William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre

William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre

William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre (24 June 1575 – 5 May 1637) was an English peer and Member of Parliament.

He was born the son of Sir John Petre, 1st Baron Petre and was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and the Middle Temple.[2]

He was elected MP for Essex in 1597, knighted in 1603 and inherited the Barony and the Ingatestone estate on his father's death in 1613. In 1623 he was appointed justice of the peace for Essex but, due to his uncompromising recusancy, he was dismissed in 1625 from the Magistracy and deprived of all of his other public offices.[2]

From its position on the Harwich road, and proximity to London, Ingatestone Hall was a constant meeting place and refuge for those disaffected to the Protestant religion or to the reigning sovereign. For example:

• 13th July 1627. My Lord Petre’s son going over sea to Flanders with many letters, and two barrels of treasure, gold and silver, in a pink, is brought back and committed, and here it is said, that at his father’s house at Ingatestone in Essex divers great Papists had been in consultation about a fortnight and departed thence but on Saturday last.[citation needed]

Secret guests may often have used the hiding place discovered at the Hall in 1855. It is very probable that some of the inns had similar places of concealment for these visitors, whom it would not always be safe to hide the Hall, for example the attic in the White Hart, the huge chimney block of the Eagle, behind the present billiard room, the present great cupboards of the Crown. Many of the houses about Fryerning Hall by the old chimneystacks, and for example Furze Hall might reveal similar ones if thoroughly explored.

It does not appear that the 2nd Baron got into any serious trouble about the Papists who frequented Ingatestone, in part due to the support of King Charles I. Possibly, by this time the Hall was used as a dower house, or a residence for the sons, as the 3rd Baron is described in 1638 by William Riley, Blue Mantle, as dying at West Thorndon, and being buried in an old vault appropriated to his family in the chancel of the Parish Church of Ingatestone.

William, 2nd Baron, died in May 1637, and is buried in the same vault. The tomb, which he erected in the north chapel in memory of his parents, bears also, his own effigy and that of his wife and children, but the tablet over his head is still waiting for an inscription.

Petre had married Katherine Somerset (died 1624), second daughter of Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester in a double ceremony with her sister Elizabeth who married Sir Henry Guilford. Edmund Spenser celebrated the event in his poem, Prothalamion. They had seven surviving sons and three daughters.

His daughter Elizabeth Petre (1597–1656) married William Sheldon of Beoley, Worcestershire.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Petre,_2nd_Baron_Petre

William Petre, Baron II Petre 24 May 1575–5 May 1637

Birth • 1 Sources 24 May 1575 West Horndon, Essex, England, United Kingdom

Age 61 Death • 1 Sources 5 May 1637 West Horndon, Essex, England, United Kingdom

Petre in entry for Thomas Petre, "England, Staffordshire, Church Records, 1538-1944"

SPOUSES AND CHILDREN

William Petre, Baron II Petre 1575-1637

Marriage: 4 Aug 1603 Crewkerne, Somerset, England

Katherine Somerset 1575-1624

Children (16)

