Roger Manners (1576 - 1612)

Born 6 Oct 1576 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

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Died 26 Jun 1612 at age 35 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

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Biography

Roger Manners was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Roger Manners is Notable.

Roger Manners was born on the 6th of October 1576, son of John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland and his wife, Elizabeth Charlton. His father died in 1587 whereupon Roger became the 5th Earl of Rutland.

He married Elizabeth Sydney, daughter of Sir Philip Sidney and his wife, Frances Walsingham, on the 5th of March 1598/99.

On the 30th of May 1599 he was knighted by the Earl of Essex at Caluri Castle in Ireland. ^[1]

In the summer of 1603 he was sent to Copenhagen in Denmark as a commissioner at the investiture of King Christian IV as a Knight of the Garter. ^[2]

Roger died at Cambridge on the 26th of June 1612 aged 35 and was succeeded in the Earldom by his brother, Francis.

Sources

1. ↑ The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland by Shaw, William Arthur, 1865-1943; Burtchaell, George Dames, 1853-1921 Page 95
2. ↑ The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant by Cokayne, George E. (George Edward), 1825-1911; Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, Baron, b. 1880; Warrand, Duncan, 1877-1946; Gibbs, Vicary, 1853-; Doubleday, H. Arthur (Herbert Arthur), 1867-1941; White, Geoffrey H. (Geoffrey Henllan), b. 1873 Page 582

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