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Hace 6 días · El último de sus favoritos fue Robert Devereux, conde de Essex, joven petulante y consentido al que una reina ya en su ocaso toleró comportamientos que habrían enviado a cualquier otro al patíbulo.
Hace 3 días · Devereux Court, into which we now pass, is famous as having been the locale of two of the most celebrated coffee-houses—"Tom's" and the "Grecian." It takes its name from Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, the Parliamentary general, who was born in Essex House (part of which stood upon this spot), and of whom we shall have more to say ...
Hace 5 días · Robert Cecil, 1st earl of Salisbury was an English statesman who succeeded his father, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, as Queen Elizabeth I’s chief minister in 1598 and skillfully directed the government during the first nine years of the reign of King James I. Cecil gave continuity to the change.
Hace 1 día · Robert Knevett held Stanway in 1392, but in 1400 he quitclaimed it to John Doreward, who already held Olivers manor in the parish. (fn. 8) Doreward, a prominent Essex knight who was speaker of the House of Commons in 1399 and 1413, died in 1420.
Hace 3 días · Devereux died in 1748, when the property passed under his will to Robert Moxon whose son John let it as the poorhouse; after John's death his father's trustees sold it to Nicholas Pearse. (fn. 76) There was a tradition that it was once a hunting-seat of the earl of Essex.
Hace 3 días · A History of the County of Essex: Volume 9, the Borough of Colchester. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1994. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved.
Hace 5 días · After Philip is killed in battle, Frances becomes Countess of Essex, and is banished from court after her husband Sir Robert Devereaux’s rebellion against the queen. Can she marry for love, if it means turning her back on her faith and all she knows?
