Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey

Who was Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey?

Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey, 16th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, PC, FRS was a British Hereditary Peer. He was the son of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey and Martha Cokayne. His mother died shortly after his birth about July 1641.

From 1661 to 1666 he was Member of Parliament for Boston in Lincolnshire. On his father's death on 25 July 1666, he succeeded him as 3rd Earl of Lindsey, 16th Baron Willoughby de Eresby and Hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain.

Bertie married three times. In 1654, he married Mary Massingberd, who died in the late 1650s, after bearing him one daughter:

⁕Lady Arabella Bertie, married Thomas Savage, 3rd Earl Rivers.

Before 1660, he married again to Elizabeth Wharton, daughter of Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton, by whom he had five children:

⁕Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

⁕Rt. Hon. Peregrine Bertie

⁕Hon. Philip Bertie, married Elizabeth Brabazon, daughter of William Brabazon, 3rd Earl of Meath, without issue

⁕Hon. Albemarle Bertie

⁕Hon. Norris Bertie

By his third wife, Lady Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe, he had two children: