Robert Sidney

Lady Mary Wroth - Life
... Mary Wroth was born on 18 October 1587 to Barbara Gamage (1563-1621) and Robert Sidney (1559-1626) ... Her father Robert was first earl of Leicester and Viscount Lisle of Penshurst Place, a poet and governor of Flushing, Netherlands ... Mary Wroth was niece to Mary Herbert née Sidney, Countess of Pembroke and one of the most distinguished women writers and patrons of the 16th century ...

Robert Sidney, 4th Earl Of Leicester
... Robert Sidney, 4th Earl of Leicester (1649–1702) was the son of Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester and the former Lady Catherine Cecil ... As a child, Robert Sidney and his sister Dorothy had their portrait painted by Sir Peter Lely ... He married Lady Elizabeth Egerton, and they had four sons Philip Sidney, 5th Earl of Leicester (1676–1705) John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester (1680–1737) Hon ...

Earl Of Leicester - Earls of Leicester, Fourth Creation (1618)
... Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester (1563-1626) Hon ... Sir William Sydney (1590–1612) Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1595–1677) Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester (1619–1698) Robert Sidney, 4th Earl of Leicester (1649–1702 ...

Barbara Sidney, Countess Of Leicester
... Barbara Sidney, Countess of Leicester (1563–1621) was a Welsh heiress, and the first wife of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester ... On 23 September 1584, she married Robert Sidney at St Donat's, the home of her guardian ... Although Sidney was MP for Glamorgan, the couple lived chiefly at Baynard's Castle in London and Penshurst Place in Kent ...