George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, courtier, naval commander and expeditioner, died in October 1605 in Westminster, following a month of ill-health.

Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, had been a popular and active courtier during the reign of Elizabeth I, following in the footsteps of his father, John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, a high-ranking councillor during the reigns of the three previous monarchs: Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I.

On This Day (22 March) in 1676, diarist, literary patron and heiress Lady Anne Clifford, died at Brougham Castle, near Penrith, Cumberland.

On 21 February 1590, only a short time after undergoing a lower leg amputation, Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, died at Bedford House.

On This Day (30 January) in 1590, Anne Clifford, writer, poet, prolific diarist and literary patron, was born at Skipton Castle, Yorkshire.

On This Day (27 January) in 1569, Æmilia Bassano, Elizabethan courtier and Jacobean writer and poet was baptised.

In December 1643, after an almost 40 year struggle, Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery...

On This Day (27 Aug) in 1562, Margaret St John, Lady Russell, Countess of Bedford, died from smallpox at Woburn Abbey.

On this day (24 May) in 1616, died Margaret Russell, the youngest child of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford and his first wife Margaret.

Lady Anne Clifford, Duchess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, was born January 1590 at Skipton Castle.

Elizabeth I had reigned as Queen of England for 44 years, when her health started to further decline in February 1603, whilst her court...