Amy Robsart

in Scott's Kenilworth, the unacknowledged wife of Dudley, Earl of Leicester. From her place of concealment she fled to Kenilworth, but was induced to depart on promise of being joined by her husband. With the earl's consent she was murdered by the villain Varney. The chief incidents of the story are founded on fact. The Earl of Leicester, desiring to obtain the consent of the great nobles to his marriage with Queen Elizabeth, was believed to have procured the murder of the unfortunate Lady Amy, his wife. See Scott; Kenilworth