Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick

Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick (28 June 1611 – 29 May 1659 in London), was the son of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick and Frances Hatton. His only son, also Robert, predeceased him by 15 months dying of consumption . The earldom passed to the 3rd Earl's brother Charles.

Lord Warwick married Lady Anne Cavendish, the daughter of William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire, on 9 April 1632 at Battersea, Surrey. Their child, was the Earl's only son, Robert.

• Robert married Frances Cromwell, daughter of Oliver Cromwell in 1657 but he died of consumption within three months of the marriage on 16 February 1658 (1657/1658), leaving no children and his widow remarried Sir John Russell, 3rd Baronet.

Robert Rich married secondly Anne Cheeke, daughter of Sir Thomas Cheeke and Essex Rich. Their children were:

• Anne who married Thomas Barrington of Barrington Hall Essex, heir of Sir John Barrington, 3rd Baronet.
• Mary who married Sir Henry St. John, 1st Viscount St. John on 11 December 1673 and died in 1678, giving birth to their only son, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke.
• Essex Rich, who married Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham on 16 June 1674.

Robert Rich is buried in Felsted, Essex.

References

• http://thepeerage.com/p1309.htm#i13083
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rich,_3rd_Earl_of_Warwick
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• 'Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick1
• 'M, #13083, b. 28 June 1611
• Last Edited=25 Feb 2010
• ' Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick was born on 28 June 1611.3 He was the son of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick and Frances Hatton.2 He married, secondly, Anne Cheeke, daughter of Sir Thomas Cheeke and Essex Rich.4 He married Lady Anne Cavendish, daughter of William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire and Hon. Christian Bruce, on 9 April 1632 at Battersea, Surrey, England.5
• He gained the title of 3rd Earl of Warwick.
• 'Child of Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick
  • 1.Lady Anne Rich+6
• 'Child of Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick and Lady Anne Cavendish
  • 1.Robert Rich b. 1634, d. c Apr 1658
• 'Children of Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick and Anne Cheeke
  • 1.Lady Essex Rich+
  • 2.Lady Mary Rich+7 b. c 1652, d. c Oct 1678
• Citations
• 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 233. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2.[S22] Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 452. Hereinafter cited as Burkes Extinct Peerage.
• 3.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XII/2, page 412.
• 4.[S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume I, page 25. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
• 5.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XII/2, page 413.
• 6.[S15] George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume I, page 28.
• 7.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 205.
• From: http://thepeerage.com/p1309.htm#i13083
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• 'Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 48
• Rich, Mary by Charlotte Fell Smith
• RICH, MARY, Countess of Warwick (1625–1678), seventh daughter and thirteenth child of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork [q. v.], by his second wife Catherine, only daughter of Sir Geoffrey Fenton [q. v.], was born at Youghal on 8 Nov. 1625. Her mother dying in 1628, Mary and her younger sister Margaret (d. 1637) were brought up by the wife of Sir Randall Clayton at Mallow. In 1638, when she was not yet thirteen, Lord Cork brought her to England, and strongly but unsuccessfully urged her marriage with James Hamilton, only son of James, first viscount Clandeboye, and afterwards (1647) Earl of Clanbrassil. The irate father, in his diary for 1639 (Lismore Papers, ed. Grosart, 1st ser. v. 101), writes: ‘Mr. James Hamylton, being refuzed by my unruly daughter Mary, departed 2 Sept. to ye bath.’
• The same force of character was displayed in Mary Boyle's determination to marry Charles Rich, second son of Robert, second earl of Warwick (1587–1658) [q. v.]; this suit, owing to Rich's want of fortune, was strongly disapproved by her father, whose six elder daughters had all made brilliant matches. She was banished his house to a little country seat near Hampton Court. Here Charles Rich visited her frequently, and quietly married her at Shepperton church on 21 July 1641 (par. reg.). Her father having, through the intervention of the Earls of Warwick and Holland and Lord Goring, acquiesced in the match (Chester, Marriage Licenses, p. 1116), gave her a dowry of 7,000l. (Lismore Papers, 1st ser. v. 182, 194, 222).
