Editing Amy Robsart (section)

== Family ==
[[File:Amy Robsart, looking at the portrait of Leicester by E.C. Barnes.jpg|left|thumb|Amy Robsart, looking at the portrait of Leicester by E.C. Barnes. Fantasy portrait of Amy Robsart dressed in the colours of the Robsart coat of arms, green and yellow, or ''Vert'' and ''Or''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=The Yale Miniature |url=https://katherinethequeen.com/440075389 |access-date=18 February 2023 |website=KatherineTheQueen.com}}</ref>]]
Amy Robsart was the daughter of Sir John Robsart of Syderstone (d.1557) and his wife, Elizabeth Scott (d.1549), daughter of John Scott, of Camberwell in Surrey.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Adlard |first1=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3uQ_-0PrVmgC |title=Amye Robsart and the Earl of Leycester |year=1870}}</ref> From her mother's first marriage to Roger Appleyard of Stanfield (d.1528) Amy had four half-siblings, John Appleyard, Philip, who married [[Mary Shelton]] and was a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]],<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=APPLEYARD, Philip (b.c.1528), of Shropham, nr. Thetford, Norf. {{!}} History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/appleyard-philip-1528 |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}</ref> Anne, who married James Bigos, esquire,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Society |first1=Royal Historical |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ua9m6c488kcC&pg=PA463 |title=Camden Miscellany XXXII |last2=Jones |first2=Michael |last3=Walker |first3=Simon |date=1995-01-01 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-55159-5 |pages=463 |language=en}}</ref> Frances, who married William Flowerdew, and Bridget.<ref name=":5" /> Through their son Anthony Flowerdew of [[Hethersett]] in [[Norfolk]] and his wife Martha Stanley of [[Scottow]] in Norfolk, Amy Robsart is the great-aunt of [[Temperance Flowerdew]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Magazine |first=Tylers Quarterly Historical and Genealogical |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=55I38FXWyPgC&q=William+Flowerdew+Frances+Appleyard&pg=RA3-PA551 |title=Genealogies of Virginia Families: From Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine |date=1981 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com |isbn=978-0-8063-0947-7 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Kett's Rebellion - The Norfolk Rising of 1549 |url=http://www.wellowgate.co.uk/Appleyard/Kett/kett2.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722180158/http://www.wellowgate.co.uk/Appleyard/Kett/kett2.htm |archive-date=22 July 2021 |access-date=22 July 2021 |website=www.wellowgate.co.uk}}</ref>

Amy Robsart's paternal grandparents were Theoderick (Terry) Robsart and Elizabeth (d.20 November 1535<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-23-225.pdf |title=PROB 11/23/225}}</ref>), daughter of Sir Thomas Kerdeston of Syderstone.<ref name=":1" />

Her half-brother Arthur Robsart was the illegitimate son of her father Sir John Robsart, and married Margaret, daughter of [[Arthur Hopton (1488–1555)|Sir Arthur Hopton]].<ref name=":0" />