| LC control no. | no 89015959 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Willoughby de Eresby, Peregrine Bertie, Baron, 1555-1601 |
| Variant(s) | Bertie, Peregrine, Baron Willoughby de Eresby, 1555-1601 De Eresby, Peregrine Bertie, Baron Willoughby, 1555-1601 Eresby, Peregrine Bertie, Baron Willoughby de, 1555-1601 Willoughby, Lord (Peregrine Bertie), 1555-1601 |
| Associated country | Great Britain Netherlands |
| Associated place | London (England) |
| Birth date | 15551012 |
| Death date | 16010625 |
| Place of birth | Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) |
| Place of death | Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) |
| Field of activity | Great Britain--Politics and government Great Britain--Armed Forces |
| Profession or occupation | Great Britain--Officials and employees Great Britain--Armed Forces--Officers |
| Found in | Bertie, P. A memoir of Peregrine Bertie, eleventh Lord Willoughby of Eresby ... 1828. NUC pre-56 (Willoughby de Eresby, Peregrine Bertie, 11th baron, 1555-1601) Vedi, Sten F. Elsinore revisited, 2012: pages 10-11 (Lord Willoughby; author of report to Queen Elizabeth of his diplomatic trip to Denmark undertaken in 1582, which was perhaps a source for the play Hamlet, usually attributed to Shakespeare; married the sister of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, to whom Shakespearean writings are sometimes attributed) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online, viewed September 24, 2013 (Bertie, Peregrine, thirteenth Baron Willoughby of Willoughby, Beck, and Eresby (1555-1601), nobleman and soldier ; born October 12, 1555, in Wesel, Cleves, Germany, his family having left England when the Catholic Mary ascended the throne; family returned to England when Elizabeth became queen [1558]; after his mother, the Duchess of Suffolk, passed away, he was recognized as heir to the barony of Willoughby de Eresby on November 11, 1580; sent on numerous diplomatic, administrative, and military missions to Denmark, the Netherlands, and France by the English government; probably contracted malaria during his 1580s service in the Netherlands, which continued to affect his health for the rest of his life; died of fever on June 25, 1601 in Berwick, on the English border with Scotland, where he served as governor; buried at familial chapel in Lincolnshire) The Peerage, web site, viewed September 23, 2013: entry, Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby |
| Associated language | eng |
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