Boulogne, recapture of
Brockett, Sir John
Brown, John
Bryan, Margaret, Lady
Bullinger, Henry
Burbage, James
Burcot, Dr
Burnell, Anne
Burton, Robert
Buxton, spa waters
Cabot, Sebastian
Cadiz: Drake’s raid; Essex’s expedition
Calais
Calendars of State Papers Calvin, John
Cambridge
Camden, William: on relationship of QE and RD; on QE’s character; on RD’s character; on Amy’s death; on QE and marriage ; on RD’s influence on QE ; on Norfolk; on Walsingham; on Hatton; on death of Essex; on Simier ; on RD’s marriage ; on Bond of Association; on Leicester’s Commonwealth; on RD in Netherlands; on QE and Mary’s execution; on Tilbury speech; on alleged plan to make RD Lieutenant Governor ; on RD’s death; on QE’s attitude to money
Carew, Lady
Carlos, Don (son of Philip )
Castelnau, Michel de, Sieur de Mauvissière
Castiglione, Baldassare
Catherine de Medici, Queen Regent of France: regency for sons; on slander; Huguenot rebellion; sons’ marriage proposals ; jewellery; St Bartholomew’s Day massacre; Alençon’s death
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
Cavendish, Elizabeth
Cavendish, Margaret
Cavendish, Richard
Cavendish, Thomas
Cecil, Robert
Cecil, William, Lord Burghley: family background; character; education; religion; secretary to John Dudley; opinion of RD’s marriage; list of RD’s associates ; RD’s letters ; relationship with RD ; relationship with Elizabeth ; Elizabeth’s accession ; state secretary; QE’s marriage question; Scottish mission ; Amy Dudley’s death ; Throckmorton correspondence ; on QE’s childbearing potential; RD’s Scottish marriage plan; on Howards; support for Habsburg marriage; memoranda comparing archduke and RD; relationship with Norfolk ; on QE and RD ; policy towards Mary, Queen of Scots; casket letters; plot against ; Ridolfi plot; privy council meetings; influence in government ; Burghley title; Knight of the Garter; Ridolfi plot ; response to St Bartholomew’s Day massacre; daughter’s marriage; view of Hatton; on royal progresses ; Irish policy; guardianship of Devereux children; view of Alençon suit; relationship with Lettice; accusations against; Leicester’s Commonwealth; Netherlands policy; Mary’s execution; banished from court; response to Lieutenant Governor proposal; Arthur Dudley story; death; fictional treatment of
Chaloner, Thomas
Chamberlain, Sir Thomas
Champernowne, Kat, see Ashley
Chapuys, Eustace
Charles, Archduke of Austria
Charles , king of England and Scotland
Charles , Emperor: rule; aunt’s divorce; question of Elizabeth’s marriage; son Philip’s marriage ; abdication; death
Charles , King of France
Charlotte, Princess of Orange
Charterhouse
Chartley
Chastelard, Pierre de
Chatsworth
Cheke, John
Chelsea
Christina, Queen of Sweden
Christmas, Mr
Churchill, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
Churchyard, Thomas
Cicero
Clapham, John
Clinton, Geoffrey de
Clinton, Gervase
Coke, Sir Edward
Coleshill
Coligny, Admiral
Company of Kathai
Cornbury, RD’s death
Cotton, Sir Robert
Cox, Richard
Cranmer, Thomas
Cromwell, Thomas
Cumnor Place
Dacre, Lady Margaret
Darnley, Henry Stewart, Earl of: family background; appearance and character; religion; marriage to Mary; murder of Rizzio; death ; brother’s marriage
Davis, Bette
Davison, William
Dee, John
Dekker, Thomas
Denbigh
Denbigh, Robert Dudley, Lord (RD’s son), see Dudley
Denny, Sir Anthony
Denny, Joan, Lady
de Quadra, Alvaro: on relationship between QE and RD ; on Amy’s death ; on QE’s childbearing ; on QE’s illness; death
de Silva, Diego Guzman
de Spes, Guerau
Deloney, Thomas
Derby, Henry Stanley, fourth Earl of
Despenser, Hugh le
Devereux, Dorothy, see Perrot
Devereux, Penelope
Devereux, Robert, see Essex
Devereux, Walter, see Essex
Diana, Princess of Wales
Digby, Sir George
Digges, Thomas
Douglas, Archibald
Douglas, Lady Margaret, see Lennox
Dowe, Anne
Drake, Sir Francis
Drayton, Michael
Dublin, Archbishop of
