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Persönliche Daten Fitzwilliam Coningsby 

• Er wurde geboren rund 1589 in Hampton Court, Herefordshire, England.
• Er ist verstorben April 1666 in Hope under Dinmore, Herefordshire, England. Er war ungefähr 76-77 Jahre alt.
• Er wurde beerdigt am 23. August 1666 in Hope under Dinmore, Herefordshire, England.
• Ein Kind von Thomas Coningsby und Phillipa Fitzwilliam

Familie von Fitzwilliam Coningsby

Notizen bei Fitzwilliam Coningsby

1605 High Steward of Leominster, His office was to preside in conjunction with the Bailif in the Leet or great Law Court of the Borough.

High Sherrif of Herefordshire, 1627

MP 1620/21 and 1640-41, when he was expeled as a monopolist.

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He fought for the King throughout the Civil War till in 1646 he is found at the siege of Worcester, protesting against the surrender of the city by the Royalist commander . Fitzwilliam then went into exile and suffered heavilly in the sequestration of his estates, his wife Cecilly and his children being reduced to comparative poverty. His petitions and those of his wife and of his sons, with the counter petitions of his tennants and of Sir Thomas Allen to whom the bulk of his estates had been granted occupy six pages (2064-71) of the Callendar of the Committee for Compounding, etc., and in 1653 he was still desperatly pleading "the starving condition" of himself and his family. At the restoration Fitzwiliam recovered his estates.

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Fitzwilliam Conningsby leaves his beloved Cousin Thomas Coningsby Esq of Hampton, Howton Riffens's Mill and all his fee simple estate

will dated 25 Feb 1666, proved at C.P.C. 1 Dec 1666

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Only surviving Son; mentioned by S Wyse in his will as his fathers in Law. Will dated 25 Feb 1665

B.A, Lincoln College Oxon 1612,

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In The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607 - 1660 Peter Colham has under 1638.:-

5 Nov. Petition of James, Earle of Carlise. By patent dated 2nd July 1627 the island of St Cristopher was granted to his father and Heirs. Fitzwilliam Coningsbyis now being sued by Francis Blount, administrator to Herbert Blount who died intestate on the island. The petitioner asserts administrative competance and prays for the action to be stayed (CSPC)

.......................................................................................................................................................................The Booths of Old Durham were a recognized branch of the great Cheshire family, but Booth himself does not appear in their pedigree, and at the visitation of Herefordshire in 1683 he (John Booth) could not trace his ancestry beyond one generation. He fought in a Herefordshire regiment under Fitzwilliam Coningsby* in the Civil War

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WIKIPEDIA:-

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fitzwilliam Coningsby (1589 - August 1666) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1621 and in 1640. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.

Coningsby was born at Hampton Court, Herefordshire, the son of Sir Thomas Coningsby and his wife Phillipa Fitzwilliam daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton.[1] He was High Steward of Leominster in 1605.

Hampton Court seen from North

In 1621, Coningsby was elected Member of Parliament for Herefordshire.[2] In 1625 he inherited Hampton Court on the death of his father. He was High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1627.

In November 1640, Coningsby was elected again as MP for Herefordshire in the Long Parliament, but was expelled in 1641 for being a monopolist,[2] He was one of the "Nine Worthies" - nine justices who formed the royalist leadership in Herefordshire in the summer of 1642. The other "worthies" were Sir William Croft, Wallop Brabazon, Thomas Wigmore of Shobden, Thomas Price of Wisterdon, William Smallman, Henry Lingen, William Rudhall and John Scudamore.[3]

Coningsby died in 1666 and was buried on 23 August 1666 at Hope under Dinmore, Herefordshire,

Coningsby married Cecily Neville on 12 July 1617 at St. Alphage, London. They had children Cecilia, Philippa, Humphrey, Thomas and Henry. Humphrey Coningsby replaced his father in the Long Parliament and was the father of Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby

[edit] References

1 Lee, Sidney (1887). "Coningsby, Sir Thomas (d 1625), soldier". Dictionary of National Biography Vol. XII. Smith, Elder & Co.. Retrieved 2008-02-27. The first edition of this text is available as an article on Wikisource: "Coningsby, Thomas (d.1625)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885-1900.

