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LEICESTER.
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XII. 1362. 1. John (Plantangent, styled "of Gaunt)." 4th s. of King Edward III, having m. 19 May 1359, Blanche, 21 and yst. da. and coheir of Henry (PLANTAGENET), DUKE OF LANCASTER, by Isabel, his wife, both abovenamed, obtained in her right, firstly [1361] the micty and finally (on the death of her sister, Maut, COUNTESS OF HAINAULT, abovenated in 1862. the whole of the pussessions of her father, becoming (possibly) thas (in 1361) EARL OF LANCASTER, DERBY AND LINCOLN and in 1362) EARL OF LEICESTER,[1] and High Steward of England, He was, 13 Nov. 1862, cr. DUKE OF LANCASTER. He . 3 Feb. 1398 9, aged 58.

XIII. 1899, Feb. to Sep.

2. HENRY (PLANTAGENET, styled of Bolingbroke, DUKE OF LANCASTER, DUKE OF HEREFORD, EARL OF DERBY, EARL OF LINCOLN, and EARL OF LEICESTER, High Steward of England, &e., s. and h., 6. 1367; elected king as Henry IV. 30 Sep. 1399, when all his honours meryad in the Crown.

See fuller account under" LANCASTER dukedom, er. 1862; merged 1399.

XI. 1564, to 1588

LORD ROBERT DUDLEY, 5th s. of John (Dudley), Duke of Northumberland (so cr. 1551) by Jane, da, of Sir Edward Guilford, was b. 21 June 1532 (or 1533) and, having been Knighted, m. 4 June 1549 when about 18 at Sheen Palace, Surrey, in the King's presence,[2] Amy, the only legit, child of Sir John Robsart, of Silderstern, Norfolk, by Elizabeth, widow of Roger APPLEGARD, of Stanslield, co. Norfolk, da, of John Scott, of Camberwell, Surrey. She, who was b. at Stansfield about 1532, d. sp. 8 Sep. 15(illegible text)0, being found dead at the foot of the staircase in Cumnor place, Berks. She was bur. the 221, in great state at St. Mary's, Oxford, M.P. Her death[3] was generally supposed to have been contrived by her husband to allow of his marriage with Queen Elizabeth, whom there is no doubt at all that on her succession she contemplated marrying[4] He had in 1551 been Gent. of the Privy Chamber and, 1552-53, Master of the Buckhounds to King Edward VI; was M.P. for Norfolk, circ. 1549-52 and 1553, but taking part (with his Father, in proclaiming Lady Jane Grey as Queen, was committed to the Tower in July 1553, attainted and sentenced to death 22 Jan. 1553, 4, but was pardoned 13 Oct. 1554 and restored in blood 7 March 1557/8. He was Master of the Horse, from Jan. 1555/9 to Dec. 1987; el. K.G., 24 April and inst. 3 June 1559 M.A., Cambridge, 10 Aug. 1561; P.C; and having been suggested as a husband to Mary, Queen of Scots was, on 28 Sep. 1564.[5] cr. BARON OF DENBIGH and, on the day following, EARL OF LEICESTER[6], He was Chancellor of Oxford Univ. 1564, and was made Knight of St. Michael of France, 24 Jan. 1566; Lieut of the order of the Garter, June 1572 and April 1584. From 9 to 27 July 1575

  1. ↑ (a) The following note (slightly altered from one by Nicolas) is given by Courthope; It is to be observed that at the Coronation of Richard 1, John of Gaunt, King of Castile and Leon, claimed as Earl of Leicester the High Stewardship of England; as Duke of Lancaster to bear the chief sword called Curtana; and as Earl of Lincoln[ to be carver at the King's table, all of which chains appear to have been allowed. Vide Red Book of the Exchequer,"
  2. ↑ (b) Sir Walter Scott, in his "Kenbworth," falsifies history by representing this as a secret marriage. Froude in his "Elizabeth (vol. i, p. 861, remarks that it had been a love match of a doubttal kind" [tho' he does not indicate what was the doubt] and that it was spoken of by Cecil as "naplue carnales."
  3. ↑ (c) In 1584 the story adopted by Sir Walter Scott (in ‘Kenilworth') was first published in a libel on Dudley usually known as 'Leteester's commonwealth. There Anthony Forster and Sir Richard Verney were said to have flung Lady Amy downstairs, but none of the statements in this libel deserves credit. In spite of the suspicious circumstances of the death nothing can be historically proved against Dudley. The theory of suicide has most in its favour." [Nat. Biography.]
  4. ↑ (d) Nat. Biogr.
  5. ↑ (e) 28 Sep., 6 Eliz., i.e., 1564, tho' generally (in error) called 1563.
  6. ↑ (f) His connection with Leicestershire is not clear. Lands in ten other counties had been granted him in 1563; see p. 48, note "a."
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