Penelope Rich, Lady Rich
English countess · Lived 1563 to 1607 · aged 44
Penelope Rich, Lady Rich, later styled Penelope Blount was an English court office holder. She served as lady-in-waiting to the English queen Anne of Denmark.
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Portrait at Longleat House believed to be of Dorothy and Penelope Devereux c. 1581
English poet, courtier, diplomat Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586), National Portrait Gallery
Frontispiece to a copy of Astrophel and Stella. The poems circulated in manuscript form before the first edition was printed in 1591. This edition included ten of Sidney's songs, a preface by Thomas Nashe and verses from other poets including Thomas Campion, Samuel Daniel and Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford.
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She was the sister of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and is traditionally thought to be the inspiration for "Stella" of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella sonnet sequence. She was married to Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich, and had a public liaison with Charles Blount, Baron Mountjoy, whom she married in an unlicensed ceremony following her divorce from Rich. She died in 1607.