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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 ...
29 de abr. de 2022 · Walter Devereux was the illegitimate, eldest son of Robert Devereux 2nd Earl of Essex born in late 1591. His mother was Elizabeth Southwell, daughter of Sir Thomas Southwell of Woodrising, Norfolk and his wife Nazareth (Newton) Southwell, who later became Lady Paget. Elizabeth was the half-sister of the Lord Admiral’s son-in-law, Robert ...
Walter Devereux, 1st Devereux Earl of Essex, the eldest son of Sir Richard Devereux, was born in 1541. His grandfather was the 2nd Baron Ferrers, who was created Viscount Hereford in 1550 and by his mother was a nephew of Henry Bourchier, a former Earl of Essex. Walter Devereux succeeded as 2nd Viscount Hereford in 1558, and in 1561 or 1562 ...
23 de nov. de 2018 · Between 1573 and 1575 one of the rising figures of the Elizabethan court, Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, attempted to colonize the north-east of the province of Ulster in Ireland. This ‘enterprise’, as Essex termed it, was undertaken with the aim of prising these lands away from the regional lords and planting colonies of English settlers there.
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Walter Bourchier Devereux was an Ivy League-educated mining engineer tapped by industrialist Jerome B. Wheeler to manage the smelter associated with his silver mine in Aspen. With an innate knack for timing and business, Devereux seized the opportunity, grew the operation and soon became a “Silver King” millionaire himself.
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 ...
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex. A courageous but ruthless adventurer, Essex undertook to conquer and colonise Ulster on behalf of England in 1573. 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 massacre on the ...
