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Robert Rich, 5th Earl of Warwick

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Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Holland, 5th Earl of Warwick (c. 1619–1675) was an English peer who sat in the House of Lords from 1660 until his death.

Rich was the eldest son of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland (1590–1649), by his wife Isabel Cope, who had married in or before 1616. His father was a younger brother of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, a Puritan and later the commander of the Parliamentarian navy during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.[1]

In 1618 his grandfather Robert Rich was created Earl of Warwick by King James I, who in 1624 granted his father the earldom of Holland.[1]

Rich married firstly Elizabeth Ingram, a daughter of Sir Arthur Ingram.[1][2] In 1642, they had a son, Henry Rich, Lord Kensington.[1]

A close friend of Charles I, the first Earl of Holland held important positions at court during the 1630s. When the First English Civil War began in August 1642, his cousin Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, was commander-in-chief of the Parliamentarian army, and he and his son did not join the Royalist forces until July 1643.[3]

A few weeks after the Execution of Charles I in January 1649, Rich's father was also executed.[3] In theory, Rich thus gained a seat in the House of Lords on 9 March 1649, succeeding his father as Earl of Holland.[1] But he went into exile with the future King Charles II.

In 1659, his son Lord Kensington died young, aged about seventeen.[1]

After his first wife's death, and after the Stuart Restoration of 1660, the Earl of Holland, now sitting in the House of Lords, married a second cousin, Lady Anne Montagu, a daughter of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, and their son Edward Rich, the future 3rd Earl of Holland, was born about 1673.[1] They also had a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Francis Edwardes of Haverfordwest. Her son William Edwardes eventually inherited his grandfather's estates and in 1776 was created Baron Kensington.[4]

Also in 1673, the second Earl of Holland succeeded a cousin as Earl of Warwick. He died in 1675 and was succeeded by his surviving son.[1]

Sisters

His older sister Lady Frances Rich (c.1617–1672) married William Paget, 5th Baron Paget. Lady Mary Rich (c.1636–1666), married John Campbell of Glenorchy, later Earl of Breadalbane and Holland. Lady Isabella Rich (born 1623) married Sir James Thynne. Lady Susannah Rich (c. 1628–1649) about 1640 married James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk, and was the mother of Lady Essex Howard.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i G. E. Cokayne et al., The Complete Peerage Vol. X (Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), p. 284.
  2. ^ A. F. Upton, Sir Arthur Ingram c. 1565–1642 (Oxford University Press, 1961)
  3. ^ a b Andrew Hopper, "The Self-Fashioning of Gentry Turncoats during the English Civil Wars", British History 49 (2) (2010), pp. 236–257
  4. ^ Bernard Burke, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (1866), p. 453
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