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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.
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 ...
Three generations of his descendants, all also named Robert, called themselves Earls of Leicester. The Beaumont male line ended with the death of the 4th Earl. His property was split between his two sisters, with Simon IV de Montfort, the son of the eldest sister, acquiring Leicester and the rights to the earldom.
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In August 1622 Sidney quarrelled violently at Petworth, his father-in-law’s house, with his kinsman Doncaster, now earl of Carlisle. The two men had previously enjoyed a close friendship, but over the last six months Doncaster had pointedly ignored Sidney, even over the dinner table.
Robert Sidney of Penshurst was the son of Robert Sydney, of Court Lodge, Lamberhurst, Viscount L'Isle, Earl of Leicester, KG, and grandson of Sir Henry Sydney of Penshurst, Knight. Robert had children: Lady Isabella Sidney married Philip Smythe, 2nd Viscount Strangford. [citation needed] In 1621 (18 James I) he was Knight of the Shire for Kent.
