On this day in 1560 – Amy Dudley died

Tudor Chronicles

Amy Dudley the first wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, died on Sunday 8^th September 1560. Amy had been staying at Cumnor Place, Abingdon as a guest Sir Anthony Forster and his wife. On the morning of the 8^th September Amy had sent her servants to attend the Fair that was in Abingdon.

Upon their return they found Amy dead at the foot of the stairs with two head rooms and an apparent broken neck. Robert Dudley upon hearing of his wife’s death immediately ordered his steward, Thomas Blount, to order an inquest at once. Blount reported back to Dudley regarding his wife’s movements on the morning of her death, he reported that Lady Dudley had risen early and;

“would not that day suffer one of her own sort to tarry at home, and was so earnest to have them gone to the fair, that with…

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