Talk:Lettice Knollys

one question...isnt lettice's real name laetitia???

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Paternity of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex

Regarding the edit by wjohnson, which seemed to take issue with the allegation of the second Earl of Essex's paternity, please see "The Poems of Edward DeVere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex," Studies in Philology, Vol. 77, Early Winter, 1980, Number Five (special number), Steven W. May. Professor May, of Georgetown College, cites the original error of Essex's date of birth that appeared in Thomas Mille's Catalogue of Honor, 1610. Mille gives the date as November 10,1567, but May points out that the contemporaneous Court of Wards document describing Essex's knighting by the Earl of Leicester gives the former's birthdate as two years earlier, 1565. Mille is unreliable in that his work contains other errors in dates for the Devereux family, for example, that Robert was knighted in 1585 rather than 1586 and that his younger brother Walter died in Lisbon in 1589 rather than in France in 1591. The conception resulting in a 1565 birth date corresponds with the verified account of Queen Elizabeth's fierce public argument and reconciliation with Leicester and Lettice Knollys's return to her husband. In his biography of Leicester's son Robert by Douglass Sheffield, The Son of Leicester, Biography of Sir Robert Dudley, Arthur Gould Lee also discusses the possibility that Leicester was Essex's father; unfortunately, he also had the date of Essex's birth wrong, so he was unable to amplify this argument.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Sbrice@sbcglobal.net (talk • contribs) 10 November 2004

Paternity of Lettice's son Walter

Re my 1/10/06 edit stating that Lettice's son Walter was probably fathered by Walter senior. It was prompted by Leicester (Dudley's) return to the Queen's favor, the fact that Walter was the traditional Devereux name, and the chronology of Lettice's time in Staffordshire as opposed to being at court. I think the suggestion that Dudley was the father may have been inadvertent, due to a non-related edit.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.131.240.234 (talk • contribs) 11 January 2006