Paternal Family Tree: Sidney
Maternal Family Tree: Anne Pakenham 1485-1544
In 1517 [his father] William Sidney [aged 35] and [his mother] Anne Pakenham [aged 32] were married.
In 1529 Henry Sidney was born to William Sidney [aged 47] and Anne Pakenham [aged 44].
On 22nd October 1544 [his mother] Anne Pakenham [aged 59] died at Penshurst, Kent [Map].
Diary of Edward VI. 18th April 1550. Mr. Sidney4 and Mr. Nevel5 made gentlemen of the privey chamber. Commission given to the lord Chobham deputy of Cales [Map], sir William Petre [aged 45] chef secretary, and sir Jhon Mason [aged 47], French secretary, to see the French king take his oth, with certein instrucion; and that sir Jhon Mason shuld be embassadour ligier.
Commission to sir John (Maurice) Denis [aged 42] and sir Wiliam Sharington [aged 55] to receive the first paiment and deliver the quittannce.1a
Note 4. Afterwards sir Henry Sidney [aged 21], and K.G.
Note 5. Afterwards sir Henry Neville.
Note 1a. On the 17th of April the council had directed "letters to mr. Dennys treasurer of Callays, that he and mr. Sharyngton be joyned in commission for the CC m1 French crowns to be received, of the goodness, purity, and weight as they be currant in France." On the 20th, "A letter to sir Morice Denys and sir William Sherrington knights, commissioners appointed for the receipt of the first payment now to be made by the Frenche, that if monsr Gondie, master of the French king's finances, do come withall (as it is thought he doth) they shall give him in rewarde from the Kinges Majestie two thousand orownes, because he was the first motioner and procurer of this Peace. And in case it be not he, then to give the bringer of the said money such reward under the said summe of two thousand crownes as to their wisedomes shall seem convenient." (Council Book.)
In 1551 Henry Sidney [aged 22] and Mary Dudley [aged 21] were married. She the daughter of John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland [aged 47] and Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland [aged 42].
In 1553 [his brother-in-law] Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl Warwick [aged 23] and Elizabeth Tailboys Countess Warwick [aged 30] were married. She the daughter of Gilbert Tailboys 1st Baron Tailboys and Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount Baroness Clinton and Tailboys. He the son of [his father-in-law] John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland [aged 49] and [his mother-in-law] Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland [aged 44]. They were half fourth cousin once removed.
In January 1553 [his brother-in-law] John Dudley 2nd Earl Warwick [aged 26] by writ of acceleration 2nd Earl Warwick through a summons to Parliament. Anne Seymour Countess of Warwick [aged 15] by marriage Countess Warwick.
On 25th May 1553 a triple wedding was celebrated at Durham Place, the London townhouse of [his father-in-law] John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland [aged 49], father of [his brother-in-law] Guildford Dudley [aged 18] and [his sister-in-law] Katherine Dudley Countess Huntingdon [aged 15]...
Guildford Dudley and Lady Jane Grey [aged 17] were married. She the daughter of Henry Grey 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 36] and Frances Brandon Duchess of Suffolk [aged 35]. He the son of John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland and [his mother-in-law] Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland [aged 44]. They were third cousin once removed. She a great granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
Henry Hastings 3rd Earl Huntingdon [aged 18] and Katherine Dudley Countess Huntingdon were married. She the daughter of John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland and Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland. He the son of Francis Hastings 2nd Earl Huntingdon [aged 39] and Catherine Pole Countess Huntingdon [aged 42]. They were fourth cousin once removed.
[his future son-in-law] Henry Herbert 2nd Earl Pembroke [aged 15] and Catherine Grey Countess Hertford [aged 12] were married. She the daughter of Henry Grey 1st Duke of Suffolk and Frances Brandon Duchess of Suffolk. He the son of William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke [aged 52] and Anne Parr Countess Pembroke. They were fourth cousins. She a great granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
Chronicle of Queen Jane and Two Years of Queen Mary 1553. 23rd July 1553. A lettere written in London mentiones that the lord admirall, and the lords Greye [aged 44],b Garret, Wormon,c and the lord Fitzwarren, sir Henry Sidney [aged 24], and sir James Croffts [aged 35], with divers others, have already their pardon graunted them.
