Robert Sidney first Earl of Leicester

Standard Name: Leicester, Robert Sidney,,, first Earl of
Used Form: Sir Robert Sidney

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names Lady Mary Wroth
  • BirthName: Lady Mary Sidney
    LMW was christened after Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke .
    Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990, http://U of A HSS.
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    She received the courtesy title of Lady not at birth but when her father became Earl of Leicester .

  • Married: Wroth
  • Styled:
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Mary Wroth
Mary Wroth's father, Sir Robert Sidney , was later (in 1618) created first earl of Leicester (a title revived for him). He was a poet like so many Sidneys, though very much less well known...
Textual Production Margaret Hoby
Letters survive at Penshurst that MH wrote to her sister- and brother-in-law Barbara Sidney, née Gamage and Robert Sidney (parents of Lady Mary Wroth ). She wrote to Sir Robert Cecil about her fears and...

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