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Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey

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Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey (before 1641 - 8 May 1701) was a British Hereditary Peer. He was the son of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey and Martha Cokayne. His mother died shortly after his birth about July 1641.

On his father's death on 25 July 1666, he succeeded him as 3rd Earl of Lindsey, 16th Baron Willoughby de Eresby and Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain.

He married twice. The first marriage took place in 1654 with Mary Massingberd, who died in the late 1650s. His second marriage was before 1660 with Elizabeth Wharton, daughter of the 4th Lord Wharton.

From his first wife he had one daughter, and from his second wife two sons:

Political offices
Preceded by Lord Great Chamberlain
1642–1666
Succeeded by
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Earl of Lindsey
1666–1701
Succeeded by