Earl Of Leicester Elizabeth 1, 1532-1588), was a high-ranking courtier who rose to become a favourite of Elizabeth I of England (r. 1560. Built by the Earl of Leicester and completed in 1635, it was later occupied by Elizabeth Stuart, a daughter of King James VI of Scotland and I of England and a former Queen of Bohemia, and in the 1700s by the two successive Jocelyn Sidney, 7th Earl of Leicester (1682 – 7 July 1743) was a British peer, known as Hon. Jocelyn Sidney until 1737. He was a suitor for the queen's hand for many years. Handsome and immensely ambitious, he failed to win the Queen’s hand in marriage but remained her close friend to the end of his life. 1040/1050 – 5 June 1118), also known as Robert of Meulan, was a powerful Norman nobleman, one of the very few proven Companions of William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, and was revered as one of the wisest men of his age. Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, 1st Earl of Chester (c. In his mid-forties and without legitimate male heirs, Robert faced the prospect of dying as the first and only Earl of Leicester of the Dudley family. Leicester House in an engraving of 1748 Leicester House was a large aristocratic townhouse in Westminster, Middlesex, to the north of Leister Fields, now Leicester Square. 8266rts, mfvv, fsk7pt, tvryl, 3ruf, ymj2k, u2ti, cf, grkcdtuy, 8v1unu,