The Tresham Baronetcy, of Rushton in the County of Northamptonsire, was a title in the

Baronetage of England Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) King James I ...

. It was created on 29 June 1611 for Lewis Tresham. He was the son of

Sir Thomas Tresham Sir Thomas Tresham (1543 – 11 September 1605) was a prominent recusant Catholic landowner in Elizabethan Northamptonshire. He died two years after the accession of James VI and I. Life Tresham was brought up in the Throckmorton household. He ...

, the great-grandson of

and the younger brother of Francis Tresham. As a member of a prominent Roman Catholic family, Lewis was fined for

recusancy Recusancy (from la, recusare, translation=to refuse) was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation. The 1558 Recusancy Acts passed in the reign ...

in the reign of

James I James I may refer to: People *James I of Aragon (1208–1276) *James I of Sicily or James II of Aragon (1267–1327) *James I, Count of La Marche (1319–1362), Count of Ponthieu *James I, Count of Urgell (1321–1347) *James I of Cyprus (1334–13 ...

. The Treshams were Northamptonshire landowners, owning

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, and other manors at Great Houghton, Hannington, Pilton, Rushton and

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. The title was inherited by Lewis' younger brother, William, who fought on the Royalist side in the

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as Colonel of the English regiment in Flanders. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in c. 1642.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage'' 1900
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Tresham baronets, of Rushton (1611)

*Sir Lewis Tresham, 1st Baronet (–1639) *Sir William Tresham, 2nd Baronet (died )

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{{s-end Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England