in the Strand,[3] and a state pension.

Her parents were Colonel Henry Bagot and his wife Dorothea Arden, of Pipe Hall, Warwickshire.

[8] She married secondly, and secretly,[1] Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset in June 1674, as his first wife.

Mary died in childbirth on 12 September 1679 and was buried at Withyan, Sussex.

Mary Bagot, Countess of Falmouth and Dorset, ca. 1664-65, by Sir Peter Lely . [ 1 ]