Knollys, Sir Francis; letter to wife
Knollys, Henry; wedding
Knollys, Katherine, Lady (née Carey): early life and marriage; lady-in-waiting; illnesses; death; funeral; children
Knollys, Lettice (later Devereux, then Dudley, Countess of Leicester); and Dudley; marriage; exiled from court; in Leicester’s Commonwealth; in Letter of Estate; subsequently
Knollys, Sir William; and Mary Fitton; in Coffer Chamber
Kyernberk, Martin
Kyle, John
Ladies of the Bedchamber; as bedfellows; duties; ranks; wages; after death of Kat Ashley; scandals; on death of EI; see also names
Languet, Hubert
Lannoy, Cornelius de (alchemist)
Laton, Gilbert
Launceton Castle
lavatories; Harington’s device
Lee, Sir Henry
Lee, John
Lee, Capt. Thomas
Leicester, Earl of see Dudley, Robert
Leicester’s Commonwealth
Lennox, Esmé Stuart d’Aubigny, Earl of
Lennox, Margaret Douglas, Countess of
Lennox, Mathew Stewart, 4th Earl of
Leslie, John, Bishop of Ross
Letter of Estate, The
Lilly, William
Lippomano, Hieronimo
Lochleven Castle
Lodge, Thomas: Scillaes Metamorphosis
London: at coronation of EI; frozen; on Rising of the North; 1599 defences; in RDev rebellion; at death of EI; on accession of James; see also place names
Lopez, Dr Roderigo
Lopez, Sarah
Lorraine, Charles de Guise, Cardinal de
Louvain
Lyford Grange, Berkshire
Madre de Dios (ship)
Maitland, Sir William
Malte, Etheldrada
Maniola de Corfeu
Manners, Roger, Earl of Rutland
Manningham, John
Margaret Tudor
Markham, Robert
Markham, Thomas
Martinego, Abbot
Mary I, Queen; Catholicism; marriage; death and will; tomb
Mary of the Guise
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots: early life; 1st marriage; returns to Scotland; claim to English throne; described by Melville; relationship with EI; plots to place on throne, (Babington); and Bocosel; 2nd marriage prospects; offered RDu as husband; and Duke of Norfolk; marries Darnley; pregnancy; murder of Rizzio; birth of son; death of Darnley; marries Bothwell; abdicates; flees to England; trial re murder of Darnley; imprisonment in England, (appeals to Philip); and English Parliament; secret correspondence; writes to EI; trial for conspiracy; death warrant; execution; international reaction; tomb
Mather, Edmund
Maximilian II, Emperor
Mayne, Cuthbert
medicines; for insomnia; preventive; smallpox
Melville, Sir James, Scottish envoy
Mendoza, Don Bernardino de, Spanish ambassador
menstruation
Metamorphosis of Ajax, The
Micea, Marco Antonio
Mildmay, Sir Walter
Mitterburg, Baron von see Zwetkowich, Adam von
Montague, Alice
Montague, Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount
Montmorency, Françis, Duke of
Moody, Michael
Moray, James Stewart, Earl of
Morgan, Thomas
Mortlake, Surrey
Most Joyful song…, A
Mountjoy’s Inn, Holborn
Mundt, Christopher
music
Neale, John: Queen Elizabeth I
Neville, Charles, 6th Earl of Westmoreland
Neville, Edmund
New Discourse…: The Metamorphosis of Ajax
New Year’s Day gifts; 1563; 1566; 1579; RDev’s last
Newdigate, Anne
‘News from Heaven and Hell’
Newton, Frances (later Brooke) see Cobham, Frances
Newton, Thomas: Atropoion Delion
Nicholson, George
Noailles, Antonie de
Nonsuch Palace, Surrey; history; Platter at; RDev at
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of; and RDu; plans to marry MS; Rising of the North; in ToL; and Ridolfi Plot; trial; death
Norris, Sir Henry, ambassador in Paris
Norris, Sir John
North Hall, Northaw, Hertfordshire
Northampton, Helena Parr, Marchioness of
Northumberland, John Dudley, Duke of
Northumberland, Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of
Northumberland, Henry Percy, 9th Earl of
Northumberland, Henry Percy, 8th Earl of
Norton, Thomas
