Elizabeth Throckmorton
Elizabeth Throckmorton ( April 16, 1565 , † 1647 ), daughter of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton , was the favorite court lady of Elizabeth I , Queen of England, and the wife of Sir Walter Raleigh .
Life
Elizabeth Throckmorton was the daughter of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (1515-1571) and Anne Carew († 1587). She lived with her mother until she came to the royal court as a maid of honor. She was sworn in at Hampton Court Palace on November 8, 1584. She quickly rose to become the preferred “lady-in-waiting”, the lady -in-waiting .
In June 1591 she secretly married Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618). Elizabeth gave birth to a son who died after six months. The marriage could not be kept secret, and since the couple had dared to marry without the permission of the Queen, the couple on the orders of Elizabeth I in was Tower of London spent. Throckmorton was released from the Tower on December 22, 1592 after several months, but did not return to the court. Shortly afterwards her husband followed her to freedom.
Lady Elizabeth, also called Bess , lived with her family, which included her sons Walter (1593–1617/18) and Carew (February 1605–1666), at Sherborne Lodge , now Sherborne Castle , in Dorset . When Carew was born, Walter Raleigh had been convicted of treason and was imprisoned in the Tower; he was not released until 1616. In 1608, at her urging , King James Elizabeth gave Raleigh £ 8,000 in cash and an annual pension of £ 400 to Sherborne. In 1613 they had to move out of the lodge because their home was expropriated and given to the diplomat Sir John Digby.
In 1616, Raleigh was released to go on a voyage of discovery to Guyana . Since this was a failure, he was returned to the Tower and executed on suspicion of treason. Elizabeth Throckmorton is said to have his head embalmed and kept in a red leather bag until her death.
reception
In the US historical film The Virgin Queen (German: The Virgin Queen , also: Her Majesty's Rebel ) from 1955, directed by Henry Koster , the story of Raleigh (played by Richard Todd ), his young lover and later bride Elizabeth, played by Joan Collins , and the Queen ( Bette Davis ) seen as a love triangle .
In the same way, the 3 characters (played by Abbie Cornish (Bess), Clive Owen (Raleigh) and Cate Blanchett (Queen)) are portrayed in Shekhar Kapur's film Elizabeth - The Golden Kingdom from 2007.
literature
- Anna Beer : My Just Desire. The Life of Bess Ralegh, Wife to Sir Walter. Ballantine Books, New York NY 2003, ISBN 0-345-45290-9 .
- Karen Robertson: Negotiating Favor. The Letters of Lady Raleigh . In: James Daybell (Ed.): Women and Politics in Early Modern England 1450–1700. Ashgate Publishing Limited, Ashgate 2004, ISBN 0-7546-0988-X , pp. 99-113 .
- AL Rowse: Raleigh and the Throckmortons. Macmillan, London 1962, see here
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Dobson, Nicola J. Watson: England's Elizabeth. An afterlife in fame and fantasy . Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2002; P. 281 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Throckmorton, Elizabeth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Raleigh, Elizabeth; Ralegh, Elizabeth; Bess |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lady-in-waiting and wife of Walter Raleigh |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1565 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1647 |