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Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland

Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1 February 1580 – 23 March 1629), KB (styled Sir Francis Fane between 1603 and 1624[1]) of Mereworth in Kent and of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1624 and then was raised to the Peerage as Earl of Westmorland.

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Westmorland
KB

Elizabeth I

Sir Robert Sidney
Percival Hart

Sir John Scott
John Leveson

James I

Sir Thomas Fludd

Himself
Sir John Scott

James I

Himself
Sir Thomas Fludd

Himself
Sir Francis Barnham

James I

Himself
Sir John Scott

Sir George Fane
Thomas Stanley

James I

Mildmay Fane
Walter Fitzwilliam

Sir Christopher Hatton
Laurence Whitaker

Francis Fane

February 1579

23 March 1629(1629-03-23) (aged 50)

Apethorpe Church, Apethorpe, Northamptonshire, England
52°32′50″N 0°29′32″E / 52.5472°N 0.4922°E / 52.5472; 0.4922

English

Mary Mildmay (1599-1628)

Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
Sir Francis Fane
George Fane
Rachel Fane
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Sir Thomas Fane
Mary Neville, 3rd Baroness le Despencer

Apethorpe Palace, Apethorpe, Northamptonshire, England

Origins[edit]

He was the eldest surviving son and heir of Sir Thomas Fane (died 1589) of Badsell in the parish of Tudeley in Kent, by his second wife Mary Neville, suo jure Baroness le Despenser (c. 1554–1626), heiress of Mereworth in Kent,[5] sole daughter and heiress of Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny (died 1587) (a descendant of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (c.1364-1425)[6]) by his wife, Lady Frances Manners,[7] 3rd daughter of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland.


The earliest proven recorded ancestor of the Fane family of Kent is "Henry a Vane" (d. 1456/57) of Tonbridge, Kent, thrice-great-grandfather of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland. According to The Complete Peerage "the long line of Welsh descent, as given in the Heraldic Visitation of Kent 1574, is spurious".[8] His younger brother was George Fane of Burston.

Grace Fane (died 1633), who married ;

James Home, 2nd Earl of Home

Mary Fane (1606–1634), who after 18 May 1625 married (1613–1640), grandson of Thomas Gerard, 1st Baron Gerard;

Dutton Gerard, 3rd Baron Gerard

Elizabeth Fane, who married firstly , secondly William Cope, by whom she was a grandmother of Sir John Cope;

Sir John Cope, 3rd Baronet

(1614–1681), wife of Henry Bourchier, 5th Earl of Bath (1593–1654), of Tawstock Court, Devon. The marriage was childless, whereupon the earldom became extinct. Her lifesize marble statue survives in Tawstock Church.

Rachel Fane

Catherine Fane, who married as his first wife.

Conyers Darcy, 2nd Earl of Holderness

Death and burial[edit]

Westmorland was buried at Apethorpe on 17 April 1629. A monumental inscription survives in Mereworth Church near Badsell. He was survived by his wife Mary Mildmay, who died at Stevenage and was buried at Apethorpe, and many children.

Cokayne, George Edward; Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, Herbert Arthur; White, Geoffrey Henllan; Walden, Thomas Scott-Ellis, Lord Howard de (2000) [1910]. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed. Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing.{{}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

cite book

Collins, Arthur; Brydges, Egerton (1812). Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. Vol. 3. London: F. C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and son.

(1957). Eridge Castle and the Family of Nevill. Stanford Print.

Gunnis, Rupert

Hasler, P. W., ed. (1981). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603. HMSO.  978-0118875011.

ISBN

Mercer, Malcolm (2004). . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9143. Retrieved 22 December 2006. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

"Fane, Sir Thomas (d. 1589)"