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  Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick
Robert Rich, the son of the Earl of Warwick, was born in 1587.
The Earl of Warwick opposed the execution of Charles I and retired from politics in 1649.
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, died in 1658.
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  Penelope, Lady Rich - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lady Rich was the mother of six children by her husband when she contracted in 1595 an open liaison with Charles Blount, 8th Lord Mountjoy, a brilliant courtier and favourite of Elizabeth, to whom she had long been attached.
Rich took no steps against his wife during her brother's lifetime, and she nursed him through an illness in 1600, but they obtained a legal separation in 1601, and Mountjoy acknowledged her five children born after 1595.
Her eldest son by Lord Rich, who became earl of Warwick in 1618, was Robert Rich, 2nd earl of Warwick (1587-1658).
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 Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, 1587-1658
The eldest son of Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich (later 1st Earl of Warwick) and of his wife Penelope, daughter of the 1st Earl of Essex, Robert Rich was born around June 1587 at Leighs Priory in Essex.
Warwick was active in colonial ventures in New England and the West Indies during the 1620s and '30s and financed several semi-piratical privateering expeditions against the Spanish.
Although he was appointed to the Privy Council in April 1641, Warwick was a leading critic of the Earl of Strafford and was active in his prosecution, introducing into the House of Lords the bill of attainder by which Strafford was condemned to death.
www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /biog/warwick.htm   (732 words)

  
 Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1587 - 1658) was an English colonial administrator and admiral.
Rich was the eldest son of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick[?] and of his wife Penelope Rich[?], and succeeded to the earldom of Warwick in 1619.
Meanwhile in England Warwick opposed the forced loan of 1626, the payment of ship-money[?] and Laud's church policy.
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 Sir Robert Rich Warwick - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
SIR ROBERT RICH WARWICK, 2ND EARL OF (1587-1658), colonial administrator and admiral, was the eldest son of Robert Rich, earl of Warwick (see above) and his wife Penelope Rich, and succeeded to the title in 1619.
Meanwhile in England Warwick opposed the forced loan of 1626, the payment of ship-money and Laud's church policy, and with his brother the first lord Holland came to be recognized as one of the heads of the Puritans.
Dismissed from office on the abolition of the House of Lords in 1649, he retired from public life, but was intimately associated with Cromwell, whose daughter Frances married his grandson and heir Robert Rich in 1657.
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 Robert Rich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Rich is a pen name used by American screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo because of fllisting.
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick was a British naval officer and politician.
Sir Robert Rich, 2nd Baronet was a British Member of Parliament and a Lord of the Admiralty.
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 Warwick, Rhode Island at AllExperts
Warwick was decimated during King Philip's War (1675-76) and was the site of the first shot fired of the American Revolution against the British schooner Gaspée.
Warwick is also the home of revolutionary war general Nathaniel Greene, George Washington's second-in-command, and the Civil War hero of the battle of Gettysburg, General George S. Greene.
In 1772, Warwick was the scene for the first violent act against the Crown when, in what was to be called the Gaspée Affair, local patriots boarded the British HMS Gaspée, a revenue cutter charged with enforcing the Stamp Act 1765 and Townshend Acts in an area where smuggling was common, the Narragansett Bay.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland
Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland (baptized August 19,1590 – March 9, 1649) was the son of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick and of Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich, and the younger brother of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick.
The Earl of Holland who, it was said, “had better faculty at public address than he had with a sword,” joined the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Peterborough in addressing the principal residents and townsfolk of St Neots.
On March 3 the Earl was condemned as a traitor and was sentenced to death.
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 Sir Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1587-1685)
A colonial administrator and admiral, Robert was the eldest son of Robert Rich, earl of Warwick and his wife Penelope Rich, and succeeded to the title in 1619.
Meanwhile in England Warwick opposed the forced loan of 1626, the payment of ship-money and Laud's church policy.
Sir Robert Rich was appointed Lord High Admiral just before the English Civil War, and was thus in opposition to the King.
www.warwickri.gov /heritage/robertrich.htm   (419 words)

