Douglas Sheffield, Baroness Sheffield
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Douglas, Lady Sheffield (née Howard; 1542/1543[1] – 1608), was an English noblewoman, the lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and mother by him of explorer/cartographer Sir Robert Dudley, an illegitimate son.
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Lady Sheffield | |
Born | 1542/1543 |
Died | 1608 Westminster |
Noble family | Howard |
Spouse(s) | John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield Sir Edward Stafford |
Issue | Elizabeth Butler, Countess of Ormonde Edmund Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave Sir Robert Dudley (illegitimate) |
Father | William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham |
Mother | Margaret Gamage |
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Seventeen years after Leicester's death she claimed in litigation that she had secretly been his wife, although she had herself remarried while Leicester was still alive.[citation needed]