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	Sir Robert Dudley - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SIR ROBERT DUDLEY (1573-1649), titular duke of Northumberland and earl of Warwick, English explorer, engineer and author, was the son of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, the favourite of Queen Elizabeth.
		His mother was Lady Douglas Sheffield, daughter of Thomas, first Baron Howard of Effingham.
		Leicester, who deserted Lady Douglas Sheffield for Lettice Knollys, widow of the first earl of Essex, denied that they were married.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Robert_Dudley (642 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick
		Robert Dudley was a son of Earl of Leicester and Lady Douglas Sheffield, a daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham.
		Under oath, Lady Douglas swore that Leicester had solemnly contracted to marry her in Cannon Row, Westminster in 1571 and that they were married at Esher in Surrey in May 1573.
		Lady Anne Dudley, married the lawyer Sir Robert Holborne of Bradley, Derbyshire.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Robert_Dudley,_styled_Earl_of_Warwick (2112 words)

	Charles HOWARD (1° E. Nottingham)
		After marriage she became one of the ladies of the privy chamber, succeeding in I572 to the office of first lady of the chamber, an office as exalted as any that normally could be given to a female subject.
		It was Lady Howard who received and accounted for the jewels, chains, bracelets, gold toothpicks, forks of agate and gold- whatever could be considered jewelry or plate-that the queen received from her courtiers at New Year's.
		Lady Howard would llave been given some kind of dowry - a sum like the twelve hundred marks given with Howard's elder sister, Lady Douglas Sheffield, would not have been unreasonable - but the exact amount is unknown.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/CharlesHoward(1ENottingham).htm (1829 words)

	Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When Lady LLettice, also bigamously, married Edward Stafford and left for the continent with him, Leicester took his son to his household but did not have him declared officially legitimate.Robert was enrolled into Christ Church, Oxford in 1587 with the status of ''filius comitis'', Earl's son.
		Under oath, Lady Douglas swore that Leicester had solemnly contracted to marry her in Cannon Row, Westminster in 1571 and that they were married at Esher in Surrey in May 1573.However, the Star Chamber rejected the evidence for Dudley, arrested several of the witnesses to he marriage and fined them for perjury or subordination.
		The Lady Alice died in 1668 or 1669 at the age of 90, and her Peerage seems to have afllen "extinct".
	www.wikileasing.com /8/Robert_Dudley__styled_Earl_of_Warwick.html (1888 words)

	DOCUMENTS
		That you took such great pleasure in the flatteries that anyone told you however unreasonable, such as that none dare look you in the face because your face shone like the sun, that she and all the other women of the court were forced to behave in the same way.
		In fact Lady Talbot, when she went to make reverence to you and take the oath as one of your servants, told me about it immediately on her return as if it were something done out of mockery, begging me to accept the same service, but secretly and more sincerely.
		Douglas Sheffield’s claim that she had been married to Leicester was essential for her son’s case, but Stafford (paradoxically) was a witness against his wife, arguing that she had been bullied by her son into making such a claim and that she had refused to do earlier.
	www.strath.ac.uk /Departments/History/s_adams/docs_30382.htm (10186 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
		Dudley was always a ladies' man. He is thought to have secretly married the widowed Lady Douglas Sheffield in 1573.
		Lettice was daughter of Catherine Carey, daughter of Lady Mary Boleyn and niece of Anne Boleyn.
		In 1573 it was observed that not only the widowed Lady Douglas Sheffield, but also her sister, Frances Howard, who was unmarried, were "very far in love with him" and also that the Queen "thinketh not well of them, and not the better of him" for encouraging their attentions.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Robert_Dudley,_1st_Earl_of_Leicester (1175 words)

	The Orpheus Books
		Lady Howard, his stepmother, had not been slow, with the help of her trusted Simon Forman, to find Annie a respectable husband, a friend of his, much older than his bride, but well able to provide her with material comforts.
		Now that Lady Arbella was in safe hands, Cecil saw to it that Raleigh went to the Tower with his talkative friend, Cobham, accused of planning with Spain to place Arbella on the throne, which Sir Walter stoutly denied.
		Lady Stafford wrote to her brother, the old Admiral, asking him for his confirmation of her marriage to Leicester but he made no reply.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /orpheus/theob14.htm (4027 words)

	Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
		Robert was born in 1532, the son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and Jane Guilford.
		Leicester (as he was known then) later involved himself in an invalid marriage to Douglas Sheffield (Lady Douglas), which he kept secret.
		This union produced a son, Robert (who later became a Knight) and a daughter, Douglas (there were no problems with names back then!) He then married a woman by the name of Letitia Knollys in September of 1578, a widow of his rival, Walter Devereux (1541?-76), 1st earl of Essex.
	www.legendofdudleytown.com /bob.html (634 words)

	Robert DUDLEY (1º E. Leicester)
		It was observed that not only the widowed Lady Douglas Sheffield, but also her sister, Frances Howard, who was unmarried, were 'very far in love with him' and also that the Queen 'thinketh not well of them, and not the better of him' for encouraging their attentions.
		He had another son, also named Robert, from his affair with Lady Sheffield, but he was illegitimate, and ilegitimate children could not usually inherit their father's titles.
		Lady Sheffield later claimed that Robert had married her in a secret ceremony, and while this is still a popular belief, there is no evidence to support her claims, and Robert always denied it.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/RobertDudley(1ELeicester).htm (3684 words)

	Lady Douglas Sheffield - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Lady Douglas (or alternatively, Douglass) Sheffield is most widely known as the mother of Sir Robert Dudley, the illegitimate son of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Queen Elizabeth I's favorite.
		Shortly after, Douglas married Sir Edward Stafford, whose mother Dorothy was the queen's Mistress of the Robe.
		Stafford was appointed English ambassador to the French court of King Henry III, and Douglas and son Robert accompanied him to Paris.
	education.music.us /L/Lady-Douglas-Sheffield.htm (478 words)

	Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nevertheless, before long a son was borne by Lady Sheffield, and was o be named Robert Dudley, in 1573/4 (later created Duke of Northumberland).
		Other than Elizabeth's threats to incarcerate him, the reason for Leicester's deception may have been to protect his wife, the Lady Douglas Sheffield, and their son from his debts (and intrigues) with the Queen.His only surviving brother, Ambrose, was childless, and unless he fathered some legitimate offspring, his family ilne would perish.
		The secrecy of Leicester's second marriage to Lady Sheffield may well have been a matter of great consideration, given that he did not eish to upset his close association with his childhood companion, Elizabeth.
	www.wikileasing.com /0/Robert_Dudley__1st_Earl_of_Leicester.html (964 words)

	This Star of England - Chapter 7
		It was ten months afterward that the birth of Leicester's illegitimate son occurred, the mother being Douglas Lady Sheffield, recently widowed.
		forsook his lady's bed, [but] the father of Lady Anne by a stratagem contrived that her husband should unknowingly sleep with her, believing her to be another woman, and she bore a son to him in consequence.
		Lady Lennox came—the mother of Darnley—the Earl and Countess of Northumberland, and Lady Hunsdon: Burghley methodically entered the names of his distinguished guests in his diary.
	www.sourcetext.com /sourcebook/Star/ch07.html (4879 words)

	The Orpheus Books
		Lady Mary's tones were such as I had never heard from her - sharp and complaining.
		Shivering behind the curtain, I waited until my Lady's sobs had ceased and then until I heard her close the door when the sound of her slippers tap-tapping down the landing told me that the coast was clear and that I might replace the Orpheus book.
		If, as Lady Mary had told me, her knowledge of Spanish had helped release Robert Dudley and his brothers from the Tower, I felt that he had every reason to be grateful to her.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /orpheus/theob3.htm (4385 words)

	Berkshire History: Biographies: Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex & Leicester (1540-1634)
		The ceremony was thus repeated, on 21st September 1578 at Wanstead in Essex, in the presence of Leicester's brother, the Earl of Warwick, Lord North, the lady's father and others.
		The Countess, of course, resisted the efforts of Leicester's son by Lady Douglas Sheffield, Sir Robert Dudley - self-styled 'Duke of Northumberland' - to prove his legitimacy.
		She remained on friendly terms, however, with her son by her first marriage, Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex, the Queen's new favourite and took some part in the education of her grandson, Robert (later 3rd Earl of Essex).
	www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/lknollys.html (2051 words)

	Famous Elizabethan Women
		She married four times, became a lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth and was the second most powerful Elizabethan woman, next to Queen Elizabeth
		Arabella married William Seymour and the two lines of descendants of both sisters of Henry VIII were united, and both Arabella and William were claimants to the throne.
		Lady Arabella Stuart was sent to the Tower of London where she died in 1615
	www.elizabethan-era.org.uk /famous-elizabethan-women.htm (949 words)

	essex-devereux
		In the Leicester genealogy is recorded his first marriage with Amy Robsart, and afterwards a secret marriage with Lady Douglas Sheffield before only eight witnesses in Esher, County of Surrey.
		After three years Leicester parted from Lady Sheffield, and evidently turned his passion toward Lettice, wife of Walter Lord Essex.
		This secrecy was not, however, generally well preserved, as the French Ambassador, M. de Simier, in a conversation with the Queen, casually mentioned the marriage of Leicester with Lady Essex as a known fact.
	www.sirbacon.org /essex-devereux.htm (756 words)

	Leicester, Earl of Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The Dudley family and its fortunes were suddenly eclipsed by the death of Edward and by the abortive attempt of Northumberland and his sons to depose Mary Tudor in favor of Lady Jane Grey.
		A secret, unacknowledged marriage with Lady Douglas Sheffield was followed by an open wedding to Lettice Knollys, widow of the Earl of Essex.
		As a member of the House of Lords, Leicester had taken the lead in the formation of the Protestant Association in 1584, which swore to protect Elizabeth with their lives.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/leicester-earl-of (523 words)

	swuklink: Searchable Time-Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rumoured secret marriage at Esher of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley (1532-1588), 1st Earl of Leicester (1562-), to the widowed Lady Douglas Sheffield (c.
		1649), styled "Earl of Warwick", illigitimate son of Robert Dudley (1532-1588), 1st Earl of Leicester, by Lady Douglas Sheffield (c.
		The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire (Sheffield) given the right to veto the proposed use of the word "Sheffield" in the name of any limited company in the UK
	www.swuklink.com /BAAAGDJA.php?srchstr=Sheffield (805 words)

	Ancient Rome to Present
		Lady Gunnora Crepon 'Gunilda' of Denmark Born: 936 Died: 1031 Married: 0962 Gunnora was Richard's third spouse.
		Thomas's wife Lady Eleanor Lived as a Nun at Barking (a convent in Essex, England).
		However, when Queen Mary Tudor took the throne it was recognized that females could also claim the throne based on their pedigree, this meant that even Lady Dorothy was in danger, so Dorothy and her husband Sir William Stafford with their children fled into exile in Geneva, Switzerland.
	www.avice.net /ancientroman.htm (3726 words)

	Kenilworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The dictum was rejected by the followers of Simon De Montfort; but at length provisions failed at Kenilworth, and a pestilence broke out which obliged the governor to surrender to the king, who immediately bestowed the castle on his youngest son Edward, Earl of Lancaster, afterwards created Earl of Leicester.
		"In 1286 a grand chivalric meeting of one hundred knights of high distinction, and the same number of ladies, was held at Kenilworth, and at this festival, it is said, silks were worn for the first time in England." (Timbs.)
		The castle came again into the hands of the Crown in the reign of Edward II., who intended to make it an occasional home for himself when desirous of resting from the fatigues of ruling; but the rebellion headed by the queen broke out, he was taken prisoner in Wales, and brought to Kenilworth.
	www.mspong.org /picturesque/kenilworth.html (1205 words)

