Richard Bertie (courtier)

Richard Bertie (25 December 1516 – 9 April 1582) was an English landowner and religious evangelical.

[1] He was the second husband of Katherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, Duchess Dowager of Suffolk and a woman whom Henry VIII was considering as his seventh wife shortly before his death; she also received a proposal from the King of Poland.

[citation needed] Richard Bertie was from an unusually humble stock for the connections he made.

[3] Richard matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 17 February 1533/1534 and succeeded his father in 1555.

Andrew Lloyd Weber, the British composer of "Cats", "The Phantom of the Opera" and other successes, is a descendent of Katherine and Richard Bertie.