Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby
Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (12 October 1555 – 25 June 1601) was the son of
River Rhine
.
Early life
Born on 12 October 1555, he was baptized at the church of
Saint Willibrord in Wesel on 14 October. On Elizabeth I's accession to the throne in 1558, his parents returned to England and applied for a patent of naturalization for him. He formally became English on 2 August 1559. He married Mary de Vere, daughter of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford, between Christmas 1577 and 12 March 1578.[2] When his mother died in 1580, he succeeded to her barony and he took his seat in the House of Lords
on 16 January 1580.
Diplomat and soldier
In 1582, he was commissioned to escort the
Henry III of Navarre and to obtain Danish help for England's efforts on behalf of the independent Netherlands
.
These journeys were made at Bertie's expense as his correspondence with
Huguenots under Henry of Navarre. He commanded the English contingent at Henry's Siege of Paris
in 1590.
Bertie's final appointment was Governor of
He had married (and separated from) Mary de Vere, the daughter of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford. They had at seven children: Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey (d. 1642), Sir Peregrine Bertie (d. 1639), Henry Bertie of Lound (d. 1655), Katherine, Henry, Vere, Roger and an other.[5]
Landowner
It was on Peregrine's estate at
John Smith of Jamestown
rented a farm which was the site of John's birth.
Popular song
The military career of Baron Willoughby is celebrated in the popular
Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home
".
Notes
- ^ Lee, Sidney (1885). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 04. pp. 404–407.
- ^ Nelson p. 179
- ^ Adams p. 326
- ^ Ridpath, George, The Border History of England and Scotland, Mercat Press (repr. 1984), 477, 480.
- ^ Maddison, A. R. (1902). Lincolnshire Pedigrees. Vol. v. I. pp. 129–130.
References
- Nelson, A. H.: Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford Liverpool University Press 2003 ISBN 0-85323-688-7
- Adams, Simon (ed.): Household Accounts and Disbursement Books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester Cambridge University Press 1995 ISBN 0-521-55156-0
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