Norwich
Nostradamus, Michel
Nottingham, Catherine Howard, Countess of
Nottingham, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of: and Armada; on Privy Council; at end of EI’s reign
Nowell, Dr Alexander
Oath of Allegiance
Oath of Supremacy
Oatlands Palace, Surrey
O’Collun, Patrick
Oliver, Isaac
O’Neill, Hugh, Earl of Tyrone
‘Order of Prayer and Thanksgiving…’
Osborne, Francis: Traditional Memoirs …
Owen, Nicholas
Oxford, John de Vere, 16th Earl of
Paget, Charles
Paget, Lord Thomas
Paris, France: plots in; St Bartholomew’s Day massacre; Catholics in; pictures of EI in; publication in; on death of MS; see also Stafford, Sir Edward; Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas
Parker, Henry
Parker, Matthew, Archbishop of Canterbury
Parliament: 1559; 1562 (petitions EI to marry); 1563; 1564; 1572; 1566; 1571 legislation; 1581; 1584, (Dr Parry); 1586; 1601
Parr, Katherine; marriage; death
Parr, William
Parry, Blanche; duties; after death of Kat Ashley; death; monument; tomb; will
Parry, Dr Henry
Parry, Sir Thomas
Parry, Dr William
Paulet, Sir Amyas
Payne, John
Penn, Sybill
Penshurst Place, Kent
Percy, Henry see Northumberland
Percy, Thomas see Northumberland
perfumes
Persons, Father Robert; A Conference about the next succession …; The Judgement of a Catholic Englishman …; A Discussion of the Answer …
Peterborough Cathedral
Phaer, Thomas: Regiment of Life
Phelippes, Thomas
Philip II, King of Spain; and K. Grey; and MS; and Portugal; on death of MS; claim to English throne; and Arthur Dudley; and ‘Enterprise of England’; and Lopez
Philosopher’s Stone
Pickering, Sir William
Pius V, Pope; excommunicates Elizabeth
plague
Platter, Thomas
Pole, Arthur
Pole, Edmund
Pollweiler, Baron
Polwhele, William
Popham, Chief Justice
Pormant, Thomas
Portman, Sir Hugh
ports, security measures at
Portugal; Drake’s voyage to; Madre de Dios
Pregnor, Gaspar
Presence Chamber; Greenwich; Hampton Court
Prestall, John
privies
Privy Chamber; security; Whitehall
Privy Council: 1548; 1560; 1561; 1562, discuss succession; 1566, on EI’s marriage; 1568, and MS; 1572, on Huguenot massacre; 1579; 1581, and Anjou; ‘Instrument of an Association…’; and execution of MS; and Lord Deputy in Ireland; and RDev; on death of EI
prophecy
Protestant Church and state; and Scotland
Protestants; see also Huguenots
Pullyson, Sir Thomas
Purit-Anus
Puttenham, George: poems by
Quadra, Don Alvaro de, Bishop of Aquila, Spanish ambassador; arrested; death
Queen’s Bench prison, Southwark
Radcliffe, Mary
Radcliffe, Thomas, 3rd Earl of Sussex
Raimondi, Marcantonio
Ralegh, Damerei
Ralegh, Sir Walter; marriage; in Tower of London
Ralegh, Walter (son of Sir Walter)
Randolph, Thomas, ambassador to Scotland
Rich, Lady Penelope (née Devereux)
Richmond Palace; bed; Christmas, 1588; Presence Chamber; EI’s ‘warm box’ 100; water closet; 1602
Ridolfi, Roberto di
Ridolfi plot
Rising of the North
Rivers, Father Anthony
Rizzio, David: murder of
Robsart, Amy, death; funeral
Rogers, Sir Edward
Rogers, John
Rogers, Mary
Rolls, Richard
Rookwood, Edward
Rudd, Dr Anthony
Ruggieri, Cosmo
Russell, Anne see Warwick, Anne Dudley (née Russell), Countess of
Sacconay, Gabriel de
Sadler, Sir Ralph
Sandys, Edwin, Bishop of London
Savage, John
Savoy, Duchess of
Scaramelli, Giovanni Carlo
Schifanoya, Il
Scotland; English invade; MS returns to; religion; Treaty of Edinburgh; see also Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; Randolph, Thomas
Scrope, Philadelphia Carey, (née Knollys), Lady see Carey, Philadelphia
Scudamore, John (marries Mary Shelton)
Scudamore, John (son)
Scudamore, Mary (née Shelton): family and early life; marriage; Lady of Privy Chamber; Lady of Bedchamber
