Lettice Knollys
English noblewoman · Historical Figures · Lived 1543 to 1634 · aged 91
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.
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Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, Lettice Knollys' first husband in 1572, aged 32
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1575, aged about 43
Dorothy and Penelope Devereux, the daughters of Lettice Knollys, c. 1580
Lettice Knollys, c.1595, by Nicholas Hilliard
Lettice's eldest son, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, c. 1596
Effigy of Lettice Knollys, Collegiate Church of St Mary, WarwickAbout this person
She was also the granddaughter of Mary Boleyn. With her marriage to her cousin Elizabeth I's favourite, she incurred the Queen's unrelenting displeasure.
