April 15 - The beginning of the end for Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
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- Embark on a thrilling journey through Tudor history as we delve into the captivating life of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex! 🏰
From his meteoric rise as a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I to his tumultuous tenure as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Essex's story is a rollercoaster of ambition, intrigue, and tragic downfall. 🎢 Join me as I unravel the web of events that led to his demise, from his daring truce with Irish rebels to his audacious rebellion against the queen herself. 🌟
Discover the complexities of Essex's relationships, his quest for power, and the fatal mistakes that sealed his fate.
👑 Don't miss this gripping tale of political intrigue, betrayal, and ultimate tragedy on this day in Tudor history! Watch now to uncover the captivating saga of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. 📜🔍
Here are the links to the videos mentioned:
25th February - The execution of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex - • February 25 - The exec...
13th March- The hangings of conspirators Henry Cuffe and Sir Gelly Meyrick - • March 13 - The hanging...
Lesson to learn here... Proverbs 16:18- Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Thank you, Claire! :-)
I am so fascinated by the downfall of Essex. It’s a true historical example of pride causing a fall.
I think he thought that he could do no wrong, and had Elizabeth wrapped around his finger. But looks like he didn’t, I get my own copy of your book tomorrow, yeahhhhhhh I’m so excited💞🇬🇧💞🇬🇧💞
When you look at the behavior of a man like this, who's power was granted to him by Elizabeth, it's not hard to understand why she never married. I think she was well aware of the corrupting nature of power and she knew that any man she married could be corrupted by it too. Just look at the behavior of the spouses of Mary Queen of Scotts. They basically ruined her. Elizabeth was far to brilliant to allow this to happen to her.
Mary ruined Mary. She was bright but too impulsive and was a crap judge of character. The Series Reign is a complete bastarization of history.
Never seen Reign. I judge her by what I learned in History classes at University. I think you're being unfair to Mary. She had been in France since she was very young, so she didn't really know anyone in Scotland, nor did she have a power base there. She had the popular head of the protestant church, John Knox, preaching against her, and a bunch of untrustworthy nobles squabbling for her favor, both on a daily basis. She had no loyal counselors or clever spymasters in her corner as her cousin Elizabeth did. Mary had to Marry someone as soon as she possibly could, to gain some allies, and her choice of her relative, Lord Darnley, seemed like a wise decision when she made it.
@@dmgib5239 If Mary have been faithful in her marriage and do not let ambitious men to use her for their own purpose it would have been better for her.
@Gary Lorette If that was meant for me, I thank you.
cant help thinking that seeing Elizabeth without her face on was probably what really ended it for Devereux.
I always think Robert Devereux learnt nothing from his step father.
What a fool! I remember watching the Elizabeth R episode on this...many many years ago.. you have Essex riding around Ireland in the mud with Glenda Jackson’s voiceover...Tyrene goes to the North & you go to the south (something like that) why my Lord why. Why indeed! Thank you Claire!
I remember that too! (To me, Elizabeth R was and is still the best series about Elizabeth and her reign). What an arrogant man! He thought he could get away with anything because he was Elizabeth's "favorite". Surprise....
I agree! Elizabeth R & the Six Wives of Henry VIII is what started my fascination with the Tudors.
@@theresecatalano4017 Long time Tudor fan, and so watched that series very carefully. I believe Glenda Jackson caught the essence of Elizabeth. Costumes/hair very correct and they seemed to try and find actors that at least somewhat resembled the actual people they portrayed. I still remember the scene when Essex dared turn his back on Elizabeth. Bad move....P.S. Six Wives of Henry VIII--also excellent. Keith Michel took Henry from a young studious and athlete man into the huge hulk he became as he aged. Done with sympathy for each wife. Sorry for the length but it's the TUDORS lol
Also first learned and fell in love with the Tudors by watching Elizabeth R and The Six Wives if Henry VIII. I agree that Glenda Jackson got it ‘right’ when it comes to ER. The only other person whose interpretation of Elizabeth i would put next to Jackson’s would be Emma Thompson. She played ER in the first Christmas special of ‘Upstart Crow.’ Although it was comedic, I saw Elizabeth and not the actor (as I so often do). If you have not seen this funny, silly take on Shakespeare, check out Britbox.