Secret History of the Duke …
Secret History of the Most Renowned …
Seymour, Edward, Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector
Seymour, Edward, Earl of Hertford
Seymour, Edward, Viscount Beauchamp
Seymour, Jane
Seymour, Katherine (née Grey): claim to throne; on accession of EI; Lady of Bedchamber; marriage; in ToL; illness and death; in Conference about the next succession …
Seymour, Sir Thomas; marriage; living in Old Manor; widowed and arrested
Seymour, Thomas (son of Katherine)
Shakespeare, William: Venus and Adonis
Sheffield, John, Lord
Sheldon, Sir Edward
Shelton, Sir John
Shelton, Mary (later Scudamore) see Scudamore, Mary
Shrewsbury, Elizabeth, Countess of (née St Loe; ‘Bess of Hardwick’)
Shrewsbury, George Talbot, Earl of: marriage; custody of MS; execution of MS; on EI’s last illness; letters to
Sidney, Ambrosia: death
Sidney, Elizabeth
Sidney, Frances (later Devereux)
Sidney, Sir Henry; and Philip II; and wife’s smallpox; offered barony; letter to wife
Sidney (née Dudley), Mary, Lady: early life; in Privy Chamber (and de Quadra); smallpox; in Ireland; New Year gifts to EI, 1579; retires
Sidney, Mary (daughter of Lady Sidney)
Sidney, Sir Philip: name; smallpox; death; ‘A Letter to Queen Elizabeth’
Sidney, Sir Robert; correspondence with James VI
Silva, Guzman de, Spanish ambassador
Simier, Jean de, Baron de Saint-Marc
Sixtus V, Pope
smallpox; ‘red treatment’; scars
Smith, Sir Thomas, envoy in France
Smythesone, John
Somerset House
Somerville, John
Southern, Robert
Southwell, Elizabeth (mother of Walter Devereux)
Southwell, Elizabeth (attends EI in her final days)
Southwell, Robert
Spain: war with France; and Portugal; ‘Enterprise of England’; Armada (in portrait of EI); invasion: feared, 1599; forces land in Ireland; see also Feria, Count of; Mendoza, Don Bernardino de; Philip II, King; Quadra, Alvaro de; Silva, Guzman de; Spes, Don Gureau de
‘Speeches of a Friar in Dunkirk, The’
Spenser, Edmund: The Faerie Queene
Spes, Don Gureau de, Spanish ambassador
Squires, Edward
St James’s Palace
St John, Margaret, Countess of Bedford
St Loe, Bess, see Shrewsbury, Countess of of Hardwick
St Paul’s Cathedral
Stafford, Dorothy, Lady: during reign of Mary I; Lady of Bedchamber; and sons; death
Stafford, Sir Edward: early life; ambassador to France; and Leicester’s Commonwealth; reports on Armada
Stafford, Elizabeth
Stafford, John
Stafford, Sir William
Stafford, William (son of Sir William)
Standen, Anthony
Stanley, Elizabeth, Countess of Derby
Stanley, John
Stanley, Sir William
Star Chamber, Court of
Stettin-Pomeramia, Duke of
Stonor Park, Oxfordshire
Stow, John
Strachey, Lytton: Elizabeth and Essex
Stuart, Arbella
Stuart, Henry see Darnley, Lord
Stuart d’Aubigny, Esmé
Stubbes, Philip
Stubbs, John: The Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf …
succession negotiations, 1601
Surian, Giacomo, Venetian ambassador
Sussex, Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of
Sweden
Symondes, Dr
Talbot, George, son of Earl of Shrewsbury
Talbot, Gilbert
Talbot, Lady Mary
Tamworth (groom)
Thames, River: barrier; frozen
Thomas, Valentine
Throckmorton, Elizabeth (later Ralegh)
Throckmorton, Francis
Throckmorton, Sir Nicholas; ambassador to France; in Scotland; 1566; 1569
Thurneyesser, Leonhard
Tichborne, Chidiock
Tider, Robin
Tilbury
tilts
Tinoco, Manuel Luis
Tomasin, Mistress
Tooker, William
Topcliffe, Richard
Tower of London: K. Ashley in; RDev in; EI in; K. Grey in; Norfolk in; Ralegh and wife in; Somerville in
Tracy, Henry
Treason Act
Treaty of Blois
Treaty of Edinburgh
Treaty of Nonsuch
Tregian, Francis
Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire
