Lettice Knollys

Lettice Knollys (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell, sometimes latinized as Laetitia, alias Lettice Devereux or Lettice Dudley or Lettice Blount), Countess of Essex and Countess of Leicester (8 November 1543<ref name="ODNB">Adams 2008a</ref> – 25 December 1634), was an English noblewoman and mother to the courtiers Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Lady Penelope Rich. By her second marriage to Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, she incurred the Queen's unrelenting displeasure.<ref>Lacey 1971 p. 15</ref><ref>Hammer 1999 p. 280</ref>

A grandniece of Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn, and close to Elizabeth since childhood, Lettice Knollys was introduced early into court life. At 17 she married Walter Devereux, Viscount Hereford, who in 1572 became Earl of Essex. After her husband went to Ireland in 1573, she possibly became involved with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. There was plenty of scandalous talk, not least when Essex died in Ireland of dysentery in 1576. Two years later on 20 Sep 1578, Lettice Knollys was married to Robert Dudley in private by his chaplain Humphrey Tyndall. When the Queen was told of the marriage, she banished the Countess forever from court, effectively curtailing her social life. The couple's child, Robert, Lord Denbigh, died at the age of three, to the great grief of his parents and ending all prospects for the continuance of the House of Dudley. Lettice Knollys' union with Leicester was nevertheless a happy one, as was her third marriage to the much younger Sir Christopher Blount, whom she unexpectedly married in 1589 only six months after the Earl's death. She continued to style herself Lady Leicester.

The Countess was left rich under Leicester's will; yet the discharge of his overwhelming debts diminished her wealth. In 1604–1605 she successfully defended her widow's rights in court when her possessions and her good name were threatened by the Earl's illegitimate son, Robert Dudley, who claimed that he was his father's legitimate heir, thus implicitly declaring her marriage bigamous. Lettice Knollys was always close to her large family circle. Helpless at the political eclipse of her eldest son, the second Earl of Essex, she lost both him and her third husband to the executioner in 1601. From the 1590s she lived chiefly in the Staffordshire countryside, where, in reasonably good health until the end, she died at age 91 on Christmas Day 1634.

Family and upbringing

Lettice Knollys was born on 8 November 1543 at Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire.<ref name="ODNB"/> Her father, Sir Francis Knollys, was a Member of Parliament and acted as Master of the Horse to Prince Edward.<ref>Varlow 2007 pp. 23–24</ref> Her mother, Catherine Carey, was a daughter of Mary Boleyn, sister to Anne Boleyn. Thus Catherine was Elizabeth I's first cousin, and Lettice Knollys her first cousin once removed.<ref>Varlow 2007 p. 22</ref> Lettice was the third of her parents' 16 children.<ref name="Varlow 2007 p. 24">Varlow 2007 p. 24</ref>

Sir Francis and his wife were Protestants.<ref name="Varlow 2007 p. 24"/> In 1556 they went to Frankfurt in Germany to escape religious persecution under Queen Mary I, taking five of their children with them.<ref name="Varlow 2007 p. 24"/> It is unknown whether Lettice was among them, and she may have passed the next few years in the household of Princess Elizabeth, with whom the family had a close relationship since the mid-1540s.<ref name="ODNB">Adams 2008a</ref> Her parents and the remainder of the family returned to England in January 1559, two months after Elizabeth I's succession.<ref name="ODNB"/> Francis Knollys was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Royal Household; Lady Knollys became a senior Lady of the Bedchamber, and her daughter Lettice a Maid of the Privy Chamber.<ref name="Varlow 2007 p. 24"/>

First marriage and love affair

Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, Lettice Knollys' first husband in 1572, aged 32

In late 1560 Lettice Knollys married Walter Devereux, Viscount Hereford. The couple lived at the family seat of Chartley in Staffordshire.<ref name="ODNB"/> Here, the two eldest of their five children, the daughters Penelope and Dorothy, were born in 1563 and 1564, respectively.<ref>Hammer 1999 p. 22</ref> Lettice Devereux returned to court on at least one occasion, in the summer of 1565, when the Spanish ambassador Diego Guzmán de Silva described her as "one of the best-looking ladies of the court" and as a favourite with the Queen.<ref>Jenkins 2002 p. 124</ref> Pregnant with her first son, she flirted with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the Queen's favourite.<ref name="ODNB"/> The Queen found out at once and succumbed to a fit of jealousy.<ref>Jenkins 2002 p. 125</ref> The Viscountess went back to Staffordshire where, in November 1565, she gave birth to Robert, later 2nd Earl of Essex. Two more sons followed: Walter, who was born in 1569, and Francis, who died soon after birth at an unknown date.<ref>Varlow 2007 p. 28</ref>

