Edward Stourton, 10th Baron Stourton

Edward Stourton, 10th Baron Stourton (c. 1555 – 7 May 1633) was a Catholic English peer.
Life
[edit]He was a younger son of Charles Stourton, 8th Baron Stourton and Lady Anne Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby.[1] He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, matriculating in 1575.[2][1] His father was executed for murder in 1557.[3] He succeeded his brother John in 1588.[4]
He made no secret of his adherence to Roman Catholicism.[5]
He was a close friend of Robert Catesby[6] and Catesby's recruitment of Francis Tresham to the Gunpowder Plot took place in Stourton's house in Clerkenwell.[7] He was suspected of deliberately avoiding the opening of parliament, although the conspirators may contrived to delay him without revealing their plans.[8][9] He was imprisoned in the Tower of London.[10] In 1608 he was transferred to the Fleet Prison and was fined £6,000, although he paid only £1,000.[11] He may subsequently have occasionally attended Church of England services, but continued to house Catholic priests.[12]
He died on 7 May 1633 and was buried at Stourton, Wiltshire.[13]
Family
[edit]He married his cousin, Frances Tresham, daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham and Muriel Throckmorton.[14] They had 6 children, who survived infancy:
- William Stourton, 11th Baron Stourton
- Thomas (d. 1669), who fought a duel in 1625. He married the twice widowed Elizabeth Cornwallis, a fellow Catholic.[15] He was buried at Stourton.[16]
- Francis (1599–1638), who married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Norton of Chediston, Suffolk.[16]
- Edward died unmarried.[17]
- Margaret, who married Sir Thomas Sulyard, Knight, of Wetherden, Suffolk.
- Mary, who married Walter Norton of Sibsey, Lincolnshire.[18]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Botolph, Charles (1899). The History of the Noble House of Stourton, of Stourton, in the County of Wilts. p. 449.
- ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714. Vol. 4. 1892. p. 1432.
- ^ Botolph 1899, p. 392.
- ^ Botolph 1899, p. 432.
- ^ Botolph 1899, p. 49.
- ^ Fraser, Antonia (2002). The Gunpowder Plot. p. 129.
- ^ Fraser 2002, p. 173.
- ^ Fraser 2002, p. 236.
- ^ Botolph 1899, pp. 450–1.
- ^ Botolph 1899, p. 450.
- ^ Fraser 2002, p. 333.
- ^ Botolph 1899, pp. 452–3.
- ^ Botolph 1899, p. 464.
- ^ Botolph 1899, p. 453.
- ^ Pangallo, Matteo A. (2020). "'Noe Place to Talk In': Two More Brawling Playgoers and the 1626 Attempt to Close the Blackfriars Playhouse". Early Theatre. 23: 95–102.
- ^ a b Botolph 1899, p. 456.
- ^ Botolph 1899, p. 457.
- ^ Notes and Queries 5th series. Vol. 4. 1875. p. 87.
References
[edit]- Prob. 11/163/627, testament of 4 July 1632.