Teresa Edwards
Teresa Edwards( born July 19, 1964) is an American former women's basketball player and four time Olympic gold medalist.
In 2000," Sports Illustrated" magazine placed her as 22nd of the" 100 Greatest Female Athletes of the 20th Century".
She played for, and graduated from, the University of Georgia.
The US Olympic Committee appointed Edwards as chef de mission for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Edward Littleton (died 1629)
Sir Edward Littleton( c. 157725 July 1629) was a politician from the extended Littleton/ Lyttelton family and an important Staffordshire landowner of the Jacobean era and the early Caroline era.
Although loyal to the monarchy, he seems to have been of Puritan sympathies and was a close ally of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex.
He represented Staffordshire in the English parliament of 1624.
Geoffrey FitzGeoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex
Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex and 4th Earl of Gloucester( c. 1191 – 23 February 1216) was an English peer.
He was an opponent of King John and one of the" Magna Carta" sureties.
Geoffrey and his brother took the surname Mandeville because of the lineage of their mother, Beatrice de Say, who was a granddaughter of Beatrice de Mandeville, the sister of Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex( d. 1144).
The elder Beatrice inherited the Mandeville honor in 1189, on the death of her nephew William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex.
Richard
I of England allowed her lands and the earldom to pass to her granddaughter's husband Geoffrey fitz Peter.
Their eldest son Geoffrey inherited the earldom of Essex from his father in 1213.
His first marriage was to Matilda, daughter of Robert Fitzwalter, a member of the Clare family and one of the leaders of the opposition to King John.
She died childless.
In 1214, the new earl gained the earldom of Gloucester and much of the honor by right of marriage to Isabel of Gloucester.
He was Isabel's second husband, her marriage to John I of England having been annulled many years earlier.
The king charged Geoffrey 20,000 marks, an unprecedented amount, for her marriage and inheritance.
On his death in a tournament in February 1216, Geoffrey was succeeded by his brother William FitzGeoffrey de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex.
His widow Isabel was remarried to Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent but died within weeks of the wedding.
William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex
William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex,( 11 January 16978 January 1743) was an English courtier and diplomat.
He was the son of the 2nd Earl of Essex.
Capell was one of the founding governors of the charity, the Foundling Hospital, created in October 1739 to care for abandoned children.
Christopher Blount
Sir Christopher Blount( 1555/ 1556 – 18 March 1601) was an English soldier, secret agent, and rebel.
He served as a leading household officer of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.
A Catholic, Blount corresponded with Mary, Queen of Scots's Paris agent, Thomas Morgan, probably as a double agent.
After the Earl of Leicester's death he married the Dowager Countess, Lettice Knollys, mother of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
Blount became a comrade- in- arms and confidant of the Earl of Essex and was a leading participant in the latter's rebellion in February 1601.
About five weeks later he was beheaded on Tower Hill for high treason.
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex
Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, KG( 16 September 1541 – 22 September 1576), was an English nobleman and general.
From 1573 until his death he fought in Ireland in connection with the Plantation of Ulster, where he ordered the Rathlin Island massacre.
He was the father of Elizabeth I's favourite of her later years, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
Robert Capell, 10th Earl of Essex
Robert Edward de Vere Capell, 10th Earl of Essex( 13 January 1920 – 5 June 2005) was the 10th Earl of Essex.
Lord Essex was born in 1920, the son of Arthur de Vere Capell and Alice Currie.
His father died when he was three.
He spent some time in an orphanage, where he was bewildered when the head told him he would be the Earl of Essex someday.
This interest was revived when many years later, he received a newspaper clipping from a friend saying that the heir to the Earls of Essex might be an American, Bladen Horace Capell.
This led to an exhaustive search by de Vere Capell with much correspondence with many distant and formerly unknown relatives.
Eventually, he managed to prove that his great- grandfather Algernon Capell was the elder brother of Bladen's great- great- grandfather Adolphus Capell.
Capell married Doris Margaret Tomlinson, daughter of George Frederick Tomlinson, in 1942.
They had one child, Paul, later the 11th Earl of Essex.
When the 9th Earl died in 1981, it took eight years for Robert to be permitted to take his seat in the House of Lords, a seat which he lost due to the House of Lords Act 1999.
He died in 2005, and was succeeded as Earl of Essex by his son.
This chart shows the relation between the 9th Earl of Essex and the 10th Earl.
Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex
Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex( d 1166) was an English nobleman, the second son of Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex and Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex.
Walter Devereux (died 1641)
Sir Walter Devereux( 1591–26 July 1641) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1641.
Walter was a close companion of his half- brother, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and played a significant role in Essex's actions on behalf of Parliament.
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, KB, PC (11 January 1591 – 14 September 1646) was an English Parliamentarian and soldier during the first half of the 17th century.
With the start of the English Civil War in 1642 he became the first Captain-General and Chief Commander of the Parliamentarian army, also known as the Roundheads.
However, he was unable and unwilling to score a decisive blow against the Royalist army of King Charles I. He was eventually overshadowed by the ascendancy of Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax and resigned his commission in 1646.

Question: Who was born first, Teresa Edwards or Robert Devereux, 3Rd Earl Of Essex?