SYDNEY, ROBERT, EARL OF LEICESTER
Arms.—Quartered.
1. Arg., a pheon az. Sydney.
2. Barry of 10, arg. and gu., a lion rampant ducally crowned or. Brandon.
3. Or, a lion rampant az. Brabant.
4. Or, 2 lions passant az. Dudley.
5. Barry of 6, arg. and az., in chief a label of the first. Grey.
6. Arg., a maunch sa. Hastings.
7. Az., a wolf's head erased arg. Lupus.
8. Barry of 10, arg. and az., an orle of ten martlets gu. Valence, Earl of Pembroke.
9. A lion rampant.?
10. Gu., 7 mascles conjoined or, three, three, and one. Ferrers of Groby.
11. Az., a lion rampant arg., within a bordure engrailed or. Tyrrell.
12. Gu., a fess between 6 crosses crosslet or. Beauchamp.
13. Chequy, or and az., a chevron erm. Warwick.
14. Gu., a lion statant arg., crowned or. Lyle.
15. Arg., a chevron sa. Trelawney.
16. Arg., a fess dancetty gu. Dene.
On an escutcheon of pretence, being the arms of Barbara Gamage.
Quarterly.
1. Arg., a bend lozengy gu., on a chief az., 3 escallops arg. Gamage.
2. Vairy, arg. and gu. Nowers.
3. Chequy, or and arg., a fess erm. Calthrop.
4. Arg., 3 chevrons gu. Langton.
[Polydori Vergilii historiae, libri vigintiseptem. Basileae, 1570.]
Robert Sydney (born November 1563, died 13th July 1626) was the son of Sir Henry Sydney, K.G. He was educated at Oxford, and in 1584 became Member of Parliament for Glamorganshire, and afterwards for Kent. In 1586 he was knighted by the Earl of Leicester, and in 1603 he was created Baron Sydney of Penshurst, and two years afterwards Viscount L'Isle.
Lord L'Isle was made a Knight of the Garter in 1616, and in 1618 he was created Earl of Leicester. In 1584 he married Barbara Gamage of Coity, daughter of John Gamage. She died in 1621, and Lord Leicester married for his second wife Sarah, daughter of William Blount.