2 Browne Willis Notitia parliamentaria, or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales: ... The whole extracted from mss. and printed evidences 1750 pp229-239

3 Ian Atherton Ambition and failure in Stuart England

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Will:-

CONINGSBY, Fitzwilliam - of Hampton Court, esquire, 25 Feb 1665/6.

to my kinsman Thomas CONINGSBY of Hampton Court, esquire, lands occupied by Joan MASON widow in Bodenham & by Henry CASWALL gent, lands in Neen Sollars & lands in Hereford, Worcester, Salop, Radnor & Leicester; (references to) my son in law Sampson WISE deceased, Thomas LANGHORNE my son in law & Phillippa his wife, & Roger, earl of ORRERY; to my son & heir Humphrey CONINGSBY; to my son Thomas CONINGSBY; to my son Henry CONINGSBY; to my cousins Elizabeth CONINGSBY, Ursula CONINGSBY & Mary CONINGSBY the daughters of my cousin Thomas CONINGSBY; to poor of Hope under Dinmore & to Coningsby's Hospital, Hereford; to my grandchild Cicilia daughter of my son Henry CONINGSBY.

Witnesses: Richard HOPTON & Michael BROUGHTON & Thomas LEWES & Desmond CARTHY.

Proved (PCC) 1 Dec 1666. TNA Ref: PROB 11/322 f181.

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CONINGSBY, Fitzwilliam (c.1596-1666), of Hampton Wafer, Docklow, Herefs.; later of Hampton Court, Herefs.

Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and

Constituency

Dates

HEREFORDSHIRE

1621

HEREFORDSHIRE

1640 (Nov.) - 21 Oct. 1641

Family and Education

b. bef. 25 Feb. 1596,1 4th but o. surv. s. of Sir Thomas Coningsbyo of Hampton Court, Herefs. and Philippa, da. of (Sir) William Fitzwilliamo of Milton, Northants.2 educ. Hereford Cathedral sch.; Lincoln, Oxf. BA 1613.3 m. 12 July 1617, Cecilia, da. of Sir Henry Neville II* of Birling, Kent, 3s. 2da. suc. fa. 1625. bur. 23 Apr. 1666.4 sig. F[itz]w[illiam] Conyngesby.

Offices Held

J.p. Herefs. 1617-at least c.1641, 1660-d.,5 commr. subsidy 1621-2; 1624-6, 1641-2,6 sewers, Wye valley 1621;7 dep. lt. Herefs. 1623-46, 1660-d.;8 high steward, Leominster ?1625-c.1649, 1660-d.;9 sheriff 1626-7, 1642-3;10 commr. Forced Loan 1626-7,11 swans, Midland counties 1627,12 knighthood compositions, Herefs. 1631,13 oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. 1631-42, Wales and the Marches 1634-40;14 member, Council in Marches of Wales 1633-?;15 commr. array, Herefs. 1642-3,16 safety (roy.) 1643;17 assessment 1661-d., loyal and indigent officers, Herefs. 1662.18

Member, Westminster Co. of Soapmakers by 1636.19

Gov. Hereford (roy.) 1642-3; col. of ft. 1643.20

Coningsby was descended from the eldest son of Sir Humphrey Coningsby (d.1535), justice of king's bench, who purchased Hampton Court, four miles south-east of Leominster, in 1509. Descended from Sir Humphrey's third son, Sir Ralph Coningsby, who sat forHertfordshire in 1614, was this member's second cousin once removed.21 Coningsby's father, Sir Thomas, represented Herefordshire in the last three Elizabethan Parliaments, but in 1601 complained thathis declining health made the journey to Westminster difficult; there is no evidence that he sought re-election in the Jacobean period.22 Sir Thomas nevertheless remained active in local government, founding in 1614 a hospital for disabled veterans in Hereford.23