Elizabeth Petre 1597-1656

John Petre 1598-1612

Robert Petre, Baron III Petre 1599-

John Petre 1600-1669

Mary Petre 1600-1640

William Petre Jr 1602-1677

Catherine Petre 1603-1681

Edward Petre 1603-1664

Thomas Petre 1606-1656

Henry Petre 1606-1648

Anna Petre 1609-1610

George Petre 1609-1647

Mary 1614-

Anne Petre 1615-

Catharine Petre 1621-

Amalia Petry

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• PETRE, William (1575-1637), of Ingatestone, Essex.
• b. 24 June 1575, 1st s. of Sir John Petre, 1st Baron Petre, by Mary, da. of Sir Edward Waldegrave† of Borley. educ.Exeter Coll. Oxf. 1588, BA 1591; M. Temple 1593. m. 8 Nov. 1596, Katherine (d.1624), 2nd da. of Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester, 7 surv. s., 3 surv. da. Kntd. 1603; suc. fa. as 2nd Baron 1613.
• Offices Held
  • J.p. Essex 1623-5.
• Elected knight of the shire at the age of 22, Petre could have attended committees on enclosures (5 Nov.), the poor law (5, 22 Nov.), armour and weapons (8 Nov.), penal laws (8 Nov.), monopolies (10 Nov.), the subsidy (15 Nov.) and draining the fens (3 Dec.). He was less successful than his father in walking the tightrope between the demands of the state and his family religion. Though Lord Burghley was his godfather, he was brought up by a Catholic tutor and eventually, in 1625, ‘disarmed’ and removed from the commission of the peace. In 1626 he was presented for non-attendance at church; and in 1628-9 he was saved from being tried for recusancy only by the intervention of Charles I. He died 5 May 1637, and was buried at Ingatestone a week later. In his will, dated January 1633 and proved 23 June 1637, he left bequests to the poor of local parishes, to prisoners in Colchester gaol and to his ten surviving children. He hoped he would go ‘where I can no more offend God’.
• CP; Essex RO, D/DP, F. 35; 2/SR 242/124, 250/28, 252/37, 266/117; D’Ewes, 552, 553, 555, 557, 561, 567; APC, 1625-6, p. 228; C. T. Kuypers, Thorndon; HMC 10th Rep. IV, 412; PCC 92 Goare.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/pe... _________________________________
• William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre1
• M, #208232, b. 24 June 1575, d. 1637
• Last Edited=4 May 2014
• William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre was born on 24 June 1575 at West Horndon, Essex, England.3 He was the son of John Petre, 1st Baron Petre.3 He died in 1637.2
• He succeeded to the title of 2nd Baron Petre, of Writtle, co. Essex [E., 1603] on 11 October 1613.1
• Children of William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre
  • Catherine Petre+1
  • Mary Petre+4 d. 14 Dec 1640
  • Elisabeth Petre+5 b. 1592, d. 1657
  • Robert Petre, 3rd Baron Petre+6 b. 22 Sep 1599, d. 23 Oct 1638
• Citations
• [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 69. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• [S130] Wikipedia, online http;//www.wikipedia.org. Hereinafter cited as Wikipedia.
• [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume X, page 506.
• [S37] BP2003 See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• [S3268] Hans Harmsen, "re: Chester Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 21 August 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Chester Family."
• [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume X, page 507.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p20824.htm#i208232 _________________
• William Petre1
• M, #531750
• Last Edited=5 May 2012
• William Petre married Lady Katherine Somerset, daughter of Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester and Lady Elizabeth Hastings.1
• Citations
• [S130] Wikipedia, online http;//www.wikipedia.org. Hereinafter cited as Wikipedia.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p53175.htm#i531750 _______________________
• William PETRE (2° B. Petre of Writtle)
• Born: 24 Jun 1575, West Horndon, Essex, England
• Died: 5 May 1637, West Horndon, Essex, England
• Buried: 12 May 1637, Ingatestone, Essex, England
• Notes: Student at the Middle Temple in 1593. Member of Parliament for Essex 1597-8. Married in 1596 to Catherine, 2nd daughter of Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester. Male heir born 1599. Succeeded 1613.
• Father: John PETRE (1° B. Petre of Writtle)
• Mother: Mary WALDEGRAVE
• Married: Catherine SOMERSET (B. Petre of Writtle) 8 Nov 1596, Essex House
• Children:
  • 1. Mary PETRE
  • 2. Robert PETRE (3º B. Petre of Writtle)
  • 3. William PETRE
  • 4. Edward PETRE
  • 5. Thomas PETRE
  • 6. Henry PETRE
  • 7. George PETRE
  • 8. Catherine PETRE
  • 9. Elizabeth PETRE
  • 10. John PETRE
  • 11. Anne PETRE (b. 2 Jul 1609 - d. 18 Oct 1610)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PETRE.htm#William PETRE (2° B. Petre of Writtle) _____________________
• William Petre
• Birth: Jun. 24, 1575, England
• Death: May 5, 1637, England
• 2nd Baron Petre of Writtle, in the County of Essex
• Son of John Petre, 1st Baron Petre, and Mary Waldegrave. Paternal grandson of Sir William Petre of Ingatestone Hall and Anne Browne.
• He married Lady Katherine Somerset, daughter of the 4th Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Hastings. They were parents to seven sons and three daughters.
• Family links:
• Parents:
• John Petre (1549 - 1613)
• Mary Waldegrave Petre
• Spouse:
• Katherine Somerset Petre (1575 - 1624)
• Burial: St Edmund and St Mary Churchyard, Ingatestone, Brentwood Borough, Essex, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 103441095
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103441095 _________________
• A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and ... by John Burke
• https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalan00goog
• https://archive.org/stream/agenealogicalan00goog#page/n286/mode/1up
• Pg.264
• SIR WILLIAM PETRE, of Tor Brian, Devonshire, secretary of state to HENRY VIII. married, for his second wife, Anne, daughter of Sir William Browne, lord mayor of London in 1514, and was father of
• SIR JOHN PETRE, who was elevated In the peerage as Lord Petre, Baron of Writtle, in 1603. His Iordship married Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Waldegrave, knt. of Barclay, in Essex, and was s. at his decease in 1637 by his son,
