Henry, 4th Baron Mordaunt

• Henry Mordaunt, 4th Lord Mordaunt1
• M, #1175, b. circa 1568, d. 13 February 1608/9
• Last Edited=31 Dec 2011
• Henry Mordaunt, 4th Lord Mordaunt was born circa 1568.1 He was the son of Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Lord Mordaunt and Elizabeth Darcy.2,3 He married Margaret Compton, daughter of Sir Henry Compton, 1st Lord Compton, before 1 October 1593.3 He died on 13 February 1608/9.1
• He gained the title of 4th Lord Mordaunt. Fined 10,000 marks and imprisoned Tower of London 15 November 1605–3 June 1606 on suspicion of involvement in Gunpowder Plot.4
• Child of Henry Mordaunt, 4th Lord Mordaunt
  • 1.Frances Mordaunt+1
• Child of Henry Mordaunt, 4th Lord Mordaunt and Margaret Compton
  • 1.John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough+5 b. 18 Jan 1598/99, d. 19 Jun 1644
• Citations
• 1.[S8] Volume 1, page 18. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
• 2.[S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume IX, page 196. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
• 3.[S15] George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume IX, page 197.
• 4.[S37] Volume 2, page 2771. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• 5.[S15] George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume X, page 496.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p118.htm#i1175 _________________________
• Henry MORDAUNT (4º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)
• Born: ABT 1564 / 1568, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England
• Died: 13 Feb 1608/09
• Buried: Turvey, Bedfordshire, England
• Father: Lewis MORDAUNT (3º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)
• Mother: Elizabeth DARCY (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)
• Married: Margaret COMPTON (B. Mordaunt of Turvey) ABT 1585, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England / BEF 01 Oct 1593
• Children:
  • 1. John MORDAUNT (1° E. Peterborough)
  • 2. Frances MORDAUNT
  • 3. James MORDAUNT
  • 4. Henry MORDAUNT
  • 5. Lewis MORDAUNT
  • 6. Margaret MORDAUNT
  • 7. Anne MORDAUNT
  • 8. Frances MORDAUNT
  • 9. Elizabeth MORDAUNT
  • 10. Francis MORDAUNT
  • 11. Anne MORDAUNT
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/MORDAUNT.htm#Henry MORDAUNT (4° B. Mordaunt) ______________________
• John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough (died 1642) was an English peer.
• He was the eldest son of Henry Mordaunt, 4th Baron Mordaunt, a Roman Catholic kept for a year in the Tower of London on suspicion of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, who died in 1608. The widow, Lady Margaret, daughter of Henry Compton, 1st Baron Compton, also a Catholic, was deprived by James I of the custody of her child John. He was made a ward of Archbishop George Abbot, and educated at Oxford.
• Taken to court by the king, who was struck by his beauty and intelligence, John was made a K.B. on the occasion of Prince Charles being created Prince of Wales, 3 November 1616, and was remitted an unpaid fine of £10,000 which had been imposed on his father. By Charles I he was created Earl of Peterborough, by letters patent of 9 March 1628.
• On the outbreak of the First English Civil War he adhered to the parliament, and held the commission of general of the ordnance under the Earl of Essex, but he died of consumption, 18 June 1642. By his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Effingham, he left two sons: Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough and John, afterwards Lord Mordaunt of Reigate and Viscount Mordaunt of Avalon; and a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Thomas, son and heir to Edward Howard, 1st Lord Howard of Escrick. Lady Peterborough was a noted beauty but was also famed for piety: she was a close friend of James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, who spent his last years in her house. She died in 1671.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mordaunt,_1st_Earl_of_Peterborough ___________________________
• MORDAUNT, Lewis (1538-1601), of Turvey, Beds. and Drayton, Northants.
• b. 1538, 1st s. of Sir John Mordaunt†, 2nd Baron Mordaunt, by his 1st w. Ela, da. of John Fitzlewis, s. and h. app. of Sir Richard Fitzlewis† of West Horndon, Essex, h. to her gd.-mother Alice, da. and coh. of John Harleston of Shrimpling, Norf. m. Elizabeth, da. of Sir Arthur Darcy, sis. of Thomas Lord Darcy, 1s. 3da. Kntd. 1568; suc. fa. as 3rd Baron 1571.1
• The Mordaunts married heiresses of the Latimer, Vere and Fitzlewis families, and the 1563 Member inherited land ....
• .... He died at Drayton 16 June 1601, and was buried 20 July at Turvey. By his will, dated October 1593, £80 was to be spent on an alabaster tomb with ‘pictures’ of himself and his wife, and £70 distributed to the poor at his burial. He left £2,000 each to his two unmarried daughters Katherine and Elizabeth, appointing two executors to administer lands for this purpose. The residuary legatee, and the sole executor for all other parts of the will, was his only son Henry, aged 33, the Lord Mordaunt arrested after the Gunpowder Plot.6
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/mo... __________________________
• Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Mordaunt

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Henry Lord Mordaunt, (fourth Baron), who, as a Catholic, was sent to the Tower under suspicion of being concerned in the Gunpowder Plot. He was released after the imposition of a heavy fine to the Star Chamber. The long imprisonment is said to have affected his health and hastened his death, which took place in 1608–9. His will, which is dated 6 February 1608, contains the following clause, 'and for the clearing of my conscience before God and Man, and to give a public satisfaction to the World, concerning such and those Imputations, which lately have been laid upon me, and for which I have in a high degree been censured, I mean the late Gunpowder Treason; … I do solemnly protest before God and his Angels, and that without all Equivocation or Duplicity whatsoever, that I am innocent of that fact, and Guiltless of all Foreknowledge thereof.' He married the lady Margaret Compton, daughter of Henry, Lord Compton. I do not understand why but an Act for her naturalization was passed in Parliament in 1604. The records of the Middle Temple show that Henry was admitted as a member on 29th October 1602 which is curious as recusants were excluded.

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Henry Lord Mordaunt, (fourth Baron), who, as a Catholic, was sent to the Tower under suspicion of being concerned in the Gunpowder Plot. He was released after the imposition of a heavy fine to the Star Chamber. The long imprisonment is said to have affected his health and hastened his death, which took place in 1608–9. His will, which is dated 6 February 1608, contains the following clause, 'and for the clearing of my conscience before God and Man, and to give a public satisfaction to the World, concerning such and those Imputations, which lately have been laid upon me, and for which I have in a high degree been censured, I mean the late Gunpowder Treason; … I do solemnly protest before God and his Angels, and that without all Equivocation or Duplicity whatsoever, that I am innocent of that fact, and Guiltless of all Foreknowledge thereof.' He married the lady Margaret Compton, daughter of Henry, Lord Compton. I do not understand why but an Act for her naturalization was passed in Parliament in 1604. The records of the Middle Temple show that Henry was admitted as a member on 29th October 1602 which is curious as recusants were excluded.

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