Thus we hear of abbots going out to hunt, with their men carrying bows and arrows ; keeping horses, dogs and huntsmen ; and special mention is made of an abbot of Leicester, c. 1360, who was the most skilled of all the nobility in hare hunting.

Charlton was related to several professional footballers on his mother's side of the family: his uncles were Jack Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ), George Milburn ( Leeds United and Chesterfield ), Jim Milburn ( Leeds United and Bradford City ) and Stan Milburn ( Chesterfield, Leicester City and Rochdale ), and legendary Newcastle United and England footballer Jackie Milburn, was his mother's cousin.

In London, a statue of him as the Tramp was unveiled in Leicester Square in 1981 and a permanent exhibition on his life and career, Charlie Chaplin – The Great Londoner, opened at the London Film Museum in 2010.

The expedition was led by her former suitor, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

Elizabeth's " commandment " was that her emissary read out her letters of disapproval publicly before the Dutch Council of State, Leicester having to stand nearby.

Oxford was sympathetic to the proposed marriage, Leicester and his nephew Philip Sidney were adamantly opposed to it.

Oxford openly quarrelled with Leicester about this time ; he was confined to his chamber at Greenwich for some time ' about the libelling between him and my Lord of Leicester '.

The Spanish ambassador, Mendoza, was also of the view that Leicester was behind Oxford's informing on his fellow Catholics in an attempt to prevent the French marriage.

Peck concurs, stating that Leicester was " intent upon rendering Sussex's allies politically useless ".

On 28 July Leicester, who was in overall command of the English land troops, asked for instructions regarding Oxford, stating that " he seems most willing to hazard his life in this quarrel ".

The Earl was offered government of the port of Harwich, but he thought it was unworthy and declined the post ; Leicester was glad to be rid of him.

Coming through the ranks at Leicester City was a young local goalkeeper called Peter Shilton, who was given his debut as a 17-year-old in 1966.

When Shilton told Leicester he would not sign a professional contract unless he was guaranteed first team football, Banks found himself available for transfer, just a year after winning the World Cup.

Shilton became England's number one and was also signed by Stoke City shortly afterwards from Leicester City ( the same club Stoke had bought Banks from ) to take over from Banks in goal at the Victoria Ground.

He led a consortium that invested in his old club Leicester, saving it from bankruptcy, and was appointed honorary vice-president.

Lineker was born in Leicester to Barry and Margaret Lineker ( both born 1939 ).

Lineker's father was a greengrocer in Leicester and he grew up with his family in the city, playing football with his brother Wayne.

He went to the City of Leicester Boys ' Grammar School ( now City of Leicester College ) on Downing Drive in Evington, inside the borough of Leicester due to his preference for football rather than rugby, which was the main sport of most schools near his home.

Richard's naked body was then exposed, possibly in the collegiate foundation of the Annunciation of Our Lady, before being buried at Greyfriars Church, Leicester.

She was buried at the Church of St Mary de Castro, Leicester.

* Leir of Britain is said to have been buried by his daughter Cordelia in an underground chamber beneath the River Soar near Leicester.

He was succeeded by Cordelia, who buried him in an underground chamber beneath the River Soar near Leicester.

He was buried in Leicester and succeeded by Elidurus.

He was received as a canon of Leicester on his deathbed, and buried to the north of the high altar of the great abbey he had founded and built.

The eastern entrance to the tunnel has been buried, while the tunnel as a whole was sold to Leicester city council for a nominal sum, though the council has never decided what use to make of it.

Widely mourned as a symbol of a by-gone age, she wished to be buried " at Warwick by my dear lord and husband the Earl of Leicester with whom I desire to be entombed ".

He is buried in the churchyard of St James the Great Church, Church Hill, Birstall, north Leicester.

Hugh Aston ( c. 1485 – buried Leicester St Margaret's 17 November 1558 ) was an English composer of the early Tudor period.

Constance died at Leicester Castle and was buried at Newark Abbey, Leicester.

With the exception of Lord Burghley, the most important politicians had died around 1590: The Earl of Leicester in 1588, Sir Francis Walsingham in 1590, Sir Christopher Hatton in 1591.

After Leicester had pulled one back through a diving header from Ken Keyworth, Banks leapt high in the air to claim a high cross from Johnny Giles, only to drop the ball at Herd's feet.

In October 2002, Lineker backed a £ 5 million bid to rescue his former club Leicester City which recently had gone into administration, describing his involvement as charity rather than an ego trip.

Another six-figure sum donor was Emile Heskey, who had not only followed in Lineker's footsteps by going to the same school as him, but also went on to play for Leicester City and England.

Elizabeth visited in 1566 and 1568, by which time Leicester had commissioned the royal architect Henry Hawthorne to produce plans for a dramatic, classical extension of the south side of the inner court.

The book also claims that the queen had children by the Earl of Leicester.

In the south of France he carried on Innocent III's work, confirming Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester in the possession of the lands of Raymond VI of Toulouse and succeeding, as Innocent III had not, in drawing the royal house of France into the conflict.

On 24 August 2012, the University of Leicester and Leicester City Council, in association with the Richard III Society, announced that they had joined forces to begin a search for the mortal remains of King Richard.

The brothers had supporters in England, ready to rise up ; led by Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester, the rebellion in England from Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester, and William I of Scotland.

It was rumoured that she was in love with Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and that on one of her summer progresses she had birthed his illegitimate child.

Jeffreys had a " eureka moment " in his lab in Leicester after looking at the X-ray film image of a DNA experiment at 9: 05 am on Monday 10 September 1984, which unexpectedly showed both similarities and differences between the DNA of different members of his technician's family.

He had already received Gascony as early as 1249, but Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, had been appointed as royal lieutenant the year before and, consequently, drew its income, so in practice Edward derived neither authority nor revenue from this province.

Simon de Montfort and Eleanor of Leicester had seven children, many of whom were notable in their own right:

# Eleanor ( 1215 – 1275 ), who would marry firstly William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke ; and secondly Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, by whom she had issue.

The town of Warwick felt this during a magnificent visit by the Earl in 1571 to celebrate the feast of the Order of Saint Michael, with which Leicester had been invested by the French king in 1566.

Leicester had flirted with her in the summer of 1565, causing an outbreak of jealousy in the Queen.

Leicester himself had throughout considered the boy as illegitimate.

After Mary Stuart's flight into England ( 1568 ) Leicester was, unlike Cecil, in favour of restoring her as Scottish queen under English control, preferably with a Protestant English husband — as long as he himself would not be the intended bridegroom ( which had been suggested ).

In 1577 Leicester had a courteous meeting with Mary, lending a sympathetic ear to her complaints of captivity.

From the start such a position for him had been implied in the Dutch propositions to the English, and in their instructions to Leicester ; and it was consistent with the Dutch understanding of the Treaty of Nonsuch.

The English queen, however, in her instructions to Leicester, had expressly declined to accept offers of sovereignty from the United Provinces while still demanding of the States to follow the " advice " of her lieutenant-general in matters of government.

In his absence, William Stanley and Rowland York, two Catholic officers whom Leicester had placed in command of Deventer and the fort of Zutphen, respectively, went over to Parma, along with their key fortresses — a disaster for the Anglo-Dutch coalition in every respect.