#robert devereux

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Elizabeth I (2005)

[elizabethan-memes]

What you get when you order Robert Dudley from Temu:

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earl of essex, robert devereux in helen mirren's elizabeth i, played by hugh dancy.

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The Earl of Essex ⚔️🩸The queen’s pet. 😌💕

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

In attempting to be funny while completing my history homework I believe I have managed to summarise a historical figure in six words.

You can add this to the conclusion of ANY section of his life! In conclusion, Essex made a tit of himself.

Ignoring Elizabeth’s express instructions, Essex made truce with the Irish rebels in a deal embarrassing to the crown. In conclusion, Essex made a tit of himself.

Striding into Elizabeth’s bedchamber unannounced, Essex, saw the Queen without her wig or make up. In conclusion, Essex made a tit of himself.

[bison-appreciation-club]

thinking about the time i was ill and the only coherent thought i could summon for three days was 'robert devereux is a himbo'

[thedudleywomen]

ON THIS DAY - 10 November 1565

On This Day (10 Nov) in 1565, Robert Devereux, later the 2nd Earl of Essex, was born in Netherwood, Herefordshire, the first son born to Walter Devereux, Viscount Hereford, and his wife Lettice Knollys, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys (Vice-Chamberlain of the Queen's Household) and his wife Catherine Carey (who that year had been promoted to Elizabeth's Chief Lady of the Bedchamber).

Walter and Lettice had married around New Year 1561, after meeting at court, where Lettice was in the service of Elizabeth I as one of her gentlewoman of the privy chamber. Following their marriage, Lettice left Elizabeth's employ, and the couple set up home at Chartley Manor, the Devereux family seat in Staffordshire, where they started a family - two daughters were born, Penelope and Dorothy in 1563 and 1564 respectively.

However, Lettice continued to attend court, and was present in the summer of 1565, when she was pregnant with her third child; it was during this time, that she was observed flirting with Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth's 'favourite', whom she would later marry in secret in 1578. Some date their relationship to this time; however, it is likely that the flirtation was intentional on Leicester's side, as he was actively seeking a response from the queen regarding offers of marriage. This appears to have been successful, as Elizabeth was said to have been jealous of Leicester's behaviour towards her younger kinswoman, who was described as "one of the best looking ladies of the court".

Despite the controversy over the summer, Walter and Lettice's baby was named after Robert Dudley, who was nominated as one of his godparents. Whilst he was born at Netherwood, one of the Devereux's properties, he was raised in Chartley with his siblings. His mother Lettice reportedly took an active role in his upbringing, and ensured that he received a Protestant education, as she had done. He was especially close to his older sister Penelope, their close relationship continuing through to adulthood.

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This is a certified Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex moment

[ochoislas]

¿So capa de virtud mis tuertos sufre? ¿He de llamar buen aire a su fiereza? ¿Vuela en pavesas todo el ardimiento? ¿Ponderaré sin fruto una maleza?

No, que alzada la sombra a par del bulto puede el turbio mirar sufrir engaño: es un frío adamar trazo en la arena o borbollar que aflora en un regajo.

¿Podrás luego mentirte una vez más, visto que nunca habrá de remediarte? Si no puedes vencer su inclinación será tu amor estéril sin rescate.

¿Tan bajo soy que no puedo aspirar al subido placer que de mí aleja...? Que si alto está, mi afán no es menos alto. ¿Pues qué será otorgado si tal niega?

Si acaso a la razón quiere avenirse, de razón es que amor se muestre ecuánime. Agráciame, mi dueño, con tal prenda o déjame morir si así te place.

Mejor morir, una y mil, que así vivir padeciendo: mas no olvides que fui yo quien por ti murió contento.

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Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak? Shall I call her good when she proves unkind? Are those clear fires which vanish into smoke? Must I praise the leaves where no fruit I find?

No no: where shadows do for bodies stand, Thou may'st be abus'd if thy sight be dim. Cold love is like to words written on sand, Or to bubbles which on the water swim.

Wilt thou be thus abused still, Seeing that she will right thee never? If thou canst not o'ercome her will The love will be thus fruitless ever.

Was I so base, that I might not aspire Unto those high joys which she holds from me? As they are high , so high is my desire: If she this deny, what can granted be?

If she will yield to that which reason is, It is Reason's will that Love should be just. Dear make me happy still by granting this, Or cut off delays if that die I must.

Better a thousand times to die, Than for to live thus still tormented: Dear, but remember it was I Who for thy sake did die contended.

Robert Devereux (?)/John Dowland

di-versión©ochoislas

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Book and Writing Update

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Elizabeth I (2005)

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The Young Man among Roses (fig. 1) may be Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, painted when he was on the rise to become Elizabeth I’s chief favourite. He declares his political devotion to Elizabeth by posing as a love-melancholic with his hand on his heart. His black-and-white clothing uses Elizabeth’s personal colours, while the white roses that surround him were one of her emblems. In this case the languid posture of the melancholic is deployed at the pinnacle of court politics, to stake a claim to a special place in royal favour.

