Figure 1. Penelope Devereux Rich Blount, Lady Rich, Baroness of Essex, Countess of Devonshire represented as a map. Each surname and title has attendant estates that become the baseline for Penelope’s personal map, anchoring her movement throughout her life. Chartley, for example, the Devereux family seat where she was born, also becomes a favored haven near the end of her life when her brother Robert is in possession of the property. Each destination is associated with one of her surnames.

Figure 2. A sample progress of James I from 1617, adapted from Cole 2010. James traveled further distances, in part to visit his home country, but he also tended to stay with the same hosts rather than create a diversified itinerary.

Figures 3–4. Elizabeth on progress in 1575 (chosen because she visited the Devereux at Chartley that year) and in 1589 (chosen because Penelope began secret missives to James VI in this year). Primarily derived from Colthorpe 2017.

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Quealy, Gerit. 2025. “Penelope Rich: Mapping the Mobility of a Sixteenth-Century Aristocratic Woman.” In New Technologies and Renaissance Studies IV: The Changing Shape of Digital Early Modern Studies, edited by Randa El Khatib and Caroline Winter, 227–59. New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 12. Iter Press. https://iterpress.org/9781649591197/new-technologies-and-renaissance-studies-iv/.