Sir Henry Bedingfeld, 1st Baronet (1614 – 1685) was a landowner and baronet.

Life

He was the eldest son of

Sir Henry Bedingfield Sir Henry Bedingfeld (1505–1583F. Blomefield, 'Oxburgh', in ''An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk'', Vol. 6: Hundred of South Greenhoe (W. Miller, London 1807)pp. 168-97(British History Online), accessed 5 Febru ...

Oxburgh Hall Oxburgh Hall is a moated country house in Oxborough, Norfolk, England. The hall was built for Sir Edmund Bedingfeld who obtained a licence to crenellate in 1482. The Bedingfelds gained the manor of Oxborough through marriage in the early 15th ...

(c1587–1657) by his second marriage to Elizabeth Houghton. The family were Catholics. His father and elder half-brother, Colonel Thomas Bedingfield (c1605–1685), were both active in the royalist cause during the

English Civil War The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians (" Roundheads") and Royalists led by Charles I ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of re ...

and spent time in prison and with the exiles on the Continent. The family's estate was impoverished by the parliamentary exactions for their royalism and their recusancy. Following the restoration of Charles II, Colonel Thomas Bedingfield began the process of attempting to recover his estate. In a petition to the king he calculated the loss to be £60,000, of which he had been paid £21,000. Presumably it was as compensation that Henry Bedingfield was created a baronet in January 1661. (The title going to the younger half-brother as heir apparent to Thomas, who had no son.) In 1685 Henry inherited Oxburgh from his half-brother Thomas, although the hall was too dilapidated for habitation.

Family

He married Margaret (c1619-1703), daughter of Edward Paston of Appleton, Norfolk: *Henry (d. 1704) married 1) Anne, daughter of

Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Berkshire Charles Howard, 2nd Earl of Berkshire KB (1615 – April 1679) was an English peer, styled Viscount Andover from 1626 to 1669, was the eldest son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire and his wife Lady Elizabeth Cecil. Early career Howard was ...

by whom he had no children and 2) Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne, Cornwall by whom he had Henry, who became the 3rd baronet and two daughters Margaret and Frances *John (d. 1693) married Dorothy, daughter and co-heir of John Ramsey esq. *Edward, a barrister, married Mary, daughter of Sir Clement Fisher bart. *Elizabeth married Thomas Weetenhall esq. *Johanna married Richard Caryll esq. of

Harting Harting is a civil parish in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England. It is situated on the northern flank of the South Downs, around southeast of Petersfield in Hampshire. It comprises the village of South Harting and the hamlets of Eas ...

, Sussex *Mary married Thomas Eyre esq. of assop Hall Derbyshire *Anne and Margaret became Carmelite nuns at Lierreref name=nuns /> He and his parents are commemorated by a monument erected by his widow in the Bedingfield chapel in St John's church,

Oxborough Oxborough is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, well known for its church and manor house Oxburgh Hall. It covers an area of and had a population of 240 in 106 households in the 2001 census, reducing to a population ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bedingfeld, Henry 1614 births 1685 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England