The duke of Northumberland is in custody of the garde as a prisoner in Cambridge, and my ladie his wyfe, the [his brother-in-law] lord Guilford [aged 18], and the lady Jane [aged 17], are in the Towere as prisoneres. My lord marques of Northampton, the earle of Huntingdon, sir Henry Gates, and divers other, cannot as yet gett their pardones."
Note b. William lord Grey of Wilton was the commander upon whose military talents the duke of Northumberland seems to have mainly relied: but lord Grey, who had been an adherent of the duke of Somerset, probably did not serve on this occasion very cordially. He seems to have left Northumberland when at Cambridge, and made his submission to Mary; who on her arrival at her manor of Newhall in Essex, on the 31st of July, dismissed him to his former charge of the castle of Guisnes, with a reinforcement of 350 footmen and 50 horsemen demi-lances: see her letters patent, printed in the Appendix to the Life of Lord Grey of Wilton, No. VI.
Note c. The earl of Ormond.
On 22nd August 1553 [his father-in-law] John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland [aged 49] was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]. Duke Northumberland, Earl Warwick and Viscount Lisle forfeit. [his brother-in-law] John Dudley 2nd Earl Warwick [aged 26], his son, was also attainted, with the Earldom of Warwick forfeit.
Thomas Palmer and John Gates [aged 49] were hanged, drawn and quartered.
On 11th February 1554 [his father] William Sidney [aged 72] died at Penshurst, Kent [Map]. He was buried at St John the Baptist Church, Penshurst.
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On 21st October 1554 [his brother-in-law] John Dudley 2nd Earl Warwick [aged 27] died at Penshurst Place, Kent [Map] not long after he had been released from the Tower of London.
On 30th November 1554 [his son] Philip Sidney was born to Henry Sidney [aged 25] and [his wife] Mary Dudley [aged 24] at Penshurst Place, Kent [Map]. He married 1583 his half sixth cousin Frances Walsingham Countess Essex and had issue.
On 26th December 1554 [his brother-in-law] Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl Warwick [aged 24] was created 1st Baron Lisle. Elizabeth Tailboys Countess Warwick [aged 32] by marriage Countess Warwick.
In 1555 [his brother-in-law] Thomas Radclyffe 3rd Earl of Sussex [aged 30] and [his sister] Frances Sidney Countess Sussex [aged 24] were married. He the son of Henry Radclyffe 2nd Earl of Sussex [aged 48] and Elizabeth Howard.
In 1556 Edward Fitton [aged 28] was knighted by Henry Sidney [aged 27].
On 17th February 1557 Henry Radclyffe 2nd Earl of Sussex [aged 50] died. He was buried at St Lawrence Pountney Church. His son [his brother-in-law] Thomas [aged 32] succeeded 3rd Earl of Sussex, 3rd Viscount Fitzwalter, 12th Baron Fitzwalter. [his sister] Frances Sidney Countess Sussex [aged 26] by marriage Countess of Sussex.
Around August 1559 Henry Sidney [aged 30] was appointed President of the Council of the Marches in Wales.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 12th June 1560. The sam day at after-non toke hys horse toward Walles, [Wales] with a vij-skore horse, ser Henry Sydney [aged 31] to be the lord presidentt ther of Walles, as my lord of Tame was; the quen [aged 26] and the consell gayff yt hym to be governer ther....The .. day of .... browth women unto strangers.
On 20th June 1560 Francis Hastings 2nd Earl Huntingdon [aged 46] died. He was buried at the Hasting's Chapel, St Helen's Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch [Map]. His son Henry [aged 25] succeeded 3rd Earl Huntingdon, 8th Baron Botreaux, 7th Baron Hungerford, 5th Baron Moleyns and 5th Baron Hastings. [his sister-in-law] Katherine Dudley Countess Huntingdon [aged 22] by marriage Countess Huntingdon. See Monument [Map].
On 8th September 1560, the day of the Abingdon Fair, Amy Robsart [aged 28] died from falling down stairs at Cumnor Place, Abingdon [Map]. She was married to [his brother-in-law] Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester [aged 28], favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 27], who was with Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland at Windsor Castle [Map] at the time. Foul play was suspected but not proven. The event was regarded as suspicious by many. The Queen's reputation being tarnished she could not risk a marriage with Dudley.
The inquest into her death concluded...
