Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of (1532–88) English courtier. He was a favourite of Queen
Elizabeth I, who ennobled him and gave him a castle at Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England. Marriage to Elizabeth seemed possible, but instead Elizabeth proposed his marriage to
Mary, who rejected him. Leicester unsuccessfully led (1585–87) an English force in the Revolt of the Netherlands against Spain.
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Alliance With Leicester; Bonhams Sells Portraits Of Queen Elizabeth I And Her Favourite Robert Dudley.
M2 Presswire; 9/28/2009; 700+ words
; ...Portraits Of Queen Elizabeth I And Her Favourite Robert Dudley(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS RDATE:28092009...by Hilliard, depicting Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester at Bonhams Knightsbridge on 25th November. With...
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Sir Robert Dudley: Duke of Northumberland: this swashbuckling chancer lived two lives, the first English, the second Italian. Raymond E. Role chronicles the chameleon career which ranges from Elizabethan privateer, explorer and courtier to Stuart expatriate, religious renegade, shipbuilder, architect, inventor, engineer, cartographer and paterfamilias.
Magazine article from: History Today; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...his namesake, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and Lady Douglas...the death of Leicester's younger brother Ambrose, Earl of Warwick...Warwick followed Leicester to the grave...months later, Robert Dudley inherited enormous...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Elizabeth's blooming passions; SEEDS OF PASSION: Cate Blanchett and Joseph Fiennes as Robert Dudley in a scene from the film Elizabeth.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 9/21/2008; 700+ words
; ...the 1st Lord Burghley, and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Martyn argues that as rivals...garden-centred entertainment Dudley provided for Elizabeth at Kenilworth...train arrived at Kenilworth, Dudley was at her side. The first thing...
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Gardens fit for a Queen: how the rivalry between Dudley and Cecil took root
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/11/2008; ; 614 words
; ...Elizabeth I's reign. Soon after Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was granted Kenilworth, he...Elizabeth sinking back on cushions or Dudley "rendezvous-ing" with her...sense of vertigo. How rivalrous Dudley and Cecil were is for historians...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Midland archive: Benevolent earl and a well-funded 'hospital' Chris Upton looks at the origins of Warwick's famous Leycester Hospital for old soldiers. Ross Reyburn reports on its present day role.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 2/5/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...beetled the brow of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, as he contemplated...one. Best to present Leicester's magnanimous gesture...of course, have been Dudley's way of returning...in establishing it, Robert Dudley can take posthumous...
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 "Birmingham Mail (England)")
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Party fit for a Queen on list; KENILWORTH: Inventory shines light on Earl's efforts to woo Elizabeth.(News)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England); 12/18/2007; 646 words
; ...inventory of the castle, home to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester at Kenilworth Castle, who was...nearly three weeks by the Earl of Leicester at the castle with an extensive...discovered that four paintings of Leicester and Elizabeth listed in the...
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Party fit for a Queen on list ; KENILWORTH: Inventory shines light on Earl's efforts to woo Elizabeth
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail; 12/18/2007; ; 550 words
; ...inventory of the castle, home to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester at Kenilworth Castle, who was...nearly three weeks by the Earl of Leicester at the castle with an extensive...discovered that four paintings of Leicester and Elizabeth listed in the...
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The Queen and her gypsy lover ; Elizabeth and Leicester By Sarah Gristwood BANTAM [pound]20
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 2/25/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...relationship of Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester has remained intriguing...association, until Leicester's death from illness...s reign. Describing Dudley as "a creature of our...family to the block. Robert, who had known Elizabeth...
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Leicester and the Court: Essays on Elizabethan Politics.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; Simon Adams. Leicester and the Court: Essays on Elizabethan...undisputed master of the life of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. His forthcoming biography of Leicester...court in the late 1590s as Essex and Robert Cecil struggled for control. He...
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Recreated, the Tudor garden where an ambitious earl wooed the Virgin Queen
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...scented garden that Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, created at Kenilworth...the public tomorrow. Dudley was one of Tudor England...deeply in love. But Dudley's wife had died in...description of it written by Robert Langam, a member of...
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Robert Dudley Leicester, earl of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Robert Dudley Leicester, earl of , 1532?-1588, English courtier...Elizabeth I . A younger son of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland , he was early...facilitate this scheme, created him earl of Leicester (1564), but the plan was halted...
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Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester ( c. 1532–88) English...Following the mysterious death of Dudley's wife, Amy Robsart, in 1560 it...life and in 1564 was created Earl of Leicester. He was later given the command of...
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Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester (1533–88), courtier and favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Uncle of Sir P. Sidney , he was a notable patron of writers...
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Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of (1532–88) English courtier. He was a favourite...instead Elizabeth proposed his marriage to Mary , who rejected him. Leicester unsuccessfully led (1585–87) an English force in...
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Leicester, Robert Dudley, earl of
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Leicester, Robert Dudley, earl of (?1532–88), the favourite of Elizabeth I , figures in Scott's Kenilworth as the husband of the unfortunate Amy Robsart.
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