Sir walter raleigh biography video edgard

Sir Walter Raleigh’s Early Life

Sir Walter Raleigh was born in 1552 to Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne.

Sir walter raleigh biography video edgard

He was raised in a farmhouse near the village of East Budleigh in Devon, England. Raleigh studied at Oxford before serving in the Huguenot army in France (1569). A rival of the Earl of Essex for the queen’s favors, he served (1580) in Elizabeth’s army in Ireland, distinguishing himself by his ruthlessness at the siege of Smerwick and by the plantation of English and Scots Protestants in Munster.

Elizabeth rewarded him with a large estate in Ireland, knighted him (1585) and gave him trade privileges and the right to colonize America.

Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth

In 1587, Raleigh explored North America from North Carolina to present-day Florida, naming the region Virginia in honor of Elizabeth, the “Virgin Queen.” (Raleigh never stepped foot in Virginia himself.)

In 1587 Raleigh sent an ill-fated second expedition of colonists to Roanoke.

In 1588 he took pa