William Cecil in the days following has been cited as proofs of his innocence; the letters, which show signs of an agitated mind, making clear his bewilderment and unpreparedness. It has also been judged as highly unlikely that he would have orchestrated the death of his wife in a manner which laid him open to such a foreseeable scandal. Family Amy Robsart was the daughter of Sir John Robsart of Syderstone (d.1557) and his wife, Elizabeth Scott (d.1549), daughter of John Scott, of Camberwell in Surrey. From her mother's first marriage to Roger Appleyard of Stanfield (d.1528) Amy had four half-siblings, John Appleyard, Philip, Anna and Frances, who married William Flowerdew. Through their son Anthony Flowerdew of Hethersett in Norfolk and his wife Martha Stanley of Scottow in Norfolk, Amy Robsart is the great-aunt of Temperance Flowerdew. Amy Robsart's paternal grandparents were Theoderick (Terry) Robsart and Elizabeth (d.20 November 1535), daughter of Sir Thomas Kerdeston of Syderstone. Her half-brother Arthur Robsart was the illegitimate son of her father Sir John Robsart, and married Margaret, daughter of Sir Arthur Hopton. See also Cultural depictions of Elizabeth I of England List of unsolved deaths Footnotes Citations References Adams, Simon (ed.) (1995): Household Accounts and Disbursement Books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1558–1561, 1584–1586 Cambridge University Press Adams, Simon (2002): Leicester and the Court: Essays in Elizabethan Politics Manchester University Press Adams, Simon (2008): "Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester (1532/3–1588)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online edn. May 2008 (subscription required) Retrieved 2010-04-03 Adams, Simon (2011): "Dudley, Amy, Lady Dudley (1532–1560)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online edn. January 2011 (subscription required) Retrieved 2012-07-04 Adams, Simon, Ian Archer, and G.W. Bernard (eds.) (2003): in Ian Archer (ed.): Religion, Politics, and Society in Sixteenth-Century England pp. 35–122 Cambridge University Press Bernard, George (2000): Power and Politics in Tudor England Ashgate Chamberlin, Frederick (1939): Elizabeth and Leycester Dodd, Mead & Co. Doran, Susan (1996): Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I Routledge Doran, Susan (2003): Queen Elizabeth I British Library Gristwood, Sarah (2007): Elizabeth and Leicester: Power, Passion, Politics Viking Haigh, Christopher (2000): Elizabeth I Longman Haynes, Alan (1987): The White Bear: The Elizabethan Earl of Leicester Peter Owen Historical Manuscripts Commission (ed.) (1883): Calendar of the Manuscripts of ... The Marquess of Salisbury ... Preserved at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire Vol. I HMSO Historical Manuscripts Commission (ed.) (1911): Report on the Pepys Manuscripts