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Penelope Rich, Lady Rich, later styled Penelope Blount (née Devereux; January 1563 – 7 July 1607) was an English court office holder. She served as lady-in-waiting to the English queen Anne of Denmark .
4 de abr. de 2024 · Lady Penelope Rich was an English noblewoman who was the “Stella” of Sir Philip Sidney’s love poems Astrophel and Stella (1591). She was the daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex. From an early age she was expected to be a likely wife for Sidney, but after her father’s death her guardian,
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10 de jun. de 2015 · Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich c. 1563-1607. Penelope Devereux was a star of the late Elizabethan and early Stuart courts. A renowned beauty, she was the muse of Sir Philip Sidney, and is immortalised in the sonnet cycle Astrophel and Stella.
He married twice: His first marriage was on 10 January 1581 to Lady Penelope Devereux (January 1563 – 7 July 1607), a daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex. In 1605, Lord Rich was granted a divorce from his wife, who admitted adultery with Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy .
Some have suggested that the love represented in the sequence may be a literal one as Sidney evidently connects Astrophil to himself and Stella to Lady Penelope, thought to be Penelope Devereux (1563–1607), later Lady Rich, the wife of Robert Rich, 3rd Baronet.
English noblewoman who inspired Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella. Name variations: Lady Penelope Rich; Penelope Blount; Penelope Devereux; Stella. Born Penelope Devereux around 1562 (some sources cite 1560); died on July 7, 1607, in Westminster, London, England; daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st earl of Essex, and Lettice Knollys (c. 1541 ...
LADY PENELOPE RICH, née Penelope Devereux, the Stella of Sir Philip Sidney 's Astrophel and Stella, was the daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex.