Helen Hackett, The Elizabethan Mind

[vonlipvig]

you two are dancing in a snow globe, 'round and 'round...

a little something for my fallen london pc jack and his boyfriend jerry the rubbery man, because they love each other very much and they deserve that love. and you know, sometimes a perfect couple can be a moderately successful author and his number one fan. who's a squid man. of course.

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"God is my witness that as a private person I have done nothing unworthy of an honest man, and as Secretary of State, nothing unbefitting my duty."

francis walsingham during the october 1586 trial of mary, queen of scots

[snapheart1536]

Eh? Quite a few things wrong here.

Why is Margaret Pole represented by her father's picture?

And who is this 'Isabelle'?

If you mean Elizabeth, she's certainly not Mary's aunt!

Famous prisoners of the Tower of London

The condition of the prisoners varied greatly. Some had heavy sentences, others were lighter. Some even had the right to leave their cells, even to go out to walk in the whole citadel. William Penn, founder of the American colony of Pennsylvania, has endured eight months in prison for his religious beliefs.

Duke Charles of Orleans, the nephew of the King of France, had been made prisoner in a battle, and had spent twenty-five years of his life in the care of the English until an exorbitant ransom was paid. Similarly, the courtier, explorer and writer Sir Walter Raleigh has endured thirteen long years of prison, years in which he wrote his universal history, entitled History of the World.

He was then temporarily released to be executed shortly afterwards. The heir of Henry VIII, his son Edward VI (also Anglican), continued after his coronation to make brutal purges. Six years later, he died and was replaced by Marie Tudor.  Isabelle, the sister of Marie’s father, spent several weeks in prison in the tower before being able to leave.

Anne Boleyn

The second wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn was twice a resident of the Tower of London—once as a queen-in-waiting and once as a condemned prisoner. Boleyn married Henry in 1533 after the English king defied the Roman Catholic Church and annulled his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. Housed in the Tower of London prior to her coronation in June 1533, Boleyn would reign as queen of England for nearly three years.

Coupled with courtly intrigue and accusations of infidelity, Boleyn’s failure to give birth to a male heir ultimately proved to be her undoing. Accused of seducing the king into a cursed marriage, in May 1536 she was arrested on trumped-up charges of adultery, treason and even an alleged incestuous affair with her brother. Boleyn was confined to the Lieutenant’s Lodgings of the Tower of London, where she was tried and found guilty.

She was beheaded by a French swordsman on a scaffold at the Tower on May 19, 1536. Catherine Howard, Henry’s fifth wife, would meet a similar fate when she was imprisoned and then executed at the Tower of London in 1542.

Sir Walter Raleigh

One of the longest-serving prisoners of the Tower of London was the famed Sir Walter Raleigh, who was confined to the citadel for some 13 years. A soldier and explorer who engineered the ill-fated English colony at Roanoke Island, Raleigh was knighted by Elizabeth I in 1585 and became one of the queen’s favourite courtiers. Despite his influential position, Raleigh was briefly imprisoned in the Tower in 1592 when it was revealed that he had secretly wed Elizabeth Throckmorton, one of the queen’s maids of honour.

Raleigh was confined to the Tower a second time in 1603 after he was accused of plotting against King James I. Stripped of most of his wealth, he would spend nearly 13 years detained in a part of the castle known as the Bloody Tower. While he was ostensibly a prisoner, Raleigh’s high social standing ensured that he had comfortable lodgings, and he was even joined in the Tower by his family. During this time he devoted himself to science and writing—composing his “History of the World” in 1614—and also fathered a son. Raleigh was released in 1616 and dispatched to Central America in search of the mythical gold city of El Dorado. The mission proved unsuccessful, and Raleigh was arrested and executed at the block after his forces attacked a Spanish outpost against the orders of the king.

The Princes in the Tower

Twelve-year-old Prince Edward V and 10-year-old Prince Richard of Shrewsbury—better known as “the Princes in the Tower”—are among the most famous prisoners to have disappeared within the bowels of the Tower of London. The two boys first arrived at the castle in 1483 after the death of their father, King Edward IV. The princes were originally housed in the Tower on the orders of their uncle Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but were stripped of their royal titles after the duke invalidated their father’s marriage, declared them illegitimate and claimed the throne for himself as King Richard III. Moved from their opulent royal apartments to the confines of the Garden Tower (later known as the Bloody Tower), the boys effectively became prisoners of the crown.

While there were initially sightings of the former princes playing in the Tower courtyard, by mid-1483 they had vanished without a trace. The would-be monarchs’ true fate remains a mystery. While a Flemish man claiming to be Prince Richard would invade England in 1497 and attempt to take the throne, he was later revealed to be a pretender and was executed at the Tower of London. The only clue would come in 1674, when the skeletons of two children were found during renovations to the Tower. While these were never proven to be the bodies of the Princes in the Tower, the discovery fueled speculation that the boys had been murdered, with their uncle Richard III the most likely culprit.

