#OTD 25 Feb 1601
#RobertDevereux 2nd Earl of Essex met with the 🪓for treason
Having amassed a following he attempted to force an audience with #ElizabethI
Like his step-father #RobertDudley he had been her favourite but fell from grace & placed under house arrest for desertion
#Elizabethan
#History
#OTD 25 Dec 1634 #LetticeKnollys died
Mary Boleyn's granddaughter & so cousin to #ElizabethI
She & 1st husband Walter Devereux had 5 children, including Elizabeth's later favourite, Robert!
Widowed in 1576, 2yrs later she wed Queen's favourite #RobertDudley
#history
#Tudor
#Elizabethan
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester Elizabeth I’s favourite. 📚⏳💙 #RobertDudley #ElizabethI #TudorHistory #RoyalFavorites #HistoricalFigures #BritishMonarchy #RenaissanceEra #CourtLife #LoveAndPolitics #HistoryNerd
#OTD 10 Nov 1565
#LetticeKnollys gave birth to #RobertDevereux who, in the 1580s, would become a favourite of #ElizabethI as had his stepfather #RobertDudley
Devereux became Earl of Essex aged 11 & was raised by his guardian, #SirWilliamCecil Elizabeth’s most trusted minister
#Elizabethan
#History
#OTD 8 Nov 1543
#LetticeKnollys, granddaughter of #MaryBoleyn was born at Rotherfield Greys
Serving cousin #ElizabethI she'd marry 3 times
1st Walter Devereux
2nd Elizabeth’s favourite #RobertDudley incurring her wrath resulting in her banishment
Finally Sir Christopher Blount
#History
#Elizabethan
Elizabeth R (1971)
Robert Hardy was born on this day in 1925! Let's remember his historical costume movie & TV roles like Robert Dudley in Elizabeth R (1971). Find more of his work on FrockFlicks.com at buff.ly/Egunmi9
#RobertHardy #RobertDudley #ElizabethR #16thCenturyCostume #HistoricalCostume #HistoricalMovie
#StevenvanderMeulen, who was burried #OnThisDay in 1563
Portrait of #RobertDudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588)
ca. 1560s
Yale Center for British Art
#VanderMeulen
#StevenvanderMeulen, who was burried #OnThisDay in 1563
Portrait of #RobertDudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588)
ca. 1560s
Waddesdon
#VanderMeulen
#StevenvanderMeulen, who was burried #OnThisDay in 1563
Portrait of #RobertDudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588)
ca. 1560s
Wallace Collection
#VanderMeulen
#OTD 10 Oct 1588
#RobertDudley was buried at St Marys Warwick
#ElizabethI was distraught, locking herself away until #LordBurghley had her door broken down - she kept 'his last letter' until her death
His widow #LetticeKnollys was interred with him in 1635
A visit to The Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick. Chapel c1123, other surviving parts of the building 15thC & 16thC. Robert Dudley, Favourite to Elizabeth I, established the hospital in 1571 as a residence for wounded and poor former soldiers #lordleycesterhospital #historicwarwick #robertdudley
#OTD 29 Sept 1564
#RobertDudley became Earl of Leicester
#ElizabethI had a cunning plan, a title made him more worthy as a suitor for #MaryQueenofScots tho neither were keen!
An attempt to control Mary, instead she married her cousin #HenryStuart #LordDarnley which didn't end well
#Elizabethan
#OTD
29th September 1564
Robert Dudley had the title of Earl of Leicester conferred on him, along with lands in the Midlands.
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#RobertDudley #EarlofLeicester #QueenElizabethI #Tudors #History
#OTD 21 Sept 1578
#RobertDudley secretly married #LetticeKnollys #ElizabethI's #lookalike cousin & widow of Walter Devereux
Robert, the Queens favourite took a huge risk in marrying without royal permission
Lettice, who Elizabeth nicknamed the “she-wolf” was banished from Court
#OTD 8 Sept 1560
#AmyRobsart was found dead at the foot of the stairs at Cumnor Place
Recorded as accidental death, rumours flourished her husband #RobertDudley had engineered her demise
Amy probably had breast cancer
Suicide, accident, murder? We will never know #MYSTERY
#OTD
8th September 1560
Amy Dudley, wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, died at her home, Cumnor Place in Oxfordshire. Her servants found her body at the bottom of the stairs.
#AmyDudley #RobertDudley #EarlofLeicester #CumnorPlace #Tudors #History
#OTD
4th September 1588
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester died at his lodge at Cornbury, near Woodstock in Oxfordshire.
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#RobertDudley #EarlofLeicester #MasterofHorse #RoyalFavourite #SweetRobin #QueenElizabethI #Tudors #History
#OTD 28 Aug 1588
#RobertDudley, favourite of #ElizabethI wrote his final letter to his Queen & friend
He died on 4 Sept
The Queen grief-stricken kept ‘his Last lettar’ in a casket by her bed, where it was found when she died
#Tudorqueen
#OTD
28th August 1588
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I wrote his final letter to his queen.
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#RobertDudley #EarlofLeicester #MasterofHorse #Favourite #QueenElizabethI #Tudors #History
Box made for Robert Dudley
1579
Sweets in precious boxes were popular New Years gifts at court.
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#RobertDudley #1stEarlofLeicester #QueensFavourite #QueenElizabethI #Tudors #History
Unknown Artist
Portrait of #RobertDudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1587
Yale Center for British Art
#Dudley #Tudor
Unknown Artist
Portrait of #RobertDudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1575
National Portrait Gallery
#Dudley #Tudor
Unknown Artist
Portrait of #RobertDudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1575
National Portrait Gallery
#Dudley #Tudor
#NicholasHilliard (1547-1619)
Portrait of #RobertDudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588), who was #BornOnThisDay
1576
National Portrait Gallery
#Dudley #Tudor
#NicholasHilliard (1547-1619)
Portrait of #RobertDudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1571-4
V&A
#Dudley #Tudor
Attributed to #StevenvanderMeulen (fl. 1543-68)
Portrait of #RobertDudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1565
Yale Center for British Art
#Dudley #Tudor
Attributed to #StevenvanderMeulen (fl. 1543-68)
Portrait of #RobertDudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1564
Waddesdon Manor
#Dudley #Tudor
Attributed to #StevenvanderMeulen (fl. 1543-68)
Portrait of #RobertDudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1560-5
The Wallace Collection
#Dudley #Tudor
Robert Dudley was originally a Dentist but after feeling unsatisfied with that he started working in films in 1917. By the 1940s he became part of the informal stock company of Preston Sturges. He passed away in 1955 after a career of more than 110 films
#MusComEnt #ThePalmBeachStory #RobertDudley
💬 'THE DUDLEY WOMEN BLOG' #History #Tudors #newblogpost
'Robert Dudley, Lord Denbigh: "The Noble Impe"
Discussing the short life, death and burial of the only legitimate child of #RobertDudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and his wife #LetticeKnollys, Countess of Leicester, who died #otd in 1584.
