Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey

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Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey, PC, FRS (before 1641 - 8 May 1701) 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 (d. 28 February 1616), 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:

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

  • Hon. Charles Bertie (c.1683–1727)
  • Lady Elizabeth Bertie, died unmarried

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Political offices
Preceded by
The Earl of Lindsey
Lord Great Chamberlain
1666–1701
Succeeded by
The Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Earl of Lindsey
Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire
1666–1700
Succeeded by
Lord Willoughby de Eresby
Parliament of England
Preceded by
Sir Anthony Irby
Thomas Hatcher
Member of Parliament for Boston
with Sir Anthony Irby

1661–1666
Succeeded by
Sir Anthony Irby
Sir Philip Harcourt
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Montagu Bertie
Earl of Lindsey
1666–1701
Succeeded by
Robert Bertie