Henry Spencer first Earl of Sunderland

Standard Name: Sunderland, Henry Spencer,,, first Earl of
Used Form: Lord Sunderland

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Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland
Dorothy Sidney married Henry Spencer, first Earl of Sunderland , at Penshurst; she thus became DSCS . The marriage lasted only four years before her husband's death.
Ady, Julia Cartwright. Sacharissa. 3rd ed., Seeley, 1901.
73, 75
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland
Lord Sunderland , DSCS 's husband, was killed at the first battle of Newbury, fighting on the royalist side.
Ady, Julia Cartwright. Sacharissa. 3rd ed., Seeley, 1901.
100-1
Akkerman, Nadine N. W. “A Triptych of Dorothy Percy Sidney (1598-1659), Countess of Leicester, Lucy Percy Hay (1599-1660), Countess of Carlisle, and Dorothy Sidney Spencer (1617-1684), Countess of Sunderland”. The Ashgate Research Companion to the Sidneys, 1500-1700 Volume 1: Lives, edited by Margaret P. Hannay et al., Ashgate, 2015.
145-6
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland
During the English Civil War, DSCS had close relatives on both sides of the conflict. Her husband supported the royalist cause, fought, and ultimately died for it. He also gave Charles I a loan...
Material Conditions of Writing Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland
DSCS wrote another significant letter to her father in the aftermath of her husband 's death in battle in 1643. In this letter, she asks him to petition the king to award her father guardianship...

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