  
 2ND EARL OF SIR ROBERT... - Online Information article about 2ND EARL OF SIR ROBERT...
2ND EARL OF SIR ROBERT RICH WARWICK (...
WARWICK, SIR ROBERT RICH, 2ND EARL OF (1587–1658)
2ND EARL OF SIR ROBERT RICH WARWICK (1587–1658)
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 Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1587–1658) was an English colonial administrator and admiral.
Rich was the eldest son of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick and of his wife Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich, and succeeded to the earldom of Warwick in 1619.
The Warwick River, Warwick Towne, and Warwick River Shire are all believed named for him, as are Warwick, Rhode Island and Warwick Parish in Bermuda (alias The Somers Isles).
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 Earl of Holland at AllExperts
The title Earl of Holland was created in the Peerage of England on September 24, 1649 for Henry Rich, 1st Baron Kensington, younger son of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick.
His son Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Holland became Earl of Warwick in 1673, and Earl of Holland became a subsidiary title for those earls until both titles became extinct in 1759.
*Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Holland and 5th Earl of Warwick (c.
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 thePeerage.com - Margaret Balfour and others
She was the daughter of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester and Anne Rich.
     Anne Rich is the daughter of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick and Frances Hatton.
She married Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick, son of Sir Robert Rich, 2nd Baron Rich and Elizabeth Baldry, between October 1581 and November 1581.
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 OSBORN 17TH CENTURY BOUND MANUSCRIPTS (FOLIO)
Henry Howard, son and heir apparent to the duke of Norfolk, was styled Earl of Arundel 1677-84, and Baron Mowbray, 1679.
Bookplate of Algernon Capel, Earl of Essex (1670-1758).
Dorset, Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of, 1591-1652 [Speech in the House of Commons urging that subsidies be given for the recovery of the Palatinate, 1621 Nov 26] 6 p.
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 thePeerage.com - Anne Cavendish and others
She was the daughter of William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire and Christian Bruce.
She married Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick, son of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick and Frances Hatton, on 9 April 1632 in Battersea, Surrey, England.
     Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick was born on 28 June 1611.
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 Pepys' Diary: Rich, Sir Robert (2nd Earl of Warwich)
He succeeded to the earldom of Warwick in 1619 and was active in colonial ventures in New England and the West Indies during the 1620s and ’30s.
Warwick was re-appointed Admiral of the Fleet and sent to ensure the loyalty of the remaining ships.
In August 1648, Warwick confronted a Royalist fleet commanded by the Prince of Wales in the shallow waters of the Thames estuary.
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 Robert Rich, 1587-1658, 2nd Earl of Warwick - - Port Cities
Robert Rich, 1587-1658, 2nd Earl of Warwick - - Port Cities
Description: Robert Rich, the 2nd Earl of Warwick, was one of many prominent English landowners to develop plantations in the Americas.
Rich owned Virginian tobacco plantations in the early 17th century, importing enslaved Africans to work his fields.
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 Robert RICH (2º E. Warwick)
Their disputes ran so high that in 1623 Lord Cavendish, Sir Edwin Sandys, and other opponents of Warwick were confined to their houses by order of the privy council on the charge of intemperate language and misrepresentations.
Warwick gave Cavendish the lie, and they arranged a duel, which only the vigilance of the government prevented.
The King took the government into his own hands and appointed a new council, of which Warwick was a member.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/RobertRich(2EWarwick).htm   (260 words)

  
 The first Civil War, 1642-46
William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle (who was rewarded by being made a Marquess in 1643 and a Duke in 1665) spent about £700,000 in the King's service.
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, was the first leader of Parliament's army.
The commander of the Eastern Association army was Edward Montagu, Earl of Manchester (1602-71).
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 Warwick Castle Facts and Timeline
This comprehensive Warwick Castle Facts and Timeline has been developed to show the major interesting events which occurred during the various rule of each of the Kings and Queens of England and how these events effected the Earl of Warwick of the time.
This comprehensive Warwick Castle Timeline of important and interesting facts and dates is simple to follow and the dates and facts about each of the reigns and the names of the relevant Kings and Queens and the details of the Earls of Warwick are highlighted for ease of reference.
Edward Plantagenet (b.1474 - d.1499), 18th Earl of Warwick was the son of the Duke of Clarence and a claimant of the throne of England - his title was attained due to his 'treason' for which he was executed.
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 Binding bearing arms of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Gold-tooled binding bearing the arms of Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick.
Warwick started his career as a founding member of the Bermudas Company and actively pursued his and English interests against the Spanish in the Carribean.
He was perhaps a little too active as he caused a diplomatic incident when he captured a ship belonging to the Mughals which nearly led to the disruption of the East India Company's trading privileges.
www.joh.cam.ac.uk /library/special_collections/early_books/pix/provenance/rich/rich.htm   (177 words)