Guy Fawkes

Guy Fawkes was a soldier and revolutionary who was imprisoned in the Tower of London for his role in the notorious Gunpowder Plot. A militant Catholic, in 1604 Fawkes became embroiled in an audacious plan to assassinate the Protestant King James I and other members of the British government by blowing up the House of Lords. After renting the storage room beneath Westminster Palace, Fawkes and his accomplices packed the cellar with 35 barrels of gunpowder, which they planned to detonate on November 5, 1605, during the opening of Parliament.

The plot was foiled after an anonymous letter led authorities to search the cellar, and Fawkes was captured when he was found guarding the door. He was then sent to the Tower of London and confined to the infamous cell known as the ��Little Ease,” a cramped room that prevented its occupant from either standing up straight or lying down. Following intense interrogation and torture—most likely on the rack—Fawkes exposed the other men involved in the plot. Found guilty of treason, he was condemned to be hanged, drawn and quartered at the palace yard at Westminster, but he avoided this gruesome punishment by throwing himself from the gallows and breaking his own neck. The Gunpowder Plot would later become the inspiration for Guy Fawkes Day, a British holiday celebrated every November 5.

Lady Jane Grey

Lady Jane Grey’s meteoric rise and fall saw her go from ruler of England to a prisoner in the Tower of London in little more than a week. The teenage Grey was installed as Queen of England in July 1553 after her cousin Edward VI died without a male heir. Desperate to thwart his Catholic half-sister Mary’s claim to the throne, Edward VI had chosen Grey as his successor in order to ensure the crown remained under Protestant control.

The new Queen’s reign would last only nine days. After Mary raised a large band of supporters, the royal government abruptly switched their allegiance and declared her the rightful Queen of England. Forced to relinquish the crown, Grey was taken prisoner and moved from the Tower’s royal apartments to the Gentleman Gaoler’s lodgings. While she was kept under constant guard, she was allowed occasional walks around the castle grounds and even given a weekly allowance. Grey was tried and found guilty of treason in November 1553, but was quickly pardoned by Queen Mary I.

A final twist of fate came in January 1554, when Grey’s father’s participation in a Protestant rebellion led the royal government to proceed with its death sentence. Grey was then beheaded on the Tower Green on February 12, 1554.

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (1473-1541) was the last direct descendant of the Plantagenet line, descended from King Edward III. The Countess made the mistake of appearing with Catherine of Aragon against the King who declared her a traitor. She was arrested two years before her execution, ill-treated and neglected during her detention. She has never been tried. She was small, frail and sick, but proud. On the day of her execution, she had to be dragged to the block. On the spot she refused to lay her head on it and struggled with all her strength. She jumped from the log and the executioner had to pursue her with her ax in her hand. She was struck eleven times that the head was not detached. There were 150 witnesses of his execution that day. Margaret Pole was 68 years old.

Catherine Howard

Catherine Howard was the fifth wife of King Henry VIII, the cousin of Anne Boleyn. Particularly pretty, Henry was at her painstaking care, covering her with gifts and making a public display of great love. She had led a permissive life in the household of her grandmother, the Dowager Dowager of Norfolk, an uneducated and neglected woman. After her marriage to Henry VIII, who was a disgusting and obese old man, she had an affair with the handsome young Thomas Culpepper, a bond that was discovered. King Henry was devastated. Catherine was arrested at Hampton Court for adultery and tried in vain to rejoin the king.

She was shrieked in her apartments. Her lover was executed, her head still buried in a pike when she too passed under the London Bridge before entering the Tower of London by the door of the traitors. The legend says that Catherine’s last words were: “I die as queen, but I would rather die as a Culpepper’s wife.” She was then only 18 years old.

Robert Deverux

Robert Devereux (1566-1601) was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. He was handsome, witty, arrogant and ambitious, and the Queen was full of praise for this man. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, a position which he could not secure. His relationship with the Queen deteriorated little by little and he tried a political coup. He led a rebellion against the Queen and wanted to take control of the city of London on February 8, 1601.

He was arrested and sentenced for treason. Dressed in black, but with a shiny red waistcoat, Essex was executed at the Tower of London on February 25, 1601. More than 100 people attended the execution, and three blows of the ax were necessary to blow up the head of Essex.

Rudolf Hess

By the 20th century the Tower of London had primarily become a tourist site and storage facility for the Crown Jewels. But during World War II the castle was briefly restored to its role as a state prison when it held two high profile Nazis captured on British soil. One of these men was Josef Jakobs, a German spy apprehended in rural England. Jakobs became the last man put to death at the Tower of London when he was executed by a firing squad in August 1941.

Even more famous was “Deputy to the Führer” Rudolf Hess, who served as Hitler’s second-in-command in the Nazi Party. Hess was captured in May 1941 after he parachuted into Scotland as part of a renegade plan to negotiate peace with the British. Doubtful of Hess’s motives, Prime Minister Winston Churchill had him sent to the Tower, making him the final state prisoner to be held at the castle. Hess would only remain for a few days, but rumours that he was hidden away in the Tower would persist for several months. Hess was later tried at Nuremberg and given a life sentence. He died at Spandau Prison, West Berlin, in 1987.

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