Genealogie Kuipers » Robert Dudley (1532-1588)

Persoonlijke gegevens Robert Dudley 

• Alternatieve naam: Earl Of Leicester
• Hij is geboren op 24 juni 1532 in Sheen, Staffordshire, England.
• Hij werd gedoopt in Northumberland, England.
• Hij is overleden op 4 september 1588 in Cornbury, Charlbury, Oxfordshire, England, hij was toen 56 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Collegiate Church, Warwick, Warwickshire, England.
• Een kind van John Dudley en Jane (Joan)(Janam) Guldeford Guildford
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 31 oktober 2008.

Gezin van Robert Dudley

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Amy Robsart.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 4 juni 1549 te Sheen Palace, Surrey, England, hij was toen 16 jaar oud.

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Douglas Howard.

Zij zijn getrouwd mei 1572 te Esher, Surrey, England, hij was toen 39 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Robert Dudley  1574-1649

(3) Hij is getrouwd met Lettice Knolles.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 21 september 1578 te Wanstead, Essex, England, hij was toen 46 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Robert Dudley  1579-1684

(4) Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth I van Engeland.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Widely Believed To Have Been Lovers Although They Could Not Marry.

Notities over Robert Dudley

(Research):It is widely believed that Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was the lover of Queen Elizabeth of England, but that she could not marry him because he was married to another woman. This is one of the great questions of history that has often been asked but will never be answered.

Leicester, Robert Dudley, earl of , 1532– 1588, English courtier and favorite of Queen Elizabeth I. A younger son of John Dudley, duke of Northumberland, he was early brought into the society of Edward VI and Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth. Knighted at an early age, Dudley married Amy Robsart in 1549 and received preferment from the crown. Upon Edward's death (1553), he aided his father in the plot to place Lady Jane Grey upon the throne, was sent to the Tower of London, and condemned to death. He was later released, pardoned, and, after military service in France, restored to his rights (perhaps through the intervention of Mary I's husband, Philip II of Spain). On the accession of Elizabeth (1558), Dudley was made master of the horse and later a privy councillor. Within a year he was acknowledged as her favorite and as her most probable choice for a husband. His wife's mysterious death in 1560 darkened his reputation. He then proposed (1561) to Philip II to restore Roman Catholicism in England in return for Philip's endorsement of Dudley's marriage to Elizabeth. By 1563, Elizabeth seems to have realized the impracticality of marriage with Dudley, but her personal feeling toward him did not change, and he remained in a position of influence at court. She offered his hand to Mary Queen of Scots and, to facilitate this scheme, created him earl of Leicester (1564), but the plan was halted by Mary's marriage to Lord Darnley. Leicester married secretly in 1573 and in 1578 (perhaps bigamously) wed the countess of Essex, an act that led to a temporary estrangement from Elizabeth. From about 1564, Leicester was leader at court of the Puritan party, which desired war with Spain. In 1585 he was named commander of an expedition to help the United Provinces of the Netherlands against Spain. His military efforts were undistinguished, and he enraged Elizabeth by accepting (1586) the title of governor of the Netherlands. He was finally recalled in 1587. Upon the approach of the Spanish Armada (1588), Leicester was appointed captain general of the armies. Leicester was a patron of letters and the drama. The first royal patent for actors was granted to his company.

See M. Waldman, Elizabeth and Leicester (1944, repr. 1969); E. Rosenberg, Leicester, Patron of Letters (1955); R. C. Strong and J. A. Van Dorsten, Leicester's Triumph (1964).

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