Robert Dudley

See also: Dudley

Robert Dudley (June 24th 1532 - September 4th 1588), 1st Count de Leicester, wire of John Dudley, was very a long time a favorite of the queen Elisabeth I {{Re}} of England. It was some time imprisoned at the time of the sentence pronounced against his father, and recovered his freedom as of 1554. He enjoys the greatest credit under Elisabeth I {{Re}}. He took on the queen ascending almost absolute by the beauty of his face, the elegance in his manners, by his flexibility and his flatteries. It is said that it was about to obtain its hand. But the death of his wife Amy Robsart under obscure conditions did not enable him to marry the queen.

The queen filled it favors, did it Count de Leicester (1564), chancellor of the Université of Oxford , general lieutenant of the kingdom, and charged it in 1585 and 1587 with going in the Netherlands to support the provinces revolted against Philippe II of Spain.

Deprived of military talents, it tested only reverses; it did not preserve of it less its favor until its death (1588). One shows Leicester to have advised in Elisabeth to poison Marie Stuart, to have poisoned itself Walter Devereux, the Count d' Essex, in order to marry his widow (1576), finally to have made all kinds of crimes and perfidies. Walter Scott put this character in scene in the castle of Kenilworth .

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