Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588)

Robert Dudley was the fifth son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and Jane Guildford. In his youth he witnessed the downfall of his family in 1553 when his father John Dudley, the Duke of Northumberland, had unsuccessfully tried to establish his daughter in law, Lady Jane Grey, on the English throne. John Dudley went […]