Cissy2cute there is no such thing as talking too much about the Tudors!!!
Imagine him trying this in Henry’s court. He wouldn’t have lasted very long.....
Thank you for out lining the blood relationship. I knew there was a connection, I just get confused with so many players. Also so many people have the same first names and last names from ancestors from previous reigns! Thanks, again.
Is not complex. Lettice Knowles was Elizabeth's 2nd cousin and Lettice was the mother of the Earl of Essex.
Essex is quite the personification of the saying "the pride goes before the fall." What hubris!
Such a famous story that never loses it's flavor. Thanks.
Thank you.
Elizabeth 1 never received the respect a monarch deserved in her lifetime. She chose to have a court unlike that of her father who would have had him killed the moment he stepped into his chamber. If she had been more severe, she would have had a nickname like her sister Bloody Mary. It really was a delicate balance she had to maintain while also ruling a kingdom. Kind of like the saying that ‘Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels.’ In Elizabeth’s case she did it with a face full of lead paint and surrounded by feckless men who felt superior to her just because of their gender.
Very arrogant. If he had been in the court of Elizabeth I's father I imagine his life would have ended much earlier. Moot point but he was lucky she was more tolerant.
Definitely! Well said. Essex would’ve been a head shorter muuuuuuuuuuuuch earlier in his career if he had served Henry instead of Elizabeth.
true I think Devereuxs charm, good looks and bravado would not have swayed Henry certainly not when he was older and in constant pain
Great point. Although I doubt seriously that Essex would have dared behave in such a cavalier fashion towards a king.
He would never have acted like that under a King.
@@frightbat208 You are absolutely right.
Naughty Robin let his pride rule. Didn't realize the family tree! Great explanation!!
As always thanks Claire for yet another interesting story.
Essex totally messed up, but I wonder if part of the problem was he didn't have the qualifications for the job. If Elizabeth had sent someone older and more of an experienced statesman a negotiated truce might have been a good option.
Older & more experienced statesmen/campaigners *didn't want to go*, because of how convoluted and difficult the situation was.
Essex, a combination of ego and narcissism. So full of himself he couldn't see his mistakes. Wasn't Lettice one of the ladies in waiting to Elizabeth I? Thank you for this video!
@@lhzook and that is when she banished her sweet Robin from court was it not? Essex was his step son---which, I am sure, also added to Elizabeth being predisposed to favor him.
Ego and narcissism are pretty synonymous. Ego and impulsivity is more accurate.
He screwed up....no other way to say it.
Thanks Claire
One did not conspire against a monarch of the Tudor dynasty and live long to tell about it.
Did Essex truly believe Londoners were going to support him? How little he knew of the average people.
This period of Elizabeth Is reign was quite interesting. She was aged, she needed her favorites help and support, and Essex trully proved why her habit of keeping tight rein on her own power was so important.
Who’s everyone’s favorite portrayals of Essex? I think Hugh Dancy captures the ego as well as the self delusion of Essex best. However Errol Flynn is great as well.
Robin Ellis was damn good in the Glenda Jackson Elizabeth series.
🇺🇸It doesn’t hurt that both men are extremely handsome!😉🇬🇧
omfug I don’t believe I’ve ever seen that one.
@@omfug7148 I'm thinking of ordering the DVD of ER. I remember loving it, but all I can actually remember is Glenda shouting for Kat Ashley all the time.
I have a couple of questions:
1. What do you think of Elizabeth being portrayed as extremely vain and jealous?
2. Do you think her favorites were her lovers?
3. What was the normal lifespan of the nobility & poor? I assume they're different. What was considered "old age" to Tudor times?
Thank you for another great video!!
