Lady mary wroth biography of christopher
Biographical essay, "The Life of Lady Mary Wroth," in Poems.
After her husband died Wroth had a long term relationship with her first cousin the Earl of Pembroke that produced two kids..
Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Wroth, Mary
WROTH, Lady MARY (fl.
1621), author of ‘Urania,’ born about 1586, was eldest daughter of Robert Sidney, first earl of Leicester [q. v.], by his first wife, Barbara, daughter of John Gamage.
Biography.
The great Sir Philip Sidney was her father's brother. On 27 Sept. 1604 Lady Mary married, at Penshurst, Sir Robert Wroth, eldest son of Sir Robert Wroth [q. v.] The bridegroom was about ten years his wife's senior.
Print length.He had been knighted by King James a year before the marriage. On 27 Jan. 1605–6, on his father's death, he succeeded to large property in Essex, including Loughton House and the estate of Durrants in the parish of Enfield. He was a keen sportsman, and the king occasionally visited him at Durrants for hunting.
In 1613 Sir Robert was chosen sheriff of Essex. In February 1613–14 Lady Mary bore him an only child, a son (James), and on 14 March following Sir Robert died at Loughton House. He was buried two days later in
