Barbara Gamage

See Peter Bartrum, http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/handle/2160/6268/GAMAGE%2... (February 22, 2018; Anne Brannen, curator)

Barbara Sidney, Countess of Leicester

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Barbara Sidney, Countess of Leicester (1563–1621) was a Welsh heiress, and the first wife of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester.[1]

Barbara inherited the Coity estate on the death of her father, John Gamage, in 1584, and became the ward of Sir Edward Stradling until her marriage. On 23 September 1584, she married Robert Sidney at St Donat's, the home of her guardian. Although Sidney was MP for Glamorgan, the couple lived chiefly at Baynard's Castle in London and Penshurst Place in Kent. They had eleven children.

Sir William Sidney

Henry Sidney

Philip Sidney

Mary

Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester

Catherine

Philippa

Barbara

Dorothy

Elizabeth

Bridget