Robert Devereux
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Robert Devereux (bef. 1590 - 1646)

Robert "Viscount Hereford 3rd Earl of Essex" Devereux
Born before in Essex House, London, Greater London, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 1604 (to 25 Sep 1613) in London, Middlesex, Englandmap
Husband of — married 11 Mar 1630 [location unknown]
Died after age 56 in Essex House, In the Strand, Middlesex, Englandmap
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Biography

European Aristocracy
Robert Devereux was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

The baptism of Robert Lord Deaueraux, Viscount Hereford, son and heir of Robart Earle of Essex, on 22 January 1590 in "my Lady Wallsingham's howse, mother to the Countis. Sir Francis Knolls & the Lord Rich with the Cowntesse of Leicester, wittnesses. Doctor Andrewes (afterwarads Bishop of Winchester) preached and baptized the child" was recorded in the Parish Register of St Olave, London, Middlesex, England.[1]

Robert's father was the 2nd Earl of Essex, "the courtier and soldier from the later reign of Queen Elizabeth I. His mother was Frances Walsingham (1569–1631), the only daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth's spymaster. He was born at the home of his grandmother, Lady Walsingham, in Seething Lane, London"[2] on 11 January 1591.[3]

"The 2nd Earl led an unsuccessful rebellion against Elizabeth in 1601. He was subsequently executed for treason and the family lost its title. However, King James I chose to restore it after he became King of England. In 1604, Robert Devereux became the 3rd Earl of Essex. The young earl became a close friend of Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales, who was three years Essex's junior."[3]

The 3rd Earl was married at age 13 to the 14-year-old Frances Howard. That marriage ended in divorce, without issue. He next married Elizabeth Pawlett, on 11 March 1630, daughter of Sir William Pawlett, of Edington, Wiltshire, past High Sheriff of Wiltshire and cousin of William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester. That marriage also did not produce a surviving heir.[3]

An English Parliamentarian and soldier during the first half of the seventeenth century, he became the first Captain-General and Chief Commander of the Parliamentarian army, also known as the Roundheads, during the English Civil War (which started in 1642). He resigned his commission in 1646 and died 14 September 1646.[3]

"Robert Devereux, Third Earl of Essex, commanded Parliament's army with the rank of Captain General. Essex had served within the Dutch Army and as Lieutenant General of Foot in the First Bishops War, which established a continued interest in European military developments. He was later denied a command in King Charles' army for the second Scottish Bishops' War (1640) which may have helped his growing allegiance towards the king's parliamentarian opponents."[4]

"The Earl of Essex died in September 1646 without an heir. After hunting in Windsor forest he had a stroke on the 10th and died in London, at Essex House, four days later, aged fifty-five. The earldom died with him, until it was revived in 1661 for Arthur Capel. His death not only weakened the presbyterian faction in Parliament, it also began the decline of the influence of the nobles who supported the Parliamentary cause. His viscountcy devolved on Walter Devereux, who was a younger grandson of the 1st viscount and cousin to the 1st earl of Essex."[3]

Burial

Burial:
Date: 22 OCT 1646
Place: St Paul's Chapel, Westminster Abbe, London, England
Burial:
Date: 22 OCT 1646
Place: St Paul's Chapel, Westminster Abbe, London, England

Sources

  1. W Bruce Bannerman, ed., "The Registers of St Olave, Hart Street, London. 1563&mdassh;1700", The Publications of the Harleian Society, Registers—XLVI, (London: printed by Roworth & Company Limited, 1916), accessed 26 October 2015, https://archive.org/stream/registersofstola46stol#page/14/mode/2up pp.14.
  2. Wikipedia:Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, citing The Complete Peerage, Volume V. St Catherine's Press. 1926. p. 142.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Wikipedia:Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex
  4. Battle of Edgehill

John Morrill, ‘Devereux, Robert, third earl of Essex (1591–1646)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 11 June 2017. This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes. See also:

  • Ancestral File Number: 9HS0-DV




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