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Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG, PC (24 June 1532 [note 1] – 4 September 1588) was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death. He was a suitor for the queen's hand for many years.
Earl of Leicester is a title that has been created seven times. ... 1st Earl of Worcester: Elizabeth Somerset c. 1476 –1507 3rd Baroness Herbert suo jure:
Nicolas Hilliard, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1576. Station of the Savage Man and Eccho: Gascoigne himself, dressed as a "sauage man," meets Elizabeth on her way back from hunting. [6] Together with an actor in the guise of Eccho, he engages in a versified dialogue praising the beauty and grandeur of the Queen. This event is credited to ...
Amy, Lady Dudley (née Robsart; 7 June 1532 – 8 September 1560) was the first wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I of England.She is primarily known for her death by falling down a flight of stairs, the circumstances of which have often been regarded as suspicious.
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) [b] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last monarch of the House of Tudor. Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn.
Lettice Knollys (/ ˈ n oʊ l z / NOHLZ, sometimes latinized as Laetitia, alias Lettice Devereux or Lettice Dudley), Countess of Essex and Countess of Leicester (8 November 1543 [1] – 25 December 1634), was an English noblewoman and mother to the courtiers Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Lady Penelope Rich.
Elizabeth was still attached to her old friend when Mary Dudley left the court in July 1579—because of bad health, [1] or out of solidarity with her brother Robert, Earl of Leicester, who was in disgrace for having married. [32] She joined her husband at Ludlow in 1582, where he was serving his third turn as President of the Council of Wales.
A printed copy of the original edition of Leicester's Commonwealth. Leicester's Commonwealth (originally titled The Copie of a Leter wryten by a Master of Arts of Cambrige) (1584) is a scurrilous book that circulated in Elizabethan England and attacked Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.