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Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland (baptised 15 August 1590, died 9 March 1649), was an English courtier and politician executed by Parliament after being captured fighting for the Royalists during the Second English Civil War. Younger brother of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, a Puritan activist and commander of the Parliamentarian navy during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Henry was better known as an "extravagant, decorative, quarrelsome and highly successful courtier".

A close friend of Charles I and his favourite the Duke of Buckingham, Rich performed various diplomatic errands, including negotiations for Charles' marriage to Henrietta Maria of France in 1625. He took part in the unsuccessful attack on Saint-Martin-de-Ré in 1627 and held a number of important positions at court during the 1630s. When the First English Civil War began in August 1642, Rich remained in London rather than joining the Royalists, but like other moderates became disillusioned with the war. He defected in July 1643 after failing to persuade his cousin and commander-in-chief of the Parliamentarian army, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, to negotiate peace terms.

When Charles agreed a truce with the Catholic Confederation in September 1643, Rich returned to London and narrowly escaped being tried for treason. After peace talks between Charles and Parliament broke down in late 1647, he fought for the Royalists in the Second English Civil War and was captured in July 1648. Having escaped trial previously, he was executed in March 1649, although Rich claimed he had always been faithful to Parliament and never changed the "principles that ever I professed". This was a view shared by many Parliamentarian moderates, particularly after the Execution of Charles I in January 1649.

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Isabel Rich, Countess of Holland (died August 1655), formerly Isabel Cope, was an English courtier. She was the wife of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland.

Isabel Cope was the daughter of Sir Walter Cope (c. 1553–1614) and his wife, the former Dorothy Grenville (1563–1638).

In or before 1616, she married Rich, then a knight and MP for Leicester, thus obtaining the title Lady Rich. When her husband was granted an earldom in 1624, by King James I of England, she became Countess of Holland.

Their children, several of whom died in infancy, included:

• Lady Dorothy Rich (1616–1617);
• Lady Frances Rich (c.1617–1672), who married William Paget, 5th Baron Paget, and had children
• Robert Rich, 5th Earl of Warwick (c.1619–1675), who married twice: his first wife was Elizabeth, née Ingram, daughter of Sir Arthur Ingram; after her death, he married his second cousin Lady Anne Montagu, daughter of Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester. There were children from both marriages.
• Lady Isabella Rich (born 1623), who married Sir James Thynne (d. 1670), by whom she had no issue;
• Lady Susannah Rich (c.1628–1649), who married James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk, and had children and had surviving issue, one daughter Lady Essex Howard through whom the barony Howard de Walden passed to her descendant John Griffin Whitwell, 1st Baron Braybrooke in 1784
• Lady Diana Rich (d. 1658)
• Hon. Charles Rich (d. 1645)
• Hon. Henry Rich (d. 1669)
• Hon. Cope Rich (1635–1676), who had one child and was the grandfather of Edward Rich, 8th Earl of Warwick;
• Lady Mary Rich (c.1636–1666), who married John Campbell of Glenorchy, later Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, as his first wife, and had children.

The countess's portrait was painted by William Larkin around the time of her marriage, and is held at Kenwood House in the care of English Heritage.

Her husband, a Royalist, already in poor health, was executed in 1649.

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