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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.
He joined the household of Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton, who secured his return as Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Carlisle in March 1553. [2] By 1559 he had joined the household of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. [3] He was granted special admittance to the Inner Temple in 1561 at the same time as Leicester. [4]
The Earl of Warwick: 1586 vacant: 1590 Sir Robert Cecil: 1598 The Earl of Essex: 1597 vacant: 1601 Lord Steward: The Earl of Arundel: continued in office The Earl of Pembroke: 1568 vacant: 1570 The Earl of Leicester: 1587 Lord St John of Basing: 1588 Lord Chamberlain: The Lord Howard of Effingham: continued in office The Earl of Sussex: 1572 ...
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester, During His Government of the Low Countries, In the Years 1585 and 1586, edited by John Bruce. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1844. MacCaffrey, Wallace T. Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572–1588. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University ...
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
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.
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.
Edmund Dudley (c. 1462 [1] or 1471/1472 [2] – 17 August 1510) was an English administrator and a financial agent of King Henry VII.He served as a leading member of the Council Learned in the Law, Speaker of the House of Commons and President of the King's Council.