Barbara Sidney, Countess of Leicester (1563–1621) was a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 heiress, and the first wife of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester

Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester

Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester , second son of Sir Henry Sidney, was a statesman of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. He was also a patron of the arts and an interesting poet...

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Barbara Gamage inherited Coity Castle

Coity Castle

Coity Castle in Glamorgan, Wales is a Norman castle built by Sir Payn "the Demon" de Turberville , one of the legendary Twelve Knights of Glamorgan supposed to have conquered Glamorgan under the leadership of Robert FitzHamon, Lord of Gloucester. Now in ruins, it stands in the Community of Coity...

, Glamorgan, on the death of her father, John Gamage, in 1584, and became the ward of Sir Edward Stradling of St Donat's Castle

St Donat's Castle

St Donat's Castle is a medieval castle in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, overlooking the Bristol Channel in the village of St Donat's near Llantwit Major, and about 25km west of Cardiff...

, Glamorgan, until her marriage. On 23 September 1584, she married Robert Sidney at St Donat's, the home of her guardian. Although Sidney was MP for Glamorgan, the couple lived chiefly at Baynard's Castle

Baynard's Castle

Baynard's Castle refers to buildings on two neighbouring sites in London, between where Blackfriars station and St Paul's Cathedral now stand. The first was a Norman fortification constructed by Ralph Baynard and demolished by King John in 1213. The second was a medieval palace built a short...

 in London and Penshurst Place

Penshurst Place

Penshurst Place is a historic building near Tonbridge, Kent, south east of London, England. It is the ancestral home of the Sidney family, and was the birthplace of the great Elizabethan poet, courtier and soldier, Sir Philip Sidney. The original medieval house is one of the most complete examples...

 in Kent. They had eleven children.

• Sir William Sidney
• Henry Sidney
• Philip Sidney
• Mary
  Lady Mary Wroth
  Lady Mary Wroth was an English poet of the Renaissance. A member of a distinguished literary English family, Wroth was among the first female British writers to have achieved an enduring reputation...
  
  
• Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester
  Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester
  Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester was an English aristocrat and diplomat.-Life:He was the son of Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, and his first wife, Barbara Gamage...
  
  
• Catherine
• Philippa
• Barbara
• Dorothy
• Elizabeth
• Bridget