According to Wiki... If a person survived to age 20, they could expect to live around 30 years more. (40% didn't make it) Life expectancy was probably slightly longer for women than men. Average lifespan of scholars was 59-84.3 years. At age 21, life expectancy of an aristocrat was an additional 43 years (total age 64).
I think she was vain. She wanted to be seen as young and beautiful. She wore fantastic clothes and of course there's the white makeup . Jealous? She blew her top when she found out Dudley had married again. She liked playing him along. She seemed to love the little Frenchman but blew him off, too.
For question 2, they were actually cousins and lovers!
The day 28th September is my birthday, which I discovered is the day in which the year 1599 the Earl of Essex made his unwanted call on Queen Elizabeth if I am correct in saying was at Nonsuch palace, to find her unprepared and unpresentable to receive him. Dear Claire, I have bought your book today and look forward to reading it on my return from Rome for the Easter break.
I enjoyed hearing another favorite of the court being tried for high treason and executed. What an exciting if somewhat short life some of the nobility lived!
🇭🇲🦘 (viewed 28/09/2020 and on 11/04/2021) ... Robert Devereux. Maybe a prestigious career, but a career handed to him on a plate. His arrogance shown throughout his life, was his final undoing. Thank you Claire. 👑👍
Those sticky Irish! They just wouldn't accommodate the Queen's favorite and come to heel like he wanted them to! Jiminy, he couldn't just walk into the Queen's bedroom, too familiar to look on her almost nakedness (and it was without her makeup) like the arrogant man he was. Here in the south of the US they'd call him "too big for his britches!"; amazingly, humans don't learn from these history lessons - we still have people acting "too big for their britches". Third cousins?
What is your opinion of movies and documentaries about Tudor monarchs, specifically the PBS Masterpiece "Elizabeth I" and "The Tudors"? I love and look forward to your videos every day, by the way.
Wasn’t he Robert Dudley’s stepson?
Yes
Lest we forget the motto of the early Devereuxs...."The companion of virtue is envy."
The way I view it, was that there were warring political factions at the time, centered around the Queens trusted advisors, and Devereux requested the position, needing to secure his first major military campaign. The army that was raised numbered 16000 infantry and 1000 mounted, not enough for a long campaign, and supply routes were routinely cut off by the Irish. When he turned south, he got himself embroiled in a longer campaign to get to the main Irish army in the north, therefore he was sufficiently weakened by the time he arrived. I see his decision to seek a truce as a way to save as much face as he could after a poorly fought campaign
Do you think the Devereux family are bad people
@@Kikah107 I am unsure, I see no evidence to suggest it, although there is not much literature to support either side
Claire baby blue is your color looking good !
He’s still a curious character.
Why did he want to form an alliance with the Persians to attack the Ottoman Empire? Was he crazy? It was one of the most powerful empires of that time and Elisabeth was not in bad terms with the Ottomans, especially with the "Anglo-Dutch-Turkish" piracy against Spanish and/or Catholic ships. England had also been hot on the buttocks a little before, we can say that he was very disturbed this man...
Any evidence that Anne Boleyn or Henry the king visited the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris?
Deveraux arrogance was his undoing, he took too many chances with Elizabeth I, there’s a story that he tried at some point phisically attack her, and he broke into her chambers unannounced and uninvited. I don’t think he deserved to be executed, but he sure pissed a lot of people off
Very much the author of his own fate.
How was the relationship between robert and his mother lettice ? and how did he handle her multiple marriages ? did he hate his step-fathers ?
They seem to have had a good relationship and he was close to both his stepfathers.
Claire ridgway. Question about you. Its April 14 here in Massachusetts, but you do on this day April 15th and so on. Where are you that you're a day before mine. ?
Love your voice though, its soothing.
Claire is in Spain. She's one day ahead of us.
Jill Niemczynski I’m in Chicago & she’s in Spain. She’s 7 hours ahead of me so it would be 6 for you. She uploads about 6 pm my time which would be 2 am tomorrow, her time.
