Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Elizabeth and government.
A prominent military figure and late-reign court favourite whose ambition and subsequent loss of patronage led him to launch an armed rebellion in 1601.
Earl of Essex appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for The Elizabethans (1580–1603), especially Elizabeth and government and Elizabeth and her court.
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