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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.
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 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 ...
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.
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Lady Penelope Rich: Hilliard's lost miniatures She was painted at least four times during her life. The. and a surviving portrait and extensive inventories taken of Leicester's household between 1580 and 1588, the year of his death, often include of portraits by sitter. These inventories show portraits.
This essay studies a single letter by Penelope, Lady Rich (1563–1607) as a means of examining the roles that early modern women played in scribal publication and Elizabethan court politics. Written in the aftermath of the earl of Essex’s disgrace in 1599, the letter interceded with Queen Elizabeth on her brother’s behalf.
