Penelope Devereux: Conquering a Man's World

"Explore Penelope Devereux's scandalous life in Elizabethan court, full of intrigue and drama!"

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⏱⏱TIMESTAMPS⏱⏱
0:00 - Intro
1:10 - Early Life and Family
4:21 - Marriage and the Essex Circle
7:56 - Scandals and Court Life
11:56 - Later Years and Legacy
14:52 - Epilogue

[LiamDeeley]

Essex was a fool who flew too close to sun and didn’t care how it would affect his family. It’s strange to think about, but marrying for love, especially in the upper crust is something it’s more recent than we think. Thank you for the video.

[lisetteeliseparis]

Penelope! Like her mother Lettice, totally fascinating. Thank you Jon!

[maryannbernal]

Love learning new stuff. Great episode.

[MichelleBruce-looc]

Hi, awesome live history video I enjoyed it. HAPPY EASTER to you. Have a great weekend see you next video 😊

[tondakremble]

Excellent topic. Love the illustrations. Thank-you Jon.

[bernadettedavies]

Great story john if only we could let these ladies know what was to come

[cornelia]

Everything I’ve read about Penelope portrays an extraordinary, gutsy woman. Rich sounds like a dreadful man. How lucky she was able to divorce him. So many women just had to suffer. Didn’t she have an interlude with Philip Sydney the soldier and poet? What her brother was thinking is a total mystery to me. He sounds quite crazy. There was absolutely no possibility of success. She must have escaped a much worse fate by being very clever even though it sounds as if she didn’t actively support it. What a woman! Tks.

[matthutchinson]

At 6:44 you mention Charles Blount's relationship with Penelope and state that "both parties were married at the time". Blount was not married.

[PamelaTitterington]

Any courtiers who survived Tudor courts, did very well

[theresashadwell]

Fasinating who's next then? Haha will you being doing longer like documentaries and will you be revisiting the Victorian era any new info Victorian era is my favorite again Thank you Jon ☕️🌹🤌👏👏✨️💗

[JohnLandau-hg]

Some also believe that Shapespeare's male lover, frequently addressed in his sonnets, might have been the close friend of Penelope's brother Robert Devereux, Henry Wriosley, Earl of Southhampton. In spite of his lowly birth as the son of a provincial merchant and farmer, Shakespeare seemed to move effortlessly in aristocratic circles.

[JohnLandau-hg]

Although there is no solid evidence to support this theory, some have speculated that Penelope might have been the "dark lady" that Shakespeare loved.

[jeraldbaxter]

Ancestor of the current Duke of Devonshire?

[animallover]

I never got how so many people fell for the Protestantism cause it is hard to get out of the catholic faith.

[alistair]

Not so much history more a sociology class

[monicacall]

If Robert Riche was related to and behaved anything like Richard Riche who was famous during his time in Henry VIII’s court I wouldn’t blame Penelope for not liking him. Was Charles Blount any relation to Bessie Blount who bore a son for Henry VIII? The whole idea of dynastic marriage is so wrong. When wealth, power and land are more important than people marrying someone that they actually love and enjoy being with you know that something is seriously wrong with the society that promulgates that belief. Yes, dynastic marriages have been around for millennia, but that doesn’t make them right or moral. My heart goes out to all of the miserable couples who were forced to marry against their wishes.