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Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet (c. 1604 – 31 January 1665) was an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster. He was the son of
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The engraving is dedicated in Latin: ''PM praenobilis Richardi Grossvenour de Eaton in Comitatu Cestriae Equitis Auratis et Baronetti ex stirpe comitatum Cestriae ut abunde patet in archivi A* Regis Ric(ardi) 2'' ("(In honour of (?)) the most noble Richard Grosvenor of Eaton in the County of Chester, Knight Bachelor and Baronet, from the stock of the Earls of Chester as is abundantly apparent in the archives "A*" of King Richard II"). The arms of Grosvenor are shown at right bottom, featuring the Garb of Chester and a canton of a baronet.
Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet (c. 1604 – 31 January 1665) was an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster. He was the son of Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baronet (9 January 1585 – 14 September 1645) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629. He is an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster.
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and Lettice Cholmondley, daughter of Sir Hugh Cholmondeley. He spent his childhood at Eaton Hall, Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...
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In 1628 he married Sydney, daughter of Sir Roger Mostyn of Mostyn
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, thereby also gaining estates in north Wales.
Sir Richard was involved in the Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
on the Royalist
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side. In 1643 he was High Sheriff of Cheshire
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and in February of that year outlawed those who supported the Parliamentary
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cause in the Battle of Edgehill
The Battle of Edgehill (or Edge Hill) was a pitched battle of the First English Civil War. It was fought near Edge Hill and Kineton in southern Warwickshire on Sunday, 23 October 1642.
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in the previous October.
In July 1659, Sir Richard was a supporter of Sir George Booth in the abortive pro-Royalist Cheshire and Lancashire Rising. Sir Richard's son and heir, Roger, was killed in a duel by his cousin, Hugh Roberts, on 22 August 1661.
When Sir Richard died in 1665, he was succeeded by his grandson Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet
Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet (20 November 1656 – 2 July 1700) was an English Member of Parliament, and an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster. He was the first member of the family to build a substantial house on the present ...
, who was aged only eight at the time.
Dedication by Wenceslaus Hollar
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Hugh d'Avranches ( 1047 – 27 July 1101), nicknamed ''le Gros'' (the Large) or ''Lupus'' (the Wolf), was from 1071 the second Norman Earl of Chester and one of the great magnates of early Norman England.
Early life and career
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Earle of Chester sitting in his parliament with the barons and abbots of that Countie Palatine" was engraved in 1656 by Wenceslaus Hollar
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, and published as an illustration to King's 'The Vale-Royall of England' and 'A Short Treatise of the Isle of Man' (London: 1656); second state.(British Library/British Museum, ID: 1850,0223.2The engraving is dedicated in Latin: ''PM praenobilis Richardi Grossvenour de Eaton in Comitatu Cestriae Equitis Auratis et Baronetti ex stirpe comitatum Cestriae ut abunde patet in archivi A* Regis Ric(ardi) 2'' ("(In honour of (?)) the most noble Richard Grosvenor of Eaton in the County of Chester, Knight Bachelor and Baronet, from the stock of the Earls of Chester as is abundantly apparent in the archives "A*" of King Richard II"). The arms of Grosvenor are shown at right bottom, featuring the Garb of Chester and a canton of a baronet.
References
Year of birth uncertain 1600s births 1665 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Baronet High Sheriffs of Cheshire {{England-baronet-stub