Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby (died 6 June 1642) was an Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish was a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy, mostly belonging to the Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until...

 peer.

Digby was the son of Sir Robert Digby of Coleshill, Warwickshire

Coleshill, Warwickshire

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 and Lettice FitzGerald

Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly

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, of Geashill

Geashill

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, Ireland

Ireland

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, granddaughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare

Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare

Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare , also known as the "Wizard Earl" , was an Irish peer....

. John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol

John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol

John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol , was an English diplomat and a moderate royalist during the English Civil War.- Early career :...

, was his uncle, and Essex Digby, Bishop of Dromore

Bishop of Dromore

The Bishop of Dromore is an episcopal title which takes its name after the market town of Dromore in County Down, Northern Ireland. In the Roman Catholic Church the title still continues as a separate bishopric, but in the Church of Ireland it has been united with other bishoprics.-History:The...

, his brother. Digby notably served as Governor of King's County in Ireland. In 1620 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland

Peerage of Ireland

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 as Baron Digby, of Geashill. He married, firstly, Lady Sarah Boyle, daughter of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork

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 and Catherine Fenton; this marriage produced a son, Kildare. Digby married secondly, Elizabeth Altham, daughter of Sir James Altham and his second wife, Mary Stapers. He died in 1642 and was succeeded in the barony by his son, Kildare Digby, 2nd Baron Digby (c. 1627–1694).