William Willoughby, 3rd Baron Willoughby of Parham (1584 – 28 August 1617) was an English peer.
He was born in
Knaith
Knaith is a village and civil parish about south of the town of Gainsborough in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 335.
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, England, the son of William Willoughby and Elizabeth Hilyard. He inherited his title in 1603 from his grandfather,
Charles Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham.
[A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland p. 577]
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On 4 February 1602/03, he married Frances Manners, daughter of John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland
John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland (c. 1559 – 24 February 1588) was the son of Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, and Lady Margaret Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland.
Marriage and children
He married Elizabeth Cha ...
, and Elizabeth Charlton.[ He had three sons. Henry, 4th Baron, Francis, 5th Baron, and William, 6th Baron, and a daughter Frances Willoughby (died 1649), who married Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605–1675), ]Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and later of Great Britain, was formerly an officer of the English Crown charged with physical custody of the Great Seal of England. This position evolved into that of one of the Great Officers of S ...
, and was the mother of six daughters and Sir William Whitelock.Humphry William Woolrych
Humphry William Woolrych (1795–1871) was an English lawyer, known as a legal writer and biographer.
Life
He was the son of Humphry Cornewall Woolrych and Elizabeth, elder daughter of William Bentley of Red Lion Square, London, and was born at S ...
, ''Eminent Serjeants-at-law of the English bar'' (Vol. 1, 1869)
p. 381
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References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Willoughby Of Parham, William Willoughby, 3rd Baron
1584 births
1617 deaths
Barons Willoughby of Parham