Editing Leicester (section)

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[[File:Leicester Abbey nave and cloister.jpg|thumb|[[Leicester Abbey]] ruins, now part of [[Abbey Park, Leicester|Abbey Park]]]]
On 4 November 1530, [[Cardinal Thomas Wolsey]] was arrested on charges of treason and taken from Yorkshire. On his way south to face dubious justice at the [[Tower of London]], he fell ill. The group escorting him was concerned enough to stop at Leicester to rest at Leicester Abbey. There, Wolsey's condition quickly worsened. He died on 29 November 1530 and was buried at [[Leicester Abbey]], now [[Abbey Park, Leicestershire|Abbey Park]].

[[Lady Jane Grey]], who claimed the English throne for nine days in June 1553, was born at [[Bradgate Park]] near Leicester around 1536.<ref name="royweb">{{cite web |url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page44.asp |title=Official Website of the British Monarchy – Jane |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501194655/http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page44.asp |archive-date=1 May 2015}}</ref>

Queen [[Elizabeth I]]'s intimate and former suitor, [[Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester|Robert Dudley]], was given the [[Earldom of Leicester]].