Isabel Smythe

Isabel Smythe (Rich)
Also Known As:	"Isabella Rich", "Mrs. Rogers", "later Lady Smith"
Birthdate:	circa 1593
Birthplace:	Bidborough, Kent, England
Death:
Immediate Family:	Daughter of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick and Penelope Blount, Countess of Devonshire Wife of Richard Rogers and Sir John Smythe, MP, of Sutton-at-Hone Mother of Lady Laetitia Robartes (Smythe) and Robert Smythe, of Bidborough Sister of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick; Charles Rich; Essex Cheke; Penelope Clifton (Rich); Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland and 1 other; and Lettice Carey (Rich) « less Half sister of Mountjoy Blount, 2nd Earl of Devonshire; John Blount and Elizabeth Blount

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Said to have married Twice and to have resembled her mother in a portrait owned by the Earl of Suffolk.

http://www.zipworld.com.au/~lnbdds/home/smythwilts.htm
Debrett's complete peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Pg. 612
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rich,_1st_Earl_of_Warwick "Lady Isabella Rich, married Sir John Smythe, son of Sir Thomas Smythe, first governor of the East India Company."
The Correspondence (c.1626-1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester. By Dorothy Sidney Countess of Leicester. Page 18. Isabel Rich was some 5-6 years older than the 19 year old John Smythe at their marriage in 1618

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1593	1593	Birth of Isabel Smythe Bidborough, Kent, England
1614	1614	Birth of Lady Laetitia Robartes (Smythe) England
1627	1627	Birth of Robert Smythe, of Bidborough Bidborough, Kent, England (United Kingdom)
????		Death of Isabel Smythe
????		Burial of Isabel Smythe

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Isabel Smythe (Rich)