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Favourite of James I Following a fall from his horse at the accession day tilt in March 1607, Robert Carr was nursed by King James I and rapidly became a royal favourite. Created Earl of Somerset in 1616, three years later he was indicted with his wife, Frances Howard, for the murder of his Sir Thomas Overbury. Though Howard confessed, both were later released.
Background. Robert Kerr was born in Wrington, Somerset, England, the younger son of Sir Thomas Kerr (Carr) of Ferniehurst, Scotland, by his second wife, Janet, sister of Walter Scott of Buccleuch. [1] About the year 1601, while an obscure page to George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar, he met Sir Thomas Overbury in Edinburgh.
Apparently the earl, no matter how often he bedded with his wife, could not summon up the necessary enthusiasm to perform. By 1613, Somerset was Frances’ lover, and the two hoped for an annulment of the Essex marriage, so they could marry. Overbury counselled Somerset strongly against it, criticising Frances as a ‘base woman’.
Robert Carr was created Earl of Somerset on November 3, 1613, and then appointed Treasurer of Scotland on December 23, 1613. He had been named Secretary of State in 1612, and then Lord Chamberlain and Lord Privy Seal in 1614.
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Robert “1st Earl of Somerset” Carr. Favourite courtier of James I until being eclipsed by the Duke of Buckingham. He became Earl of Somerset in 1613. In the same year he married Frances Howard, the Countess of Essex. Three years later, Carr and his wife fell from grace when the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury was revealed to have been ...
10 de ene. de 2024 · Frances died 23 August 1632. [4] Robert's daughter, Anne, was married in 1637 to William Lord Russell, later Earl and then first Duke of Bedford. [1] Robert provided an enormous dowry of £12,000. Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset lived to see the outbreak of the Civil War. He died in July 1645 and was buried at St Paul, Covent Garden.