Walter Devereux was raised to the earldom of Essex in 1572.<ref name="ODNB"/> In 1573 he successfully suggested to the Queen a project to plant Englishmen in Ulster.<ref name="ODNB"/> In the autumn he went to Ireland, not to return for two years. During this time Lettice Devereux possibly engaged in a love affair with the Earl of Leicester; her whereabouts in the following years are largely unknown, though.<ref name="ODNB"/> In 1573 Leicester sent her a present of venison at Chartley from his seat Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire, and she made hunting visits to Kenilworth in 1574 and 1576.<ref name="ODNB"/> She was also present in July 1575 when Dudley entertained the Queen with a magnificent 19-day festival at the castle.<ref>Varlow 2007 p. 44</ref> Elizabeth and the court (including the Earl of Leicester) then progressed to Chartley, where they were welcomed by the Countess of Essex.<ref>Jenkins 2002 pp. 211–212</ref>

When Walter Devereux returned to England in December 1575, the Spanish agent in London, Antonio de Guaras, reported:

As the thing is publicly talked of in the streets, there can be no harm in my writing openly about the great enmity between the Earl of Leicester and the Earl of Essex, in consequence, it is said, of the fact that while Essex was in Ireland his wife had two children by Leicester. ... Great discord is expected in consequence.<ref name="Jenkins 2002 p. 212">Jenkins 2002 p. 212</ref>

These rumours were elaborated on years later in Leicester's Commonwealth, a Catholic underground libel against the Protestant Earl of Leicester that satirically detailed his alleged enormities.<ref>Wilson 1981 pp. 251–255</ref> Here the Countess of Essex, after having a daughter by Leicester, kills a second child "cruelly and unnaturally" by abortion to prevent her homecoming husband from discovering her affair.<ref>Jenkins 2002 p. 293</ref> There is no evidence that any such children ever existed.<ref name="Jenkins 2002 p. 212"/>

The Earl of Essex returned to Ireland in July 1576. At Dublin, he died of dysentery on 22 September during an epidemic, bemoaning the "frailness of women" in his last words.<ref>Freedman 1983 pp. 22–23; 33–34</ref> Rumours of poison, administered by Leicester, immediately sprang up and continued, notwithstanding an official investigation which concluded that Essex had died of natural causes.<ref>Freedman 1983 pp. 33–34</ref><ref>Jenkins 2002 p. 217</ref> His body was carried over to Carmarthen, where his widow attended the funeral.<ref name="ODNB"/>

The Countess' jointure, the lands left to her under her husband's will, was too little to live by and did not comprise Chartley, so that she and her children had to seek accommodation elsewhere.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>Freedman 1983 pp. 28–29</ref> She partly lived in her father's house at Rotherfield Greys, but also with friends; Leicester's Commonwealth claimed that Leicester had her move "up and down the country from house to house by privy ways".<ref name="ODNB"/> She pleaded for an augmentation of her jointure with the authorities and, to reach a compromise with the late Earl's executors, threatened "by some froward advice" to claim her dower rights.<ref name="ODNB"/> These would have amounted to one third of the Devereux estate.<ref name="Freedman 1983 p. 29">Freedman 1983 p. 29</ref> After seven months of wrangling, she reached a more satisfactory settlement, the Countess declaring to be "content to respect my children more than myself".<ref name="Freedman 1983 p. 29"/> She equally—though unsuccessfully—tried to move the Queen to forgive Essex' debts to the Crown, which very much burdened the inheritance of her son, the young Earl of Essex.<ref>Freedman 1983 pp. 29–30</ref>

