LAC
was married, at midnight, to Richard Sackville
. Two days later, on his father's death, he became Earl of Dorset and she became mistress of Knole House.
This is the great house which...
Wealth and Poverty
Lady Anne Clifford
After a long series of hearings in different courts, Lord Dorset
, LAC
's first husband, signed the King's Award, relinquishing her claim to the Clifford lands.
Clifford, Lady Anne. “Introduction / Annotations / Bibliography”. The Diary of Anne Clifford, 1616-1619, edited by Katherine O. Acheson, Garland, 1995, pp. 1 - 37, 133.
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Lady Anne Clifford
LAC
's first husband, Richard Sackville
, died at the age of thirty-four, leaving her (at the same age) a titled widow, free and financially independent for the first time in her life.
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.