Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland
Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland (6 October 1576 – 26 June 1612) was the son of John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland.
He married Elizabeth Sidney (daughter of Sir Philip Sidney and stepdaughter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex), on 5 March 1599.
He was a student at Oxford and Cambridge, Gray's Inn, and University of Padua, Italy. He travelled across Europe, took part in military campaigns led by Essex, and was a participant of Essex's rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I. He was favoured by James I, and honoured by his contemporaries as a man of great intelligence and talent. He enjoyed the friendship of some of the most prominent writers and artists of the Elizabethan-Jacobean age. In 1602 he led an Embassy to Denmark, homeland of James' Queen Anne of Denmark.
Evidence indicates that the Earl was a patron of Inigo Jones and probably introduced Jones to the Court of James I and Anne of Denmark, where Jones had his impact as both an architect and a designer of Court masques.[1]
He died in 1612, aged 35 and his titles passed to his brother, Francis Manners.
In the early 20th century, Roger Manners was proposed as a candidate for the authorship of Shakespeare's literary work in the Shakespearean authorship question. His candidacy was promoted by Karl Bleibtreu, and had a brief flowering, later supported by a number of other authors.[2]
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| Peerage of England | ||
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| Preceded by John Manners |
Earl of Rutland 1588–1612 |
Succeeded by Francis Manners |
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- English soldiers
- Earls in the Peerage of England
- Earls of Rutland (1525)
- 1576 births
- 1612 deaths
- Shakespeare authorship question
- Manners family
- Lord-Lieutenants of Lincolnshire
- 16th-century soldiers
- 17th-century soldiers
- 16th-century English people
- 17th-century English people
- People of the Tudor period
- People of the Stuart period
