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22 September 1586
Sir Philip Sidney wounded at Zutphen
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Sir Philip Sidney, courtier and poet,
is wounded during the siege of Zutphen in the Netherlands. Part of the
army of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester,
which has been sent by Elizabeth I to
help the Protestant Dutch rebels against the Catholic Spanish invaders,
Sidney dies from gangrene about a month later. Since 1584, after the assassination
of the Protestant leader, William of Orange, English troops have been
sent to the Netherlands. Sidney is Leicester's nephew and his death comes
to symbolise the ineffectual way in which Leicester has run the campaign.
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