Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg
PC (c. 1627 – 31 December 1700) was an
English peer. He supported the
Parliamentary
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cause in the
English Civil War
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, becoming close to
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three K ...
and marrying Cromwell's third daughter,
Mary
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. After the
Restoration of the monarchy he became a member of the
Privy Council to
Charles II and was elevated to an earldom by
William III.
Biography
Belasyse was the only son of
Henry Belasyse, and Grace Barton; his grandfather,
Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg, was a
Royalist
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, who went into exile after being defeated at
Marston Moor
The Battle of Marston Moor was fought on 2 July 1644, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms of 1639 – 1653. The combined forces of the English Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Manchester and the Scottish Covenanters un ...
in 1644.
Unlike his
Royalist
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father and grandfather, Belasyse supported Parliament in 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 subsequently became a strong adherent of
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three K ...
, whose third daughter, Mary, he married in 1657. His father died in 1647 and he succeeded his grandfather to the
viscounty of Fauconberg in the Bishopric of Durham in 1652.
Career
Belasyse again became a Royalist at the
Restoration of the monarchy, and was appointed a member of the Privy Council of England by
Charles II and Captain of the Guard (in which office he succeeded his uncle
Lord Belasyse). He also served as English ambassador in
Venice
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. He was
Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire (1660–1692). He was one of the noblemen who joined in inviting
William of Orange to England, and was by that king created Earl Fauconberg, in the
Peerage of England, on 9 April 1689.
Fauconberg died on 31 December 1700, and was buried in the family vault in Coxwold. He had no children; on his death, the earldom became extinct, but his viscountcy passed to his nephew,
Thomas Belasyse, 3rd Viscount Fauconberg.
Family
On 3 July 1651 Fauconberg married Mildred, daughter of
Nicholas Saunderson, 2nd Viscount Castleton
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. She died 8 May 1656. On 18 November 1657, he married
Mary Cromwell, the third daughter of
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three K ...
. She outlived her husband by thirteen years dying on 14 March 1713.
Bibliography
While he was in Italy, Fauconberg translated and published the ''Histoire du gouvernement de Venise'', by
Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye.
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Arms
See also
*
Green Ribbon Club
The Green Ribbon Club was one of the earliest of the loosely combined associations which met from time to time in London taverns or coffeehouses for political purposes in the 17th century. The green ribbon was the badge of the Levellers in the Eng ...
, post-restoration political club of which Fauconberg was a member. The Green Ribbon had been used as the badge of the
Levellers
The Levellers were a political movement active during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms who were committed to popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law and religious tolerance. The hallmark of Leveller thought was its populis ...
in the English Civil Wars, in which many of them had fought, and was an overt reminder of their radical origins.
* – ship built at Whitby that became a Greenland whaler and was lost there in 1821.
References
;Attributionn
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Sources
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*Grant, Peter, "Belasyse
ée Cromwell Mary, Countess Fauconberg (bap. 1637, d. 1713)", Oxford University Press 2004–2008,
Bellasis family 1500–1653', page 7. Website o
Retrieved 5 March 2010
*
Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris &
Courthope, William. ''The historic peerage of England: exhibiting, under alphabetical arrangement, the origin, descent, and present state of every title of peerage which has existed in this country since the Conquest ; being a new edition of the "Synopsis of the Peerage of England"'', John Murray, 1857
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Further reading
*Stater, Victor "Belasyse, Thomas, first Earl Fauconberg (1627/8–1700)", Oxford University Press 2004–2008,
Bellasis family 1500–1653', pages 5,5. Website o
Retrieved 5 March 2010
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External links
by
Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell (; 31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend ...
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1627 births
1700 deaths
Earls in the Peerage of England
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