Lettice Knollys
(1543-1634)
English noblewoman and aristocrat
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Lettice Knollys ( NOHLZ, sometimes latinized as Laetitia, alias Lettice Devereux or Lettice Dudley), Countess of Essex and Countess of Leicester (8 November 1543 – 25 December 1634), was an English noblewoman and mother to the courtiers Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Lady Penelope Rich. By her second marriage to Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, she incurred the Queen's unrelenting displeasure.
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Lettice Knollys 8 November 1543 Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, England
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25 December 1634 (aged 91) Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England
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| Zodiac | Scorpio |
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Penelope 1st child with Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex Female b. Jan 1563 Age: 462 1563- Celebrity Baby -
Dorothy 2nd child with Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex Female b. 1564 Age: 461 1564- Celebrity Baby
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Robert Devereux 3rd child with Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex Male b. 10 Nov 1565 d. 25 Feb 1601 Age: 35 (at death) 1565-1601 English, Military -
Robert 4th child with Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester b. Jun 1581 Age: 444 1581- Celebrity Baby
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Catherine Carey · Mother · 1524-1569 · Daughter of Mary Boleyn and lady of Queen Elizabeth I of England
Catherine Carey and Francis Knollys (the elder) · m. 1540
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Catherine Carey · Mother · 1524-1569 · Daughter of Mary Boleyn and lady of Queen Elizabeth I of England
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