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Edward Norreys (died 1603)

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Edward was relieved of his post as Governor of Ostend by the Queen. She sent him home as all of his brothers had died as soldiers and Elizabeth wanted her friend, and his mother, Margery to have one of her sons by her. Margery died soon afterwards in 1599 and the Queen wrote off £2,000 of their debt.
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Historical records of The Buffs, East Kent Regiment (3rd Foot) formerly designated the Holland Regiment and Prince George of Denmark's Regiment
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wrote that Norreys died after a quarrel with his wife left his mind unbalanced. She subsequently married the Scottish courtier
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Sir Edward married Elizabeth Norreys in 1600, but the cousinly union did not produce any children. He died in October 1603.
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in the Parliaments of 1584–1585 and 1588–1589. Like his more famous brother, Sir
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The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland, Part II - Berkshire
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in 1590. In February the following year he raided the Spanish fort at
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and destroyed it, returning to Ostend with little loss.
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Ostend
English
Member of Parliament
Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys
Lady Margery Williams
Wytham
Berkshire
Oxfordshire
Abingdon
John Norreys
the Netherlands
Earl of Leicester
Ostend
Blankenberge
Englefield
Berkshire
Dudley Carleton
Thomas Edmondes
Sir Thomas Erskine
p. 11
"Norris [Norreys], Henry, first Baron Norris (c. 1525–1601), courtier and diplomat"
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/20272
ISBN
978-0-19-861412-8
Edmund Lodge
Illustrations of British History, vol. 3 (London, 1838), p. 55
"Norris, Edward (d.1603)" 
Dictionary of National Biography
Parliament of England

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