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Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, KG (16 September 1541 – 22 September 1576), was an English nobleman and general. From 1573 until his death he fought in Ireland in connection with the Plantations of Ireland , most notably the Rathlin Island massacre .
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Sir Walter Devereux (1411 – 22 April 1459) of Bodenham and Weobley was a loyal supporter of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York during the Wars of the Roses. He was Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1449 to 1451.
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Walter Devereux, 1st earl of Essex was an English soldier who led an unsuccessful colonizing expedition to the Irish province of Ulster from 1573 to 1575. The atrocities he committed there contributed to the bitterness the Irish felt toward the English.
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Home. Devereux, Walter. Contributed by. Clavin, Terry. Devereux, Walter (1539–76), 1st earl of Essex , colonist in Ireland, was born 16 September 1539 at Carmarthen castle, Wales, elder son and heir of Sir Richard Devereux and Dorothy, daughter of George Hastings, earl of Huntingdon.
A biography of Walter Devereux, a prominent English nobleman and soldier who served Queen Elizabeth I in Ireland. Learn about his life, achievements, controversies, and death in this article from Encyclopedia Britannica.
16 de set. de 2023 · Learn about the life and achievements of Walter Devereux, a Tudor nobleman, soldier and adventurer, who was the father of Robert Devereux, Elizabeth I's favourite. Find out how he died in Ireland, his marriage to Lettice Knollys, and his role in the Ulster expedition.
13 de dez. de 2022 · In an older historiographical tradition, the sixteenth-century attempts to settle Antrim and Down led by Thomas Smith and Walter Devereux, the first earl of Essex, were simply one link in a long pattern of colonisation or ‘plantation’ beginning in Leix-Offaly in the 1550s, proceeding through Munster and Ulster in the late ...
