PENELOPE DEVEREUX
LADY PENELOPE DEVEREUX
LADY PENELOPE RICH
PENELOPE, LADY RICH
LADY PENELOPE BLOUNT
PENELOPE BLOUNT, COUNTESS OF DEVONSHIRE
BIRTH: Jan 1563; Chartley Manor, Staffordshire
MARRIAGE:
1. (to Robert Rich) 10 Jan 1581 [Divorced in 1605]
2. (to Charles Blount) 26 Dec 1605 , Wanstead Hall, Essex
DEATH: 07 Jul 1607; London
BURIAL: "A London Church"
LINEAGE
PARENTS:
SIR WALTER DEVEREUX
1st Earl of Essex
1541-1576
LETTICE KNOLLYS
Countess of Essex
Countess of Leicester
[Devereux/Dudley/Blount]
1543-1634
SIBLINGS:
ROBERT DEVEREUX
2nd Earl of Essex
1564-1619
FRANCIS DEVEREUX
.
died in infancy
DOROTHY DEVEREUX
Countess of Northumberland
[Perrott/Percy]
1564-1619
SIR WALTER DEVEREUX
.
1569-1591
(HALF-BROTHER FROM MOTHER LETTICE KNOLLYS' SECOND MARRIAGE TO ROBERT DUDLEY):
ROBERT DUDLEY
Lord Denbigh
"Noble Impe"
1581-1584
SPOUSES:
ROBERT RICH
3rd Baron Rich
[later 1st Earl of Warwick]
1559-1619
CHARLES BLOUNT
8th Baron Mountjoy
1st Earl of Devonshire
1563-1606
CHILDREN:
(FROM MARRIAGE TO ROBERT RICH - DIVORCED 1605):
LADY LETTICE RICH
'Lucy'
[Carey/Lake]
1589-1619
HENRY RICH
1st Earl of Holland
1590-1649
LADY ESSEX RICH
[Cheeke]
1585-1658
ROBERT RICH
2nd Earl of Warwick
1587-1658
(FROM LONGSTANDING AFFAIR WITH CHARLES BLOUNT d.1606; ALL CHILDREN'S PATERNITY ACKNOWLEDGED, BUT UNABLE TO LEGITIMISE):
LADY PENELOPE RICH
[Paternity acknowledged by Charles Blount]
1592-??
RUTH BLOUNT
"Ruth Devonshire"
[Tilghman]
1600-1694
MOUNTJOY BLOUNT
1st Earl of Newport
c.1596-1666
ISABELLA BLOUNT
"Elizabeth"
??
SIR ST JOHN BLOUNT
.
c.1597-??
CHARLES BLOUNT
.
1605-1627
