Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby
Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby ( Latinized also Peregrinus Bertie , born October 12, 1555 in Wesel , † June 25, 1601 in Berwick-upon-Tweed ) was an English nobleman , diplomat and military .
Life
He was the son of Richard Bertie and Katherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby . At the beginning of 1554 his parents, who came from England, came to the Hanseatic city of Wesel in the Duchy of Kleve on the Lower Rhine as Calvinist religious refugees . Peregrinus Bertie was born there on October 12, 1555 and was baptized two days later in Mathena Church. The meaning of his first name (for example “foreigner”, “wanderer” or “pilgrim”) refers to the situation in which the family was at that time. At the end of March 1557 at the latest, the Wesel family left and moved on to Poland via Strasbourg and Frankfurt am Main . After Elizabeth I ascended the throne , the family was able to return to England in 1558, where Peregrine was naturalized as an English subject in 1559 .
In the late 1570s Bertie married Lady Mary de Vere († 1627), daughter of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford . When his mother died in 1580, he inherited her title of nobility as 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby and thereby became a member of the House of Lords . He first took his seat on January 16, 1581. In 1582 he began working as a diplomat, as which he traveled through Europe on behalf of the English crown. In his first year in this function, he traveled to Denmark , among other places , to discuss the Anglo-Danish commercial relationship with King Frederick II there . From 1586 to 1589 he took part as a military commander in Flanders in the fighting of the Eighty Years War, in which England supported the Protestant Netherlands against the Catholic Spain . In 1590 he supported the Protestant French King Henry IV with a unit in the Eighth Huguenot War . Around 1597 he became the commandant of the fortress of Berwick-upon-Tweed, the northernmost city of England on the Scottish border. Bertie died there in June 1601 and was buried next to his parents in Spilsby , Lincolnshire.
From his marriage to Lady Mary de Vere he had six children:
- Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey , 14th Baron Willoughby de Eresby (1582–1642)
- Sir Peregrine Bertie of Belton († 1640)
- Henry Bertie of Lound († 1655)
- Club Bertie
- Roger Bertie
- Catharine Bertie, ⚭ Lewis Watson, 1st Baron Rockingham (1584–1653).
His widow married Sir Eustace Hart († 1634) around 1605.
literature
- Sidney Lee : Bertie, Peregrine . In: Leslie Stephen (ed.): Dictionary of National Biography (DNB). Volume 4, Smith, Elder & Co., London 1885, pp. 404-407.
Web links
- Peregrine Bertie, 13th Lord Willoughby de Eresby on thepeerage.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e October 12, 1555 - The birth of Peregrinus Bertie at wesel.de
- ↑ DNB, Volume 4, p. 404
- ↑ a b DNB, Volume 4, p. 406
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Katherine Willoughby |
Baron Willoughby de Eresby 1580-1601 |
Robert Bertie |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bertie, Peregrine, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bertie, Peregrinus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobleman, diplomat and military man |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1555 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wesel |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1601 |
| Place of death | Berwick-upon-Tweed |