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About Lettice Knollys
Lettice Knollys was an English noblewoman and mother to the courtiers Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Penelope, Lady Rich. She was Countess of Essex during her first marriage to Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex and became Countess of Leicester after her second marriage to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. She was also the granddaughter of Mary Boleyn, a mistress of Henry VIII and sister to his second wife, Anne Boleyn. With her marriage to the favourite of Elizabeth I, her first cousin once removed, she incurred the Queen's unrelenting displeasure.
Everything about Lettice Knollys →- Occupation
- aristocrat, lady-in-waiting
- Position held
- Lady of the Bedchamber
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Born
- November 8, 1543
- Died
- December 25, 1634