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• Hij is geboren op 31 oktober 1599 in Haughton, Nottinghamshire.
• Titel: 1st Baron Holles
• Hij is overleden op 17 februari 1680, hij was toen 80 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven op 21 februari 1680 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex.
• Een kind van John HOLLES en Anne STANHOPE

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Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles PC (31 October 1599 - 17 February 1680) was an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the Five Members whose attempted unconstitutional arrest by King Charles I in the House of Commons of England in 1642 sparked the Civil War.

Holles was the third son of John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare (c. 1564-1637), by Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Stanhope. The favourite son of his father and endowed with great natural abilities, Denzil Holles grew up under advantageous circumstances. Destined to become one of the most formidable antagonists of King Charles's arbitrary government, he had been Charles's childhood friend. The Earl of Clare was, however, no friend to the Stuart administration, being especially hostile to the Duke of Buckingham; and on the accession of Charles to the throne the king's offers of favour were rejected. In 1624 Holles was returned as Member of Parliament for Mitchell in Cornwall, replacing his brother John who chose to sit for another constituency. In 1628 he was elected MP for Dorchester. He had from the first a keen sense of the humiliations which attended the foreign policy of the Stuart kings. Writing to the Earl of Strafford, his brother-in-law, on 29 November 1629, he severely censures Buckingham's conduct of the expedition to the Isle of Ré; "since England was England," he declared, "it received not so dishonourable a blow"; and he joined in the demand for Buckingham's impeachment in 1628.

His long and eventful career closed by his death on 17 February 1680. He was buried at Westminster Abbey on 21 February 1680. The character of Holles has been drawn by Gilbert Burnet, with whom he was on terms of friendship. "Holles was a man of great courage and of as great pride... He was faithful and firm to his side and never changed through the whole course of his life." He argued well but too vehemently; for he could not bear contradiction. He had the soul of an old stubborn Roman in him. He was a faithful but a rough friend, and a severe but fair enemy. He had a true sense of religion; and was a man of an unblameable course of life and of a sound judgment when it was not biased by passion. Holles was essentially an aristocrat and a Whig in feeling, making Cromwell's supposed hatred of "Lords" a special charge against him; regarding the civil wars rather as a social than as a political revolution, and attributing all the evils of his time to the transference of political power from the governing families to the "meanest of men."

Marriages and issue
(1), in 1628, Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Sir Francis Ashley
Francis, who succeeded him as 2nd baron

(2) in 1642 Jane, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Shirley of Ifield in Sussex and widow of Sir Walter Covert of Slougham, Sussex
No issue

(3) in 1666 Esther, daughter and co-heiress of Gideon Le Lou of Columbiers in Normandy, widow of James Richer.
No issue

The peerage became extinct in the person of his grandson Denzil Holles, 3rd Baron Holles, in c. 1692, the estates devolving on John Holles (1662-1711), 4th Earl of Clare and Duke of Newcastle.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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