Robert Robartes 1634-1682

After 1625 [his father] John Robartes 1st Earl Radnor [aged 19] and [his step-mother] Letitia Isabella Smythe Countess Radnor were married. She by marriage Baroness Robartes of Truro in Cornwall. The difference in their ages was 24 years.

Before 7th February 1634 [his father] John Robartes 1st Earl Radnor [aged 28] and [his mother] Lucy Rich Baroness Robartes [aged 19] were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Robert Rich 2nd Earl Warwick [aged 46] and [his grandmother] Frances Hatton Countess Warwick.

On 7th February 1634 Robert Robartes was born to John Robartes 1st Earl Radnor [aged 28] and Lucy Rich Baroness Robartes [aged 19].

In or after November 1635 [his mother] Lucy Rich Baroness Robartes [deceased] died.

Around 1646 Robert Robartes [aged 11] educated at Felstead School, Essex.

In 1657 Robert Robartes [aged 22] and Sarah Bodvel [aged 20] were married. He the son of John Robartes 1st Earl Radnor [aged 51] and Lucy Rich Baroness Robartes.

In 1660 [his son] Charles Robartes 2nd Earl Radnor was born to Robert Robartes [aged 25] and [his wife] Sarah Bodvel [aged 23]. He married 1689 Elizabeth Cutler Countess Radnor, daughter of John Cutler 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Foote.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 3rd May 1664. Thence walked to Westminster Hall [Map]; and there, in the Lords' House, did in a great crowd, from ten o'clock till almost three, hear the cause of Mr. Roberts [aged 30], my Lord Privy Seal's [aged 58] son, against Win, who by false ways did get the father of Mr. Roberts's wife [aged 27] (Mr. Bodvill) to give him the estate and disinherit his daughter. The cause was managed for my Lord Privy Seal by Finch [aged 42] the Solicitor [General]; but I do really think that he is truly a man of as great eloquence as ever I heard, or ever hope to hear in all my life.

On 28th October 1669 [his brother-in-law] Charles Moore 2nd Earl Drogheda and [his half-sister] Letitia Robartes Countess Drogheda [aged 19] were married. She the daughter of [his father] John Robartes 1st Earl Radnor [aged 63] and [his step-mother] Letitia Isabella Smythe Countess Radnor [aged 39]. He the son of Henry Moore 1st Earl Drogheda [aged 47] and Alice Spencer Countess Drogheda [aged 43]. They were fourth cousins.

In 1671 [his son] Russell Robartes was born to Robert Robartes [aged 36] and [his wife] Sarah Bodvel [aged 34]. He married before 1695 his fifth cousin once removed Mary Booth, daughter of Henry Booth 1st Earl Warrington and Mary Langham Countess Warrington, and had issue.

On 12th January 1676 Henry Moore 1st Earl Drogheda [aged 54] died. His son [his brother-in-law] Charles succeeded 2nd Earl Drogheda, 4th Viscount Moore of Drogheda, 4th Baron Moore of Mellefont in Louth. [his half-sister] Letitia Robartes Countess Drogheda [aged 26] by marriage Countess Drogheda.

In 1679 [his father] John Robartes 1st Earl Radnor [aged 73] was created 1st Earl Radnor, 1st Viscount Bodmin by King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 48] in reward for having supported Charles' brother James II King England, Scotland and Ireland 1633-1701's future accession. [his step-mother] Letitia Isabella Smythe Countess Radnor [aged 49] by marriage Countess Radnor.

On 29th September 1679 [his brother-in-law] William Wycherley [aged 38] and [his half-sister] Letitia Robartes Countess Drogheda [aged 29] were married in secret fearing to lose the King's patronage. She the daughter of [his father] John Robartes 1st Earl Radnor [aged 73] and [his step-mother] Letitia Isabella Smythe Countess Radnor [aged 49].

In 1681 Robert Robartes [aged 46] was appointed Ambassador to Denmark.

On 8th February 1682 Robert Robartes [aged 48] died at Denmark.

In 1720 [his former wife] Sarah Bodvel [aged 83] died.