Ancestral Trails 2016 » Mildmay FANE

Personal data Mildmay FANE 

• He was born on January 24, 1601/02 in Tudeley, Tonbridge, Kent.
• Title: 2nd Earl of Westmorland
• He died on February 12, 1665/66 in Mereworth, Kent, he was 64 years old.
• A child of Francis FANE and Mary MILDMAY

Household of Mildmay FANE

(1) He is married to Grace THORNHURST.

They got married on July 6, 1626 at 44 Phillipp Street, Shoreditch, Middlesex, he was 25 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Frances FANE  1632-???? 
2. Charles FANE  1635-1691

• The couple has common ancestors.



(2) He is married to Mary de VERE.

They got married on June 21, 1638 at 44 Phillipp Street, Shoreditch, Middlesex, he was 37 years old.




Child(ren):

1. Catherine FANE  1649-????
2. Rachel FANE  ± 1646-????
3. Mildmay FANE  1640-????
4. Elizabeth FANE  ± 1653-????
5. Susan FANE  1651-????
6. Mary FANE  1639-1681
7. Vere FANE  1644-1693 


• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about Mildmay FANE

Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland KB (24 January 1602 - 12 February 1666), styled Lord le Despenser between 1624 and 1628, was an English nobleman, politician, and writer.

One of seven sons of Francis Fane by his wife Mary, granddaughter of Sir Walter Mildmay, Mildmay Fane was born in Kent and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (matriculated 1618). He became MP for Peterborough in 1620 and for Kent in 1625. He succeeded his father as Earl of Westmorland and Lord le Despenser on 23 March 1629 [all dates new style].

A friend of Robert Herrick, he supported the Royalist party at the outbreak of the English Civil War (King Charles I had stood as godfather to Fane's eldest son in 1635). Following a brief period of imprisonment by Parliament, however, he retired to his estate at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire.

Fane married twice: firstly, in 1620, to Grace Thornhurst, daughter of Sir William Thornhurst of Kent, with whom he had a son and five daughters; and secondly to Mary Vere, daughter of Horace Lord Vere of Tillsbury, who bore him a son and four daughters, one of whom was Lady Mary Fane who married firstly Francis Palmes of Ashwell, Rutland, granddaughter of Sir Guy Palmes, and was widowed with no children. She married secondly John Cecil, 4th Earl of Exeter (1628-1678), a widower, on 24 January 1670. Mildmay's first son Charles, and his second son Vere, both succeeded to their father's title in turn (since Charles Fane, 3rd Earl left no descendants).

Mildmay Fane's younger brother Sir Francis Fane married Elizabeth West, daughter of William West of Firbeck Hall, Yorkshire, and widow of John, Lord Darcy of the North. Sir Francis Fane achieved some distinction as a writer, publishing poetry as well as three dramatic plays. He was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of Charles I, and served as governor of Doncaster Castle during the English civil war. Rachael Fane (1613-1680), one of Mildmay Fane's seven sisters and a resident of Apethorpe, also wrote entertainments and a masque that were performed by the household. Her works survive in manuscript. Another younger brother was the Royalist and MP Colonel the Hon. George Fane.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildmay_Fane,_2nd_Earl_of_Westmorland


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