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#OTD 1591 b. Robert to Robert, Earl of Essex and his wife, Frances Walsingham. Young Robert's marital career was disastrous. His 1st m. to Frances Howard was annulled for lack of consummation. She was later convicted for the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, http://bit.ly/2gq0MHf . He had an similarly unsuccessful second marriage, and died without heirs. Like all his family, he was an evangelical Protestant, joined the Parliamentarians in the Civil War & commaded at Edgehill. #histodons #stuarts