Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln

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Portrait of Edward Clinton from about 1575

Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln KG PC (* 1512 in Scrivelsby , Lincolnshire , † January 16, 1585 in London ), also known as Edward Fiennes de Clinton , was an English admiral under King Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth I. In 1572 he was promoted to Earl of Lincoln .

Life

Edward was born to Thomas Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton , and his wife Mary Clinton, nee Poynings. When his father died in 1517, he inherited his title as 9th Baron Clinton . In 1532 he joined Henry VIII's entourage at Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais . He was a member of Parliament from 1536 and fought in the Royal Navy from 1544 to 1547 against the French and Scottish navies. Because of his role in the conquest of the city of Edinburgh , he was beaten to the Knight Banneret on May 11, 1544 by the King's Deputy, Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford , who later became the first Duke of Somerset . On September 14, 1544 he took part in the siege of Boulogne-sur-Mer. Under John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick , he witnessed the Battle of Spearhead against the French in 1545 and was sent to France a year later as a peace commissioner .

During the invasion of Scotland by Edward Seymour, he commanded the English fleet and provided artillery support from the sea at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh on September 15, 1547 . In the same year he was appointed governor of Boulogne-sur-Mer and successfully defended the city against the French siege from 1549 to 1550. In 1550 he was also appointed Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire , along with Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland , and held until 1554 under King Edward VI. and from 1559 to 1585 under Queen Elizabeth I the office of Lord High Admiral .

Between 1550 and 1553 he was a member of the Privy Council and in 1551 acted as the authorized representative of England in France. In the same year he was awarded the Order of the Garter . After his reappointment as Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire in 1552, Clinton was involved in 1554 in the overthrow of the Wyatt conspiracy in Kent.

After Edward had participated in the enterprise of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke , in the position of Lord General , he fought with Spanish troops in the battle of Saint-Quentin in 1557 . By the time he returned to England, Clinton took command of the English fleet and began a series of raids along the French coast in 1558, destroying the town of Le Conquet and devastating the surrounding region.

During the uprising of the Earls of the North against Elizabeth I in 1569, Edward Clinton and Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick , had command of a huge army and put down the rebellion in January 1570. Raised Earl of Lincoln by the Queen on May 4, 1572, he then served as the English ambassador to France until his death on January 16, 1585 .

Marriages and offspring

Edward Clinton married three times. His first marriage to Elizabeth Blount , a former mistress of Henry VIII, had three daughters:

  • Bridget (* around 1536)
  • Catherine (around 1538 - August 14, 1612)
  • Margaret, ∞ Charles Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham

His second marriage to Ursula Stourton had six children, including his heir Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl of Lincoln :

  • Henry (1540--29 September 1616), 2nd Earl of Lincoln
  • Frances († young)
  • Anne (around 1546 - May 11, 1585), ∞ William Ayscough
  • Edward (* 1544/46; † before September 20, 1575)
  • Thomas (* 1548/50), ∞ Mary Tyrrell
  • Frances (1553–12 September 1623), ∞ Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos of Sudeley

His third wife was Elizabeth FitzGerald, daughter of Gerald FitzGerald , the 9th Earl of Kildare , whom he married on October 1, 1552. This connection remained childless.

literature

  • Charles Henry and Thompson Cooper: Athenae Cantabrigienses . Volume 1. Deighton, Bell & Co. [et al.], Cambridge [et al.] 1858-1913, pp. 497-501 ( PDF ; 33 MB).
  • James Edmund Doyle: The official baronage of England, showing the succession, dignities, and offices of every peer from 1066 to 1885 . Volume 2: Gainsborough – Oxford . Longmans, Green & Co., London 1886, pp. 380-382 ( PDF ; 36 MB).
  • David Lloyd: State-worthies. Or, the statesmen and favorites of England from the reformation to the revolution… . Volume 1. J. Robson, London 1766, pp. 285-288 ( PDF ; 25.4 MB).
  • Charles William Chadwick Oman: A History in the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century . Reprint of the 1937 New York edition. Dutton, New York 1979, ISBN 0-404-14579-5 .
  • Michael Sanderson: Sea Battles. A Reference Guide . David & Charles, Newton Abbot [et. a.] 1975, ISBN 0-7153-6648-3 .

Web links

Commons : Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Arthur Shaw: The Knights of England. Volume 2, Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906, p. 54.
  2. ^ A b Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . 107th Edition, Volume 1. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books), Wilmington 2003, p. 824.
  3. ↑ a b tudorplace.com.ar , accessed April 7, 2009.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f tudorplace.com.ar , accessed April 7, 2009.
  5. ↑ Lady Margaret Clinton on thepeerage.com , accessed September 10, 2016.
predecessor Office successor
New title created Earl of Lincoln
1572-1585 		Henry Clinton
Thomas Clinton Baron Clinton
1517-1585 		Henry Clinton
personal data
SURNAME Clinton, Edward, 1st Earl of Lincoln
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clinton, Edward Fiennes de; Fiennes de Clinton, Edward; Clinton, Edward Clinton 9th Baron; Lincoln, Edward Clinton 1st Earl of (from 1572)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English admiral under Edward VI. and Elisabeth I.
DATE OF BIRTH 1512
PLACE OF BIRTH Scrivelsby
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1585
Place of death London