Henry Mordaunt, 4th Baron Mordaunt (died 1608) was an English landowner involved in the

Gunpowder Plot The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby who sought ...

He was the son of

Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt (21 September 1538 – 16 June 1601) was an English peer and politician. He was the son of John Mordaunt, 2nd Baron Mordaunt and Ela (née FitzLewis) Mordaunt. He became the third Baron Mordaunt in 1571 on the ...

and Elizabeth Darcy. The family house was

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. Mordaunt was at

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with a welcoming party for

James VI and I James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until ...

in April 1603. While he was there he discussed plans to cut timber in Brigstock park. There were riots at Brigstock in May and Mordaunt went to read a royal proclamation to restore order.

Francis Tresham Francis Tresham ( 1567 – 23 December 1605), eldest son of Thomas Tresham and Muriel Throckmorton, was a member of the group of English provincial Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a conspiracy to assassinate King Jam ...

, later a Gunpowder plot conspirator, was involved in the controversy at Brigstock. He entertained King James and

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at his house at

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, with musicians and singers in August 1605. The queen's secretary, William Fowler, was also present. Mordaunt was imprisoned in the

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on suspicion of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, for his correspondence with

Everard Digby Sir Everard Digby (c. 1578 – 30 January 1606) was a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Although he was raised in a Protestant household, and married a Protestant, Digby and his ...

. He was released on 3 June 1606.John Nichols, ''Progresses of James the First'', vol. 1 (London, 1828), p. 523. He died in 1608.

Marriage and family

He married Margaret Compton, a daughter of

Henry Compton, 1st Baron Compton Henry Compton, 1st Baron Compton (14 July 1544 – 10 December 1589), was an English peer and Member of Parliament. Compton was the posthumous son of Peter Compton of Compton Wynyates and his wife Anne, daughter of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shr ...

. Their children included: *

John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough (died 1642) was an English peer. Life He was the eldest son of Henry Mordaunt, 4th Baron Mordaunt, a Roman Catholic kept for a year in the Tower of London on suspicion of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, ...

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