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Penelope Rich, Lady, 1562–1607, the "Stella" of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella (1591). Daughter of Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, she married (1581) Lord Rich (later earl of Warwick); after a divorce she married (1605) the earl of Devonshire.
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 ...
Penelope Devereux, lady Rich, född omkring 1562, död 1607, var en engelsk adelsdam. Hon var dotter till Walter Devereux, 1:e earl av Essex och Lettice Knollys samt mor till Robert Rich, 2:e earl av Warwick och Mountjoy Blount, 1:e earl av Newport . Penelope Devereux var en av den elisabetanska erans mest skandalomsusade renässanskvinnor ...
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.
B14 Here lyes the Lady Penelope Rich. Notes. Penelope Rich, separated from Lord Robert Rich and then illegally married to Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire, died in July 1607. The final two lines of this poem are sometimes found independently, which might suggest that an unspecifically bawdy couplet was appropriated for application to Penelope ...
6 de jun. de 2023 · Penelope was a strongly independent woman who fought for love and her family, even if that meant becoming enemies with the most powerful people in England. A remarkable woman who left her mark on both the Tudor and Stuart dynasties, Lady Penelope Rich took her life and legacy into her own hands.
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 ...
