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3 unusual facts about Kenelm Digby


Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

Nearly all the leading men of the day, including Horace Walpole, attended or were represented at this sale, and the prices varied from five shillings for an anonymous bishop's "head" to 165 guineas for van Dyck's group of "Sir Kenelm Digby, lady, and son".

Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland

Other prominent Royalists, including Buckingham's younger brother Francis Villiers, and Kenelm Digby (son of the scientific writer of the same name), were also killed during the battle.

The Merciful Knight

This picture is based on an 11th-century legend retold by Sir Kenelm Digby in Broadstone of Honour, its hero is a Florentine knight named John Gualbert (an anglicisation of Giovanni Gualberto).



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Lewis Watson, 1st Baron Rockingham

Watson was the son of Sir Edward Watson of Rockingham Castle and his wife Anne Digby daughter of Kenelm Digby of Stoke Dry, Rutland.