William Compton, 1st Earl of Northampton

In June 1590 he went to Edinburgh with Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester to congratulate James VI on his marriage to Anne of Denmark.

[1] At the Union of the Crowns, in May 1603, Compton and others including Francis Norris and the Earl of Lincoln were sent by the Privy Council to Berwick-upon-Tweed to meet Anne of Denmark.

[3] Their children included: In March 1610 Elizabeth's father died leaving a fortune, and a letter (purportedly) sets out her expectations from her husband.

...Afterward, my Lord Compton descended from his sheepcote and mounted himself on a lofty steed, his men also attending him on horseback, every one wearing a hat of straw and their faces painted as black as the devil.

The historian Roy Strong identifies this performance as a revival of Elizabethan pastoral themes, related to the shepherd knight Phillisides of Philip Sydney's Arcadia[6] Lord Compton ordered a suit of plate armour from the Royal Greenwich Workshop around 1588, and was depicted wearing it in his only known portrait.