William Pope, 1st Earl of Downe

• William Pope, 1st Earl of Downe1
• M, #331635, b. 15 October 1573, d. 2 June 1631
• Last Edited=30 Jul 2011
• William Pope, 1st Earl of Downe was baptised on 15 October 1573.1 He married Anne Hopton, daughter of Sir Owen Hopton, in 1595.1 He died on 2 June 1631 at age 57.1
• He gained the title of 1st Earl of Downe.
• Children of William Pope, 1st Earl of Downe and Anne Hopton
  • Sir William Pope+1
  • Lady Anne Pope d. 13 Jul 1629
  • Thomas Pope, 3rd Earl of Downe+1 b. 1598, d. 11 Jan 1667/68
• 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 IV, page 450. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• [S3409] Caroline Maubois, "re: Penancoet Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 2 December 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Penancoet Family."
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p33164.htm#i331635 ______________________
• Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe (1622–1660) was an English nobleman and Royalist.
• Baptised at Cogges, near Witney, 16 December 1622, the eldest of the three sons of Sir William Pope, knt. (1596–1624), by Elizabeth, sole heiress of Sir Thomas Watson, knt., of Halstead, Kent. His mother married, after his father's death, Sir Thomas Peneystone of Cornwall, Oxfordshire. His grandfather Sir William Pope of Wroxton Abbey, near Banbury, was created Earl of Downe in the kingdom of Ireland, and died on 2 July 1631. Thomas, his grandson succeeded to his title, and to the large estates in north-west Oxfordshire which had been settled on the family in 1555 by Sir Thomas Pope.[1]
• .... etc.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pope,_2nd_Earl_of_Downe ______________________
• POPE, Sir William (1596-1624), of Cogges, Oxon.
• bap. 17 Oct. 1596, 1st s. of Sir William Pope, 1st bt. (d.1631), of Wroxton, Oxon. and Anne, da. of Sir Owen Hopton† of Yoxford, Suff., lt. of the Tower 1570-90, wid. of Henry, 3rd Lord Wentworth.1 educ. Oxf. 1614;2 travelled abroad (Italy) 1617-20.3 m. lic. 13 Dec. 1615,4 Elizabeth, da. and h. of (Sir) Thomas Watson* of Halstead, Kent, teller of the Exch. 3s. 2da.5 kntd. 28 Aug. 1616.6 d. 19 Aug. 1624.7
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/po... _______________________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 46
• Pope, Thomas (1622-1660) by Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston
• POPE, Sir THOMAS, second Earl of Downe (1622–1660), baptised at Cogges, near Witney, 16 Dec. 1622, was the eldest of the three sons of Sir William Pope, knt. (1596–1624), by Elizabeth, sole heiress of Sir Thomas Watson, knt., of Halstead, Kent. His mother married, after his father's death, Sir Thomas Peneystone of Cornwall, Oxfordshire. His grandfather, Sir William Pope (1573–1631) of Wroxton Abbey, near Banbury, was made knight of the Bath in 1603, and a baronet in 1611; on 16 Oct. 1628 he was created Baron Belturbet and Earl of Downe in the kingdom of Ireland, and died on 2 July 1631. Thomas, his grandson, thereupon succeeded to his title, and to the large estates in north-west Oxfordshire which had been settled on the family in 1555 by his great-granduncle, Sir Thomas Pope [q. v.], founder of Trinity College. Wroxton, however, remained in the occupation of his father's younger brother, Sir Thomas Pope (see below). The young earl was brought up in a good ‘school of morality,’ at the house of his guardian, .... etc.
• There is a fine head of the second earl at the age of about twenty-one, attributed to Isaac Oliver, in the possession of Lord North at Wroxton, together with portraits of his father, mother, grandparents, and other members of the Pope family. Lord Dillon has another good head, attributed to Janssen, of a much later date, and a companion portrait of his wife. A third portrait which bears his name probably represents his father.
• [Authorities cited; Warton's Life of Sir T. Pope, App. xxvi (inaccurate in its account of the family); Baker's Northamptonshire; G. E. C.'s Peerage; Jordan's Enstone; Beesley's Banbury; Croke's Croke Family; personal inspection of papers and portraits at Wroxton, Ditchley, and Claydon.]
• From: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pope,_Thomas_(1622-1660)_(DNB00)
• https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati46stepuoft#page/138/mode... ________________________

Earl of Downe

• Earl of Downe was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 16 October 1628 for Sir William Pope, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet, of Wilcote in the County of Oxford, in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611[1] and was made Baron Pope at the same time as he was granted the earldom, also in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Earl. He was the son of Sir William Pope. Lord Downe had no sons and was succeeded by his uncle, the third Earl. The titles became extinct on the death of the fourth Earl on 18 May 1668.

Earls of Downe (1628)

• William Pope, 1st Earl of Downe (1595–1640)
  • Sir William Pope
• Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe (1622–1660)
• Thomas Pope, 3rd Earl of Downe (1598–1668)
• Thomas Pope, 4th Earl of Downe (1640–1668)
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Downe ___________________________