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Henry Belasyse (1604–1647)

The Honourable Henry Belasyse, or Bellasis, May 1604 to May 1647, was an English politician from Yorkshire who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1625 and 1642.

For other people with the same name, see Henry Belasyse.

Henry Belasyse
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20 May 1604
Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire

20 May 1647(1647-05-20) (aged 43)
Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire

St. Michael's Church, Coxwold

English

Royalist

Grace Barton (1622-his death)

Thomas (1627-1701); Henry (?); Rowland (1632-1699); Charles (1643-1673); Grace (1635-1667); Frances (1636-after 1667); Arabella (1638-1687); Barbara (ca 1642-1708) [1]

Trinity College, Cambridge

Landowner and politician

A reluctant Royalist during the First English Civil War, his eldest son Thomas married the daughter of Oliver Cromwell. He predeceased his father in May 1647.

Biography[edit]

Belasyse was the son of Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg and his wife Barbara Cholmeley.[2] He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1615, and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1619.[3]


In 1625 Belasyse was elected Member of Parliament for Thirsk until 1626.[4] In 1628 he was elected MP for Yorkshire and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament.[5] In April 1640, he was re-elected for Yorkshire in the Short Parliament,[6] and was elected for Yorkshire again in November 1640 for the Long Parliament.[7] He supported the King and was disabled from sitting in parliament in 1642.


Belasyse died at the age of 43,[8] predeceasing his father.[9]

who inherited the title Viscount Fauconberg from his grandfather in 1652, was created Earl of Fauconberg, and was ambassador to the Princes of Italy.[9]

Thomas

Henry, predeceased his father.

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Roland, who was made a Knight of the Bath.

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John, who died young.

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Grace, who married .[9][10]

George Saunderson, 5th Viscount Castleton

Frances, who married Sir .[9]

Henry Jones of Oxford

Arabella, who married of Thirkley.[9]

Sir William Frankland, 1st Baronet

Barbara, who married Sir Walter Strickland.

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Belasyse married Grace Barton, daughter of Sir Thomas Barton. They had the following children:[9]

; Burke, John Bernard (1838). A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England. London: Scott Webster and Geary.

Burke, John

Cracroft's Peerage. . Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

"Thomas [Belasyse], 1st Baron Fauconberg later 1st Viscount Fauconberg"

Gill, Thomas (1852). Vallis Eboracensis: comprising the history and antiquities of Easingwold. London: Simpkin and Marshal. p. –172.

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Healy, Simon (2010). . CUP. Retrieved 5 January 2021.

BELASYSE, Henry (1604-1647), of Oulston, nr. Thirsk, Yorks. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629

Lundy, Darryl (10 January 2010). . The Peerage. 18368.

"Hon. Henry Belasyse"

(1750), Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ..., London, pp. 198–207

Willis, Browne