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Essex, Walter Devereux, Earl of, 1539-1576

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Personal name headingEssex, Walter Devereux, Earl of, 1539-1576
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Variant(s)Essex, Walter Devereux, Earl of, 1541-1576
Devereux, Walter, Earl of Essex, 1541-1576
Walter, Earl of Essex and Ewe, 1541-1576
Associated countryGreat Britain England Ireland
Associated placeWales, South Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
Birth date1539
Death date1576
Place of birthWales, South
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Found inDavies, R. A funerall sermon preached the xxvi. day of Nouember in the yeare of our Lord M.D.LXXVI. in the parishe church of Caermerthyn, 1577: t.p. (at the buriall of the Right Honourable VValter Earle of Essex and Ewe)
Cokayne, G. Complete peerage, vol. 5, 1910: p. 140-1 (Walter (Devereux), b. 1539; cr. Earl of Essex 1572; d. 1576 age 35)
DNB (Devereux, Walter, 1st Earl of Essex, & 2nd Viscount Hereford; 1541?-1576; Irish adventurer; b. 1541. d. 1576 age 35)
Walter Devereux, 2018, ©2018: title page (Walter Devereux, First Earl of Essex) page 31 (the Enterprise of Ulster, b. September 16, 1539 at Carmarthen Castle in south Wales, as the eldest son of Sir Richard Devereux and Dorothy Devereux, née Hastings, one of the oldest families of the English nobility) page 34 (succeeded his grandfather as 2nd Viscount Hereford and 4th Baron Ferrers of Chartley) page 154 (died on the morning of September 22, 1576)