Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln
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| Succeeded by | The Lord Howard of Effingham |
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| Born | 1512 Manor of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 16 January 1584/85 London, England |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Blount Ursula Stourton Elizabeth FitzGerald |
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Edward Clinton, or Fiennes, was born at
Clinton succeeded his father as 9th Baron Clinton in 1517. As he was only five years old when his father died, he was made a royal ward in the Court of Wards and by 1530 had been married to the King's former mistress, the 30-year-old Elizabeth Blount.
Career
France
Clinton joined the
Scotland
In August 1547, Clinton was sent to Scotland with a fleet of twelve ships to support the Siege of St Andrews Castle and prevent a French intervention, but he arrived too late. He captured Broughty Castle on 24 September, refortified it with the aid of an Italian military engineer, and installed Andrew Dudley as its captain, leaving him three ships, the Mary Hamborough, the Barque Eger, and the Phoenix.[6]
Clinton commanded the English fleet during the invasion of Scotland by Edward Seymour and provided naval artillery support at the Battle of Pinkie on 15 September 1547. In August 1548 he sailed into the Firth of Forth and scattered French and Scottish ships near Leith. He then landed 500 men to burn the ships in the harbour of Burntisland and contemplated fortifying the harbour for English use. He was aboard the Great Barque.[7]
Governor of Boulogne
Appointed as Governor of Boulogne in 1547, Clinton successfully defended the city against a French siege from 1549 to 1550. That same year, with
He was a commander of the expedition of
Northern Rebellion
With
In 1541-42 following the dissolution of the monasteries, Clinton and his wife, Ursula, were granted the lands of the earlier Aslackby Preceptory of the Knights Templar—later belonging to the Knights Hospitaller—at Aslackby in Lincolnshire.[8]
Marriage and children
He married three times:
- Firstly to Elizabeth Blount (d. 1539), Henry VIII's former mistress, by whom he produced three daughters:
- Lady Bridget Clinton (born c. 1536), married Catholic and was declared a martyrafter his death.
- Lady Katherine Clinton (c. 1538 – 14 August 1621), married William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh of Gainsborough (c. 1522 – 10 October 1584), son of Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh.[9][10] They had two children which included Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh.[9][10]
- Lady Margaret Clinton (born c. 1539), married Charles Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham (died 1603), and had five children.
- Lady Bridget Clinton (born c. 1536), married
- Secondly to Ursula Stourton, daughter of William Stourton, 7th Baron Stourton by whom he produced five children:
- Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl of Lincoln, (1540 – 29 September 1616) eldest son and heir.
- Lady Anne Clinton (1542–1629), married Sir William Ayscough (1541-22 Aug 1585).[11]
- Thomas Clinton (1548–1610); he married Mary Tyrell.
- Lady Frances Clinton (1552 – 12 September 1623). She was born at Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire and died at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. She married Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos.
- Lady Elizabeth Clinton (1554–1634).
- Thirdly on 1 October 1552 to Elizabeth FitzGerald ("the fair Geraldine"), daughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare and the widow of Sir Anthony Browne. The marriage was childless.
Death
He died in London on 16 January 1585.
Notes
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Rose Whetehill (1472-1521+), A Who’s Who of Tudor Women: W-Wh, compiled by Kathy Lynn Emerson to update and correct Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England (1984) Archived 21 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Stevens 2004.
- ^ Cokayne 1945, p. 669.
- ^ Robertson 2004.
- ^ Joseph Bain, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1547-1563, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1898), pp. 13-14, 21.
- ^ Joseph Bain, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1547-1563, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1898), p. 159.
- ^ Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1933, p.42
- ^ a b Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 587.
- ^ a b George Edward Cokayne. Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, Volume 2, G. Bell & sons, 1889, pp 76-77. Google eBook
- ^ Metcalfe, Walter C. (1881). The Visitation of the County of Lincoln in 1562-4. London, England: George Bell and Sons. pp. 6–7. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
References
- Cokayne, George Edward (1945). The Complete Peerage, edited by H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White and Lord Howard de Walden. Vol. X. London: St Catherine Press. pp. 668–9.
- Robertson, Mary L. (2004). "Wingfield, Sir Robert (b. in or before 1464, d. 1539)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29741. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Stevens, M.A. (2004). "Poynings, Sir Adrian (1512?–1571)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65669. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Leadam, Isaac Saunders (1900). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 62. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Further reading
- Charles William Chadwick Oman, A History in the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century, New York, 1937
- Michael Sanderson, Sea Battles, London, 1975
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