Thomas Tresham (died 1605)
Sir Thomas Tresham (1543 – 11 September 1605 Tresham was brought up in the Throckmorton household. He inherited large estates in 1559 from his grandfather and namesake 
Life
Well read, Tresham dedicated much of his life to collecting books. He was picked as
He left three notable buildings in Northamptonshire, the extraordinary Rushton Triangular Lodge and the unfinished Lyveden New Bield, both of which embody the strength of his faith. The Triangular Lodge bears witness to Tresham's fidelity to the doctrine of the Trinity. There was also a more personal connection: above the door, we find the inscription 'Tres testimonium dant' ('the three bear witness', or, perhaps, 'Tres bears witness'). 'Tres' may be a moment of self-reference; it was his wife's pet name for him.[5] Tresham himself was the architect of these designs, and the extant family papers in the British Library reveal some of his plans. His sense of civic responsibility in local society, occasioned by his gentility and the expectations of his rank and family practice, led him to begin building the Market House at Rothwell in 1577, thought to be a sessions house and decorated with the arms of other local families.[6] Sir Thomas was a considerable landowner at his death in 1605, but his estate had £11,000 of debt (equivalent to £2.61 million in 2021).[3]
Marriage and children
In 1566, he married Muriel, a daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton and Elizabeth Hussey. Throckmorton was the grandson of Elizabeth FitzHugh, who was mother to William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton by her first marriage. Lord Parr was a great-grandfather of Tresham. The Throckmorton family was a wealthy Catholic family from Coughton Court in Warwickshire and Tresham had been Sir Robert's ward. Muriel Tresham once wrote to the Countess of Bedford for her help, as a "lowly wife on my knees with importunacy."[7]
Thomas and Muriel had eleven children, including;
- Francis (d. December 1605)
- Mary (d. 13 October 1664); married Thomas Brudenell, 1st Earl of Cardigan
- Elizabeth; married William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle
- Frances; married Edward Stourton, 10th Baron Stourton
- Catherine (died 1623), who married Sir John Webb and was mother to Sir John Webb, 1st Baronet. Catherine, Lady Webb, was killed in the accident known as the Fatal Vespers.[8]
- Bridget; married Edward Parham (died 1633).
His elder son,
References
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Notes
- ^ ISBN 978-0-300-09632-3.
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- ^ a b UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27712. Retrieved 24 February 2015. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Historic England. "Rushton Triangular Lodge (1052038)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
- ^ Heal, Felicity; Holmes, Clive (1994). The Gentry in England and Wales, 1500-1700. Stanford and Basingstoke: Stanford University Press and Macmillan.
- ^ Gary Schneider, The Culture of Epistolarity (Newark, 2005), p. 117.
- ^ Michael Questier, Stuart Dynastic Policy and Religious Politics, 1621-1625 (Cambridge, 2009), p. 229.
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