Sidney of Penshurst Place, Kent

• References:
  • DE L'ISLE in [Burkes Peerage]
  • SYDNEY in [Burkes Extinct]

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • LEICESTER in [Complete Peerage]
  • An Account of the Sydney Family, Lee Priory Press, 1816, this is from [Collins Peerage].
  • Memoirs of the Sidney family, P. Sidney, 1899.
  • The Sidneys of Penshurst, think P. Sidney, 1901.

Sidney family emblem.
Bitmap from Chris Sidney. Used with permission.

Sir Simon Sidney, mar Margaret Delamere [dau of Sir Thomas Delamere] and died 1213 having had issue:

Sir Roger Sidney, mar Eleanor Sopham [dau of Sir John Sopham] and died 1239 having had issue:

Sir Henry Sidney, mar Maud d'Abernon [dau of Robert d'Abernon] and died 1268 having had issue:

Sir Henry Sidney, mar --- [dau of Sir Ralph Hussey] and died 1306 having had issue:

Sir William Sidney, mar Elizabeth Ashburnham [dau of Sir Richard Ashburnham] and had issue:

John Sidney, mar Helen Batisford [dau of Robert Batisford] and had issue:

Sir William Sidney, mar Joanna Brokhull [dau of William Brokhull] and had issue:

William Sidney, mar Alicia Clumford [dau and heiress of John Clumford] and had issue:

William Sidney, mar Cicely Michell [dau and co-heiress of Sir John Michell] and had issue:

William Sidney of Kingsham, MP for Sussex 1429 and 1433, mar 2ndly Thomasen Barrington [dau and heiress of John Barrington] and had issue:

Nicholas Sidney, mar Anne Brandon [descendant of Edward I] and had issue:

1. Sir William Sidney, born 1482, granted Penshurst.

• Sydney genealogy (and p.2) by Peter Barns-Graham

• The name Sidney or Sydney derives from a village in Normandy called Saint-Denis.

• The arrow in the Sidney family emblem comes from "W" for William, the common family name. It was already established in use by the time of a deed of 1451. It later became known as the symbol used on prison uniforms.

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