ID: I2227
Name: Robert Rich
Suffix: 1st Earl of Warwick
Sex: M
Birth: 1559
Death: 1618
Burial: Vault at Felstead, Essex. 1
Residence: Leez Priory, Felstead, Essex 1
MEM: Image on wall medallion, with 2nd wife Frances, at Snarford, Lincolnshire
Note: 1 3rd Baron Rich. Made Earl of Warwick 1618 - bought title from James I for £10,000. Died a few months later. Divorced his 1st wife Penelope, and after her death he married 2ndly Frances, dau of Sir Christopher Wray, Lord Chief Justice of Elizabeth I, and widow of Sir George St Pol of Snarford, Lincs (son of Sir Thomas St Pol and Faith Grantham), to whom she had been married at the age of 15. --- His son by Penelope Devereux, was Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick.
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Change Date: 3 NOV 2011
Father: Robert Rich b: 1537
Mother: Elizabeth Baldry b: 1537 in London
Marriage 1
Penelope Devereux b: ABT 1563
- Married:
1581
- Divorced:
1605
Children
Henry Rich b: 1590 Penelope Rich Marriage 2
Frances Wray Sources:
- Type: Web Site
URL: www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk
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