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Sidney of Penshurst Place, Kent

Also spelt "Sydney".

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

• 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.
From Chris Sidney. Used with permission.

Sir William Sidney,
fl during reign of Stephen (reigned 1135-54),
had issue:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. Nicholas Sidney,
   mar Anne Brandon [descendant of Edward I],
   had issue:
   1. Sir William Sidney,
      born 1482, granted Penshurst.

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

• Sidney

• The Sidney arms use a broad arrow.
• A broad arrow was adopted to mark British Government property (notably prison uniforms). It has been said this was because of some of the offices held by the Sidney family. But the evidence is weak.