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The Rich family descended from Richard Rich, a wealthy mercer who served as Sheriff of London in 1441, and Sir Richard was his great-grandson. He was succeeded by his son, Robert, the second Baron. His son Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich , was created Earl of Warwick in the Peerage of England in 1618.
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (July 1496 – 12 June 1567), was Lord Chancellor during King Edward VI of England's reign, from 1547 until January 1552. He was the founder of Felsted School with its associated almshouses in Essex in 1564.
Edmund Sheffield, 3rd Baron Sheffield: 1568: 1646: Baron Rich (1547) Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich: 1547: 1567: Died Robert Rich, 2nd Baron Rich: 1567: 1581: Baron Willoughby of Parham (1547) William Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham: 1547: 1570: Baron Lumley (1547) John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley: 1547: 1609: Baron Darcy of Aston (1548 ...
Robert Rich, 3rd Baron Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick (December 1559 – 24 March 1619), was an English nobleman, known as Baron Rich between 1581 and 1618, when he was created Earl of Warwick. He was the first husband of Penelope Devereux , whom he divorced in 1605 on the grounds of her adultery .
Robert Rich, 2nd Baron Rich (c1537-1581) was an English nobleman. He was the eldest son of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William Jenks of London. [1] He married around 1555 Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of George Baldrey (d. 1540) [2] and granddaughter of Sir Thomas Baldry, Lord Mayor of London in ...
Arms of Rich: Gules, a chevron between three crosses botonée or. The Rich family was a noble family of England that held the peerage titles of Baron Rich, Earl of Warwick, Baron Kensington, Earl of Holland and Baronet Rich during a period spanning the 16th–18th centuries.
Sir Charles Rich, 1st Baronet (c. 1619–30 May 1677), Rich was the fourth son of Sir Edwin Rich and grandson of Robert Rich, 2nd Baron Rich (see Earl of Warwick).He married Elizabeth Cholmeley, by whom he had two daughters and co-heirs, Elizabeth, married Peter Civell, and Mary, married Robert Rich, of Stondon, Essex.
3rd Baron inherited the Barony of Botreaux 1520 and created Earl of Huntingdon, 1529 (that title passed to another branch in 1789); 14th Baron created Marquess of Hastings in 1826 (extinct 1868); the Barony of Stanley was called out of abeyance together with this barony for the 20th Baroness in 1921 Baron Herbert: 1461: Herbert, Somerset ...