Inquisition as indenture held at Cumnor [Map] in the aforesaid county [Oxfordshire] on 9 September in the second year of the reign of the most dread Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God queen of England, France, and Ireland, defend of the faith, etc., before John Pudsey, gent, a coroner of the said lady queen in the aforesaid county, on inspection of the body of Lady Amy Dudley, late wife of Robert Dudley, knight of the most noble order of the garter, there lying dead: by oath of Richard Smith, gent., Humphrey Lewis, gent., Thomas Moulder, gent., Richard Knight, Thomas Spyre, Edward Stevenson, John Stevenson, Richard Hughes, William Cantrell, William Noble, John Buck, John Keene, Henry Lanlgey, Stephen Ruffyn, and John Sire: which certain jurors, sworn to tell the truth at our request, were adjourned from the aforesaid ninth day onwards day by day very often; and finally various several days were given to them by the selfsame coroner to appear both before the justices of the aforesaid lady queen at the assizes assigned to be held in the aforesaid county and before the same coroner in order there to return their verdict truthfully and speedily, until 1 August in the third year of the reign of the said lady queen; on which day the same jurors say under oath that the aforesaid Lady Amy on 8 September in the aforesaid second year of the reign of the said lady queen, being alone in a certain chamber within the home of a certain Anthony Forster, esq., in the aforesaid Cumnor, and intending to descend the aforesaid chamber by way of certain steps (in English called 'steyres') of the aforesaid chamber there and then accidentally fell precipitously down the aforesaid steps to the very bottom of the same steps, through which the same Lady Amy there and then sustained not only two injuries to her head (in English called 'dyntes') - one of which was a quarter of an inch deep and the other two inches deep - but truly also, by reason of the accidental injury or of that fall and of Lady Amy's own body weight falling down the aforesaid stairs, the same Lady Amy there and then broke her own neck, on account of which certain fracture of the neck the same Lady Amy there and then died instantly; and the aforesaid Lady Amy was found there and then without any other mark or wound on her body; and thus the jurors say on their oath that the aforesaid Lady Amy in the manner and form aforesaid by misfortune came to her death and not otherwise, as they are able to agree at present; in testimony of which fact for this inquest both the aforesaid coroner and also the aforesaid jurors have in turn affixed their seals on the day.
On 27th October 1561 [his daughter] Mary Sidney Countess Pembroke was born to Henry Sidney [aged 32] and [his wife] Mary Dudley [aged 31]. She married 21st April 1577 her sixth cousin Henry Herbert 2nd Earl Pembroke, son of William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke and Anne Parr Countess Pembroke, and had issue.
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Henry Machyn's Diary. 23rd May 1563. The xxiij day of May .... lord the duke of Northfoke [aged 27] was .... vycont Montyguw [aged 34] and my lord of Luthborow [aged 42] .... and the yerle of Northumberland [aged 35] and the [his brother-in-law] yerle of [Warwick] [aged 33] stallyd knyghtes of the Garter; and ser Henry Sydney [aged 34] was depute for the yerle of Warwyke, and he bare ys hode and ys coller of the garter a-pone ys arme.
On 19th November 1563 [his son] Robert Sidney 1st Earl of Leicester was born to Henry Sidney [aged 34] and [his wife] Mary Dudley [aged 33]. He married (1) 23rd September 1584 Barbara Gamage Countess Leicester and had issue (2) 25th April 1625 Sarah Blount Countess Leicester.
In 1564 Henry Sidney [aged 35] was appointed 350th Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 30].
On 29th September 1564 [his brother-in-law] Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester [aged 32] was created 1st Earl of Leicester.
Around 1565 [his daughter] Ambrosia Sidney was born to Henry Sidney [aged 36] and [his wife] Mary Dudley [aged 35]. She was named after her uncle [his brother-in-law] Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl Warwick [aged 35]. She died aged nine in 1574.
In 1565 Henry Sidney [aged 36] was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland.
On 11th November 1565 [his brother-in-law] Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl Warwick [aged 35] and Anne Russell Countess Warwick [aged 17] were married. She by marriage Countess Warwick. She the daughter of Francis Russell 2nd Earl Bedford [aged 38] and Margaret St John Countess Bedford. He the son of [his father-in-law] John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland and [his mother-in-law] Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland.
