On 23 March 1596, Sir Henry Unton, the eldest surviving son of the late Anne Seymour, Countess of Warwick, died.

On 16 February 1587, Elizabethan courtier, soldier and poet Sir Philip Sidney was interred at 'Old' St Paul's Cathedral.

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester had a complex relationship with the Queen of England, Elizabeth I, throughout most of her reign.

Anne Seymour (born c.1538) was the eldest daughter of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and his second wife Anne Stanhope.

In Mar 1550, a poem was composed, dedicated to the life and achievements of the recently deceased Marguerite of Navarre -The Hecatodistichon