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Penelope Devereux (1562 - 1607), Lady Rich, was the daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex and his wife Lettice Knollys, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys.
Her brother Robert inherited the Earldom of Essex when their father died in 1576. Their mother Lettice, in 1580, married the Queen's favorite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who died in 1588.
Sometime before 1591, she married Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick
She was the "Stella" in the work Astrophel and Stella (1591) by Philip Sidney, her stepfather Robert's nephew.
Penelope married Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire, as her second husband.
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