Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg
The Earl Fauconberg | |
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 Thomas Belasyse, aged 24 | |
| 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 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
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
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.[4] On 18 November 1657, he married Mary Cromwell, the third daughter of Oliver Cromwell.[5] She outlived her husband by thirteen years dying on 14 March 1713.[6]
Bibliography
While he was in Italy, Fauconberg translated and published the Histoire du gouvernement de Venise, by Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye.[7]
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.
- ^ 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". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1978. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- 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.
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