On 25th March 1569 [his son] Thomas Sidney was born to Henry Sidney [aged 40] and [his wife] Mary Dudley [aged 39]. He married 1591 Margaret Dakins.
In 1573 Unknown Painter. Portrait of Henry Sidney [aged 44] wearing his Garter Collar.
In 1573 Pieter Bronckhorst. Portrait of Henry Sidney [aged 44].
On 22nd February 1574 [his daughter] Ambrosia Sidney [aged 9] died at Ludlow Castle [Map] where her father Henry Sidney [aged 45] was President of the Council of the Marches in Wales.
On 21st April 1577 [his son-in-law] Henry Herbert 2nd Earl Pembroke [aged 39] and [his daughter] Mary Sidney Countess Pembroke [aged 15] were married. She by marriage Countess Pembroke. The difference in their ages was 23 years. He the son of William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke and Anne Parr Countess Pembroke. They were sixth cousins.
On 23rd July 1577 Thomas Wenman [aged 29] died. He left significant debts to the Crown requiring some of his lands to be sold. Eaton, Berkshire was sold to John Danvers [aged 37] for £7700. Richard Wenman 1st Viscount Wenman [aged 4] was made a ward of his mother Jane West [aged 19] and [his brother-in-law] Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester [aged 45]. Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester sold his interest to James Cressy who subsequently married Jane West.
On 21st September 1578 [his brother-in-law] Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester [aged 46] and Lettice Knollys Countess Essex and Leicester [aged 34] were married secretly much to the anguish of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 45] who developed a deep hatred of Lettice Knollys Countess Essex and Leicester. She by marriage Countess of Leicester. Roger North 2nd Baron North [aged 48] was present. He the son of [his father-in-law] John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland and [his mother-in-law] Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland. They were fifth cousins.
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1580. St Laurence's Church, Ludlow [Map]. Monument to [his daughter] Ambrosia Sidney. Her father's [aged 51] arms top middle as follows: Sidney, Clunford, Barrington, Mercy, 
Mandeville Arms differenced with an escarbuncle, Chetwyn, Belhouse (the lions should be shown between three black cross-croslets), and 
Brandon Arms (the lion's crown should be per pale gules and Argent).
Bottom Left her father's arms impaled with 1 
Dudley Arms 2 Unknown 3 
Grey Arms 4 
Talbot Arms 5 
Beauchamp Arms 6 Neuborg Arms 7 Unknown 8 Unknown.
Bottom Right. As impaled Bottom Left; possibly some form of Duke of Northumberland.
The Sidney motto "quo fata vacant" ie "where destiny falls".
On the right are the arms of her uncle and godfather [his brother-in-law] Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick [aged 50], from whom she derived her name.
On the left the arms of her mother, [his wife] Mary Sidney née Dudley [aged 50]
Ambrosia Sidney: Around 1565 she was born to Henry Sidney and Mary Dudley. She was named after her uncle Ambrose Dudley 3rd Earl Warwick. On 22nd February 1574 Ambrosia Sidney died at Ludlow Castle [Map] where her father Henry Sidney was President of the Council of the Marches in Wales.
In 1583 [his son] Philip Sidney [aged 28] and [his daughter-in-law] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 16] were married. They were half sixth cousins.
On 23rd September 1584 [his son] Robert Sidney 1st Earl of Leicester [aged 20] and [his daughter-in-law] Barbara Gamage Countess Leicester [aged 21] were married. She her father's heir to his considerable fortune. He, the father, had died some twenty-five days before. The marriage took place apparently against the wishes of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 51].
On 5th May 1586 Henry Sidney [aged 57] died.
On 9th August 1586 [his former wife] Mary Dudley [aged 56] died.
[his daughter] Mary Margaret Sidney was born to Henry Sidney and Mary Dudley.
Thomas Fitzwilliam and [his mother] Anne Pakenham were married.
[his daughter] Elizabeth Sidney was born to Henry Sidney and Mary Dudley.
Great x 1 Grandfather: William IV Sidney 
Grandfather: Nicholas Sidney
father: William Sidney
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Brandon
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Brandon
Great x 2 Grandmother: Ada Calthorpe 
Grandmother: Anne Brandon
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Pakenham
Grandfather: Hugh Pakenham
mother: Anne Pakenham