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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 1532–1588 1st Earl of Leicester: Mary Dudley d. 1586 m. Henry Sidney: Lord Guildford Dudley c. 1535 –1554: Lady Jane Grey 1537–1554 Disputed Queen of England: Thomas Sackville 1536–1608 1st Earl of Dorset, 1st Baron Buckhurst: Earldom of Hertford (3rd creation) forfeit, 1552: Earldom of Leicester (3rd creation) extinct, 1588
Dudley: extinct 1589 Earl of Leicester: 29 September 1564: Dudley: extinct 1588 Earl of Essex: 4 May 1572: Devereux: extinct 1646: peerage forfeit 1601–1604 Earl of Lincoln: 4 May 1572: de Clinton, Pelham-Clinton-Hope, Fiennes-Clinton: extant: also Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme from 1768 until 1988 Earl of Nottingham: 22 October 1596: Howard ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Essex House, from the Thames, after most of it was demolished. Essex House was a house that fronted the Strand in LondonOriginally called Leicester House, it was built around 1575 for Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and was renamed Essex House after being inherited by his stepson, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, after Leicester's death in 1588.