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Robert Rich, 1587-1658, 2nd Earl of Warwick. A full-length portrait facing slightly to right wearing a black cloth doublet and breeches ornamented with many small gold buttons. The sleeves of the doublet are open and hanging, to reveal the sleeves of the undercoat of a Venetian golden-ribbed material. The breeches are laced at the knee with ...
A Puritan sailor of fortune, the second earl of Warwick promoted the colonization of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, and seized Spanish ships on behalf of the duke of Savoy and Charles I of England. Among the privateer ships he sponsored was the White Lion, which brought the first enslaved Africans to the British colony of Virginia in 1619. Despite allusions to his maritime ...
Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick (December 1559 – 24 March 1619), was an English nobleman, known as Baron Rich between 1581 and 1618, when he was created Earl of Warwick. He was the first husband of Penelope Devereux, whom he divorced in 1605 on the grounds of her adultery .
Naval officer and colonial promoter, most associated with the island of Catalina (Providence) off Nicaragua; supporter of the Puritan and parliamentarian causes
Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick (December 1559 - 24 March 1619), was an English nobleman, the 3rd Baron Rich between 1581 and 1618, when he was created Earl of Warwick, he succeeded his father in th …
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18 de nov. de 2023 · Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (5 June 1587 19 April 1658) was an English colonial administrator, admiral, and Puritan. Rich was the eldest son of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick and his wife Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich, and succeeded to his father's title (Earl of Warwick) in 1619 (a younger.
