Family and Posterity
Darcy was twice married. His first wife was Dousabella, daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Tempest of Ribblesdale with whom he had five children, four sons and a daughter. His second wife was Lady Edith Sandys, sister of William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys and widow of Ralph Neville (d.1598), son of the third Earl of Westmorland. Dousabella's letter to her husband written during the northern rebellion is preserved among the Cottonian Manuscripts. His eldest son, Sir George, was restored in blood in the following reign, with the title of Lord Darcy of Aston, which descended to his heirs male till it became extinct for lack of issue in 1635.
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