Image: Coat of arms Sir Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG

Description: Coat of arms Sir Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG. Heraldic impression of arms of Robert Sidney in one of 55 books purchased by the Bodleian Library with his donation in 1600 of £100The arms of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester showed sixteen quarters as follows:[1] 1. A pheon (Sydney) 2. Barry of ten a lion rampant crowned (Brandon) 3. A lion rampant double queued (Dudley) (arms of the heiress Mary Dudley (mother of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester), daughter of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Viscount Lisle, and sister of John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick (died without issue) and of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (died without legitimate issue)) 4. Or, two lions passant in pale azure (Somerie) Arms of Somery, feudal barons of Dudley, Worcestershire and Barons by writ of Dudley Castle 5. Barry of six in chief three torteaux a label of three points for difference (Arms of w:Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle (d.1492), younger son of Sir Edward Grey (1415-1457), a younger son (by his second marriage) of w:Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Ruthin (arms of Grey of Ruthin, with cadency label)) 6. Or, a maunch gules (Hastings, Earl of Pembroke (an heiress of Grey)) (maunch shown here sable) 7. A wolf's head erased (Hugh Lupus, 1st Earl of Chester) 8. Barry of ten as many martlets in orle (de Valence, Earl of Pembroke (an heiress of Hastings)) 9. Party per pale or and vert, a lion rampant gules (Marshall, Earl of Pembroke) 10. Seven mascles conjoined three and one (Ferrers of Groby (an heiress of Grey)) 11. A lion rampant within a bordure engrailed (Talbot (an heiress of Grey - the mother of the heiress Elizabeth Grey (wife of Edmund Dudley) was Elizabeth Talbot, daughter and heiress of John Talbot, 1st Viscount Lisle) 12. A fess between six crosses crosslet (Beauchamp) 13. Checky, a chevron ermine (Newburgh, Earl of Warwick (an heiress of Beauchamp)) 14. A lion statant gardant crowned (Lisle of Kingston Lisle, Baron de Lisle) 15. A chevron (Tyes) 16. A fess dancetty (West);over-all an inescutcheon of pretence of his wife's paternal arms: quarterly: 1. Five fusils in bend on a chief three escallops (Gamage) 2. Vair (Beauchamp of Hatch/Martel?) 3. Checky, a fess ermine (Turberville of Coity Castle) 4. Three chevrons (Llewellyn?)(Source[1])Lisle Genealogy Margaret Lisle, suo jure 3rd Baroness Lisle (1360–1392), who married Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley Elizabeth Berkeley (daughter), who married (as his first wife) Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick; Margaret Beauchamp, only child of his first marriage (she did have a younger half-brother Henry Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick), who married John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury; John Talbot (4th son), 1st Baron Lisle, 1st Viscount Lisle, who married Joan Cheddar; Elizabeth Talbot, suo jure 3rd Baroness Lisle (daughter and eventual heiress), who married w:Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle (d.1492), created in 1483 "Viscount Lisle" in right of his wife. He was a younger son of Sir Edward Grey (1415-1457) (a younger son of Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Ruthin) by his wife Elizabeth Ferrers, suo jure 6th Baroness Ferrers of Groby. Elizabeth Grey, suo jure 6th Baroness Lisle (d. 1529), who married twice: Firstly to Edmund Dudley, treasurer to King Henry VII, executed in 1510 by King Henry VIII; Secondly to Arthur Plantagenet (d.1542), KG, an illegitimate son of King Edward IV, created Viscount Lisle in recognition of his wife's ancestry. No issue from second marriage. John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (son from first marriage) Mary Dudley, who married Sir Henry Sidney, KG Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, 1st Viscount Lisle (1563-1626), KG, son, who married Barbara Gamage
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