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Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland ... Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland; Dorothy Savile, Viscountess Halifax; Robert Smythe; Lady Penelope Spencer;
6 de dic. de 2023 · Sunderland and his wife had three children: Lady Dorothy Spencer (1640–1670), married George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax and had issue. Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland (1641–1702) Lady Penelope Spencer (c. 1642–1667), died unmarried.
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Dorothy Spencer (née Sidney), Countess of Sunderland. by William Thomas Fry, published by Lackington, Allen & Co, and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, after Robert William Satchwell, after Sir Anthony van Dyck stipple engraving, published 31 October 1816
Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland ( née Digby; c. 1646 – 26 April 1715) was the wife of Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland and the daughter of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol and Lady Anne Russell . Anne married Sunderland on 10 June 1665. The groom had previously broken off their long-standing engagement; according to Samuel Pepys ...
She was born in 1620, and married, in 1639, Henry Spencer, Lord Spencer of Wormleighton, afterwards Earl of Sunderland. He was killed at the battle of Edgehill. leaving her a young widow of twenty-three, with a son and two daughters.
While Dorothy, Countess of Sunderland, has been known historically as the Sacharissa of Edmund Waller 's poetry, she was also a respected and memorable letter writer. Most of her surviving letters date from her later life, and provide her commentary on the political infighting and social atmosphere of the court of Charles II, as well as information on her own family and friends.