• WILLIAM, second Lord Petre, of Writtle, who married Catherine, second daughter of Edward, fourth Earl of Worcester, and had
  • I. ROBERT, third Lord Petre.
  • II. William, ancestor of the Petres of Bellhouse.
  • lII. Thomas.
  • IV. JOHN, of whom presently.
  • V. Henry.
  • VI. George
  • I. Elizabeth, m. to William Sheldon, esq. of Beoley, in Worcestershire.
  • II. Mary, m. to John, Lord Teynham.
  • III. Catherine, m. to John Carrel, of Harting, in Sussex.
• The fourth son,
• THE HON. JOHN PETRE, waa of Fidlers, in Essex. He married thrice. By his first wife, Elizabeth (who d. in 1658), daughter of Thomas Pordage, esq. of Radmersham, he left, at his decease in 1696, a son and successor,
• JOHN PETRE, esq. of Fidlers, who married Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Mannock, bart of Gifford's Hall, and was father of
• JOSEPH PETRE, esq. of Fidlers, who m. Catherine, daughter of Sir William Andrews, bart. of Hildersham, in the county of Cambridge, and left at his decease, in 1721, a son and heir,
• JOHN PETRE, esq. of Fidlers, who m. Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton, bart of Weston, and had (with other issue, who d. s. p.) a daughter, MARY, who married FRANCIS CANNING, esq. of Foxcote, and was ultimately sole heir to the family of Petre of Fidlers. _________________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 45
• Petre, William (1602-1677) by Thomas Seccombe
• PETRE, WILLIAM (1602–1677), translator, the third son of William, second lord Petre (1575–1637) of Writtle in Essex, and great-grandson of Sir William Petre [q. v.], was born in his father's house at Ingatestone, Essex, 28 July 1602. His mother, who died in 1624, was Catherine, second daughter of Edward Somerset, fourth earl of Worcester. His family, who remained Roman catholic, had been steady benefactors of Exeter College, Oxford, whither he was sent as gentleman commoner, matriculating on 5 Feb. 1612, at the early age of ten. In the following year, however, when Wadham College was completed by his great-aunt, Dame Dorothy Wadham, he migrated thither, and ‘became the first nobleman thereof’ (Wood). In October 1613 his eldest brother John died, and the society of Exeter dedicated a threnody to the family (Madan, Early Oxford Press, p. 92). About the same time he was joined at Wadham by his elder brother Robert, and the two brothers, both of whom left without taking degrees, presented to the college two fine silver tankards, which were sacrificed to the royal cause on 26 Jan. 1643. After leaving Oxford he was entered of the Inner Temple. Subsequently he travelled in the south of Europe, and, according to Wood, ‘became a gent. of many accomplishments.’ In 1669 he issued from St. Omer a translation of the then popular ‘Flos Sanctorum’ of the jesuit Pedro de Ribadeneira, originally published at Barcelona in 1643, fol. The translation, which was entitled ‘Lives of the Saints, with other Feasts of the Year according to the Roman Calendar,’ is continued down to 1669. The first edition soon became scarce, and a second, corrected and amended, was issued at London in 1730, folio. Petre's rendering has been commended by Southey and Isaac Disraeli. Petre died on the estate at Stanford Rivers in Essex which had been given him by his father, and he was buried in the chancel of Stanford Rivers church. His wife Lucy, daughter of Sir Richard Fermor of Somerton, Oxfordshire—by whom he had three sons and two daughters—was buried by his side in March 1679.
• [Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iii. 1144; Gardiner's Register of Wadham, i. 21; Collins's Peerage, vii. 36; Dodd's Church Hist. iii. 278; Morant's Hist. of Essex, ‘Hundred of Ongar,’ p. 152; Disraeli's Curiosities of Literature; Howard's Roman Catholic Families of England, pt. i. p. 44.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Petre,_William_(1602-1677)_(DNB00)
• https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati45stepuoft#page/95/mode/1up to https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati45stepuoft#page/96/mode/1up _______________________
• Sir Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester1,2,3,4,5
• M, #90525, b. circa 1553, d. 3 March 1628
• Father Sir William Somerset, 3rd Earl of Worcester1,6,7 b. c 1527, d. 21 Feb 1589
• Mother Christian North1,6,7 d. a 20 Mar 1564
• Sir Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester was born circa 1553 at of Raglan, Monmouthshire, England; Age 36 in 1589.1,3,5 He married Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of Sir Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl Huntingdon, 4th Lord Hastings, Lt. Gen. & Chief Captain of the army and fleet for service abroad, Constable of Conway Castle, Lord Lt. of counties Rutland, Leicester, Derby, & Warwick and Katherine Pole, in December 1571; They had 8 sons (Sir William; Sir Henry, 5th Earl of Worcester, 1st Marquess of Worcester; Sir Thomas, Viscount Somerset; Charles; Francis; Sir Charles; Christopher; & Sir Edward) & 7 daughters (Elizabeth, wife of Sir Henry Guilford; Katherine, wife of William, Lord Petre; Anne, wife of Sir Edward Winter; Frances, wife of William Morgan, Esq; Mary; Blanche, wife of Thomas, Lord Arundell of Wardour; & Katherine, wife of Sir Thomas, 6th Lord Windsor).1,2,3,4,5 Sir Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester died on 3 March 1628 at Worcester House in the Strand, St. Clement Danes, London, Middlesex, England; Buried at Raglan, Monmouthshire.1,3,5
• Family Elizabeth Hastings b. c 1548, d. 24 Aug 1621
• Child
  • Sir Henry Somerset, Duke of Somerset, 5th Earl of Worcester, Marquess of Worcester+3,5 b. c 1576, d. 18 Dec 1646
• Citations
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 667-668.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 375.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 53.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 372.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 658-659.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 52-53.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 658.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3013.htm#... _______________________
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