On 08 September 1560, Amy sent away her household for the day, encouraging them to enjoy the first day of the local Abingdon Fair. It was on the servants' return to the hall that evening that they found Amy, at the foot of a ground-floor staircase, dead, with her neck obviously broken.

On This Day [22 Sep] 1560, Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, was buried at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford.