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Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester KG (19 November 1563 – 13 July 1626), was an English courtier, soldier, and landowner. He was chamberlain to Anne of Denmark . Family background. Robert Sidney was the second son of Sir Henry Sidney, was a statesman of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. He was also a patron of the arts and a poet.
Jul 9, 2024 · Robert Sidney, 1st earl of Leicester (born November 19, 1563, Penshurst, Kent, England—died July 13, 1626, Penshurst) was a soldier, diplomatist, and patron of literature. He was the younger brother of Sir Philip Sidney and second son of Sir Henry Sidney, an English lord deputy in Ireland.
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On this day in 1563, Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, courtier, patron of the arts and poet, was born at Penshurst in Kent. Sidney was the second son of Sir Henry Sidney and his wife, Mary (née Dudley), daughter of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester. (1563-1626), Courtier and poet; second son of Sir Henry Sidney. Sitter in 3 portraits. The soldier brother of the poet Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Sidney had a distinguished military career, particularly in the Low Countries, and he was made Governor of Flushing in 1588.
When Robert Sidney 1st Earl of Leicester was born on 19 November 1563, in Penshurst, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Sidney Sir, Knight Skipwith, Lord Deputy of Ireland, was 34 and his mother, Lady Mary Dudley, was 34.
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Aug 3, 2023 · Today marks the anniversary of the death of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, poet and courtier, in 1626. His notebook, which holds a collection of poems and sonnets, and shows the revisions he made to them, was discovered in Warwick Castle's library in the 1960s.
Feb 24, 2023 · Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester (1563-1626) was a statesman, patron of the arts, and a poet during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. He was educated at Shrewsbury and Christ Church, Oxford, and was a member of parliament for Glamorgan in 1585.
