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Sir Walter Raleigh was born in 1552. He grew up in a farmhouse near the village of East Budleigh in Devon
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in 1572, Sir Walter Raleigh went to Oriel College in Oxford, and studied law at the Middle Temple law college.
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Between 1584 and 1589, Between 1584 and 1589, Sir Walter Raleigh helped establish a colony near Roanoke Island which is now know as North Carolina.
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Sir Walter Raleigh was knighted in 1585
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Sir Walter Raleigh married Bessy Throckmorton, in 1592.
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Raleigh’s aggressive actions toward the Spanish did not sit well with King James I, Elizabeth's successor. Raleigh’s enemies worked to ruin his reputation with the new king. He was soon charged with treason and sentenced to death. However, the sentence was changed to be imprisonment in the Tower in 1603
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He was released in 1616 to search for gold in South America. Against the king's approval, he invaded and pillaged Spanish territory, was forced to return to England without any gold.
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Sir Walter Raleigh was arrested on the orders of the king. His original death sentence for treason was invoked, and he was executed at Westminster. He died in London, England.
