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Walter Devereux succeeded as 2nd Viscount Hereford in 1558, and in 1561 or 1562 married Lettice, dau. of Sir Francis Knollys. In 1569 he served as high marshal of the field under the Earl of Warwick and Lord Clinton , and materially assisted them in suppressing the northern insurrection .
Devereux was born on 10 November 1565 at Netherwood near Bromyard, in Herefordshire, the son of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, and Lettice Knollys. His maternal great-grandmother Mary Boleyn was a sister of Anne Boleyn, the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, making him a first-cousin-twice-removed of the queen.
When Walter Devereux was born in 1365, in Herefordshire, England, his father, William d'Évereux IV, was 50 and his mother, Anne de La Barre, was 53. He married Agnes Crophull in 1383. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 25 July 1402, in Wales, at the age of 37, and was buried in Weobley, Herefordshire, England ...
A ruthless adventurer, Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, undertook to conquer and colonise Ulster on behalf of England in 1573. All previous attempts had failed, and after two years of treacherous dealings against the Irish and the Scots living in Ulster, he was recalled to England. Before leaving, Essex carried out his most notorious act, a ...
A Compendium of Irish Biography. 1878. Devereux, Walter, 1st Earl of Essex, was born in Carmarthenshire, about 1540. For ability displayed in suppressing the rebellion of the Dukes of Northumberland and Westmoreland, Devereux was created Earl of Essex by Queen Elizabeth in 1572. He became so great a favourite, that Leicester and others, jealous ...
et arrière-petits-enfants. Marié avec Elizabeth MERBURY dont. Walter DEVEREUX, Lord Ferrers de Chartley 1433-1485 Marié en 1446 avec Anne, lady Chartley de Ferrers, FERRERS †1468 dont. Elizabeth DEVEREUX 1461-1516 Mariée vers 1478 avec Richard of Moreton Corbet CORBET 1451-1493 dont : Robert of Moreton Corbet CORBET 1477-1513.
Walter Devereux (1387–1419), knight of Herefordshire. Walter Devereux (1411–1459), Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1449–c. 1451. Walter Devereux, 8th Baron Ferrers of Chartley (c. 1431–1485), son of the above, Yorkist politician and military officer during the Wars of the Roses. Walter Devereux (MP for Cardiganshire), MP for Cardiganshire, 1547.
