Sir Edward Waldegrave, 1st Baronet

Sir Edward Waldegrave, 1st Baronet (c. 1568 – c. 1650) was an English politician and army officer who served in the English Civil War.

He was the son of Charles Waldegrave (d. 1632) of Staninghall, Norfolk and Chewton Mendip, Somerset and Jeronima (d. 1627), daughter of Sir Henry Jerningham.[1] In 1599 he married Eleanor (d. 1604), daughter of Sir Thomas Lovell of Harling, Norfolk by whom he had 4 sons and 2 daughters.[1] He subsequently married Frances, daughter of Sir Nicholas Sanderson of Fillingham, Lincolnshire and widow of Francis Copplewick of Belaugh, Norfolk.[1]

Waldegrave was knighted by King James I in 1607.[2] In 1643, he was made a baronet by King Charles I,[3] but the Rump Parliament later declared the creation invalid and it only became effective after the English Restoration. Though aged over seventy when civil war broke out in 1642, Waldegrave commanded a royalist horse regiment in Cornwall and secured the passage through Saltash against the 3rd Earl of Essex's troops, being twice unhorsed but eventually taking forty Roundhead prisoners. His fortune later turned however, when the Royalists were defeated: he was forced to pay £50,000 (approximately £3,700,000 in early-2000s terms) in fines and sequestrations and died soon after.

References

  1. ^ a b c Foley, Henry (1875). Records of the English province of the Society of Jesus. Vol. 5. p. after 383.
  2. ^ Shaw, William (1906). The Knights of England. Vol. 2. p. 143.
  3. ^ Burke, John (1832). A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. H. Colburn and R. Bentley. p. 579. sir edward waldegrave 1st baronet.


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