Arthur Capell Baron Hadham
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I have recently come across this photo, showing a similarity between Margaret Countess of Salisbury and her descendant, Dame Edith Sitwell, of the Renishaw literary family of baronets. The Sitwell’s ancestry is through the early Dukes of Beaufort – the family who are theoretically descended in the male line from Edward III, but not necessarily.…
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This is an attempt to list all the people known to have escaped from the “impregnable” Tower of London. It may be that other names need to be added. The dates given are the dates of escape: Ralph de Flambard, 1101 Roger Mortimer, later Earl of March, 1322. Thomas Berkeley, 1320s. Note not listed in main…
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… was Sir Edward Capell, son of the vicar of Stanton in Suffolk. He was, as you can see , a cousin of the Earls of Essex through Arthur Capell Baron Hadham, a descendant of Anne Duchess of Exeter.
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Arthur Capell, Baron Hadham – the accidental traitor
Anne of Exeter, Arthur Capell Baron Hadham, baronies, Capells, castles, Catherine Manners, Charles I, Charles II, Civil War, Colchester, Earls of Essex, Elizabeth Morrison, English Civil War, escape, executions, Hadham, Hertfordshire, MPs, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Queens’ College Cambridge, Restoration, Royalists, Rye House Plot, sieges, Sir Charles Lucas, Sir George Lisle, slightings, Stoke-by-Nayland, Tower of London, Welsh MarchesIntroduction The middle of the seventeenth century was a turbulent time and it would be very surprising were not some remnants of the House of York involved. Indeed, Ashby de la Zouch Castle, property of Ferdinando, Earl of Huntingdon, was slighted during this time as a result of his participation. Another Royalist partisan was Arthur…
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