Anthony Mansel

Sir Anthony Mansel (also Anthony Maunsell ) (* after 1587; † September 20, 1643 near Newbury ) was a Welsh nobleman and military.

Life

Anthony Mansel came from the old Welsh Mansel family and was the third son of Sir Francis Mansel , 1st Baronet, of Muddlescumbe and Catherine Morgan. On July 19, 1629 Anthony Mansel was beaten to a Knight Bachelor . From 1630 to 1631 he was sheriff of Glamorgan . Around 1631 he married Jane Mansel, the daughter of William Price, heiress of Briton Ferry and widow of his cousin Arthur Mansel . He took over the administration of Briton Ferry and leased land at Baglan to set up a coal mine.

At the beginning of the English Civil War he put up a posse for King Charles I in Glamorgan, joined the king in Nottingham in August 1642 and then occupied Cardiff Castle , whose owner, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke , on the side of parliament stood. He fell as regimental commander in the First Battle of Newbury .

progeny

With his wife, who had already died on November 27, 1638, he had a son and two daughters. After his death, his brother Francis Mansell took over the administration of his property. His stepson Bussy Mansel fought after he came of age, initially also on the side of the royalists, but in autumn 1645 he switched to the side of parliament.

Anthony's son Edward inherited the possessions of Muddlescombe at Kidwelly and the title of baronet after the death of his cousin Francis Mansel in 1654 .

Web links

Sir Anthony Mansel on thepeerage.com , accessed July 28, 2015.

Individual evidence

^ Walter Money: The first and second battles of Newbury and the siege of Donnington Castle during the Civil War, 1643-6 (1884). Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, London 1884, p. 61
↑ AM Johnson: Bussy Mansel (1623-1699). Political survivalist . In: Morganwgg transactions of the Glamorgan historical Society, Vol. 20 (1976), p. 25
^ Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales: An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan , Vol. III - Part I: The early castles. RCAHMW, 1991, ISBN 978-0-11-300035-7 , p. 171

personal data
SURNAME	Mansel, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maunsell, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Welsh nobleman and military
DATE OF BIRTH	after 1587
DATE OF DEATH	September 20, 1643
Place of death	at Newbury

[1] Walter Money: The first and second battles of Newbury and the siege of Donnington Castle during the Civil War, 1643-6 (1884). Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, London 1884, p. 61

[2] AM Johnson: Bussy Mansel (1623-1699). Political survivalist . In: Morganwgg transactions of the Glamorgan historical Society, Vol. 20 (1976), p. 25

[3] Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales: An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan , Vol. III - Part I: The early castles. RCAHMW, 1991, ISBN 978-0-11-300035-7 , p. 171