Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland
The Earl of Rutland | |
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Earl of Rutland | |
Tenure | 1588 – 1612 |
Other titles | Lord Ros |
Born | Roger Manners 5 October 1576 Kirk Deighton |
Died | 26 June 1612 (aged 35) |
Buried | St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bottesford |
Nationality | English |
Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Sidney |
Parents | John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland Elizabeth Charleton |
Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland (6 October 1576 – 26 June 1612) was the eldest surviving son of
Evidence indicates that Manners was a patron of the architect Inigo Jones and probably introduced Jones to the Court of James I and Anne of Denmark, where Jones had his impact as both on Jacobean architecture and as a designer of Court masques.[1]
Life
He was born probably at Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire, where he was baptized on 19 November 1576.[2]
Manners' uncle,
From late 1587, Rutland was educated under the supervision of John Jegon at Queens' College, Cambridge and later at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was at Cambridge when he received the news of his father's death,[4] and he returned home for his father's funeral, where he remained until mid-May 1588, after Burghley insisted he return to Cambridge to continue his education.[5] Rutland received his MA on 20 February 1595,[6] in a grand ceremony planned and managed by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, the Queen's then-favourite and the late Dudley's stepson.
Rutland soon became a follower of
After the accession of James I, Rutland travelled north to meet the king at Worksop Manor. James then came to Belvoir, where masons and carpenters worked to ready the castle. Tents were hired to accommodate the king's followers.[9] The Earl's position improved somewhat, but remained difficult. His wife Elizabeth was humiliated in 1605 when a goldsmith had her arrested for debt.[7]
Marriage
He married Elizabeth Sidney (d. 1612), daughter of Sir Philip Sidney and stepdaughter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, on 5 March 1599. The marriage was childless, and is widely believed to have been unhappy. It has been speculated that the marriage was not consummated, possibly because Rutland had syphilis, which may also have been the cause of Rutland's rapidly declining health in his last years.[7]
Death
He died in 1612 at the age of 35, and his titles passed to his brother,
Shakespeare authorship
In the early 20th century, Roger Manners was proposed as a candidate for the authorship of
Notes
Footnotes
- ^ Although Rutland was styled Lord Ros before he attained the earldom, because the barony came into the Manners family through the female line and the provisions of the 3rd Earl's will, it was disputed whether the barony descended through the heirs general or the male heir, and both sides claimed the title. After a long legal dispute, in 1616 it was decided that the Barony of Ros would descend through Elizabeth, the 3rd Earl of Rutland's daughter, as his only heir according to the instructions in his will.(Danushevskaya, 2001, n. 566, p. 205.)
Citations
- ^ Michael Leapman, Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance, London, Headline Book Publishing, 2003; pp. 16, 23, 55, 111.
- ^ Danushevskaya (2001) p. 204.
- ^ Hammer (2004).
- ^ HCM (1888) pp. 241–2.
- ^ Danushevskaya (2001) p. 206.
- ^ Archbold, William Arthur Jobson (1893). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 36. London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In
- ^ a b c d Margaret P. Hannay, Mary Sidney Lady Wroth, Ashgate Publishing, 2013, p.163.
- ^ Manuscripts of the Duke of Rutland preserved at Belvoir castle, vol. 1 (London, 1905), p. 365.
- ^ Manuscripts of the Duke of Rutland preserved at Belvoir castle, vol. 4 (London, 1905), 440–43.
- ISBN 0-521-78257-0.
- ^ Campbell, Oscar James, ed (1966), A Shakespeare Encyclopedia, London: Methuen, pp.730–731.
References
- Danushevskaya, Anna Vladimirovna. (May 2001) Ideal and Practice: Aspects of Noble Life in Late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Doctoral thesis, Department of History, The University of Hull.
- Emma, the Duchess of Rutland, with Jane Pruden. (2009) Belvoir Castle: A Thousand Years of Family Art and Architecture London: Francis Lincoln, Limited. ISBN 978-0-7112-3052-1.
- Hammer, Paul E. J. (2004) "Manners, Roger, fifth earl of Rutland (1576–1612)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, online edn, January 2008, accessed 23 April 2013.
- Historical Manuscript Commission. (1888, reprinted 1911) The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland, G.C.B., Preserved at Belvoir Castle. 4 vols., 1888–1905. Vol. I. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office.
- Ilya Gililov, The Shakespeare Game Or the Mystery of the Great Phoenix, Algora Publishing, 2002. ISBN 978-0-87586-181-4