Amy Robsart
Wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester · Lived 1532 to 1560 · aged 28
Amy, Lady Dudley was the first wife of Robert Dudley, who later became Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I of England. In the variable spelling of the day, her name also was spelled as Amye Duddley.
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Amy and her maid, watercolour by George Cattermole, 1852
Leicester and Amy Robsart at Cumnor Hall (1866) by Edward Matthew Ward. Fantasy portrait after Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth
Portrait of an Unknown Lady (ca. 1535), by Lucas Horenbout. Possible portrait miniature of Amy Dudley
Fantasy Portrait. Amy Robsart, 1864, by William Frederick Yeames, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Robert Dudley and Amy Robsart, watercolour, 1820s, Richard Parkes Bonington
Amy's last letter to her London tailor on 24 August 1560.
Amy's funeral, as restaged for a pageant in Oxford in 1907About this person
She is primarily known for her death, allegedly by falling down a flight of stairs in her home, the circumstances of which were regarded as suspicious at the time, and have often been so subsequently. Amy Robsart was an heiress, as the only child of a substantial Norfolk gentleman.