Coningsby was described by his grandson as 'a man of great extravagance and expense, as well as beyond description negligent in the management of his affairs'.24 In 1612 his friend (Sir) Thomas Littleton* warned him that his (unspecified) actions threatened his reputation, and not surprisingly any hope that Coningsby's father would allow him to study at the inns of court was soon disappointed.25 When Sir Thomas Coningsby drew up his will in August 1616 he wrote of his 'disturbance' at Coningsby's 'facility to entangle himself to all our detriments' and his concern that 'innocents taste not of his folly'. In an undated codicil his father instructed Coningsby to continue living at the latter's house in Hampton Wafer for three years after his father's death, 'with a train proportionable and not to spend above £1,000 by [the] year ... which a provident man of estate should not be without'.26 It was not until 2 July 1623 that the elder Coningsby felt able to appoint his son sole executor of his will.27

The flight overseas of Sir Herbert Croft* gave Coningsby the opportunity to represent the county in thethird Jacobean Parliament. Coningsby's father was probably the 'Sir T.C.' to whom Sir Robert Harley wrote, along with other prominent Herefordshire figures, in late 1620 proposing a meeting of the Herefordshire gentry to choose candidates for the county Members in the forthcoming Parliament, but it was Coningsby himself, and not his father, who attended the meeting on 7 Dec. at Hereford which drew up an agreement to avoid contests and which presumably also nominated Coningsby and Sir John Scudamore.28 However, Coningsby's father drew up some 'Directions for his Son' dated 20 Dec. 1620, at which time Coningsby was elected.29 He made no recorded speeches but received two committee appointments, to consider the bills to vary a trust set up by Anthony, 2nd Viscount Montagu (16 Mar. 1621) and to provide for the maintenance of Tewkesbury bridge (5 May). He was also named to attend the joint conference with the Lords of 24 May on the Sabbath observance bill.30

During the summer recess Coningsby was appointed to the commission of sewers procured by the city of Hereford to remove weirs from the river Wye. His efforts won praise from Henry Vaughan of Moccas, who wrote to Coningsby after he had returned to London in November for the second sitting, stating that he had 'taken exceeding pains for the good of your country, and thereby gained yourself the entire and hearty love of all honest Herefordshire men'. However the work of the commission had aroused the opposition of powerful forces within Herefordshire, as Vaughan also referred to 'slanderous imputations' voiced againstthe commissioners. After adding that 'at this Parliament, you know we are, as I trust, to obtain what we have so much desired' (almost certainly a reference to a proposed bill against the weirs), Vaughan went on to hope that Coningsby would procure his wife's uncle, Sir Edward Sackville*, as a 'powerful man to speak in the Lower House' in support of the measure. However the bill was not introduced in the Commons until 1624 and Coningsby left no trace on the records of the second sitting of the 1621 Parliament.31

It is not known whether Coningsby sought election to the 1624 Parliament, although he evidently influenced the return of Edward Littleton II at Leominster, where he became high steward, probably shortly after the death of his father, the previous incumbent. Littleton, thebrother-in-law and employee of Coningsby's friend Sir Thomas Littleton, also represented the borough in 1625 and 1626, and was elected there again (but did not serve) in 1628. Although he did not sitin Parliament again during the 1620s, Coningsby remained an important figure in Herefordshire county politics. Indeed, a very active magistrate, his refusal to support Sir John Scudamore in 1625 was a major blow to Scudamore's chances of securing re-election for the county in that year.32

Coningsby co-operated in levying the Forced Loan, attending the first meeting of the Herefordshire commissioners on 13 Feb. 1627.33 However, three years later he initially refused to pay the knighthood composition, claiming in September 1630 that he was not liable as he had not sued out his livery at the time of Charles I's coronation. He nevertheless subsequently paid £35 and was appointed to the Herefordshire commission when it was renewed in February 1631. He was active in collecting the compositions until he was removed from the commission in the following June.34

Coningsby held ceremonialist religious views. In 1629 he set up a stained glass window in his chapel depicting the removal of Christ from the cross, and bearing the defensive inscription: 'the truth hereof is historical, divine, and not superstitious'.35 He may also have been a friend of William Laud, who claimed that Coningsby brought a Herefordshire squire, Christopher Seborne, to him to prevent Seborne from converting to Catholicism.36