Dudley, Ambrose (RD’s brother), Earl of Warwick: appearance and character ; Kett rebellion; titles ; imprisonment in Tower ; trial and sentence; release from Tower; revenues; French campaign; Master of the Ordnance; marriages; QE’s coronation; earldom of Warwick; Scottish marriage proposal; French campaign ; Scots inquiry; campaign against northern earls; interest in exploration; QE’s Warwick visit; godfather to RD’s son; rumours about RD; health; RD’s wedding to Lettice Knollys; portrait; RD’s son; Netherlands campaign; trial of Mary ; intermediary role after Mary’s execution; RD’s funeral; death; tomb
Dudley, Amy (Robsart, RD’s wife): family background; appearance and character; marriage; visiting RD in Tower; relationship with husband; childless; lands; lifestyle ; at court; rumours concerning ; death ; inquiry into her death; inquest ; funeral; suicide theory; murder theory; illness theory ; fictional treatments of
Dudley, Anne (Russell), Countess of Warwick
Dudley, Arthur: story of birth ; story of childhood; story of travels; story of interview with RD; arrival in Spain ; taken to be a spy or stooge; life in Spain ; likelihood of story
Dudley, Carlo (RD’s grandson)
Dudley, Edmund (RD’s grandfather)
Dudley, Elizabeth (Grey, RD’s grandmother)
Dudley, Guildford (RD’s brother)
Dudley, Henry (RD’s brother)
Dudley, Sir Henry
Dudley, Jane (Guildford, RD’s mother)
Dudley, John, Earl of Warwick, Duke of Northumberland (RD’s father): childhood; marriage; career ; relationship with King Henry ; children ; lands; relationship with Seymour brothers ; London home; titles; relationship with King Edward ; Kett rebellion ; rise to power; children’s marriages; illness; King Edward’s last illness and death; expedition in favour of Lady Jane Grey; proclamation of Mary as Queen; arrest; in Tower ; trial; recantation ; last letter; execution ; grave; attainder; reputation
Dudley, John (RD’s brother), Earl of Warwick: marriage; title; career; expedition to secure Mary; in Tower; trial; release from Tower; death
Dudley, John (RD’s kinsman)
Dudley, John Sutton, first Baron (RD’s great-grandfather)
Dudley, Katherine (RD’s sister), see Hastings
Dudley, Lettice (RD’s wife), see Knollys
Dudley, Mary (RD’s sister), see Sidney
Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester: birth ; childhood; education ; first meeting with Elizabeth; at court ; Kett rebellion; military career; marriage to Amy Robsart; court career; sent to secure Mary ; proclamation of Lady Jane Grey as Queen; arrest; imprisonment in Tower; father’s execution; trial and sentence; release from Tower; mother’s death; life after release; access to revenues; French campaign; QE’s accession ; Master of Horse to QE ; QE’s coronation; Knight of the Garter; talk of marriage to QE ; wife’s death ; peerage question ; Spanish sponsorship ; QE’s illness; Lord Protector proposalprivy councillor; Scottish marriage plan; Earl of Leicester; quarrel with Norfolk; flirtation with Lettice K
nollys; Scots inquiry; plot against Cecil; support for Norfolk’s marriage to Mary; rebellion of northern earls; Ridolfi plot; influence; Norfolk’s release ; policy towards Mary, Queen of Scots; view of Hatton ; affair with Douglass ; wish for children ; story of secret wedding ; birth of son by Douglass ; entertainment of QE at Kenilworth (); rumours about; Irish policy ; taking the waters at Buxton ; marriage to Lettice Knollys; wedding ceremonies; Netherlands policy; view of Alençon suit ; birth of son by Lettice; married life ; dynastic scheming; son’s death; Leicester’s Commonwealth; religious conference; thoughts of retirement; Netherlands campaign; governor general of Netherlands ; execution of Mary ; Tilbury command; Lieutenant Governor proposal; death; funeral ; tomb; will ; fictional treatments of
FINANCES: access to revenues; accounts; business ventures; debts; dress costs; export licence; ‘farm’ of sweet wines; funds for Netherlands expedition; gifts from Elizabeth; household; living beyond means; Netherlands campaign; pension; rights over customs duties; will
HEALTH: broken bones; corns ; diet; eyesight; fever health; last illness; mentioned in letters ; ‘the stone’; taking the waters at Buxton