Twelfth Night: 1566; 1594; 1599
Tyburn, executions: Campion; Lee; Lopez; Squires; F. Throckmorton
Tyrone, Hugh O’Neill, Earl of
Tyrwhit, Lady
Tyrwhit, Sir Robert
Vassay, France
Vaughan, John
Vaughan, Rowland
Vavasour, Thomas
Venturini, Borghese
Verstegan, Richard
Vestal Virgins
Virginia, Colony
Vives, Juan Luis
Waad, Armagil
Waad, William
Waldegrave, Sir Edward
Walpole, Henry
Walpole, Father Richard
Walsingham, Frances (later Sidney, then Devereux)
Walsingham, Sir Francis; intelligence network; and EI marriage negotiations; and Catholic plots; in Paris; death
Wanstead
Wardour Castle, Wiltshire
Warner, Sir Edward
Warwick, Anne Dudley (née Russell), Countess of
Warwick, 3rd Earl of see Dudley, Ambrose
Wedel, Lupold von
Wendy, Dr
Wentworth, Peter
Westminster
Westminster Abbey; funeral of EI; funeral of K. Knollys; funeral of B. Parry; Noel’s sermon; royal tombs
Westminster Hall, trials
Westminster Palace: Star Chamber
Westmoreland, Charles Neville, 6th Earl of
Westmoreland, Jane, Countess of
Weston, Father Willi
am
White, John
Whitehall Palace; history; Christmas, 1562; 1562 petition; Christmas, 1564; Keyes wedding; Anjou at; and assassination plots; military review at; Twelfth Night, 1594; de Maisse at; tilt at, 1595; Twelfth Night, 1599; at RDev rebellion; on death of EI; banqueting hall; bed; Bedchamber; chapel royal; garden; Privy Chamber; window emblem
Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury
Whyte, Nicholas
Whyte, Rowland
William, Prince of Orange; death
Wilson, Thomas
Windsor; RDu at; during plague; 1565; inscribed book at; smallpox at; 1586; 1593; funeral of Lady Clinton
Windsor Great Park
witchcraft
women: sixteenth-century view of
Wotton, Sir Edward
Wriothesley, Henry, Earl of Southampton
Wyatt, Sir Thomas
Yates, Francis
York House
Yorke, Edmund
Younge, James
Zubiaur
Zuccaro, Frederigo
Zwetkowich, Adam von, Baron von Mitterburg
ALSO BY ANNA WHITELOCK
Mary Tudor
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anne Whitelock received her PhD in history from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. She is now a senior lecturer in early modern history at Royal Holloway, University of London, and regularly appears on television and radio. She has written for the Guardian, BBC History Magazine, History Today, the Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. Her bestselling debut, Mary Tudor, was published to critical acclaim in 2009; The Queen’s Bed is her second book. She lives in Cambridge.
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Originally published in 2013 by Bloomsbury Publishing, Great Britain, as Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court
Published in the United States by Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2014
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Whitelock, Anna.
The queen’s bed: an intimate history of Elizabeth’s court / Anna Whitelock. — First American edition.
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“Originally published in 2013 by Bloomsbury Publishing, Great Britain, as Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court”—T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-374-23978-7 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-4299-4916-3 (ebook)
1. Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533–1603—Sexual behavior. 2. Ladies-in-waiting—England—History—16th century. 3. Queens—England—Social conditions—16th century. 4. Great Britain—History—Elizabeth, 1558–1603. 5. Great Britain—Court and courtiers—History—16th century. 6. Great Britain—Politics and government—1558–1603. I. Title.
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