• With occasional visits to London, Mary Rich spent the remainder of her life at Leighs Priory, near Felsted, Essex, 'the seat of her brother-in-law, the third earl of Warwick. She endeared herself to his large family, brought up the earl's daughters her nieces, and lived on affectionate terms with her husband's two stepmothers and sisters-in-law'. She developed a pietistic temperament. Winter and summer she retired every morning to the ‘Wilderness’ garden to pray and meditate. Her house was the resort of pious puritan ministers of Essex and bishops and divines from London, and her works of charity were widely known. By no means a recluse, she kept in constant touch, through her sisters, Lady Ranelagh, Lady Goring, and others, with the life of the metropolis, and after 1660 went occasionally to court, though she was always glad to return to ‘delicious Leez.’
• Her husband succeeded his 'elder brother Robert' as fourth earl of Warwick in 1659, and died, after twenty years of gout, on 24 Aug. 1673. His entire estate was left at his wife's disposal for life, which gave rise to the saying that he had given it ‘to pious uses.’ Lady Warwick died at Leighs on 12 April 1678, and was buried in Felsted church. .....
• Lady Warwick had two children, Elizabeth (b. 1642) and Charles, lord Rich. The latter, born in 1643, married, in 1662, Ann Cavendish, daughter of William, earl of Devonshire; he predeceased his father, who was succeeded in the title by his cousin Robert, second earl of Holland. ....
• From: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rich,_Mary_(DNB00)
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• Robert RICH (2° E. Warwick)
• Born: Jun 1587
• Died: 19 Apr 1658, Felsted, Essex
• Notes: See his Biography. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/RobertRich(2EWarwick).htm
• Father: Robert RICH (1° E. Warwick)
• Mother: Penelope DEVEREUX (B. Rich)
• Married 1: Frances HATTON (b. Jul 1590 - d. BEF 21 Nov 1623) (dau. of William Hatton and Elizabeth Gawdy) 12 Feb 1604/5
• Children:
  • 1. Anne RICH
  • '2. Robert RICH of Leighs (b. 1611 - d. 1659)
  • 3. Charles RICH (b. 1619 - d. 1673)
  • 4. Essex RICH
  • 5. Son RICH
  • 6. Son RICH
  • 7. Dau. RICH
• Married 2: Eleanor WORTLEY (C. Sussex) (d. 1666) (dau. of Richard Wortley) (w.1 of Henry Lee - w.2 of Edward Radcliffe, 6º E. Sussex - m.4 Edward Montague, 2° E. Manchester) 30 Mar 1646, Hornsey, Middlesex
• Children:
  • 8. Charles RICH
  • 9. Hatton RICH
  • 10. Henry RICH
  • 11. Lucy RICH
  • 12. Frances RICH
  • 13. Anne RICH
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/RICH.htm#Robert RICH (2° E. Warwick)
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• 'Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 48
• Rich, Robert (1587-1658) by Charles Harding Firth
• RICH, ROBERT, second Earl of Warwick (1587–1658), eldest son of Robert, lord Rich (created Earl of Warwick 2 Aug. 1618), by Penelope Devereux [see Rich, Penelope], was born about June 1587. Henry Rich, earl of Holland [q. v.], was his younger brother. Robert was admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on 4 June 1603 (Hist. MSS. Comm. 4th Rep. p. 417; Doyle, Official Baronage, iii. 596). He was created a knight of the Bath on 24 July 1603 ....
• Warwick was three times married: first, to Frances, daughter of Sir William Hatton, knt., 24 Feb. 1605 (Winwood Papers, iii. 49); she died in August 1634. Secondly, Susan, daughter of Sir Rowe Rowe, lord mayor of London in 1607, and widow of William Halliday, alderman of London; she died on 16 Jan. 1645–6, and was buried at St. Lawrence's Church, near the Guildhall in London (Autobiography of Mary, Countess of Warwick, p. 15; Wheatley and Cunningham, London Past and Present, iii. 450). Thirdly, Eleanor, daughter of Sir Edward Wortley, and Dowager Countess of Sussex, on 30 March 1646. Many of this lady's letters are given in the ‘Memoirs of the Verney Family,’ where she is nicknamed ‘old men's wife’ (i. 241–75, iii. 427). Her portrait by Van Somer is there reproduced.
• Warwick's eldest son, 'Robert, baron Rich, of Leighs, Essex, joined the king at York, but never bore arms; and the fine imposed upon him by parliament was remitted at his father's petition. He married twice: first, Anne, daughter of William Cavendish, earl of Devonshire; secondly, Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Cheke. He died on 30 May 1659, leaving only three daughters (Cal. of Committee for Compounding, p. 1729; Autobiography of Mary, Countess of Warwick, p. 27)'. The second son, Charles Rich, married Mary Boyle, daughter of the first earl of Cork, succeeded his brother as fourth earl of Warwick, and died 24 Aug. 1673 [see Rich, Mary, Countess of Warwick]. The third son, Hatton Rich, died without issue on 28 Feb. 1670, as did Henry, the fourth son, and the title of Warwick then passed to Robert Rich, son of the first earl of Holland (ib. p. 31). Of Warwick's daughters, Lucy Rich married John, second baron Robartes, and Frances married Nicholas Leke, second earl of Scarsdale. Another daughter, Anne, became the second wife of Edward Montagu (1 July 1626), and died in February 1642. Two characteristic letters from Warwick on the education and marriage of his grandchildren are printed in the Duke of Manchester's ‘Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne’ (i. 377, 380).
• [Authorities given in the article. The best life of Warwick is that contained in Alexander Brown's Genesis of the United States, 1890, ii. 980; Sargeaunt's History of Felsted School, 1889, p. 110; Morant's Essex, ii. 101; Herald and Genealogist, v. 444–6.] C. H. F.
• From: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rich,_Robert_(1587-1658)_(DNB00)
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