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The Earl Fauconberg | |
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Lord Lieutenant, North Riding | |
In office 1660–1687 | |
Monarch | Charles II James II |
Envoy to the Republic of Venice | |
In office 1669–1672 | |
Monarch | Charles II |
Special Envoy to France | |
In office 1658–1659 | |
Monarch | Commonwealth of England |
Personal details | |
Born | ca 1627 Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire |
Died | 31 December 1700(1700-12-31) (aged 73) Sutton House, London |
Resting place | St Michael's, Coxwold |
Nationality | English |
Spouse(s) | Mildred Saunderson Mary Cromwell (1637-1713) |
Parent(s) | Henry Belasyse (1604–1647) Grace Barton |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Occupation | Politician, diplomat |
Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg PC (c. 1627 – 31 December 1700) was an English peer.[1] He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War, becoming close to Oliver Cromwell and marrying Cromwell's third daughter, Mary. After the Restoration of the monarchy he became a member of the Privy Council to Charles II and was elevated to an earldom by William III.
Biography
Belasyse was the only son of Henry Belasyse, and Grace Barton; his grandfather, Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg, was a Royalist, who went into exile after being defeated at Marston Moor in 1644.[2]
Unlike his Royalist father and grandfather, Belasyse supported Parliament in the English Civil War, and subsequently became a strong adherent of Oliver Cromwell, whose third daughter, Mary, he married in 1657. His father died in 1647 and he succeeded his grandfather to the viscounty of Fauconberg in the Bishopric of Durham in 1652.[3]
Career
Belasyse again became a Royalist at the Restoration of the monarchy, and was appointed a member of the Privy Council of England by Charles II and Captain of the Guard (in which office he succeeded his uncle Lord Belasyse). He also served as English ambassador in Venice. He was Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire (1660–1692), with responsibility for the North York Militia, personally commanding one of the Troops of Horse.[4] He was one of the noblemen who joined in inviting William of Orange to England, and was by that king created Earl Fauconberg, in the Peerage of England, on 9 April 1689.[3]
Fauconberg died on 31 December 1700, and was buried in the family vault in Coxwold. He had no children; on his death, the earldom became extinct, but his viscountcy passed to his nephew, Thomas Belasyse, 3rd Viscount Fauconberg.
Family
On 3 July 1651 Fauconberg married Mildred, daughter of Nicholas Saunderson, 2nd Viscount Castleton. She died 8 May 1656.[5] On 18 November 1657, he married Mary Cromwell, the third daughter of Oliver Cromwell.[6] She outlived her husband by thirteen years dying on 14 March 1713.[7]
Bibliography
While he was in Italy, Fauconberg translated and published the Histoire du gouvernement de Venise, by Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye.[8]
Arms
See also
- Green Ribbon Club, post-restoration political club of which Fauconberg was a member. The Green Ribbon had been used as the badge of the Levellers in the English Civil Wars, in which many of them had fought, and was an overt reminder of their radical origins.
- Earl Fauconberg (1765 ship) – ship built at Whitby that became a Greenland whaler and was lost there in 1821.
References
- ^ Also referred to as "Lord Falconbridge" in some sources (Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 804.) "Lord ..." was a title used by those who attended Cromwell's Other House (1658–1659)
- ^ Stater 2004.
- ^ a b Keary 1885.
- ^ Major Robert Bell Turton, The History of the North York Militia, now known as the Fourth Battalion Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment), Leeds: Whitehead, 1907/Stockton-on-Tees: Patrick & Shotton, 1973, ISBN 0-903169-07-X, pp. 26–7; Appendix R.
- ^ University of London, Institute of Historical Research. Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 4, Longmans, Green, 1926. p. 26
- ^ Sherwood p. 115
- ^ Grant p .8
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 804."
- Attributionn
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Keary, Charles Francis (1885). "Belasyse, Thomas". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 142.
Sources
- Stater, Victor (2004). "Belasyse, Thomas, first Earl Fauconberg". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1978. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Grant, Peter, "Belasyse [née Cromwell], Mary, Countess Fauconberg (bap. 1637, d. 1713)", Oxford University Press 2004–2008, Bellasis family 1500–1653, page 7. Website of Ingilby History, Retrieved 5 March 2010
- Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris & Courthope, William. The historic peerage of England: exhibiting, under alphabetical arrangement, the origin, descent, and present state of every title of peerage which has existed in this country since the Conquest; being a new edition of the "Synopsis of the Peerage of England", John Murray, 1857
- Sherwood, Roy Edward (1997). Oliver Cromwell: king in all but name, 1653–1658. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-17659-7.
Further reading
- Stater, Victor "Belasyse, Thomas, first Earl Fauconberg (1627/8–1700)", Oxford University Press 2004–2008, Bellasis family 1500–1653, pages 5,5. Website of Ingilby History, Retrieved 5 March 2010
- McNeill, Ronald John (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). pp. 550–551. .
5 Annotations
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Phil • Link
Husband of Mary http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… (daughter of Oliver Cromwell).
Vicente • Link
Thomas Belasyse, 2nd Viscount, Earl Fauconberg (bpt 16.03.1627/8, dsp 31.12.1700)
m1. (03.07.1651) Mildred Saunderson (d 08.05.1656, dau of Nicholas Saunderson, 2nd Viscount Castleton) m2. (18.11.1657)
Mary Cromwell (bpt 09.02.1636/7, d 14.03.1712/3, dau of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector)http://www.stirnet.com/…
The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms: The Common Law ...
very interesting article on the proliferation of weapons held in the house holds of England
... See, eg., Letter Book of Thomas Belasyse, Viscount Fauconberg Lord Lieutenant
of the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1665-84
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"...To grasp the magnitude of the problem that awaited Charles II upon his return in 1660 it is useful to get some idea of the numbers of firearms kept in private homes. In ordinary times each household was expected to possess arms suitable to its defense, but what was considered suitable? It is possible to obtain an indication of what was regarded as a minimal arsenal by examining the responses of those charged by Charles II's government with stockpiling weapons. For example, in 1660, in reply to allegations that he had concealed weapons, one Robert Hope pleaded that in the past he had, indeed, kept guns for neighbors, but at present he had only "one light rapire and a small birdinge gunne ..."
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Dave • Link
Lord Falconbridge, Crazy guy?
Second Reading
Bill • Link
BELASYSE, THOMAS, Earl Fauconberg (1627-1700), supporter of Cromwell; married Mary, Cromwell's daughter, 1657; privy councillor of Charles II.
---Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome. S. Lee, 1906.
San Diego Sarah • Link
Sir Thomas and Lady Mary Cromwell Belasyse, Earl and Countess of Fauconberg, lived in London at Fauconberg House, on the north side of Sutton Street, and the eastern side of Soho Square.[3] 3 Anderson (1862), p. 29.
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