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Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick (28 June 1611 – 29 May 1659 in London), supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War (his father the 2nd Earl supported the Parliament of England ).
Robert Rich, III barón de Rich, I conde de Warwick (diciembre de 1559 - 24 de marzo de 1619), fue un noble inglés, conocido como Barón Rich entre 1581 y 1618, cuando fue creado Conde de Warwick. Fue el primer esposo de Penelope Devereux, de quien se divorció en 1605 por adulterio .
1 de may. de 2022 · 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.
After being created a knight of the Bath at Charles I’s coronation, Rich was admitted to his father’s former college of Emmanuel, Cambridge, where he was awarded an MA. In January 1629, aged 17, he was returned to the third Caroline Parliament for Essex on Warwick’s interest at a by-election following the death of Sir Francis Barrington.
The title was re-created when Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich, was made Earl of Warwick in 1618. This was despite the fact that the Rich family were not in possession of Warwick Castle (this was in the hands of the Greville family; see the 1759 creation below).
On the contrary, in July 1618 Rich succeeded in persuading the king to allow his father, who had agreed to buy an earldom for £10,000, the title of earl of Warwick.84 As late as mid-October 1618 James sent Rich and his brother, Sir Henry, to Gravesend to greet the newly arrived Turkish ambassador.85
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick KB, PC (May/June 1587 – 19 April 1658) was an English naval officer, politician and peer who commanded the Parliamentarian navy during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A Puritan, he was also lord of the Manor of Hunningham.
