NameBarbara GAMAGE , 12555
Birth1563
Death1621
Spouses
ChildrenRobert , 12399 (1595-1677)
Notes for Barbara GAMAGE
Barbara Sidney, Countess of Leicester (1563–1621) was a Welsh heiress, and the first wife of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester.[
Origins
Barbara was the sole child and heiress of her father Jonh Gamage (d.1584) of Coity Castle, Glamorgan. On the death of her father she was granted by the crown in wardship to Sir Edward Stradling of St Donat's Castle, Glamorgan, until her marriage.
Marriage & progeny
On 23 September 1584, she married Robert Sidney, later created Earl of Leicester, at St Donat's Castle, the home of her guardian. Although Sidney was MP for Glamorgan, the couple lived chiefly at Baynard's Castle in London and at Penshurst Place in Kent. They had eleven children:
Sir William Sidney
Henry Sidney
Philip Sidney
Mary
Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester
Catherine
Philippa
Margaret
Dorothy
Elizabeth
Bridget