Marriage to Leicester and banishment from court

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1575, aged about 43

Lettice Knollys married Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester on 21 September 1578 at around seven o'clock in the morning. Only six other people were present at the Earl's country house of Wanstead Hall in Essex; among these were the bride's father and brother, Francis and Richard Knollys; the bridegroom's brother, Ambrose, Earl of Warwick; and his two friends, the Earl of Pembroke and Lord North.<ref name=jen234>Jenkins 2002 pp. 234–235</ref> The officiating chaplain Humphrey Tyndall later remarked that the bride wore a "loose gown" (an informal morning dress),<ref name="Hammer 1999 p. 35"/> which has triggered modern speculation that she was pregnant and that the ceremony happened under pressure from her father.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref group="note">For example, by Elizabeth Jenkins in 1961 (Jenkins 2002 p. 236) and Derek Wilson in 1981 (Adams 2008a). The marriage events were detailed in witness depositions by the guests before a notary on 13 March 1581 to secure the legitimacy of the child which the Countess of Leicester was carrying. They include the chaplain's observation about her dress (Adams 2008a).</ref> The marriage was, however, in planning between Leicester and his wedding guests for almost a year. While Lettice Devereux may well have been pregnant, there is no further indication as to this.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Hammer 1999 p. 35"/> The marriage date coincided with the end of the customary two-years-mourning for a widow.<ref name="ODNB"/>

Leicester—a widower since 1560—had for many years been in hope of marrying Elizabeth herself, "for whose sake he had hitherto forborne marriage", as he confessed to Lord North.<ref name=jen234/> He feared Elizabeth's reaction and insisted that his marriage be kept a secret. It did not remain one for long, the French ambassador, Michel de Castelnau, reporting it two months later.<ref name="ODNB"/> When the Queen was told of the marriage the next year, she banished Lettice Dudley permanently from court; she never forgave her cousin, nor could she ever accept the marriage.<ref>Hammer 1999 pp. 33–34, 46</ref><ref>Wilson 1981 pp. 230–231</ref> Even Lady Leicester's movements through London were resented by the Queen,<ref>Hammer 1999 p. 46</ref> let alone summer visits to Kenilworth by husband and wife.<ref name="ODNB"/>

Dorothy and Penelope Devereux, the daughters of Lettice Knollys, c. 1580

Lettice Dudley continued to style herself Countess of Essex for several years into her new marriage.<ref name="ODNB"/> She lived very discreetly, often with her relatives at the Knollys family home in Oxfordshire. In February 1580 she was expecting the birth of a child there. For the birth of Leicester's heir, Robert, Lord Denbigh, in June 1581, she moved to Leicester House on the Strand. A further advanced pregnancy was reported in September 1582 by the French ambassador, yet the outcome is again unknown.<ref name="ODNB"/> The next year Lettice Dudley became officially resident at Leicester House, and Elizabeth was once again furious with the Earl "about his marriage, for he opened the same more plainly than ever before".<ref name="ODNB"/> A few weeks later Michel de Castelnau was a guest at Leicester's palatial mansion: "He especially invited me to dine with him and his wife, who has much influence over him and who he introduces only to those to whom he wishes to show a particular mark of attention."<ref name="Jenkins 2002 p. 280">Jenkins 2002 p. 280</ref>

Robert Dudley had been close to the Knollys family since the early 1550s; several of Lettice's brothers had been in his service, and his marriage only enhanced his relations with her siblings. To his four stepchildren he was a concerned and generous stepfather.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>Adams 1995 pp. 49, 182, 181</ref> The Dudleys' domestic life is partly documented in the Earl's accounts.<ref name="ODNB"/> Lettice Dudley financed her personal expenses and servants out of her revenue as Dowager Countess of Essex,<ref>Adams 1995 p. 28</ref> and remained largely excluded from society life.<ref name="Jenkins 2002 p. 280"/>

The three-year-old Lord Denbigh died suddenly on 19 July 1584 at Wanstead. His death shattered the hopes of a dynasty for the House of Dudley.<ref name="Hammer 1999 p. 35">Hammer 1999 p. 35</ref> Leicester stayed away from his court duties for a few weeks "to comfort my sorrowful wife for the loss of my little son, whom God has lately taken from us."<ref>Jenkins 2002 p. 287</ref> He thanked Lord Burghley for—unsuccessfully—pleading with the Queen "on behalf of my poor wife. For truly my Lord, in all reason she is hardly dealt with."<ref>Wilson 1981 p. 247</ref>

