[1] He married around 1555 Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of George Baldrey (d. 1540)[2] and granddaughter of Sir Thomas Baldry, Lord Mayor of London in 1514.
[3] Their children were:[1] His father was reprimanded by the privy council in 1562 for seeking to have Rich elected as knight of the shire in preference to William Petre.
[4] This may have been due to suspicions of Petre's religious views, as Rich was a strong Protestant who later had the Calvinist Robert Wright as his domestic chaplain.
[8] He is presumably the kneeling figure represented on the monument to his father in Felsted church.
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