Henry Thynne, 1st Baronet

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Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 1st Baronet (March 1, 1615 - March 6, 1680 ), was an English nobleman.

Henry Frederick Thynne was the only son of Sir Thomas Thynne from his second marriage to Catherine Howard. After his father's death in 1639, his older half-brother, James Thynne , inherited Longleat House with the properties mainly in the south-west of England, while Henry Frederick inherited the properties in Shropshire and Gloucestershire , which earned him a substantial £ 4,000 annual income. His half-brother accused his stepmother Catherine of influencing the will in favor of their children, and the two branches of the family waged a bitter, long-standing legal battle over the division of the inheritance. During the civil war that began shortly afterwards , Henry Frederick sided with the king, who made him Baronet on July 15, 1641 , of Cause Castle in the County of Salop . In 1643 he led an attack on the parliamentary garrison of Nantwich with Arthur Capell . His main seat, Caus Castle, was occupied by a royalist garrison in 1644 while he was living in Ludlow with his family . Caus Castle was captured and destroyed by Parliamentary forces in June 1645, and Thynne surrendered to Parliamentary forces in Shrewsbury in December 1645. He was sentenced to pay a heavy fine of £ 7,160. Since he could not raise this immediately, he was imprisoned in London's Fleet Prison until the payment of the sum in 1652 , which put his family in great distress. After his release, he moved to Minsterley Hall mansion southwest of Shrewsbury in 1653 , which he remodeled and expanded.

Before 1640 he married Mary Coventry, the second eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry of Aylesborough and of Elizabeth Aldersey. He had several children with her, including:

His heir became his eldest son Thomas, who inherited the goods of the Longleat family branch in 1682 and was raised to Viscount Weymouth .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Parliament Online: THYNNE, Thomas I (1640-1714), of Drayton Bassett, Staffs. Retrieved September 22, 2015 .
  2. ^ The Garrisons of Shropshire During the Civil War, 1642-48 . Leake and Evans, Shrewsbury 1867. p. 41
  3. ^ The Garrisons of Shropshire During the Civil War, 1642-48 . Leake and Evans, Shrewsbury 1867. p. 43
  4. ^ John Newman, Nikolaus Pevsner: Shropshire (Buildings of England). Yale University Press, New Haven 2006. ISBN 0-300-12083-4 , p. 408
predecessor Office successor
New title created Baronet (of Cause Castle)
1641–1680 		Thomas Thynne
personal data
SURNAME Thynne, Henry, 1st Baronet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thynne, Sir Henry Frederick, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1615
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1680