Elizabeth Raleigh
Elizabeth Throckmorton (* April 16, 1565, † 1647 ), daughter of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, was the Lieblingshofdame of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and the wife of Sir Walter Raleigh.
Life
Elizabeth Throckmorton was the daughter of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (1515-1571) and Anne Carew ( † 1587 ). She lived with her mother until she came to the royal court as maid of honor. She was sworn in at the Hampton Court Palace on November 8, 1584. She quickly rose to the preferred "Lady -in- Waiting", the maid of honor to.
In June 1591 she married secretly Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1552-1618 ). Elizabeth gave birth to a son, who died after half a year. The marriage could not be kept secret, and because the couple had dared to marry without the permission of the Queen, the couple were spent on the orders of Elizabeth I in the Tower of London. Throckmorton was released from the Tower after several months on 22 December 1592 but never returned to the court. Her husband followed her shortly thereafter to freedom.
Lady Elizabeth, who was also called Bess, lived with her family, which included her sons Walter ( 1593-1617/18 ) and Carew ( February 1605-1666 ), in Sherborne Lodge, today Sherborne Castle, in the county of Dorset. As Carew was born, Walter Raleigh was convicted of treason and was imprisoned in the Tower; until 1616 he was released. 1608 when King James Elizabeth Raleigh at her insistence £ 8,000 in cash and an annuity of £ 400 for Sherborne. In 1613 they had to move out of the lodge, as their home was expropriated and the diplomat Sir John Digby was given.
1616 Raleigh was released from prison to lead an expedition to Guiana. Since this was a failure, he was brought back to the Tower and executed under the original betrayal suspicion. As they say, Elizabeth Throckmorton was embalmed his head and kept it until her death on in a red leather bag.
Reception
In the U.S. historical film The Virgin Queen (English: The Virgin Queen, also: The Rebel of Her Majesty ) from 1955, directed by Henry Koster, the story of Raleigh (represented by Richard Todd ), his young lover and future bride Elizabeth, played by Joan Collins, and the queen (Bette Davis) construed in a triangular relationship.
In the same way the three persons (played by Abbie Cornish ( Bess ), Clive Owen (Raleigh ) and Cate Blanchett (Queen) ) Shekhar Kapur's film in Elizabeth - The Golden Age represented by 2007.