Walter Devereux KG (1539 - 1576)

Born 16 Sep 1539 in Devereaux Castle, Carmarthenshire, Wales

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Died 22 Sep 1576 at age 37 in Dublin, Ireland

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Biography

Sir Walter Devereux, 2nd Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers & Bourchier was born on 16 September 1539 at Carmarthen Castle, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales, England, to Sir Richard Devereux b. c 1516, d. 13 Oct 1547, and Dorothy Hastings b. c 1511.^[1]

He became Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers. on 27 September 1558.

He married Lettice Knollys, b. c 1541, d. 25 Dec 1634, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys, Burgess of Horsham, Camelford, & Arundel, Constable of Wallingford Castle, Governor of Portsmouth, Treasurer of the Chamber & Household and Katherine Cary, between 1560 and 1565.^[2]

Sir Walter Devereux, 2nd Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers & Bourchier Lord Bourchier died on 22 September 1576 at Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland, at age 37 from dysentery.^[3]

Children

• Dorothy Devereux^[4] d. 3 Aug 1619
• Penelope Devereux^[5] b. a 1561, d. 7 Jul 1607
• Sir Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 3rd Viscount Hereford, Earl Marshal of England^[6] b. 19 Nov 1566, d. 25 Feb 1601

Notes

• The Earls of Essex

• Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex WikiPedia Page

• Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: With Additions to the Present Time and a New Set of Coats of Arms from Drawings by Harvey, P.213 - William Courthope, J. G. & F. Rivington, 1839.[1]

"He arrived in Dublin [as Earl Marshall of Ireland] in September 1576, and three weeks afterwards died of dysentery. There were suspicions that he had been poisoned by [the Earl of] Leicester, who shortly after his death [two years] married his widow, but these were not confirmed. . ." [luminarium.org/encyclopedia/walterdevereux.htm Walter Devereux] link does not work

Sources

1. ↑ The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 140.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 187.
3. ↑ The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 141.
4. ↑ The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. IX, p. 732-735.
5. ↑ The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 404-407
6. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 7-8.

• Marlyn Lewis
• Historical, Genealogical, and Biographical Account of the Jolliffe Family of Virginia, 1652 to 1893: Also Sketches of the Neill's, Janney's, Hollingsworth's, and Other Cognate Families, pp. 18 & 27, J.B. Lippincott, 1893 - Virginia.[2]

See also:

• Records of the Family of Deacon, of Kettering and London, with notices of allied families