	Amazon.com: "Lady Sheffield": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Private Letters of Edward Gibbon, 1753-1794: With an Iintroduction by the Earl of Sheffield.
		She was Lady Sheffield now but her marriage could not be very satisfactory as she cast such longing eyes on Robert-though I supposed no...
		CHAPTER X Leicester's Marriage to Douglas, Lady Sheffield?-Did he poison her?- Leicester in- the Low.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Lady-Sheffield (515 words)

	VonKunow
		On Sept. 18, 1559, Lady Amy died suddenly; as was said, in consequence of a fall from the stairs in Cunmor Hall.
		The "Dictionary of National Biography" states that Lady Amy's death was reported to be the result of a plan to murder her, and that this rumor soon reached London.
		Lady Ann Bacon lived until 1610 and he cared for his foster mother, stricken as she was with religious insanity, with the greatest faithfulness and devotion.
	www.sirbacon.org /vonkunow.html (14269 words)

	Amazon.com: "waiting lady": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Elizabeth knew that her answer would elicit a flurry of unwanted questioning.
		As he came, a whirlwind through the hall, he greeted each and every manservant and waiting lady with a hearty back- slap or a brotherly kiss.
		The fifty-two-year-old waiting lady observed with annoyance that the young queen,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/waiting-lady (481 words)

	sidneyhull
		His belief that "allusions to Sidney and Lady Rich should be regarded in context with other elements of self-consciousness.
		When the Earl of Leicester, Sidney's mother's brother, married Lettice Devereux, the Dowager Countess of Essex, and kept his marriage a secret from Queen Elizabeth, his nephew Philip's reference to this new wife in one of his letters proved him one of the few courtiers in the know.
		Leicester had wooed Elizabeth herself, perhaps as recently as 1575; in doing so he had had to reassure his Queen that the illegitimate son that his mistress Douglas Sheffield had borne him did not mean that he had any interest in marrying Sheffield.
	www.geocities.com /yskretz/sidneyhull.html (6511 words)

	This Star of England - Chapter 20
		Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, who had been ill-advised enough to report that on the Continent he was believed to have been her murderer, died suddenly after dining with Leicester.
		Immediately after Lord Sheffield's death in highly suspicious circumstances, Leicester had married Douglas, Lady Sheffield, who gave birth to a son three days later.
		It was no doubt the embassy in 1583 of his brother-in-law, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, to Denmark, where he had been sent by Elizabeth to invest King Frederick II with the Order of the Garter, which piqued Oxford's interest in Saxo's Historia Danica.
	www.sourcetext.com /sourcebook/Star/41-60/ch48.html (6468 words)

	LENA EVANS HUM205 Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sharon Stone is the main character “Ellen or the Lady”.
		I sold ladies shoes, polished leather furniture, and drove a truck.
		It is of a wheat field with the Lady Statue of Liberty in the background.
	levans.uniblogs.org (18257 words)

	1608 - Definition, explanation
		Bess of Hardwick, English jailor of Mary I of Scotland (born 1520)
		Lady Douglas Sheffield, mother of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (born 1545)
		Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell (born 1575)
	www.calsky.de /lexikon/en/txt/1/16/1608.php (791 words)

	Nick Bridgewater's Ancestry
		I share many of the same ancestors as Elizabeth of York, in marrying whom Henry VII strengthened his claim to the throne.
		I am descended from Lady Margaret Plantagenet, 8th Countess of Salisbury (1467/70-1541), who was the governess of the famous Queen Mary I Tudor, otherwise known as "Bloody Mary".
		However, she fell out of favour with Mary's father, Henry VIII, because she was seen as supportive of his wife, Catherine of Aragorn.
	klausjames.tripod.com /nick1.html (7784 words)

	Strength Of A Lady by Lucy Vernezze
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