Robert Petre, 3rd Baron Petre

Robert Petre, 3rd Baron Petre (22 January 1599 – 28 October 1638) was educated at Oxford and acceded to the title in 1637 but enjoyed his honours but a short time, and followed his father to the grave in little more than a year. In 1620, he had married Mary (1603–1685), daughter of Anthony Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montague. She was a charitable and gallant Royalist and Catholic, once defying a troop of over a hundred Cromwellian / Roundhead / parliamentary soldiers alone, who wished to search Ingatestone Hall. She was a woman destined to have a long and troubled widowhood. Many are the notices in the State Papers about the Petre property in her days until she died in 1685, two years after her son.

When Lord Petre died in 1638 an inventory showed that he had no debts, £7,500 cash in hand (approximately £657,000 today) and £4,000 in realizable loans (approximately £350,000 today). The rents for Essex and Devon totalled £13,500 (approximately £1,183,000 today); owing to inflation, the increase in rents was over three-fold, so that the main branch of the family had more than held its own since 1540, in spite of expensive marriage settlements.

He left three sons, each of whom succeeded to the title, and two daughters.

Mary (c. 1624-1672); wife of Edward Stourton and mother of the 12th Baron Stourton William Petre, 4th Baron Petre (1626–1683) John Petre, 5th Baron Petre (1629–1684) Thomas Petre, 6th Baron Petre (1633–1706) Dorothy; married John Thimbelby, son of Sir John Thimbelby

• Robert Petre, 3rd Baron Petre
• M, #60869, b. 22 September 1599, d. 23 October 1638
• Last Edited=15 Feb 2015
• Robert Petre, 3rd Baron Petre was born on 22 September 1599 at Ingatestone, Essex, England.1 He was the son of William Petre, 2nd Baron Petre.1 He married Hon. Mary Browne, daughter of Anthony Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu and Jane Sackville, in 1620.1 He died on 23 October 1638 at age 39.
• He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Petre, of Writtle, co. Essex [E., 1603] on 5 May 1637.
• Children of Robert Petre, 3rd Baron Petre and Hon. Mary Browne
  • John Petre, 5th Baron Petre d. Jan 1684
  • Mary Petre+2 d. 1672
  • Thomas Petre, 6th Baron Petre+ d. 4 Jan 1705/6
  • William Petre, 4th Baron Petrie+ d. 5 Jan 1683
• 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 X, page 507. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• [S37] BP2003 volume 2, page 2815. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p6087.htm#i60869 ______________
• Robert PETRE (3º B. Petre of Writtle)
• Born: 1599
• Died: 23 Oct 1638
• Father: William PETRE (2° B. Petre of Writtle)
• Mother: Catherine SOMERSET (B. Petre of Writtle)
• Married: Mary BROWNE (B. Petre of Writtle) 1620
• Children:
  • 1. William PETRE (4º B. Petre of Writtle)
  • 2. John PETRE (5º B. Petre of Writtle)
  • 3. Thomas PETRE (6º B. Petre of Writtle)
  • 4. Mary PETRE
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PETRE.htm#Robert PETRE (3º B. Petre of Writtle) _____________________
• 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,
• .... etc. _________________
• 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 _______________________

Eldest son and heir of William, second Lord Petre of Writtle. Source: Burke, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, vol. 3, p. 264.

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ngatestone is a lovely Elizabethan manor built by Sir William Petre in about 1541. The house is still owned and lived in by the Petre family today, and is essentially as it was when Sir William built it, with mullioned windows, and oak panelled rooms. The Hall is set in 10 acres of attractive gardens, with an avenue of old lime trees, a stew pond and wide lawns augmented by a walled garden area.

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