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Isabella (Rich) Smythe (abt. 1603 - 1632)

Isabella Smythe formerly Rich aka Smith
Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married Nov 1618 in Londonmap [uncertain]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 29 [location unknown]
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European Aristocracy
Isabella Rich was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Lady Isabella Rich, daughter of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick, married Sir John Smythe, son of Sir Thomas Smythe by his 3rd wife Sarah Blount, daughter of William Blount of Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire, and London.

"IV. Isabel [Rich], m. to Sir John Smythe, Knt."

Child of Isabel Rich and Sir John Smythe

  1. Laetitia Isabella Smith b. 1630, d. 9 Jul 1714
"A week or two after the Diary begins, the household at Lees was invaded by sickness. A number of the servants fell ill at once, and Mistress Grace, maid to Isabella Robartes, died. Lucy Robartes, Charles Rich's sister, was dead, and her husband, Lord Robartes, had married Isabella Smyth, who through her mother, Isabella Rich, was a first cousin of both Lucy and Charles. The morning after Mistress Grace's death, as Mary was meditating as usual in the Wilderness, the funeral procession passed, winding up the hill to Little Leighs church. The occasion gives rise, of course, to some lugubrious reflections upon death and mortality, which the reader shall be spared." [1]

Monument

At St Andrew Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire:[2]

Here under lyeth interred
the bodie of the right honno
rable Ladie Isabella Smyth
daughter of the right noble
Robert Earle of Warwicke, and
Late wife unto the right
Worshipfull Sr: John Smyth
of Bid borough in the Countie
of Kent Knight …
had issue three sonns and
two daughters …
parted this life …
August ..
….

[above is what can be seen on the image - some words indistinct]

It appears she died in 1632:[3]

Monuments: In S. chapel—on E. wall, (1) to Lady Isabella (Rich) wife of Sir John Smyth, 1632, tablet with black marble inscription-slab flanked by Doric columns resting on a moulded shelf and supporting an entablature with a lozenge and two shields-of-arms

Sources

  1. Mary Rich, countess of Warwick (1625-1678): her family and friends, pg 175 [1]
  2. Image of the Monument of Ladie Isabella Smyth at St Andrew Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire image.
  3. 'Kimbolton', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire (London, 1926), pp. 167-176. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/hunts/pp167-176 [accessed 4 January 2022].





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Rich-2756 and Rich-2066 appear to represent the same person because: Isabel, or Isabella, Rich ,dau of Robt Rich 1st Earl of Warwick
posted by James Canning
I think she should be the daughter of Rich-369 and Devereux-4, then merged with Rich-2756. Her daughter, Isabel Smythe-648, should then be merged with Smith-96653. Isabel Smith, wife of John Robarts, daughter of Isabel Rich and John Smith, is said to be Charles and Lucy Rich's first cousin, not niece.
posted by Jason Clark

Rejected matches › Elizabeth Blount (bef.1605-)

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