Lady Bridget Manners

Lady Bridget Manners (died 1604) was an English courtier, a maid of honour at the court of Elizabeth I.

[3] Her uncle, Roger Manners of Uffington, a "squire of the body" at court,[4] made some of the arrangements for Bridget to join the royal household after her father's death.

[1] In 1593 Barnabe Barnes included a sonnet to "the Beautiful Lady, the Lady Bridget Manners" in his Parthenophil and Parthenophe, as a rose in Cynthia's (Elizabeth's) crown;[1] Manners married Robert Tyrwhitt, a son of William Tyrwhitt and Elizabeth Frescheville, secretly in August 1594.

Roger Manners of Uffington wrote, "her Majesty taketh it for a great offence, and so, as I hear, she mindeth to punish".

[1] She died on 10 July 1604, possibly at Etchingham in Sussex, and is commemorated on a monument at Bigby which names her children as William, Robert, Rutland, and Bridget.