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Family. Walter Devereux was the eldest son of Sir Richard Devereux, who was created a Knight of the Bath on 20 February 1547 and died that same year, in the lifetime of his father, Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford. Walter Devereux's mother was Dorothy Hastings, daughter of George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon and Anne Stafford, said to ...
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 ...
However, he was chosen to represent Pembroke Boroughs again in 1624, when his cousin Sir Walter Devereux of Leigh Court, Worcestershire, also secured a seat. It was probably Devereux rather than his kinsman who was named to the committee for the bill to authorize the sale of the Staffordshire lands of the two Thomas Copes, father and son (16 March).
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.
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.
Walter Devereux succeeded his grandfather as Viscount Hereford and Lord Ferrers in 1558. He was joint custodian of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1568. The following year, he helped put down the Northern Rising and was appointed marshal of the army at Leicester. He was lord lieutenant of County Stafford from 1569 until his death.
