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Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset (1561–1609) was an English aristocrat and politician, with humanist and commercial interests. Knole House, Kent. Life. He was the eldest son of Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, by Cecily, daughter of Sir John Baker.
27 de abr. de 2022 · Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset (1561–1609) was an English aristocrat and politician, with humanist and commercial interests. He was the eldest son of Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, by Cecily, daughter of Sir John Baker.
When Sir Robert Sackville 2nd Earl of Dorset was born in 1561, in Withyham, Sussex, England, his father, Thomas Sackville 1st Earl of Dorset, was 25 and his mother, Cecilia Baker, was 27. He married Margaret Howard on 4 February 1579, in Buckhurst by Withyham, Sussex, England.
5 de ago. de 2021 · The 2 nd earl of Dorset, Robert, did not survive his father by long (only a year), and didn’t make as significant a mark (though he had served for much of Elizabeth I’s reign as an MP). He did solidify the dynasty’s entrée into the highest circles of the nobility by marrying Lady Margaret Howard, daughter of the Duke of Norfolk.
Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset (1561 – 1609) was an English aristocrat and politician, with humanist and commercial interests. Knole House, Kent. Life. He was the eldest son of Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, by Cecily, daughter of Sir John Baker.
His only surviving son, Thomas Sackville, was a statesman, poet and dramatist and notably served as Lord High Treasurer between 1599 and 1608. He was raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Buckhurst, of Buckhurst in the County of Sussex, in 1567, and was made Earl of Dorset in 1604, also in the Peerage of England.
SACKVILLE, ROBERT, second Earl of Dorset (1561–1609), born in 1561, was the eldest son of Thomas Sackville, first earl of Dorset [q. v.], by Cecily ( d. 1 Oct. 1615), daughter of Sir John Baker of Sissinghurst, Kent, speaker of the House of Commons.
