Amy Robsart
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Amy, Lady Dudley was the first wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I of England. She is primarily known for her death by falling down a flight of stairs, the circumstances of which have often been regarded as suspicious. Amy Robsart was the only child of a substantial Norfolk gentleman. In the vernacular of the day, her name was spelled as Amye Duddley.
Possible portrait miniature of Amy Robsart on the occasion of her wedding, 1550, by Levina Teerlinc
Leicester and Amy Robsart at Cumnor Hall (1866) by Edward Matthew Ward. Fantasy portrait after Walter Scott's novel Kenilworth
Fantasy Portrait. Amy Robsart (1870) by William Frederick Yeames
Arthur Hopton (1488–1555)
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Sir Arthur Hopton of Cockfield Hall in Yoxford, Suffolk was an English knight, landowner, magistrate, and Member of Parliament.
John Hopton's tomb at Blythburgh, looking through to the Hopton chapel
Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, showing the surviving Tudor work in the north wing