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Douglas Sheffield, Baroness Sheffield

Lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester · Lived 1542 to 1608 · aged 66

Douglas, Lady Sheffield, was an English noblewoman, the lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and mother by him of explorer-cartographer Sir Robert Dudley, an illegitimate son.

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Lived 1542 to 1608 · aged 66