INTERESTS: exploration; gardens; horsemanship; science; theatre
LANDS: building projects; gifts from Elizabeth; Norfolk rental plans; sale to raise funds for Elizabeth; volunteered sale under Mary
LETTERS: to Blount; to Cecil ; to court official in Netherlands; to Douglass,
Dudley, Robert, Earl of Leicester (cont.) ; to Elizabeth ; to Forster; to Hatton ; to Heneage; to Morton; to Shrewsbury ; to Sussex; to Throckmorton; to Walsingham ; to Warwick burghers; to Wood
PERSON: appearance ; character; diet ; dress; family; motto; nicknames ; portraits ; symbols
RELATIONSHIP WITH ELIZABETH: before her accession; flowering of; Amy’s death; love and sex; courtly love ; question of marriage ; earldom; flirtations; favourite courtier; religious differences; estrangements ; closeness ; twin portraits; Kenilworth entertainment; her response to his marriage ; Netherlands campaign; her response to his death; fictional treatments
RELIGION: books dedicated to; conversion suggestion; Denbigh church; different from Elizabeth’s; at Mary’s accession; Netherlands policy ; prayer; Protestant hero; puritanism; reading ; will
Dudley, Robert (RD’s ‘base’ son by Douglass Sheffield): birth; godparents; childhood ; father’s death ; inheritance; appearance as a young man; marriages; banished from court; voyages ; knighted; claim to legitimacy; conversion to Catholicism; career in Tuscany; known as Duke of Northumberland; writings; descendants
Dudley, Robert, Lord Denbigh (RD’s son by Lettice)
Dudley Castle
Dudley family: background; motto; relationship with Tudors ; power; emblem ; end of dynasty
Dugdale, Sir William
Durham House
Dyer, Edward
Earl of Leicester’s Men
Edinburgh: peace treaty (); Mary and Bothwell
Edward , King of England
Edward , King of England
Edward , King of England: christening ; babyhood; education ; household ; religion; in family portrait; father’s death; coronation; reign; court; Thomas Seymour’s plot; fall of Somerset; at RD’s wedding; health; rumours of poisoning; last illness; will ; death; succession
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Elizabeth , Queen of England: birth ; babyhood; childhood ; brother’s christening; education; mother’s death; bastardy ; marriage prospects ; first meeting with Robert; at father’s court; place in father’s will; father’s death; at Chelsea ; relationship with Seymour ; life with Dennys; illness ; at brother’s court; London visits; status at court ; succession question; sister Mary’s accession; at sister’s
court; Wyatt rebellion ; imprisonment in Tower ; house arrest in Woodstock ; return to Hatfield; Philip of Spain’s policy towards her ; Dudley plot; Duke of Savoy marriage question; King of Sweden marriage question ; plans for future government ; accession ; advisers; privy council ; appointments; entry into London ; coronation; marriage question; court ; government ; talk of marriage to RD ; Philip of Spain’s suit; suitors; Amy Dudley’s death ; RD’s peerage question ; smallpox; succession question; marriage plans for Mary, Queen of Scots; French wars; flirtation with Heneage; response to Rizzio’s murder; response to Mary’s flight; response to plot against Cecil; rebellion of northern earls ; Valois suitors ; papal bulls against ; Accession Day; Norfolk’s execution; Warwick visit; Kenilworth visits ; response to St Bartholomew’s Day massacre; policy towards Mary, Queen of Scots; relationship with Hatton; RD’s marriage to Lettice Knollys ; Alençon suit ; Netherlands policy; news of RD’s marriage; Throckmorton plot; assassination attempt ; new favourites; Netherlands campaign; execution of Mary; Spanish Armada; Tilbury speech ; plan to make RD Lieutenant Governor; response to RD’s death; RD’s will ; fictional treatments of
FINANCES: debts; household; land holdings; progresses
HEALTH: energy -health; illness in cold weather; illness over execution of Norfolk; mentioned in letters; nerve storms; pregnancy question; pregnancy risks ; smallpox; swelling of face and body; toothache
