Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick

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Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, about 1632
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Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, portrait by Anthony van Dyck

Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick ( June 5, 1587 , † April 19, 1658 in London ) was an English peer , colonial administrator, admiral and puritan .

Career

He was the eldest son of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick , from his first marriage to Penelope Devereux . One of his younger brothers was Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland (1590–1649).

1603 he was at the coronation of King James I to the Knight of the Bath beaten. 1614 he was appointed as a deputy for the Borough Maldon in Essex in the House of Commons voted. At the death of his father in 1609 he inherited his title of nobility as 2nd Earl of Warwick and 4th Baron Rich and became a member of the House of Lords . Robert developed an early interest in colonial ventures, so that he invested in the Guinea, New England and Virginia Companies , as well as the subsidiary of the Virginia Company, the Somers Isles Company . Warwick's ventures involved him in disputes with the British East India Company (1617) and with the Virginia Company, which was ousted in 1624 as a result of his influence. In 1625 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Essex and in 1627 he commanded a failed pirate campaign against the Spaniards .

Warwick's puritanical ties and benevolence gradually alienated him from the court , but furthered his connection with New England's colonies. In 1628 he indirectly brokered the patent for the Massachusetts Bay Colony and in 1631 he granted the Saybrook patent in Connecticut . In the same year he was forced to resign as President of the New England Company , but continued to run the Somers Isles Company and the Providence Island Company , which was founded in 1630 and administered Old Providence on the Miskito Coast . Meanwhile, Warwick in England opposed the forced loan of 1626, the payment of ship money , and Laud's church policy.

His Richneck Plantation in Virginia was where the city of Newport News is now . The Warwick River , Warwick Towne, Warwick River Shire, and Warwick County in Virginia are all named after him, as are the city of Warwick on Rhode Island and Warwick Parish in Bermuda . The oldest school in Bermuda, the Warwick Academy, was built on the land previously provided by him in Warwick Parish. Classes there began in the 1650s, and the official opening took place in 1662.

In 1641 he was accepted into the Privy Council and his eldest son Robert was prematurely transferred to his subordinate title as 5th Baron Rich, which was now a member of the House of Lords next to him. After Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland , was dismissed as Lord High Admiral in 1642, Parliament gave Warwick supreme command of the English fleet. He held this position until 1649 and during the English Civil War the "Castles of the Downs" ( Walmer Castle , Deal Castle and Sandown Castle ) for Parliament; from 1648 to 1653 he was then Captains of Deal Castle.

Marriages and offspring

He was married three times. In his first marriage he married Frances Hatton († 1634), daughter of Sir William Hatton. With her he had four sons and three daughters:

In his second marriage he married Susan Rowe († 1646), daughter of Sir Henry Rowe and widow of William Halliday, and in third marriage in 1646 Eleanor Wortley († 1667), daughter of Sir Richard Wortley and widow of Sir Henry Lee, 1st Baronet and of Edward Radcliffe, 6th Earl of Sussex . These two marriages remained childless.

When he died in 1658 his eldest son Robert inherited him as 3rd Earl of Warwick. His widow Eleanor married Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, the widower of his eldest daughter Anne, around 1659.

literature

  • M. Mickiewicz, W. Mickiewicz: Słownik odkrywców i zdobywców - Ameryka Łacińska. ATENA, Poznań 1996, ISBN 83-85414-29-0 .

Web links

Commons : Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 1, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 152.
  2. ↑ July 1642: Ordinance for the Earl of Warwick to remain in his Command of the Fleet. In: British-History.co.uk (Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660, 1911, p. 12). Accessed April 13, 2007.
  3. ↑ 13 July 1648 - Taking of Walmer Castle. In: British-History.co.uk. Accessed August 6, 2007.
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Robert Rich Earl of Warwick
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SURNAME Rich, Robert, 2nd Earl of Warwick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rich, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English colonial administrator, admiral and puritan
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1587
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1658
Place of death London