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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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Walter Devereux, 1st earl of Essex (born Sept. 16, 1541, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales—died Sept. 22, 1576, Dublin) was an English soldier who led an unsuccessful colonizing expedition to the Irish province of Ulster from 1573 to 1575.
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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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16 de set. de 2023 · On this day in Tudor history, 16th September 1539, in the reign of King Henry VIII, nobleman, soldier and adventurer Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, was born at Chartley in Staffordshire.
13 de dez. de 2021 · Never Shortlisted for the Nobel Peace Prize. Sir Walter Devereux 1st Earl of Essex may not be as (in)famous as Sir Arthur Chichester, the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell or King William of Orange amongst those to visit Ireland and leave an indelible historical mark on the land, but he certainly deserves a mention.
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 ...
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.
