Cholmondeley family interred in Malpas Vault

Sir Hugh Cholmondeley (1513 – 6 January 1596) was an

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soldier.

Life

Cholmondeley was the second son of Richard Cholmondeley (not to be confused with a cousin,

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) and Elizabeth Brereton. The Cholmondeley family had held the lordship of Cholmondeley in Cheshire since the time of the

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. He succeeded his elder brother who died in 1539. He fought against the Scots in 1542 and for this he was knighted by King Henry VIII. In 1557, he raised one hundred men at his own expense and joined the

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in his expedition against an invading Scottish army. Apart from his military career he was also High Sheriff (six times between 1547 and 1588), Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire (1569, 1585, 1587),

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(1579 to his death) and

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for 1582–83.

Family

Cholmondeley married heiress Ann Dorman, daughter of George Dorman of Malpas. British_School_17th_century_-_The_Cholmondeley_Ladies_-_Google_Art_Project

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Cholmondeley died in January 1596 and was buried at Malpas. He was succeeded by his son, Sir Hugh Cholmondeley (MP for Cheshire in 1585, knighted in 1588, and High Sheriff of Cheshire for 1589). Sir Hugh the younger (1552–1601) married Mary Holford and had five sons and three daughters.Susanna Calkins, 'Cholmondeley , Mary, Lady Cholmondeley (bap. 1563, d. 1625)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
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was created

Earl of Leinster Earl of Leinster was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 3 March 1646 for Robert Cholmondeley. He had already been created a baronet, of Cholmondeley in the County of Chester, in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611, and Visc ...

in 1646; another son, Hugh, was the ancestor of the Marquesses of Cholmondeley; while yet another son, Thomas, was the ancestor of the Barons Delamere; his daughter Lettice Cholmondeley married

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. His wife Lady Cholmondeley gained fame in her own right for her lawsuit against her uncle George Holford over the inheritance of her father's estates.

References

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Sources

* *Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cholmondeley, Hugh 1513 births 1596 deaths English knights 16th-century English soldiers High Sheriffs of Cheshire High Sheriffs of Flintshire Hugh