| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Alice Dudley, Duchess of Dudley ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Alice Dudley, Duchess of Dudley
Alice Dudley, Duchess of Dudley (née Leigh; 1579 – 22 January 1669), also known as Duchess Dudley, was the second wife of the explorer Sir Robert Dudley. In 1605, after giving birth to seven daughters, she was abandoned by her husband, who went into exile in Tuscany, remarried, and eventually sold his English estates. In 1644, by way of reparation for her losses, King Charles I created Alice Dudley a duchess in her own right "for her natural life", the dukedom thus created not being heritable.
==Background and marriage==
Alice Leigh was a daughter of Sir Thomas Leigh, 1st Baronet (died 1625), of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, who was created a baronet in 1611, by his marriage to Catherine, a daughter of Sir John Spencer of Wormleighton. Her father was the third son of Sir Thomas Leigh, Lord Mayor of London for 1558, and in 1643 her nephew Thomas (1595–1672) was created the first Baron Leigh.〔John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke, ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland'' (London: John Russell Smith, 1844), (p. 307 )〕 On 11 September 1596, at Ashow, Warwickshire, Alice Leigh married Sir Robert Dudley, the natural son of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, by Lady Sheffield. A daughter of this marriage, who was to be the first of seven, was baptised on 25 September 1597. Five of their daughters reached adulthood:〔 Alice (who married Sir Ferdinando Sutton), Douglas (who married William Dansey), Katherine (who married Sir Richard Leveson), Frances (who married Sir Gilbert Kniveton), and Anne (who married Sir Robert Holborne).〔George Adlard, ''Amye Robsart and the Earl of Leycester'' with ''Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir Robert Dudley'' and ''A History of Kenilworth Castle'' (reprinted by Echo Library, 2007, ISBN 1848300123), (p. 323 )〕
In 1605, Robert Dudley left England and fled to Florence, accompanied by his first cousin once removed, Elizabeth Southwell. That winter, he and Southwell announced their conversion to Roman Catholicism and intention to marry. To repudiate his existing marriage, Robert claimed that in 1591 he had entered into a marriage contract with Frances Vavasour, one of Queen Elizabeth's maids of honour. His third marriage was never recognised in England.〔Simon Adams, 'Alice Dudley (1579–1669)' and 'Dudley, Sir Robert (1574–1649), mariner and landowner' in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2007)〕
Robert Dudley owned estates which included Kenilworth Castle and were valued at £50,000. In 1612, these were sold for £14,500 to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, although he paid only a fraction of even that price, and after his death the property fell to the new Prince of Wales, the future King Charles. In 1622 Charles obtained a special Act of Parliament to enable Alice Dudley "to alien her estate from her children as a ''feme sole''", so that she could then sell her interest in the properties for £4,000, plus further payments to be made in later years.〔John Burke, ''A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance: England'' (1831), (p. 183 )〕
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Alice Dudley, Duchess of Dudley」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|