LETTERS: to Alençon ; to Ambrose Dudley ; to father; to Mary Queen of Scots; to Queen Katherine ; to RD ; to Shrewsbury; to Simier; to Somerset; to Walsingham
PERSON: appearance ; beds; character ; diet ; dress ; equestrian skill; falcon badge; motto; phoenix emblem; poems; portraits ; progresses; rumours of secret pregnancies ; virginity
RELATIONSHIP WITH DUDLEY, see under Dudley (relationship with Elizabeth)
RELATIONSHIPS: with father ; with favourites ; with Mary, Queen of Scots ; with mother; with sister
RELIGION: conversion possibility; different from RD’s; instruction in Catholicism; Netherlands policy; ‘new religion’; prayers ; religious views; response to St Bartholomew’s Day massacre
Elizabeth , Queen of Great Britain
Elizabeth R (BBC TV drama)
Ely Place, Holborn
Elyot, Thomas
Empson, Sir Richard
Englefield, Sir Francis
Eric , king of Sweden
Erisa, Mrs
Esher
Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl of: parentage; character; relationship with QE ; mother’s letters; mother’s relationship with QE; relationship with RD; at Tilbury; Armada victory celebrations; Cadiz expedition; execution ; tomb; fictional treatments of
Essex, Walter Devereux, first Earl of
Etheldreda, St
Euclid
Family of Henry , The (painting)
Fénelon, Bertrand Salignac de la Mothe
Ferdinand , Emperor
Ferdinand de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Feria, Gomez Suarez de Figueroa, Duke of
Fiennes, Joseph
Fitzwilliam, George
Flynn, Errol
Forster, Anthony
Foxe, John
Francis , King of France
Fraser’s Magazine
Frobisher, Martin
Froude, James Anthony
Garter, Bernard
Garter knights
Gascoigne, George
Gaveston, Piers
Gentili, Alberico
Gentleman Pensioners
George, Prince (husband of Queen Anne)
Gheeraerts, Marcus
Gillions, Roger
Golden Hind
Goldingham, Harry
Gomez de Silva, Ruy
Gorboduc
Grafton
Greenwich
Gregory, Philippa
Greville, Fulke
Grey, Lady Frances, Marchioness of Dorset, Duchess of Suffolk (Lady Jane’s mother)
Grey, Henry, Marquess of Dorset, Duke of Suffolk (Lady Jane’s father)
Grey, Lady Jane, Queen of England: at Sudeley; marriage; pregnancy; proclaimed Queen ; in Tower; execution ; grave
Grey, Lady Katherine, see Hertford
Grindal, William
Guildford, Sir Edward
Guise family
Hakluyt, Richard
Hamlet, see Shakespeare
Hampton Court
Hardy, Thomas
Harington, Sir John
Harvey, Gabriel
Hastings, see Huntingdon
Hatfield House: Elizabeth’s childhood ; Mary at; Elizabeth’s residence during Mary’s reign ; Elizabeth’s accession
Hatton, Christopher: family background ; appearance; arrival at court; relationship with QE ; at Ely Place; relationship with RD ; on QE’s progresses; view of Alençon suit ; Mary’s view of; attitude to RD as Lieutenant Governor ; death
Hawkins, John
Haynes, William
Hayward, Sir John
Heneage, Thomas
Henri , King of France
Henri , King of France (earlier Duke of Anjou)
Henri , King of France
Henrietta Maria, Queen
Henry , King of England
Henry , King of England
Henry , King of England
Henry , King of England
Henry , King of England
Henry , King of England: character ; accession; court; Kenilworth lodgings; sports; divorce; marriage to Anne Boleyn; birth of Elizabeth ; Katherine’s death; relationship with daughters ; courtship of Jane Seymour; execution of Anne Boleyn; marriages; birth of son ; French wars; portraits; will; health; death; succession
Henry, Prince of Wales
Hertford, Sir Edward Seymour, Earl of
Hertford, Lady Katherine (Grey), Countess of
Hertford Castle
Hever Castle
Holles, Gervase
Holy Maid of Kent
Horace
Horsey, Sir Edward
Horsey, Jerome
Howard, Charles, second Baron Howard of Effingham
Howard, Frances
Howard, Katherine, Queen
Howard, Lord William, first Baron Howard of Effingham
Huicke, Robert
Hume, Martin
Hunnis, William
Hunsdon, Henry Carey, first Lord
Hunsdon House
Huntingdon, Francis Hastings, second Earl of
Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, third Earl of: family background; marriage; Lord President of the Council in the north; claim to throne; on Amy’s death; father’s death; Mary’s imprisonment; guardianship of Devereux children; RD’s funeral
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