Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg
The Earl Fauconberg | |
|---|---|
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 | c. 1627 Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire |
| Died | 31 December 1700 (aged 73) Sutton House, London |
| Resting place | St Michael's, Coxwold |
| Nationality | English |
| Spouse(s) | Mildred Saunderson 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 PC (c. 1627 – ; 31 December 1700) was an English peer.[1] He supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War, becoming closely associated with Oliver Cromwell and marrying Cromwell's third daughter, Mary Cromwell. After the Restoration of the monarchy of the monarchy, he became a member of the Privy Council under Charles II and was created an earl by William of Orange.
Biography
Belasyse was the only son of Henry Belasyse, and Grace Barton.; His grandfather, Thomas Belasyse, was a Royalist who went into exile after the defeat at the Marston Moor in 1644.[2]
Unlike his Royalist father and grandfather, Belasyse supported Parliament during the English Civil War and subsequently became a strong adherent of Oliver Cromwell. He married Cromwell's third daughter, Mary, in 1657. His father died in 1647, and he succeeded his grandfather as Viscount Fauconberg in the Bishopric of Durham in 1652.[3]
Career
Belasyse aligned himself with the Royalist cause at the time of the Restoration of the monarchy. He was appointed a member of the Privy Council of England by Charles II and Captain of the Guard, succeeding his uncle The Lord Belasyse in the latter office. He also served as English ambassador in Venice. He was Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire from 1660 to ;1692, with responsibility for the North York Militia, personally commanding one of the Troops of Horse.[4] He was among the noblemen who invited William of Orange to England, and was created Earl Fauconberg, in the Peerage of England, by that king on 9 April 1689.[3]
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.
Family
On 3 July 1651, Fauconberg married Mildred, daughter of Nicholas Saunderson, 2nd Viscount Castleton. She died on 8 May 1656.[5] On 18 November 1657, he married Mary Cromwell, the third daughter of Oliver Cromwell.[6] She outlived her husband by thirteen years, dying on 14 March 1713.[7]
Bibliography
While in Italy, Fauconberg translated and published the Histoire du gouvernement de Venise, by Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye.[8]
Arms
See also
- Green Ribbon Club, a 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, serving as an overt reminder of their radical origins.
- Earl Fauconberg (1765 ship) – a 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.
- ^ Major Robert Bell Turton, The History of the North York Militia, now known as the Fourth Battalion Alexandra Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment), Leeds: Whitehead, 1907/Stockton-on-Tees: Patrick & Shotton, 1973, ISBN 0-903169-07-X, pp. 26–7; Appendix R.
- ^ 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."
- Attribution
- 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". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1978. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- 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.