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Penelope Rich, Lady Rich, later styled Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire was an English noblewoman. She was the sister of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and is traditionally thought to be the inspiration for "Stella" of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella sonnet sequence. She married Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich and had a public ...
When Sir Robert Rich II was born in December 1559, his father, Sir Robert Rich, was 22 and his mother, Lady Elizabeth Baldry Baroness of Leighs, was 22. He married Lady Penelope Devereux on 10 January 1581. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters.
The inclusion of a tiny five-pointed star (stella) in this woman’s hair suggests that this may be a portrait of Penelope, Lady Rich, thought to have been the inspiration for Stella in Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella.
17 de oct. de 2018 · John Hamill argued that Penelope Devereux Rich, sister of the Earl of Essex, was the Dark Lady. Penelope had five children by her husband and six children from an extramarital affair. Hamill argued that Penelope also had an affair with Southampton. He stated that the anonymous 1594 poem, “Willobie His Avisa” (WHA), provided clues to the ...
When Lady Essex Rich was born in 1585, in Pirgo, Essex, England, United Kingdom, her father, Sir Robert Rich II, was 26 and her mother, Lady Penelope Devereux, was 22. She married Sir Thomas Cheke in 1609, in Pirgo, Essex, England. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 15 July 1658, in St Albans, Hertfordshire ...
RICH, PENELOPE, Lady ( c. 1562–1607), the Stella of Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella, was the daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex. She was a child of fourteen when Sir Philip Sidney accompanied the queen on a visit to Lady Essex in 1576, on her way from Kenilworth, and must have been frequently thrown into the society of ...
Huntingdon and his wife, who was Leicester’s sister, had charge of Penelope until 1581, when they agreed her marriage with Robert Rich, 3 rd Baron Rich. Penelope’s father had expressed a desire for her to marry Philip Sidney (a nephew of the Earl of Leicester) but neither the Huntingdons, nor Sidney’s father, wanted the match.
