Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein

Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein, 3rd Earl of Rochford

Born Frederik van Nassau Heer van Zuijlestein 1682 to parents Willem van Nassau Heer van Zuijlestein (1649-1708), who became 1st Earl of Rochford and Jane Wroth.

Frederick had been brought up in Holland as a noble of the province of Utrecht. He joined the powerful whig opposition (1710–14) in the House of Lords, and took part in the protest against the stifling of the Assiento inquiry in 1713 (Rogers, Protests of the Lords, i. 224).

His own country residence was St. Osyth Priory, the fine old Essex mansion (partly renovated about 1715) which came to him through his marriage in 1701 to Bessy Savage ( 1699 - 23 June 1746), illegitimate daughter by Elizabeth Culleton of Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers [q. v.]

Children of Frederik ad Elizabeth were:

Willem Hendrik van Nassau-Zuijlestein, fourth earl of Rochford (1738-1781), buried in the Peter and Paul church in St. Osyth in Essex .

Richard Savage van Nassau-Zuijlestein (1723–1780), M.P. for Colchester (1747–54) and for Malden (1774–80), and one of the clerks of the board of green cloth. This Richard Savage married, on 24 Dec. 1751, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Edward Spencer of Rendlesham, Suffolk, and the widow of James Douglas, 5th duke of Hamilton; by her (she died on 9 March 1771) he was father of William Henry, 5th and last Earl of Rochford.

He died on 14 June 1738 at his house in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and was buried at Easton in Suffolk, where his younger brother, Henry (d. 1741), who had been a lieutenant-colonel in a dragoon regiment, was seated.

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Frederick heer van Zuylestein, Leersum en Waayenstein 1709-1738, 3e graaf van Rochford 1710-1738 (Leersum, 31 januari 1684 – Londen, Lincoln’s Inn Fields 14 april 1738) bijgezet in de Allerheiligenkerk van Easton in Suffolk trouwde in Londen op 3 augustus 1714) met Elizabeth Savage (1699 – 23 april 1746) een natuurlijke dochter van Richard Savage 4e graaf van Rivers

• Willem Hendrik van Nassau-Zuylestein 4e graaf van Rochford en heer van Zuylestein 1738-1781 (St. Osyth, 17 september 1717 - St. Osyth, 28 september 1781) bijgezet in de Peter and Paul church in St. Osyth in Essex.
• Richard Savage Nassau de Zuylestein (St. Osyth in Essex, 1 juni 1723 - 17 mei 1780) bijgezet in de Allerheiligenkerk van Easton in Suffolk. Hij trouwde op 24 december 1751 met Anne Spencer, overleden op 9 maart 1771 bijgezet in de Allerheiligenkerk van Easton in Suffolk. Zij was weduwe van James Douglas 5e hertog van Hamilton en de dochter van Edward Spencer van Rendlesham in Suffolk. Uit hun huwelijk is geboren:

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