Background
Rich was the son of Robert Rich, 2nd Baron Rich, and Elizabeth Baldry, daughter of George Baldry. Rich succeeded his father in the barony in 1581.
Rich was the son of Robert Rich, 2nd Baron Rich, and Elizabeth Baldry, daughter of George Baldry. Rich succeeded his father in the barony in 1581.
In 1618 he was created Earl of Warwick. Lord Warwick married firstly Lady Penelope Devereux (January 1563 – 7 July 1607), daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, on 10 January 1581. They had seven children:
Robert Rich, Lord Rich (1587–1658), later 2nd Earl of Warwick
Honorary
Henry Rich (1590–1649), later 1st Earl of Holland
Honorary
Sir Charles Rich (d 1627), died unmarried and without issue
Married firstly Sir George Carey and secondly Sir Arthur Lake
Lady Penelope Rich, married Sir Gervase Clifton
Lady Isabella Rich, married Sir John Smythe, son of Sir Thomas Smythe, first governor of the East India Company. Born in 1568 the second daughter of Sir Christoper Wray, Lord Chief Justice to Queen Elizabeth I, Frances Wray was described as "a person of shining conversation and eminent bounty".
In her second widowhood she was one of the richest women in Jacobean Lincolnshire. Neither of her marriages produced children.
She died at Snarford in 1634 aged 66.