The Earl of Warwick was buried in the Beauchamp Chapel of Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, in the vicinity of his ancestor Richard Beauchamp, his brother Robert, and his little nephew Robert Dudley, Lord Denbigh, Leicester's son who during his short life had been heir to both Dudley earldoms.

For the birth of Leicester's heir, Robert, Lord Denbigh, in June 1581, she moved to Leicester House on the Strand.

Perhaps the marriage of Lady Essex with the earl of Leicester, which destroyed Philip Sidney's prospects as his uncle Leicester's heir, had something to do with the breaking off of the proposed match with Penelope.

Her strategy, to support the Dutch on the surface with an English army, while beginning secret peace talks with Spain within days of Leicester's arrival in Holland, had necessarily to be at odds with Leicester's, who wanted and was expected by the Dutch to fight an active campaign.

She became fond and indulgent of the charming but petulant young Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, who was Leicester's stepson and took liberties with her for which she forgave him.

Lineker was made a freeman of the City of Leicester ( which entitles him to graze his sheep — should he have any — on Town Hall Square ) in 1995 and he is often referred to as " Leicester's favourite son ".

Kenilworth was also the scene of the removal of Edward II from the English throne, the French insult to Henry V in 1414 ( said by John Strecche to have encouraged the Agincourt campaign ), and the Earl of Leicester's lavish reception of Elizabeth I in 1575.

Leicester's building was four floors high and built in a fashionable contemporary Tudor style with " brittle, thin walls and grids of windows ".

Leicester's gatehouse was built on the north side of the base court, replacing an older gatehouse to provide a fashionable entrance from the direction of Coventry.

Elizabeth viewed the partially finished results at Kenilworth in 1572, but the complete effect of Leicester's work was only apparent during the queen's last visit in 1575.

Colonel Joseph Hawkesworth, responsible for the implementation of the slighting, acquired the estate for himself and converted Leicester's gatehouse into a house ; part of the base court was turned into a farm and many of the remaining buildings were stripped for their raw materials.

Public disorder regarding the Roses dynasties was always a threat until the 17th century Stuart / Bourbon re-alignment occasioned by a series of events such as the execution of Lady Jane Grey, despite her brother in law, Leicester's reputation in Holland, the Rising of the North ( in which the old Percy-Neville feud and even anti-Scottish sentiment was discarded on account of religion ; Northern England shared the same Avignonese bias as the Scottish court, on par with Valois France and Castile, which became the backbone of the Counter-Reformation, with Protestants being solidly anti-Avignonese ) and death of Elizabeth I of England without children.

Shortly after the child's death in 1584, a virulent libel known as Leicester's Commonwealth was best-selling in England.

In the absence of the forensic findings of 1560, it was often assumed that a simple accident could not be the explanation — on the basis of near-contemporary tales that Amy Dudley was found at the bottom of a short flight of stairs with a broken neck, her headdress still standing undisturbed " upon her head ", a detail that first appeared as a satirical remark in the libel Leicester's Commonwealth of 1584 and has ever since been repeated for a fact.

Kenilworth Castle was the centre of Leicester's ambitions to " plant " himself in the region, and he substantially transformed the site's appearance through comprehensive alterations.

Lady Leicester's social life was much curtailed.

She spread stories about his supposed lust for the English throne, and when the Catholic anti-Leicester libel, Leicester's Commonwealth, was published in 1584 Dudley believed that Mary was involved in its conception.

Unity among their ranks was at risk by Leicester's and the other officers ' quarrels with Sir John Norris, who had commanded previous English contingents in the Netherlands and was now the Earl's deputy.

The book which later became known as Leicester's Commonwealth was written by Catholic exiles in Paris and printed anonymously in 1584.

It was published shortly after the death of Leicester's son, which is alluded to in a stop-press marginal note: " The children of adulterers shall be consumed, and the seed of a wicked bed shall be rooted out.

Leicester's importance in literary patronage was established by Eleanor Rosenberg in 1955.

In January 1581 Penelope arrived at court accompanied by her guardian's wife Catherine, Countess of Huntingdon, who was Leicester's sister and Sidney's aunt.

Leicester's relations with James of Scotland grew closer when he gained the confidence of the King's favourite, Patrick, Master of Gray, in 1584 – 1585.

However while these players were away, Leicester's form suffered and they were 11th in the league and dumped out of the Heineken cup in the group stages when they decided to sack Dean Richards who was succeeded by the forwards ' coach John Wells.

He became assistant coach at Leicester's arch rivals Bath under Andy Robinson, and when Jack Rowell retired as coach of the England team in 1997, Woodward acquired the job.

Oadby remained a small settlement until the late 19th century when it became a fashionable suburb for the factory-owners of Leicester's shoe and stocking manufacturers.

Ten years ( 1840 – 1850 ) were mainly devoted to further studies, the result of which was revealed in 1851 – 1854, when she published a series of three novels dealing with the first Earl of Leicester's adventures in the Low Countries.

On 7 April 2006, Dawson announced that he would be retiring from rugby completely at the end of the season and on 14 May 2006 he played his last game of premiership rugby, when Sale denied Wasps their chance of winning the Premiership title 4 years in a row and so equalling Leicester's record.

In a personal letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury, an old friend of Leicester's, Elizabeth said she considered Leicester as " another ourself ".

) Thomas Pope, another Leicester's veteran, retired in 1600 and died in 1603.

Leicester's gatehouse, built by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester | Robert Dudley in a deliberately anachronistic style.

A marble fireplace in Leicester's gatehouse, with Robert Dudley's initials ( R & L for Robert Leicester ) and the badge of the Order of the Garter.

The Theatre opened in the autumn of 1576, possibly as a venue for Leicester's Men, the acting company of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester of which James Burbage was a member.

A tradition that Sir Richard Verney, a follower of Robert Dudley, organized Amy Dudley's violent death evolved early, and Leicester's Commonwealth, a notorious and influential libel of 1584 against Robert Dudley, by then Earl of Leicester, perpetuated this version of events.

They included, in addition to Tarleton, Robert Wilson and John Laneham ( both from Leicester's Men ), as well as John Dutton, John Bentley, and John Singer.

The court heard ninety witnesses for Dudley and fifty-seven for Leicester's widow, Lettice Knollys.

The work consists of four ‘ books ’, the first addressed to the Queen, the second to Leicester, the third to Lord Burghley, and the fourth to Oxford, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Leicester's nephew Philip Sidney, with whom he would famously quarrel.

An official investigation conducted by Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland and Leicester's brother-in-law, did not find any indications of foul play but " a disease appropriate to this country ... whereof ... died many ".

For the first 30 years of Elizabeth's reign, until Leicester's death, he and Lord Burghley were the most powerful and important political figures, working intimately with the Queen.

The Earl also kept a separate company of musicians who in 1586 played before the King of Denmark ; with them travelled William Kempe, " the Lord Leicester's jesting player ".

At the outbreak of the Irish rebellion ( 1641 ) Monck became colonel of Lord Leicester's regiment under the command of Ormonde.

Leicester's nephew, Philip Sidney, sent letters home by way of a man he called " Will, my Lord of Lester's jesting player " and it is now generally accepted this was Kempe.

Consequently, Lord Leicester's titles became extinct on his death in 1759 while the barony of de Clifford fell into abeyance on Lady de Clifford's death in 1775.