Re-elected to the Long Parliament for the county, Coningsby wasexpelled from the House in October 1641 on the grounds that he was a beneficiary of the soap monopoly. He was thereupon succeeded as knight of the shire by his son Humphrey. One of the most resolute Herefordshire royalists during the Civil War, he was exiled at the surrender of Worcester in 1646, but after the execution of Charles I he petitioned to compound for his delinquency. His estate was valued at £1,684 p.a., most of it mortgaged or extended for debt. His fine was initially fixed at £4,243 but was subsequently reduced to £1,316 on the discovery of several miscalculations; although in any case nothing seems to have been paid. He regained county office at the Restoration, and sought election for Leominster in 1661, but was denied a poll on the grounds that he was then a prisoner for debt. He made his will on 25 Feb. 1666 and two months later was buried at Hope-under-Dinmore, the local parish church of Hampton Court. His son died in a debtors' prison five years later; but his grandson Thomas sat for Leominster as a Whig in 13 parliaments between 1679 and 1716, whereupon he was elevated to the peerage.37

Ref Volumes: 1604-1629

Author: John. P. Ferris

Notes

PROB 11/148, f. 295.

1. T. Coningsby, Marden ([1722-29]), i. 649.

2. C.J. Robinson, Hist. of Mansions and Manors of Herefs. 148; Collins, Peerage (1756), iv. 314.

3. Duncumb, County of Hereford, i. 589; Al. Ox.

4. Robinson, 148.

5. C231/4, f. 60; C66/2859; 66/3074; C220/9/4,f. 34v.

6. C212/22/20-1, 23; Add. 11051, ff. 19, 141, SR, v. 85, 152.

7. C181/3, f. 33.

8. Cheshire Archives, DNE 16; HEHL, EL7443; SP29/11/261; 29/60/142.

9. M.F. Keeler, Long Parl. 139; G.F. Townsend, Town and Bor. of Leominster, 291; Vis. Herefs. (Harl. Soc. n.s. xv), 29.

10. List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO,L. and I. ix), 61; J. and T.W. Webb, Mems. of Civil War Between King Charles I and Parl. of Eng. as it affected Herefs. and Adjacent Counties, i. 263, 313.

11. T. Rymer, Foedera viii. pt. 2, p. 145; Add. 11051, f. 33v.

12. C181/3, f. 227.

13. E178/5333, f. 5.

14. C181/4, ff. 97v, 162v; C181/5, ff. 185, 219v.

15. Rymer, viii. pt. 4, p. 8.

16. Northants. RO, FH133; C115/71/6511.

17. Docquets of Letters Patent 1642-6 ed. W.H. Black, 49.

18. SR, v. 331, 382, 460, 532.

19. C66/2788/10.

20. Webb, i. 211, 263, 274; List of Officers Claiming (1663), p. 30.

21. Oxford DNB sub Coningsby, Sir Humphrey; Robinson, 146; Vis. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxii), 45.

22. HMC Hatfield, xi. 441.

23. Duncumb, i. 405.

24. Coningsby, i. 467.

25. HMC 7th Rep. 682.

26. PROB 11/148, ff. 291v, 292v, 295.

27. Ibid. f. 296.

28. Add. 61989, f. 220; FSL, V.b.2 (21).

29. Robinson, 146.

30. CJ, i. 556a, 609b, 626a.

31. HMC 7th Rep. 682; Herefs. RO, W15/2.

32. I. Atherton, John, 1st Visct. Scudamore 1601-71, n. 17; Hereford City Lib., L.C. 929.2, p. 109 (ex inf. Dr. Ian Atherton).

33. SP16/54/2.

34. Add. 11051, ff. 136v, 151; C115/102/7671; E178/5333, f. 10.

35. N. Tyacke, Anti-Calvinists, 219.

36. Works of Abp. Laud ed. J.Bliss, iii. 413.

37. Webb, ii. 273; SP23/221/295, 311, 315; CCC, 2064, 2066, 2070; CJ, viii. 392; PROB 11/322, f. 45.

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