Complex sentence: In his will the Earl named both Thomas Dymock and Charles Paget as executors, and perhaps unsurprisingly the will was contested, with some success, by the Countess, with support from Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.
Split into simpler sentences: In his will the Earl named both Thomas Dymock and Charles Paget as executors. The will was contested, with some success, by the Countess, with support from Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.