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Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1 December 1595 – 2 November 1677) was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1625 and then succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Leicester.
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester KG (19 November 1563 – 13 July 1626), was an English courtier, soldier, and landowner. He was chamberlain to Anne of Denmark . Family background. Robert Sidney was the second son of Sir Henry Sidney, was a statesman of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. He was also a patron of the arts and a poet.
Sir Henry’s death in 1586, closely followed by the deaths of his eldest son Sir Philip and his brother-in-law Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, resulted in the eclipse of his family’s influence by the Brookes of Cobham as his second son and heir, Sir Robert, was frequently absent abroad, being governor of Flushing.
ROBERT SIDNEY, second Earl of Leicester (1595-1677), eldest surviving son of Robert Sidney, first Earl of Leicester, by his first wife, Barbara, daughter and heiress of John Gamage of Coity, Glamorganshire, was born on 1 Dec. 1595. 1 Sidney matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, on 27 Feb. 1607, was made a knight of the Bath on 3 June 1610, and ...
Sir Robert Sidney, Viscount De L'Isle and Earl of Leicester (1563-1626), was born November 19, 1563, at the Sidney family home in Penshurst, Kent. He was the third child of Sir Henry Sidney , thrice Lord Deputy of Ireland, and nephew of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester .
Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1625 and then succeeded to the peerage as Earl of Leicester.
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Biography of Robert Sidney 2nd Earl of Leicester 1595-1677 including his birth, marriages, death and life events, life events of his siblings, and his ancestry to five generations, royal ancestors and royal descendants.
