Elizabeth Somerset, Countess of Worcester (wife of the 2nd Earl) four daughters on record who grew to adulthood, although it is rumored they had two more children who survived past infancy, bringing the total to ten: Elizabeth Somerset, Countess of Worcester (wife of the 2nd Earl) Elizabeth (née Browne) Somerset, Countess of Worcester (died 1565) was a lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn and the main informant against her. She may have been a mistress of King Henry VIII. Elizabeth was born approximately in 1502 and lived in Bechworth, Surrey, England. She was the daughter of Sir Anthony Browne, a trusted courtier at the court of Henry VIII, and his wife Lady
The Song of Dermot and the Earl The Song of Dermot and the Earl The Song of Dermot and the Earl () is an anonymous Anglo-Norman verse chronicle written in the early 13th century in England. It tells of the arrival of Strongbow in Ireland in 1170 (the "earl" in the title), and of the subsequent arrival of Henry II of England. The chronicle survives only in a single manuscript which was re-discovered in the 17th century in London. The work bears no title in the manuscript, but has been commonly referred to as "The Song of Dermot and the Earl" since G.H. Orpen in 1892 published