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1st Earl of Leicester
1st Earl of Leicester.
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Sir Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, K.G. (see here), born 1563,
mar Barbara Gamage,
like his brother Sir Philip Sidney he was also a poet,
MP for Kent from 1585,
inherited Penshurst 1586, when his father and brother died,
cr 1st Baron Sidney of Penshurst by James I 1603,
K.G. 1616,
cr 1st Earl of Leicester 1618 (his uncle Robert Dudley's title, which had gone extinct 1588),
died Penshurst, July 1626, age 63 yrs,
had issue:
- Lady Mary Wroth, the writer, born 1586 or 1587.
- Hon. Sir William Sidney,
died in his father's lifetime. - Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, born 1595.
- Bridget Sidney, born Feb 1597,
died 30th June 1599, age 2 yrs 4 months [grave, Penshurst chapel]. - Alice Sidney, born Sept 1598,
died 25th Mar 1599, age 6 months [grave, Penshurst chapel].
- Earls of Leicester
- Linsi-woolsie. Or two centuries of epigrammes by William Gamage (distant relation of Barbara Gamage), pub 1613.
