Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland
The 1st Earl of Westmorland | |
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1st Earl of Westmorland | |
Tenure | 1624-1628 |
Predecessor | Earl of Westmorland and Baron Burghersh: none (title created) Lord le Despencer: Mary Neville, 3rd Baroness le Despencer |
Successor | Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland |
Other titles | 1st Baron Burghersh 4th Lord le Despencer |
Born | Francis Fane February 1579 |
Died | 23 March 1628 | (aged 49)
Buried | Apethorpe Hall, Apethorpe, Northamptonshire, England 52°32′50″N 0°29′32″E / 52.5472°N 0.4922°E |
Nationality | English |
Residence | Apethorpe Hall, Apethorpe, Northamptonshire, England |
Locality | Northamptonshire |
Offices | MP for Kent (1601) MP for Maidstone (1604-1611, 1614, 1620-1622) MP for Peterborough (1624) |
Spouse(s) | Mary Mildmay (1599-1628) |
Issue | Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland Sir Francis Fane George Fane Rachel Fane more |
Parents | Sir Thomas Fane Mary Neville, 3rd Baroness le Despencer |
Occupation | Landowner, politician |
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Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland KB (1 February 1580 – 23 March 1629), styled Sir Francis Fane between 1603 and 1624[5] was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1624 and then was raised to the Peerage as Earl of Westmorland.
Origins
Francis Fane was the eldest surviving son and heir of Sir Thomas Fane (d.1589) of Badsell in Kent, by his second wife Mary Neville (c. 1554-1626), sole daughter and heiress of Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny (d.1587) (de jure 4th Baron Bergavenny) by his wife Lady Frances Manners.[7] Fane was the senior representative of the Fane family of Mereworth, near Maidstone, Kent, and then of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire. His younger brother was George Fane of Burston.
Career
Fane was educated at Maidstone Grammar School and in about 1595 matriculated at Queens' College, Cambridge.[8] He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 19 November 1597.
In 1601, with the support of Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, Fane was returned as a Member of Parliament for Kent. He was created a Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King James I on 25 July 1603.[9] After Cobham's disgrace Fane was elected MP for Maidstone in 1604. He was re-elected MP for Maidstone in 1614 and in 1621. In 1624 he was elected MP for Peterborough.[7] On 29 December 1624, he was created Baron Burghersh in the County of Sussex, and Earl of Westmorland (1008th on the roll). On his mother's death on 28 June 1626 he succeeded her as 4th Baron le Despenser, and as de jure 8th and 6th Baron Bergavenny.
Marriage & progeny
On 15 February 1598/99 Fane married Mary Mildmay (d. 9 April 1640), daughter and eventual sole heiress of Sir Anthony Mildmay (d. 1617), of Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire, British Ambassador to France, by his wife Grace Sherington (1552–1620) daughter and co-heir of Sir Henry Sherington (alias Sharington) (c. 1518-1581) of Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire.[10][11] Westmorland had by Mary Mildmay seven sons (six of whom survived him) and six daughters:[12]
Sons
- Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (24 January 1602 – 12 February 1666), a poet and Member of Parliament.
- Thomas Fane, died in infancy
- Sir Francis Fane (c. 1611–1681?) of Fulbeck, third but second surviving son. He was a Royalist governor of Doncaster, and afterwards of Lincoln Castle. He was the great-grandfather of Thomas Fane, 8th Earl of Westmorland.
- Anthony Fane (1613–1643), a colonel in the Parliamentary army, who suffered a shot wound to the cheek at the siege of Farnham Castle on 9 December 1642 and died at his home in Kingston upon Thames early the following year.[13]
- Col. George Fane (c. 1616 – April 1663), fifth but fourth surviving son. A Royalist officer and later Member of Parliament.
- William Fane
- Robert Fane
Daughters
- Grace Fane (d. 1633) married James Home, 2nd Earl of Home.
- Mary Fane
- Elizabeth Fane, married Sir John Cope, 3rd Baronet, and afterward William Cope, by whom she was grandmother of Sir John Cope
- Rachel Fane (1614-1681), wife of Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath (1593-1654) of Tawstock Court, Devon. The marriage was without progeny, whereupon the earldom became extinct. Her lifesize marble statue survives in Tawstock Church.
- Catherine Fane.
Death & burial
Westmorland was buried at Apethorpe on 17 April 1629. A monumental inscription survives in Mereworth Church near Badsell. He was survived by his wife Mary Mildmay, who died at Stevenage and was buried at Apethorpe, and many children.
References
- ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, Vol. III (107th ed.). Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. p. 4134.
- ^ Cokayne 2000, Vol. II, p. 34
- ^ Cokayne 2000, Vol. V, p. 635
- ^ Cokayne 2000, Vol. II, p. 19
- ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, Vol. III (107th ed.). Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. p. 4134.
- ^ Blazon per Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.1148
- ^ a b History of Parliament Online - Francis Fane
- ^ "Fane, Francis (FN595F)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
- ^ Apethorpe was sold by the 13th Earl of Westmorland to Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey in 1904.
- ^ Grace Mildmay's sister Olive (d. 1646) who inherited Lacock abbey, married a Talbot, from which eight generations later sprang the pioneer photographer William Fox Talbot (d. 1877)).
- ^ Collins 1812, pp. 294,295
- ^ Brayley, Edward Wedlake (1844). The History of Surrey. Vol. 3, Part 1. R.B. Ede. p. 34.
Literature
- Cokayne, George Edward; Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, Herbert Arthur; White, Geoffrey Henllan; Walden, Lord Howard de, Thomas Scott-Ellis (2000) [1910]. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed. Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing.
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- Collins, Arthur; Brydges, Egerton (1812). Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. Vol. 3. London: F. C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and son.
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- Salis, de, R. W. (2003). Quadrennial di Fano Saliceorum. London.
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- Mercer, Malcolm. "Fane, Sir Thomas (d. 1589)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 22 December 2006.
- Gunnis, Rupert (1957). Eridge Castle and the Family of Nevill. Stanford Print.
- Hasler, P. W., ed. (1981). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603. HMSO. ISBN 978-0118875011.
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Some Ancestors
Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland | Father: Sir Thomas Fane |
Paternal Grandfather: George Fane, Esq. |
Paternal Great-grandfather: Richard Fane, Esq. |
Paternal Great-grandmother: Agnes Stidolph | |||
Paternal Grandmother: Joan Waller |
Paternal Great-grandfather: William Waller of Groombridge | ||
Paternal Great-grandmother: Anne Fallemar or Elizabeth Hendley (?). | |||
Mother: Mary Nevill, Baroness le Despencer |
Maternal Grandfather: Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny |
Maternal Great-grandfather: George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny | |
Maternal Great-grandmother: Mary Stafford | |||
Maternal Grandmother: Frances Anne Manners |
Maternal Great-grandfather: Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland | ||
Maternal Great-grandmother: Eleanor Paston |
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- 1629 deaths
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