Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland

Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland

Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland (born October 6, 1576 , † June 26, 1612 in Cambridge , England ) was an English nobleman who was the patron saint of the arts in Elizabethan times.

Life

He was the son of John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland (around 1559–1588) and Francis Charlton. Manners studied at Queens' College of Cambridge University . He later followed his tutor John Jegon to Corpus Christi College , where he inherited the title in 1588 after the death of his father. At Cambridge he led the life of a rich nobleman, had a servant and went hunting. In February 1595 he graduated with a Magister Artium and in 1596 began a trip to Europe via Paris and Switzerland to Italy, where he enrolled at the University of Padua .

In 1598 he was admitted to the bar at Gray's Inn in London. He became a close friend of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex , in whose military enterprise in Ireland he participated in 1599 as colonel of the infantry. He only stayed there for a short time (he was one of the people who arbitrarily knighted Essex, which aroused the queen's displeasure). In the same year he also received a Magister Artium from Oxford University and then joined the troop of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland , on the side of the Netherlands against Spain. In 1600 he was constable in Nottingham Castle and Stewart of Sherwood Forrest. Since he was involved in the 1601 Devereux conspiracy against Queen Elisabeth , for which the latter was executed in February 1601, he ended up in the Tower. He was remorseful and, after thorough interrogation, was released on payment of £ 30,000. He was in favor again under Elisabeth's successor, Jacob I. His finances recovered when in 1603 he was given custody of Birkwood Park in Yorkshire and Clipstone Castle in Northamptonshire . From June to August 1603 he led a delegation to Denmark to Christian IV. In order that the Order of the Garter to deliver, who was this awarded by the King, and the King of England (whose wife Anna was a Danish princess) at baptism to be represented by his son. In the same year he became Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire and Stewart of Grantham, which in 1609 was increased by that of Long Bennington and Mansfield.

Manners was praised by his contemporaries as a man of high talent, was friends with many literary figures and frequented theaters in London, as did his close friend Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton . He is also said to have introduced the architect (and organizer of courtly mask games) Inigo Jones to court.

In 1599 he married Elizabeth Sidney (1584-1612), daughter of the courtier and poet Sir Philip Sidney and granddaughter of Francis Walsingham . After Manner's early death at the age of 35, his title fell to his younger brother Francis Manners (1578-1632). Some sources speculate that Manners was poisoned by his wife Elisabeth. He is buried in the church of St. Mary the Virgin at Bottesford in Leicestershire . His wife, who died shortly after him, is buried with her father Philip Sidney.

Letters from Manners have survived in family ownership.

Occasionally Manners has been named as a candidate in the authorship debate over William Shakespeare . In addition to his zealous theater visit z. B. stated that he had fellow students named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Padua.

Remarks

1. ^ Ilya Gililov: The Shakespeare Game. The mystery of the great Phoenix . Algora Publ., New York 2003, ISBN 0-87586-182-2 . After Gililov, Manner's wife Elisabeth Sidney also took part in it. In the poem "The Phoenix and the Turtle" he sees an elegy on both of them.

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predecessor	Office	successor
John Manners	Earl of Rutland 1588-1612	Francis Manners