In 1585 Leicester led an English expedition to assist the rebellious United Provinces against Spain. He incurred Elizabeth's wrath when he accepted the title of Governor-General in January 1586. What had especially kindled her fury was a tale that the Countess of Leicester was planning to follow her husband to the Netherlands "with such a train of ladies, and gentlewomen, and such rich coaches, litters, and side-saddles, as Her Majesty had none, and that there should be such a court of ladies, as should far pass Her Majesty's court here."<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name=bruce112>Bruce 1844 p. 112</ref> Thomas Dudley, who informed Leicester about these events, stressed that "this information" was "most false".<ref name=bruce112/> At this same time the Earl was giving his wife authority to handle certain land issues during his absence, implying they had no plans to meet in Holland.<ref name="ODNB"/> William Davison, who Leicester had sent to explain his doings to the Queen, described a visit to the Countess during the crisis: "I found her greatly troubled with tempestuous news she received from court, but somewhat comforted when she understood how I had proceeded with Her Majesty."<ref>Bruce 1844 p. 144</ref><ref>Jenkins 2002 pp. 312, 314–315</ref>

The Earl returned to England in December 1586, but was sent again to the Netherlands in the following June—to the grief of his wife, as the young Earl of Essex remarked in a letter.<ref name="ODNB"/> Leicester eventually resigned his post in December 1587. The Countess was with him when he died unexpectedly, possibly of malaria, on 4 September 1588 at Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire; they had been on their way to Kenilworth and Buxton.<ref name="Adams 2008b">Adams 2008b</ref> The Earl's funeral at Warwick in October 1588 was attended by his widow as well as numerous members of her family circle.<ref name="Adams 2008b"/><ref>Varlow 2007 p. 106</ref>

Blount and Essex

Lettice Knollys, c.1595, by Nicholas Hilliard

Lettice Dudley was left a wealthy widow. Leicester's will appointed her as executrix and her income from both her husbands' jointures amounted to £3,000 annually, to which came plate and movables worth £6,000. However, her jointure was to suffer greatly from paying off Leicester's debts, which at some £50,000 were so overwhelming that she was advised to decline the responsibility of dealing with her husband's financial legacy.<ref name="ODNB"/>

In March or April 1589, hardly six months after Leicester's death, Lettice married Sir Christopher Blount,<ref name="Hammer 2008"/> a relatively poor Catholic soldier 12 years her junior, who had been the Earl of Leicester's Gentleman of the Horse and a trusted friend of his.<ref>Varlow 2007 p. 109–110</ref><ref>Adams 2002 p. 190</ref> The marriage was a great surprise, and the Earl of Essex complained that it was an "unhappy choice".<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Hammer 2008">Hammer 2008</ref> In the face of tittle-tattle that had reached even France,<ref name="Hammer 2008"/> Lady Leicester—she continued to be styled thus<ref name="Freedman 1983 p. 74">Freedman 1983 p. 74</ref>—explained her choice with being a defenceless widow; like her marriage to Leicester, the union proved to be a "genuinely happy" one.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Hammer 2008"/> Some 60 years later, it was claimed in a satirical poem that she had poisoned the Earl of Leicester on his deathbed, thereby forestalling her own murder at his hands, because he had found out about her supposed lover, Sir Christopher Blount.<ref>Jenkins 2002 p. 361</ref>

Lettice's second son, Walter Devereux, died 1591 in France while on military duty,<ref>Varlow 2007 pp. 134, 136</ref> and in subsequent years she was anxious for her elder son's safety. She addressed him "Sweet Robin", longing for his letters and helpless about his moodiness and depression.<ref>Freedman 1983 pp. 119, 122</ref><ref>Varlow 2007 p. 200</ref> In 1593, she sold Leicester House to him, after which it became known as Essex House. She moved to Drayton Bassett near Chartley in Staffordshire, which would be her main residence for the rest of her life.<ref name="ODNB"/> Still banished from court, she saw no point in returning to London without being reconciled to Elizabeth. In December 1597, having heard from friends that "Her Majesty is very well prepared to hearken to terms of pacification", she prepared to do "a winter journey" if her son thought "it be to any purpose".<ref name="ODNB"/> "Otherwise a country life is fittest for disgraced persons", she commented.<ref name=free121>Freedman 1983 pp. 121-122</ref> She travelled to London, staying at Essex House from January till March 1598,<ref name="ODNB"/> and seeking a reconciliation with Elizabeth. At last a short meeting was granted, in which the Countess kissed the Queen and "the Queen kissed her", but nothing really changed.<ref name=free121/>

