After being found guilty of treason, he was beheaded on Tower Green on February 25, 1601, and became the last person to be beheaded in the Tower of London. In plaats daarvan sloot hij een verdrag met de rebellen, en verliet Ierland zonder toestemming van de koningin. It was expected of his force to crush the rebellion instantly but he failed completely to accomplish the mission. Hierop werd de graaf gevangengenomen en in 1601 terechtgesteld in Londen.

Toch vergaf Elizabeth haar gunsteling steeds opnieuw. Subsequently, he deserted his post and returned to England to justify his decisions privately to the Queen but the damage had already been done.

It relates the circumstances under which the great exodus to the New World began, the trials and tribulations faced by these tough American pioneers and the enduring influence they came to exert on the politics, education and religion of the country. In 1594 brak er een opstand uit in Ierland, en Elizabeth stuurde haar gunsteling erop af om alles in goede banen te leiden. In 1587, he replaced the Earl of Leicester as the ‘Master of the Horse’. Robert Devereux (Netherwood (Herefordshire), 10 november 1566 - Londen, 25 februari 1601) was de tweede graaf van Essex. The Kavanaghs, O'Mores, and O'Conors, say the Four Masters, "made fierce and desperate assaults and furious irresistible onsets on him in intricate ways and narrow passes, in which both parties came in collision with each other, so that great numbers of the Earl's people were cut off by them."

In 1584, Robert was first introduced to the royal court and over the next three years, he became a favorite of the Queen Elizabeth I who appreciated his dynamic personality and expressiveness. After serving as the commander of the force which captured Cadiz, he rose to the height of fame and was subsequently appointed to lead a mission against Spain, one that he failed to accomplish. Tall and handsome, he was every inch the gallant young aristocrat – chivalrous, open-handed, cocksure and impulsive.

2 vols. Essex was the stepson on Elizabeth’s longtime lover Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. London, 1853.

His greatest letdown to the majesty occurred when he was sent on a mission to Ireland to defeat the rebels, but he ruined it with an unfavorable truce that humiliated the queen and the English authorities. Toch vergaf Elizabeth haar gunsteling steeds opnieuw.

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But Devereux took the queen’s trust for granted and his later behavior towards her lacked due respect which ended their association in a tragic manner. Hiervoor dacht hij de steun van de bevolking van Londen te hebben. 174. Having issued proclamations of pardon to such as would come in and submit to Elizabeth, and having garrisoned Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda, Wicklow, Naas, and other towns, he marched south-west at the head of 8,000 of his best troops, in direct contravention of his orders, which were, to proceed immediately against O'Neill in Ulster.

For that reason, it conveys the reality of the calamity in a much more telling way. Endowed with talents and qualities that placed him far above the majority of men, his unrestrained and ungoverned passions ruined himself and some of his dearest friends, and brought on them the traitor's doom." He then retraced his steps to Kilmallock, and proceeded south to Fermoy, Lismore, Dungarvan, and Waterford, and thence into Leinster. Born as the son of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, he inherited the title of Earl of Essex upon his father’s death, becoming a ward of the powerful Lord Burghley.

Robert Devereux, the Second Earl of Essex, lived a short but eventful life as the final favorite of Elizabeth I—ultimately executed in February 1601 for treason. The following year, he was admitted as a fellow-commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1579 and later graduating as Master of Arts in 1581. He entered at Cambridge when but ten years of age, and at fourteen received the degree of Master of Arts.

But Devereux took the queen’s trust for granted and his later behavior towards her lacked due respect which ended their association in a tragic manner. He landed 15th April 1599, with an army of 20,000 foot and 2,000 horse, or, as the Four Masters have it, "with much wealth, arms, munition, powder, lead, food, and drink; and the beholders said that so great an army had never till that time come to Ireland since the Earl Strongbow and Robert FitzStephen came in former times with Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster.". Later, the Queen also made him a member of her Privy Council. In February 1601, Robert Devereux Essex was tried before his peers on charges of treason. Ireland, History of, Lectures on the: Alexander G. Richey.

Om hem een lesje te leren, sloot Elizabeth vervolgens de toevoer naar zijn inkomsten af. He met a severe defeat from the native chiefs in an ambush into which he was drawn at the "Pass of the Plumes," near Timahoe, in the Queen's County.

Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, was 34 years old when his head fell to the executioner’s axe.

Als reactie hierop beraamde Essex een opstand tegen haar en wilde hij Elizabeth dwingen om hem Protector van Engeland te maken. He led an unsuccessful campaign against the rebels and made an unauthorized truce which some considered demeaning to the Queen and the English authorities.

Essex was charmed by O'Neill's frank and open bearing, and a peace was concluded between them.

With the Earl of Ormond, he laid siege to Cahir, then held by Thomas Butler, an adherent of O'Neill and Desmond. Early in September Essex marched against Hugh O'Neill, with 1,300 foot and 300 horse.