@@lhzook Hi! Actually, I'm in Milwaukee, we're close neighbors! 👋🙋😎✌👍
Twat! Time difference.. that’s why🙄🙄🙄
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Copy of my comment posted on Essex executed video: I know the idea that Essex was Elizabeth's and Dudley's son, and he knew it, is not for many but... Decades ago the first time I got into the story I immediately felt he was acting out like a spoiled royal child frustrated with being denied what he felt entitled to like his father with the love of his mother. Her all encompassing emotional response being another stage in what might have been an even more tragic story and trauma for all involved and for us if it was true. For me it was like I was seeing the deeper layer and backstory and once I saw that I couldn't unsee it like de Vere was the author of Shakespeare just too many natural unfoldments making linear sense once the blinders are off. With Dee and Robert Cecil weaving in the background of a distracted queen. Typical politics. Thanks Claire
It isn't often mentioned that Essex was the grandson of Elizabeth's cousin (or maybe her sister if it's true that Henry VIII was Catherine Carey's father). The focus tends to be on the fact he was Dudley's step-son.
Question: are the Devereaux's a branch of the DeVere family?
What a jerk - walking in on the Queen in her chambers. Any woman would be angry about that.
Personally, I'd be a lot more bothered by his rebellion... :s
Wasn't he also Robert Dudley's stepson?
Could you do something about Notre Dame? I know it may not be Tudor but every news thing has a different age for the cathedral. Someone who knows history could get some facts straight and clear up some misunderstandings. This is such a HUGE loss. Something would help. Take care.
Robert Devereux Earl of Essex is another example of an over ambitious man full of pride, and a surfeit of vanity fed on the adoration of an old woman who was the Queen of England, the fiasco in Ireland where he completely disregarded the orders of his sovereign and fled hot foot to London, where strictly against protocol and good manners and common sense, he burst into the queens bedchamber in the early morning when she was in a state of undress shows the complete recklessness and lack of hindsight in this foolish young man, her shocked women bustled around the bedchamber whilst Elizabeth strove to adopt an aura of majesty even though she was painfully aware that without her paint powder and wig, she looked just like any old woman does first thing in the morning, her face lined without the thick white paint and the pitted scars left by the outbreak of smallpox clearly visible, her scanty thin hair was now grey gone were the glorious auburn tresses of her youth, Essex must have been as shocked to see her like that as she was to see him the mud must have still been wet on his boots, her anger also she must have striven to keep under control for she never wanted anyone to see her without her adornments, only her maids saw her like that, she dressed like a monarch she represented power and glory, the jewellery she adorned herself with, the hugh ruff and red wigs they were all part of the image that was Gloriana, for Essex to have seen her without all that must have made her feel vulnerable how could he ever look on her like his queen again? She must have been furious, all her life Elizabeth had been vain she adored the flattery the compliments, and in an instant Essex had ruined all that, she adored him and possibly realised she was much to blame for his behaviour by indulging him too often, it was inevitable one day he would go too far, he seemed to have a death wish, he commented once that her conditions were as crooked as her carcass and when he rode through London calling on her citizens to join him whilst he marched onto the queens apartments Elizabeth decided she had had enough, he was promptly arrested, Elizabeth was merciful and unlike her father who as Michael comments would have had his head on a spike a lot sooner, but Elizabeth was in a sense infatuated with this charming young man who was a cousin of hers but even so he was tried for treason, and found guilty, he walked the same grim walk his great great aunt Anne Boleyn had walked nearly sixty years before, I think after his death that was when Elizabeth began to be depressed her old companions were dead or dying, Essex really was an incredibly stupid man he had the queens favour and could have lived out his days in comfort and glory, the beloved favourite of a doting old queen she would have given him anything he wanted but he overstepped the mark, he grew greedy and arrogant, such traits are unforgivable and always lead to a persons downfall, even so it was a dreadful shame he died the way he did, and his mother and family must have been inconsolable with grief.
Why is it that we really don't hear much about Robert,
illegitimate son of Robert Dudley? Did Elizabeth accept
him and was he ever at court? Thank you for these videos!
