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Leicester entertained the queen there; that on the queen's
departure from Kenilworth, the countess, in her husband's
absence, received her sovereign at Chartley (6 Aug.); that
Leicester showed himself anxious in March 1576 for Essex's
return to Ireland, and that on 21 Sept. 1578 Leicester and the
widowed countess were married. But although it is probable that
Essex and his wife were not on affectionate terms, there is no
proof that the countess intrigued with Leicester in her
husband's lifetime. By her second marriage she had a son, who
died in 1584. After Leicester's death (4 Sept. 1588) she married
a third husband, Sir Christopher Blount [q. v.], in July 1589.
He was executed in 1601 for his connection with the plot of her
son, Robert, ssecond earl of Essex, and she lived a widow till
her death at the age of ninety-four on 25 Dec. 1634. She was
buried by the side of Leicester at Warwick. Two daughters and
two sons survived Essex. His elder daughter, P