Douglas Sheffield, Baroness Sheffield
Noble person
1545 – 1608
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Who was Douglas Sheffield, Baroness Sheffield?
Douglas Sheffield, Baroness Sheffield, maiden name Douglas Howard, was an English noblewoman and the mother of the explorer and cartographer Sir Robert Dudley, illegitimate son of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. Seventeen years after Leicester's death she claimed in litigation that she had secretly been his wife, even though she had herself remarried while Leicester was still alive.
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- Born
- 1545
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Edward Stafford
(1579/11/29 - ) - John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield
- Edward Stafford
- Children
- Died
- 1608
Westminster
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on July 23, 2013
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