Essex was imprisoned in 1599 after returning from his command in Ireland without licence; his mother came to London to intercede for him with the Queen.<ref name="ODNB"/> She tried to send Elizabeth a present in the form of a gown, which Elizabeth neither accepted nor refused.<ref name="Freedman 1983 p. 135">Freedman 1983 p. 135</ref> Her efforts to get sight of her son made matters worse: "Mislike is taken that his mother and friends have been in a house that looks into York Garden where he uses to walk, and have saluted each other out of a window."<ref name="Freedman 1983 p. 135"/> Both his military incompetence and his de facto abandonment of his post were condoned on that occasion, but rather than count his blessings and hold his peace, he became malcontent, chafed at his failures, and fell into rebellion. During Essex' revolt, trial, and execution in February 1601, Lettice remained at Drayton Basset. The event was a comprehensive personal disaster for her, because she lost not only her son but also her beloved third husband, who was, she wrote, her "best friend".<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Freedman 1983 p. 74"/> Sir Christopher Blount was executed on 18 March 1601, three weeks after the execution of his stepson, to whom he had been a friend and confidant for many years.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Hammer 2008"/> Sir Christopher had taken in Mary Cresswell and after he died she was looked after by Lettice. Lettice was alarmed when she discovered that Cresswell was set on becoming a nun. With the aid of her chaplain she close to brainwashed the child until she finally accepted the Protestant faith. Cresswell's life story would in time be well known.<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>

Litigation and old age

Effigy of Lettice Knollys, Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick

The executions and attainders of Essex and Blount led to a legal dispute over the Countess of Leicester's remaining property. In this context she claimed that Blount, in the process of paying off Leicester's debts, had squandered her jewels and much of her landed wealth.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Hammer 2008"/> The death of Elizabeth I in 1603 meant some form of rehabilitation for the Countess; the new monarch, James I, not only restored her grandson, the third Earl of Essex, to his father's title and estate, but quickly cancelled the rest of her debts to the Crown, almost £4,000.<ref name="ODNB"/>

Even more than his debts, the Earl of Leicester's will triggered litigation. He had intended his illegitimate son from his early 1570s relationship with Douglas Sheffield, the adolescent Robert Dudley, to inherit Kenilworth after the death of his brother, Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick. Some of the countess' jointure manors lay in the castle's vicinity, while at the same time they had been assigned to the younger Dudley's inheritance by the overseers of Leicester's will. After Warwick's death in February 1590, lengthy legal proceedings ensued over whether particular parts of Lady Leicester's jointure belonged to the Kenilworth estate or not.<ref name="Adams 2008c">Adams 2008c</ref>

In 1603, Dudley initiated moves to prove that he was the legitimate son of his parents and thus the heir to the earldoms of Warwick and Leicester. If successful, this claim would not only have implied that Lettice Knollys' union with Leicester had been bigamous, but have nullified her jointure rights.<ref name="Adams 2008c"/>

Consequently, in February 1604, she filed a complaint against Dudley in the Star Chamber, accusing him of defamation. She was backed by Sir Robert Sidney, who considered himself the only legitimate heir of his uncles Leicester and Warwick. During the Star Chamber proceedings 56 former servants and friends of the Earl of Leicester testified that he had always regarded Dudley as his illegitimate son.<ref name="ODNB"/> The other side was unable to cite clear evidence and the King's chief minister, Robert Cecil, thought it unwise to rake up the existing property settlement, so the outcome was in favour of Lady Leicester. All the evidence was impounded to preclude a resumption of the case.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Adams 2008c"/>

Throughout her life, Lettice Knollys cared for her siblings, children, and grandchildren.<ref>Slater 2007</ref><ref>Freedman 1983 pp. 8–9, 119–120</ref><ref>Varlow 2007 p. 271</ref> Until their respective deaths in 1607 and 1619, her daughters Penelope and Dorothy were her closest companions. The young third Earl of Essex, also called Robert, shared much of his life with the old Countess at Chartley and Drayton Bassett.<ref name="ODNB"/>

Still walking a mile a day at nearly 90, she died in her chair on Christmas morning, 25 December 1634, aged 91.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>Jenkins 2002 p. 368</ref> Widely mourned as a symbol of a by-gone age, she wished to be buried "at Warwick by my dear lord and husband the Earl of Leicester with whom I desire to be entombed". Her request was respected and she came to rest in the Beauchamp Chapel of Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, opposite the tomb of her son, young Lord Denbigh.<ref name="ODNB"/>

Descendants

An episode of the genealogical television series Who Do You Think You Are? traced British comedian Josh Widdicombe's ancestry in direct line to Knollys, via his grandmother, a member of the Barings family.<ref>Template:Cite episode</ref>

See also

• Cultural depictions of Elizabeth I of England

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