  
 warwick parish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Warwick Tribe or Parish was named for Robert Rich (1587-1658), 2nd Earl of Warwick.
He sent his ship the "Treasurer" under Capt Daniel Elfrith to the Caribbean and brought riches and trouble in the form of a rift between the Virginia and Bermuda Companies.
His father died 1619 and he became the 2nd Earl of Warwick.
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Robert Coe marries an ancestor (Jane, widow of Bartholomew Smith) of the Flewellings.
While Robert Ashman's 1659 deposition in the matter of Armitage and Pine indicates that he was in Hempstead by 1650, a similar notice for 1650 suggests that Robert Ashman was still a resident of Stratford, Connecticut in 1648.
Elizabeth, however, had married as her second husband APR1627 Robert Chamberlain, and with Scudder and Chamberlain children arrived in the 1640's and it is through them that the Barnstable, Massachusetts branch of the Scudder family begins.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
The Earl of Warwick is one of the oldest English earldoms.
It was traditionally associated with posssession of Warwick Castle, and when the 11th Earl entailed the castle to his heirs male, he probably intended to entail the earldom as well.
At the death of the eighth Rich Earl, the title became extinct, and was granted to Francis Greville, 1st Earl Brooke, thus uniting again the title and castle.
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 Robert Rich, 1587-1658, 2nd Earl of Warwick : National Maritime Museum
Rich wears a wide collar edged with scalloped Italian bobbin lace and his stockings and shoes are fl, the latter with large gold lace shoe roses.
Rich fitted out privateers and beyond on his right, is a depiction of an incident from one of his privateering ventures.
He was appointed Lord High Admiral just before the Civil War, and was thus in opposition to the King and the Earl of Northumberland, but he completely won over the fleet to Parliament for the whole of the war.
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 Combs &c. Families of Maldon, Essex, England
Notes: Robert RICH II (s/o Robert and Mary BALDRY Rich) became the Earl of Warwick and was active in both the Plymouth and Virginia Colonies, financing numerous voyages across the Atlantic and elsewhere.
His nephew, Sussex CAMOCK, captained the Earl's ships, and his son, Warwick CAMMOCK is found with believed to have been the same as Warwick CAMMOCK of Old Rappahannock Co VA (by the 1660s), a close associate of Archdale Combs.
Robert RICH was also closely associated with Sir Ferdinando GORGES, an in-law of the ARCHDALE Family of EN, and in New England, Thomas CAMMOCK, uncle of Warwick, was also closely associated with Sir Ferdinando GORGES.
www.combs-families.org /combs/records/england/ess/maldon.htm   (718 words)

  
 Bermuda's Warwick Parish
Warwick Parish's crest, from that of the 2nd Earl of Warwick
Warwick Parish on Main Island is the same size of 2.3055 square miles as the other eight parishes.
Because the Earl of Warwick never visited, early settlers had their own pet name for the Tribe.
www.bermuda-online.org /seewark.htm   (6625 words)

  
 Worldroots.com
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, son of Sir Henry
Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick, son of Robert Rich, 2nd
Nicholas Leke, 2nd Earl of Scarsdale, son of Francis Leke,
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It is certain that he was gardener/farmer for Deputy Governor Stephen Goodyear who was an agent of the Earl of Warwick.
This was probably Sir Robert Rich - 2nd earl of Warwick who had strong connections to the Puritans & who in 1631 was granted the patent for colonizing in Connecticut.
An Early land record dated 1-4-1643 shows he was granted a large tract of land, the tenure of ownership on which, according to a paper on the Sperry family by Rodney Homer in 1969, was upwards of 250 years.
www.speary.com /ghtout/np11.htm   (970 words)

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