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Hace 2 días · Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG, PC (24 June 1532 – 4 September 1588) was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession until his death. He was a suitor for the queen's hand for many years. Dudley's youth was overshadowed by the downfall of his family in 1553 after his father, the Duke of Northumberland, had failed to prevent the accession of Mary I.
Hace 5 días · In 1561 Farnham sold the property to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Before 1615 the manor of Leesthorpe was acquired by Sir Antony Mildmay. It descended to Mildmay's heirs, the earls of Westmorland, who held it until 1658 when it was conveyed to Edmund Arnold. By 1785 it was owned by John Suffield Brown.
Hace 4 días · The holding later known as HESILRIGE'S MANOR was the property in 1316 of Roger de Martival, the descendant of the Ralph de Martival of the Leicestershire Survey. (fn. 19) From the Martivals the manor descended to Robert de Saddington, who was Chancellor 1343–5, through his marriage with the Martival heiress, Joyce, probably the ...
Hace 1 día · The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate sovereigns, princes of Wales, medieval ladies, modern royal knights and ladies, and stranger knights and ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.
Hace 4 días · He was dead by 1227 and his estates divided between his nephews Robert de Leycestre and Ivo de Dene; in this year his widow Maud exchanged her dower in the two halves of the manor with Robert and Ivo for Reynold's lands in Scakethorpe (Yorks.) and rents in Wolvey.
Hace 2 días · Pages 3368-3389. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4, 1524-1530.Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1875.
Hace 5 días · Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth Le Fay is the highest-ranking witch in all of Avalon. No one would dare address her without permission, much less seek to court her. No one that is, except Lord Robert of the Reckless House of Dudley.
