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Douglas Sheffield, Baroness Sheffield

Douglas Sheffield, Baroness Sheffield

Douglas, Lady Sheffield (née Howard; 1542/1543 – 1608), was an English noblewoman, the lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and mother by him of explorer-cartographer Sir Robert Dudley, an illegitimate son.

Seventeen years after Leicester's death she claimed in litigation that she had secretly been his wife, although she had herself remarried while Leicester was still alive.

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Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

Robert Dudley (24. června 1532/1533? – 4. září 1588, Cornbury) byl baron z Denbigh, 1. hrabě z Leicesteru (od roku 1564), celoživotní přítel a pravděpodobně milenec královny Alžběty I.

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