Was RD the EoE really the illegitimate son of R Dudley? I'd be interested in your source since I've always been under the impression he was the stepson of Leicester. Was there some hanky panky between Lettice & Leicester that they didn't want the Queen to know about? Surely the court gossip would have reached her ears......wouldn't it?
@@ginawiggles918 Yes, Essex was the stepson of Leicester.
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester had an affair with Douglas (Howard) Sheffield.
She gave birth to their illegitimate son Robert Dudley (Jr.)
This is the one that I was speaking of.
@@linharvey9177 : Thank you for the information. I'd like to read more about that. Do you have a book to recommend? EDIT:I just read what Wiki had on RD and it is a fascinating story. Thank you very much for bring up the topic.
@@ginawiggles918 I would like to now also if there is a book about him also.
@@linharvey9177 : I didn't find any books about him on Amazon, but the Wikipedia article was good.
Wasn't robert devereux the step son of Robert Dudley which also may have been a reason for her favoritism?
Essex was no match for Hugh O'Neill. who was his better in every conceivable way.
Poor robert
I wonder if sexism played a factor with his choices?
She was exposed. He was deposed.
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Lol meant to say Clair blue is your color !, baby blue exactly ! Lol hate spell check
Sounds like he got what he asked for to me
Please do not insult and embellish My families history.
Is there any definitive evidence that Essex was indeed bipolar? I remember reading about him- that he would be running around for days (manic) and then in bed, unable to get up (depression). There is also the arrogance, which is a trait found in people with bipolar disorder. He was so flipping arrogant and nothing was his fault. 🙄 And yes, if he had just knelt down before her and asked for forgiveness, even after being a doofus and marching around London, Elizabeth probably would have found a way to either pardon him or at least keep him from the scaffold. But he was an idiot. (I have no patience for him and never understood why she loved him.) And he made remarks about her that found their way to her and did not help his cause. It really killed her to sign his death warrant.
Er- EXCUSE me?! People with bipolar aren't necessarily arrogant! Someone with bipolar is quite likely to ACT arrogant DURING A MANIC EPISODE, but it's not a personality trait! It's a symptom of illness that they experience while unwell. Saying people who behave "badly" or "stupidly" must be mentally ill is incorrect & unfair, & perpetuates the stigma of mental illness. Essex was just an arrogant dick, & that's not a mental illness.
@@beth7935 : Oh my! There's a lot here and I'm not sure how to address all of it. First, I do not think Essex might have had bipolar disorder because he messed up so badly. I had actually read this theory in a book in the late 70's and I don't remember anything about the book (author/title) excepting that. I was genuinely hoping that someone had better, more up to date information about this. I don't remember exactly where I learned he was arrogant. But I don't think either of us would dispute this. I identified arrogance as a 'trait' of bipolar disorder because I thought it was. And this has been my experience. (My spouse has Bipolar 2 and typically doesn't have manic episodes.) Lastly, I appreciate you bringing all this up because I do not want to perpetuate the stigma of mental illness. Everyone I live with (son and spouse), including myself, deals with mental illness. I was really looking for a reason Essex might have done what he did-- not an excuse.
There is a theory thet he was queens son???and probably next king? Because that he was arogance?
He was Lettice Knollys' son by Walter Devereux. There's no theory I've heard that he was Elizabeth's son. Where did you read that?
@@anneboleynfiles: Thank you for clarifying this point. Someone earlier said Essex was Leicester's illegitimate son & I never heard that before. Is it true that Elizabeth was furious upon hearing Leicester had married Lettice? I probably got that notion from the wonderful Glenda Jackson/Robert Hardy version.
@@ginawiggles918 Yes, Elizabeth was furious with them both.
@@anneboleynfiles:Thank you for the confirmation, Claire.
She spends 30+ minutes on Anne Bolyen's limited relationship with her daughter, yet she spends 10+ minutes on a much more complex subject. I'm beginning to think this woman is a biased historian.