Life history of sir philip sidney

Sir Philip Sidney's Biography

Philip Sidney was born to an aristocratic family at Penshurst Place, Kent, in 1554. He was his parents' firstborn and the godson of King Philip II of Spain. When Elizabeth I took the throne as England's queen, Sidney's father was appointed the lord president of Wales, and his uncle became one of her closest advisors.

Sidney was enrolled in Shrewsbury School at the age of nine. There he met his lifelong friend and fellow poet, Fulke Greville. Sidney excelled academically. He then attended Christ Church, Oxford but left without obtaining a degree, as was common for men of his status.

In 1572, Sidney was elected to Parliament for Shrewsbury. Only 18, Sidney spent his time traveling throughout europe instead of remaining in England. He first traveled to Paris, where he witnessed the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Shortly after the massacre, he left for Germany and then went on to Italy, Poland, the Kingdom of Hungary, and Austria. He developed conne

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Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney was born on November 30, 1554 in Kent, England. His father, Sir Henry Sidney, was the lord president of Wales, and his uncle, Robert Dudley, was the Earl of Leicester and Queen Elizabeth’s friend and advisor. Sidney attended Oxford University’s Christ Church College from 1568 to 1571, but he left to travel Europe before completing his studies.

Sidney returned to England in 1575 and was appointed cupbearer to Queen Elizabeth, a prestigious position. In 1577, he was sent to Germany as an ambassador, and when he returned to England soon after, he became a patron of the arts, notably encouraging the poet Edmund Spenser. He also continued his involvement in politics, opposing the queen’s planned marriage to the French heir and serving as a Member of Parliament in the early 1580s.

Sidney penned several major works of the Elizabethan era, including Astrophel and Stella, the first Elizabethan sonnet cycle, and Arcadia, a heroic prose romance. He

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Philip Sidney was born at Penshurst (Kent) at 4:45 a.m. on Friday, November 30, 1554, the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley, eldest daughter of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and sister of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Ambrose, Earl of Warwick. His father had been a close companion of the young King Edward VI, and continued to serve his country under Queen Mary and, later, Queen Elizabeth.

From 1564 until 1568 Philip, with his lifelong friend Fulke Greville, attended Shrewsbury school, under Thomas Ashton, one of the age's notable educators. While Sidney was at Shrewsbury, Sir Henry was Lord Deputy of Ireland, where his attempts to rule with visible justice were continually thwarted by the fact that one of the two bitter rival nobles in his domain, the Earl of Ormond, was also a favourite of the Queen, resident at Court, a Privy Councillor, and an ally of Leicester's (and Sidney's) enemy the Earl of Sussex.

Early in 1568, at the age of thirteen, Philip ente