Bridget Langland

Short Stats

• Character Name: Bridget Vaughan
• Title: none
• Estate Name: Porthammel House, in Porthammel, Brecknockshire
• Nationality: English
• Age: 17 (b. 1660)
• Gender: Female
• Eye Colour: Dark brown
• Hair Colour: Dark brown

Physical Attributes & Initial Impression of Personality

An inch or two shorter than average, she has dark hair, dark eyes, and ample curves, shown to advantage in fashionable, although not ornate attire.

Background

Born to Walter Vaughan and his wife, Alice (nee: Bond), during or before 1661, she is a heiress and only child. Her grandfather, Canon Frederick Vaughan was a respected clergyman, but is deceased. He and his wife were from Wiltshire, and he was the younger son of a nobleman (pos. 2nd Earl of Carbery)

Her family resides in Porthammel House, one of two great houses in Porthammel, Brecknockshire. In the area are o Bronllys Castle, 2 great houses, 4 manor houses, many little farm houses, and a respectable inn. It is good farmland, and Porthamel House has a deer park reaching down to the Afon Llynfi. It is a fortified manor house, built by the first High Sheriff of Brecknockshire.

She is best friends with Lady Elizabeth Holles, daughter of the Earl of Clare.

Marriage

Mid 1676 she married Lord Owen Langland