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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.
Robert Sidney, primer conde de Leicester KG (19 de noviembre de 1563 – 13 de julio de 1626), segundo hijo de Sir Henry Sidney, fue un estadista de la Inglaterra isabelina y estuardo. También fue mecenas de las artes y poeta.
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.
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.
Hace 6 días · 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.
Sidney was promoted to the colonelcy of an English regiment in Dutch service following the sale of the Cautionary Towns in May 1616, when his father retired as governor of Flushing with a pension. In August 1618 the latter used his son’s dowry to help purchase the earldom of Leicester, whereupon Sidney assumed the style of Lord L’Isle himself.
When Robert Sidney 1st Earl of Leicester was born on 19 November 1563, in Penshurst, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Sir Henry Sidney, was 34 and his mother, Lady Mary Dudley, was 33. He married Barbara Gamage on 23 September 1584, in Saint Donats, Glamorgan, Wales.
