The Dead End of Sir Walter Raleigh
Come join me, on an adventure back 400 years into a very bloody story. Sir Walter Raleigh was born on the 22nd of January 1552 and died on 29th of October 1618 at the age of 66.
Walter Raleigh was born into a well connected gentry family at Hayes Barton in Devon in around 1552 .He was born into a wealthy family and was the son of a farmer.He attended Oxford University for a bit of time . A few years later he fought with the Huguenots in France and later studied law in London !
Not long after he was born ,he sailed to America with explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert his half brother .This expedition may have simulated his plan to find a colony .
In 1585, he sponsored his first English colony .
Back in 1592 the Queen discovered Raleigh's secret marriage to one of her maids of honour ,Elizabeth Throckmorton .This discovery threw Elizabeth into a jealous rage and Raleigh and his wife were imprisoned in the tower.