Robert
Sidney
Born in England
Ancestors 
Son of Robert Sidney KG
and Dorothy (Percy) Sidney
Brother of
Dorothy (Sidney) Spencer, Philip Sidney, Algernon Sidney, Lucy (Sidney) Pelham, Isabella (Sidney) Smythe and Henry Sidney MP
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 42
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Nov 2018
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Biography
Robert was born in 1626, a younger son of Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester and his wife, Dorothy Percy. Around 1648 he was in the Netherlands with other English royalists and took up with Lucy Walter, former mistress of Robert's elder brother, Algernon. The liaison was brief for Lucy very soon became mistress of the exiled Prince of Wales. Robert passed away in 1668. [1]
The Wikipedia entry for this Robert Sidney says he died young. [2]
Sources
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Walter, Lucy (1630?–1658)
- ↑ Wikipedia: Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, his father
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