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
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]
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
↑ Mary Rich, countess of Warwick (1625-1678): her family and friends, pg 175 [1]
↑ Image of the Monument of Ladie Isabella Smyth at St Andrew Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire image.
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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.