William Monson, 1st Viscount Monson
William Monson, 1st Viscount Monson (died c. 1672)[1] was one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England.[2][3]
Monson was knighted in 1623 and created
Biography
William Monson was the son of Admiral William Monson and Dorothy Smith, daughter of Richard Wallop of Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire.[4] He was promoted unsuccessfully as a court favourite in 1618 by the Earl of Suffolk, but was knighted on 12 February 1623,[4] and was raised to the peerage of Ireland as Baron Monson of Ballingard, County Limerick and Viscount Monson, of Castlemaine, County Kerry, by letters patent dated 23 August 1628[5] On 13 August 1633 he became a member of Gray's Inn.[6] By his first marriage he acquired an estate at Reigate, Surrey,[7] but owing to his dissolute habits he was soon in debt. He refused to pay ship-money,[8] and when elected M.P. for Reigate, 21 October 1640, he opposed the court, and subsequently acted as a committee-man for Surrey.[9]His third wife, Elizabeth, is regarded as an early feminist. She is reputed, with the help of her maids, to have tied her husband naked to the bedpost and whipped him because she disagreed with his political views. Despite this, he supported the Parliamentary side.[10]
On being nominated one of
At the
Family
Monson married,
- firstly, James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Moray, and widow of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham (1536–1624);[3]
- secondly, Frances, daughter of Thomas Alston of Polstead, Suffolk, by whom he left a son Alston (died 1674 without issue);[3]
- thirdly, Elizabeth (died 1695), second daughter of Sir John Reresby, Lady Monson was restored to her title of Viscountess Castlemaine.[19]
Notes
- ^ or Viscount Mounson
- ^ a b Lee 1903, p. 803.
- ^ a b c d e Goodwin 1894, p. 202.
- ^ a b Goodwin & Gurney 2004.
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 201 cites Burke, Extinct Peerage, 1883, p. 371.
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 201 cites Register, ed. Foster, p. 201.
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 201 cites Brayley and Britton Surrey, iv. 219-23.
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 201 cites Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1637-8, p. 198
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 201.
- ^ Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 202 cites Nalson, Trial of Charles I, ed. 1684.
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 202 cites Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1649–50, p. 1.
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 202 cites Commons' Journals, vi. 264.
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 202 cites England's Confusion, 1659, p. 10.
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 202 cites Commons' Journals, viii. 60, 70, 285–6.
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 202 cites Hist. MSS. Comm, 7th Rep. pp. ix, 150.
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 202 cites Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1661-2, p. 225; Pepys, Diary, ed. Bright, i. 407, 528–9.
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 202 cites Nichols, Collectanea, ii. 82.
- ^ Goodwin 1894, p. 202 cites Reresby, Memoirs, ed. Cartwright, p. 13.
References
- Goodwin, Gordon; Gurney, John (reviewer) (2004). "Monson, William". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18992. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Monson, Sir William (d. 1672?)". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 889.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Goodwin, Gordon (1894). "Monson, William (d.1672?)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 202, 203. Endnotes:
- Noble's Lives of the English Regicides
- Collins's Peerage, 1812, vii. 239–40; Commons' Journals, ii. 200, 549, 556, 955
- The Traytor's Pilgrimage from the Tower to Tyburn
Further reading
- Plant, David. "William, Viscount Monson (Mounson), Regicide, d.c.1673". British Civil Wars and Commonwealth website. Retrieved 22 July 2009.