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Penelope Devereux naît en 1563 1. Fille de Walter Devereux, comte d'Essex, extrêmement belle, elle attire, toute jeune, l'attention de Philip Sidney, qui écrit des sonnets où il déclare sa flamme 2. En 1581, on lui fait épouser, contre son gré, Robert Rich 2. Elle maintient ses relations avec Sidney qui continue à célébrer ses charmes ...
Lady Penelope Rich (1563–1607) Lady Penelope Rich was the daughter of Walter Devereux, first earl of Essex, and his wife Lettice ( née Knollys). Her brother, with whom she had a close and affectionate relationship, was Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex. Together with her sister, Dorothy (later countess of Northumberland), she was tutored ...
Penelope and Dorothy Devereux. Lady Rich's reputation went the other way.Beautiful and highly educated, she was shoved into an arranged marriage with the dull and detestable Lord Rich in 1581 when she was only 18.
Lady Rich was born Penelope Devereux (?1563-1607), the sister of Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex. She married Robert, Lord Rich, later Earl of Warwick, in 1581, but they were legally separated in 1605. Several years before that, her great beauty - sparkling dark eyes and fair hair ('waves of gold') - had been a ...
Penelope Devereux, also known as Penelope Rich and Penelope Blount, was the elder daughter of Walter Devereux and his wife, Lettice Knollys. Penelope was from a distinguished family, with her maternal grandmother being Lady Mary Boleyn, sister of Queen Anne Boleyn, and both her mother and father serving Queen Elizabeth I. Penelope's father was rewarded for his loyal service to Elizabeth ...
He betrothed Penelope to Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich. She resisted vigorously, but despite her complaints was married to Robert Rich in 1581. After her marriage, she paid somewhat more attention than she had previously bothered to Sidney, who wrote one of the greatest sonnet sequences of the English language , Astrophel and Stella , about her.
The relationship between Penelope Rich and Charles Blount had commenced sometime in the early 1590s, while Penelope was still married to Sir Robert Rich. In 1605, Rich obtained a divorce on the grounds of Penelope’s adultery, and Charles and Penelope married soon thereafter on December 26, 1605. Penelope survived Charles only a little over a ...
