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Thomas Overbury (Warwickshire, 1581 – Londra, 15 settembre 1613) poeta e saggista inglese fu ucciso per essersi opposto al matrimonio dell'amico Robert Carr, I conte di Somerset con Frances Carr, Contessa di Somerset.
9 ott 2021 · Overbury's nephew, Sir Thomas Overbury the younger (d. 1683), was son of his next brother, Sir Giles, by Anne (d. 1660), daughter of Sir John Shurfield of Isfield, Sussex. He settled on the estate of Bourton-on-the-Hill after proving his father's will in 1653, and was knighted on 25 June 1660.
Thomas Overbury est un poète anglais, né le 18 juin 1581 et mort le 14 septembre 1613. For faster navigation, this Iframe is preloading the Wikiwand page for Thomas Overbury . Home
In 1613 Thomas Overbury, the close friend and principal adviser of King James I's favorite, Robert Carr, was arrested for refusing to undertake a diplomatic mission. In what became a major scandal, Overbury was later poisoned to death in the Tower of London and the King's favorite was subsequently tried and convicted of complicity in the murder. The "Overbury affair" contributed to the erosion ...
6 giorni fa · Search for: 'Thomas Overbury' in Oxford Reference ». (1581–1613),opposed the marriage of his patron Robert Carr (afterwards earl of Somerset) with the divorced countess of Essex, and on the pretext of his refusal of diplomatic employment was sent to the Tower, where he was slowly poisoned by the agents of Lady Essex.
Sir Thomas Overbury (June 18, 1581 - September 15, 1613) was an English poet and essayist, and the victim of 1 of the most sensational crimes in English history.[1] Overbury was educated at Oxford, became the friend of Carr (afterwards Earl of Rochester and Somerset), and fell a victim to a court intrigue connected with the proposed marriage of Rochester and Lady Essex, being poisoned in the ...
27 apr 2018 · OVERBURY, SIR THOMAS (1581–1613), English poet and essayist, and the victim of one of the most sensational crimes in English history, was the son of Nicholas Overbury, of Bourton-on-the-Hill, and was born in 1581 at Compton Scorpion, near Ilmington, in Warwickshire. In the autumn of 1595 he became a gentleman commoner of Queen’s College ...
