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Walter Devereux, primer conde de Essex (16 de septiembre de 1541 - 22 de septiembre de 1576) fue un noble inglés y el hijo mayor de Richard Devereux y Dorothy Hastings.
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, KG (16 September 1541 – 22 September 1576), was an English nobleman and general. From 1573 until his death he fought in Ireland in connection with the Plantations of Ireland, most notably the Rathlin Island massacre.
Walter Devereux, 8th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, KG (c. 1432 – 22 August 1485) was an English nobleman and a loyal supporter of the House of York during the Wars of the Roses.
Sir Walter Devereux (1411 – 22 April 1459) of Bodenham and Weobley was a loyal supporter of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York during the Wars of the Roses. He was Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1449 to 1451.
A 1572 oil painting of the Elizabethan courtier and soldier who was created Earl of Essex in 1572. The portrait is attributed to George Gower and depicts Devereux in armor with a motto and a baton.
Walter Devereux, 1st earl of Essex (born Sept. 16, 1541, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales—died Sept. 22, 1576, Dublin) was an English soldier who led an unsuccessful colonizing expedition to the Irish province of Ulster from 1573 to 1575.
Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, was a paradoxical figure. When he died in Dublin on 22 September 1576 at the age of just 37 he was surrounded by some of the leading political figures of Elizabethan Ireland, each of whom, in recording his death, praised his piety, honour and virtue.
