John Swinburne, of Chopwell

JOHN SWINBURNE II, of Chopwell. The Coat of Arms shown on the right was granted to him by Norroy King of Arms on 6th September 1551. The great Leader of the Northern Insurrection in 1569(d) - for his part in which he was attainted c.1569-71. He married ANNE SMITH (daughter of GEORGE SMITH of Nunstainton, co. Durham, and heiress of her mother JANE BOUTH), they were parents of JOHN SWINBURNE, died without issue, WILLIAM SWINBURNE, died without issue, ROBERT SWINBURNE, died without issue, MARGARET SWINBURNE and JANE SWINBURNE

Swinburne was one of the few ‘gentlemen of value’ in the north who joined the rising of 1569 in favour of Mary Queen of Scots. After its failure he escaped to the Netherlands with the 6th Earl of Westmorland, with whom he was attainted by the Parliament of 1571. Philip II granted him a pension on his arrival in Madrid in 1573, but he seems not to have settled in Spain and it is as a refugee in Namur during 1577 that he is last glimpsed.

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