Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex

Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, KG (12 June 1573 – 22 September 1629) was an English peer, ambassador and military officer.

In August 1594 Sussex was sent as ambassador-extraordinary to Scotland with a diplomatic mission and to assist at the baptism of James VI's eldest son, Henry as proxy for Elizabeth I.

Sussex had audiences with James VI of Scotland and Anne of Denmark on 29 August and the baptism was held on the next day.

He took a prominent part with Horace Vere in the capture of the town and was knighted after the victory there by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex on 27 June 1596.

He acted as Earl Marshal of England during the parliaments which sat in the autumns of 1597 and 1601, and was colonel-general of foot in the army of London in August 1599, raised in anticipation of a Spanish invasion; in 1599 also he became a Knight of the Garter.

[6] At Worksop Manor, the Duke of Lennox and the Earls of Shrewsbury and Cumberland made a proclamation at that her followers should put aside any private quarrels.

[7] On 20 July 1603, he petitioned the queen to relieve him of some of the pecuniary embarrassments due to the debts to the crown contracted by the third and fourth earls.

A sonnet was also addressed to the earl by Henry Lok, in his Sundry Christian Passions, 1597, and Emanuel Ford dedicated to him in 1598 his popular romance Parismus.