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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.
Robert Dudley, created Earl of Leicester in 1564. Earl of Leicester is a title that has been created seven times. The first title was granted during the 12th century in the Peerage of England. The current title is in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and was created in 1837.
Federico Zuccaro, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1575 In preparation for the Queen's visit, Dudley spent the enormous sum of £40,000 to £60,000 on building and landscaping. Alison Weir refers to the castle as "one of the wonders of the age, resorted not in Renaissance style like most Elizabethan houses , but in a medieval style in keeping ...
w:Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588), KG. Two identical heraldic shields, one one at left circumscribed by the Collar of the Order of St Michael and that at right by the Garter . For commentary (including a note that the arms with the Order of St Michael, which Leicester received in 1566, may have been added after the portrait was ...
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.
The Earl of Leicester's Men was a playing company or troupe of actors in English Renaissance theatre, active mainly in the 1570s and 1580s in the reign of Elizabeth I.In many respects, it was the major company in Elizabethan drama of its time, and established the pattern for the companies that would follow: it was the first to be awarded a royal patent, and the first to occupy one of the new ...
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.
Robert Sidney was the second son of Sir Henry Sidney, was a statesman of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. He was also a patron of the arts and a poet. His mother, Mary Sidney née Dudley, was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I and a sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, an advisor and favourite of the Queen.