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ROBSART , the See also:maiden name of See also:LADY Ap1Y See also:DUDLEY (1532-156o), wife of See also:Lord See also:Robert Dudley, afterwards See also:earl of See also:Leicester. She was the daughter of See also:Sir See also:John Robsart of See also:Norfolk, and was married to Lord Robert on the 4th of See also:June 1550. The See also:marriage was apparently arranged by, the See also:family for business reasons, and there is no ground for supposing that it was a love match, or that she was beautiful. Her attraction See also:lay in her See also:estate, which was a See also:provision for a younger son. During the See also:early years of the marriage her See also:husband was entangled in the See also:rebellion of his family against See also:Queen See also:Mary, and was imprisoned in the See also:Tower. She visited him there, and acted for his interests. After his See also:release she saw little of him. When See also:Elizabeth became queen in 1559 Lord Robert was soon known to be her favourite, and it was believed that she would. marry him if he were See also:free. His wife never came to See also:court and was never in his See also:company. Stories were set about to the effect that she. was suffering from See also:cancer and would soon See also:die. Quadra, the See also:Spanish See also:ambassador, reported to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of. See also:Spain that the queen had repeated this rumour to him. In 156o she went by her husband's directions to Cumnor See also:Place, a See also:house near See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, rented by his See also:agent See also:Anthony See also:Forster or Forrester, member of See also:parliament for See also:Abingdon. Here she was found lying dead on the See also:floor of the See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall on the 8th of See also:September 156o by her servants, whom she had allowed to go to Abingdon, See also:Fair. The circumstances of her See also:death never have been,, and. now cannot be cleared up. A See also:coroner's See also:jury, which her husband; did his best to See also:pack and See also:influence, attributed her end to See also:accident, There is no See also:evidence against Dudley, unless it be evidence that he was a most unscrupulous See also:man, and that he was generally: believed to have murdered several other persons who stood in his way.
See G. Adlard, Amy Robsart and Leycester (See also:London, 1870), and W. See also:Rye, The See also:Murder of Amy Robsart (London, 1885).
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