RADCLIFFE, ROBERT, FIFTH EARL OF SUSSEX
Arms.—Within the Garter. Quartered.
1. Arg., a bend engrailed sa. Radcliffe.
2. Or, a fess between 2 chevrons gu. Fitz-Walter.
3. Arg., a lion rampant sa., crowned or, a bordure az. Burnell.
4. Arg., a saltire engrailed az. Harding.
5. Gu., 3 lucies hauriant arg. Lucy.
6. Barry of six, arg. and az. Grey.
7. Arg., semée of fleurs-de-lys sa. Bereford.
8. Arg., an eagle carrying off a child swathed gu., banded or. Culcheth.
Coronet.—That of an Earl.
[Lonicer. Chronicorum Turcicorum Liber, etc. Francoforti ad Moenum, 1578.]
Robert Radclyffe (born c. 1560, died 22nd September 1629) was the only son of Henry Radclyffe, fourth Earl of Sussex. In 1593 Robert, styled Viscount Fitzwalter, succeeded to his father's earldom. In 1594 he went to Scotland as Ambassador for the christening of Prince Henry, and he commanded a regiment of infantry at Cadiz in 1596, when he was knighted by the Earl of Essex. Lord Sussex twice acted as Earl Marshal, and in 1599 he was made a Knight of the Garter. In 1599 he was Colonel General of Foot, and in 1626 he carried the orb at the coronation of Charles I. Lord Sussex served as Lord Lieutenant of Essex and Governor of Harwich.
