Henry Mordaunt, 4th Baron Mordaunt
Henry Mordaunt, 4th Baron Mordaunt (died 1608) was an English landowner involved in the Gunpowder Plot.
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He was the son of Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt and Elizabeth Darcy. The family house was Drayton House.
Mordaunt was at Apethorpe with a welcoming party for James VI and I in April 1603. While he was there he discussed plans to cut timber in Brigstock park. There were riots at Brigstock in May and Mordaunt went to read a royal proclamation to restore order.[1] Francis Tresham, later a Gunpowder plot conspirator, was involved in the controversy at Brigstock.[2]
He entertained King James and Anne of Denmark at his house at Drayton, Northamptonshire, with musicians and singers in August 1605.[3] The queen's secretary, William Fowler, was also present.[4]
Mordaunt was imprisoned in the Tower of London on suspicion of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, for his correspondence with Everard Digby. He was released on 3 June 1606.[5]
He died in 1608.
Marriage and family
He married Margaret Compton, a daughter of Henry Compton, 1st Baron Compton. Their children included:
References
- ^ HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 15 (London, 1930), pp. 60, 71.
- ^ HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 23 (London, 1974), pp. 106-8: Philip Petit, 'Royal Forests of Northamptonshire', Northants Record Society, 23, pp. 172-4.
- ^ Andrew Ashbee, Records of English Court Music, 1603-1625, vol. 4 (1991), p. 197: John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1828), p. 523.
- ^ William Shaw, HMC Lord De L'Isle & Dudley, vol. 3 (London, 1936), p. 188.
- ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1828), p. 523.