Sir Thomas Jermyn (1573–1645) of

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, was an English courtier and

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who served as a

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between 1604 and 1640.

Early life

Jermyn was the son of Sir

Robert Jermyn Sir Robert Jermyn DL (1539–1614) was a prominent East Anglian landowner and magistrate, of strongly reformist views in religion, who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1589. Jermyn was the eldest surviving son of ...

of Rushbrooke. He was admitted at

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in 1585. He was knighted at Rouen, France, in 1591 and became a

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in 1603.

Career

In 1604 Jermyn was elected as a

for

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in Hampshire, which seat he held until 1611. In 1614 he was elected as an MP for the prestigious county seat of

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. He was elected for

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, Suffolk, in the elections in 1621, 1623, 1625, 1626 and 1628. In 1629 King Charles I decided to rule for eleven years without parliament. In April 1640 Jermyn was re-elected for Bury St Edmunds in the

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. He became

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in 1640, and served as

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between 1639 and 1641. He fought as a Royalist during the

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, became disabled through injury in 1644 and died in the following year aged 72.

Marriage and issue

Catherine Killigrew Lady Jermyn Marcus Gheeraerts II (Yale)

Jermyn married Catherine Killigrew (born 1579), a daughter of Sir William Killigrew (died 1622) of

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, Middlesex, a courtier to Queen Elizabeth I and to King James I, whom he served as

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. Her portrait by

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(1561–1636) survives in the collection of the

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, Connecticut, USA. By his wife he had issue including: * Thomas Jermyn (died 1659), eldest surviving son, MP for Bury St Edmunds; *

Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of Saint Albans, (25 March 1605 (baptised) – January 1684) was an English politician and courtier. He sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1643 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Jermyn. ...

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