Fleetwood (noble family)
The lineage was introduced with number 49 in the House of Nobility (Sweden), also known as the Riddarhuset.[5][6]
Fleetwoods | |
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| Landed gentry then swedish nobility 49th Baronial Family | |
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| Founded | 1320 |
| Founder | William Fleetwood |
| Titles | Lord Deputy of Ireland Bishop of Worcester Bishop of St Asaph Bishop of Ely Baronets of Caldwick Baronets of Rossall Hall High Sheriff of Lancashire High Sheriff of Staffordshire High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire |
| Estate(s) | Calwich Abbey Rossall Hall The Vache Missenden Abbey Wootton Lodge |
| Website | www |
Fleetwood is an Anglo-Swedish Baronial family.
English Origins
"faithfully Draune and Colected out of the Antick Bookes and venerable recordes of this Kingdome and the principalitie of wales"
(17th century)
Descent and claims
The House was founded in the 14th century by William Fleetwood from whom all members descent.[7] Married to Gwlladis in 1320, only daughter and heir to Meredith, son of Canuan, son of Conan, son of Owain Gwynedd. The later, was King of Gwynedd and reigned in 1137 to his death in Nov. 1169 with Gwladys ap Llywarch, a daughter and heir of L'Loworth.[6]
As such, the family originates in Lancashire, England but it was of little importance until the 16th, when Thomas Fleetwood and his three brothers moved south.[8] The eldest, John Fleetwood, a clerk of Chancery by 1535, acquired a large estate mainly in Staffordshire and Lancashire, in each of which counties he was twice High sheriff, and of the two others the elder entered the Charterhouse at Sheen and the younger, Robert Fleetwood, became a Clerk of the Petty Bag and was father of William Fleetwood, Recorder of London.[9]
Notable Members
- Thomas Fleetwood originated from Heskin, Lancashire and purchased the manor of the Vache in Chalfont, Buckinghamshire in 1564. He was a member of parliament and a judge, and Master of the Royal Mint under King Henry VIII.[7]The Vache was inherited by Sir George Fleetwood who died December 1620. It passed to his son Charles Fleetwood (died 1628) the father of George Fleetwood (regicide), who inherited the estate on the death of his father.[10] The Estate was confiscated and given to the Duke of York.[11]
- William Fleetwood (1535? – 1594) was an English lawyer and politician. He was Member of Parliament for Marlborough in 1558, Lancaster in 1559 and 1567, and for the City of London several times between 1572 and 1592, but his most significant position was as Recorder of London from 1571 to 1591.[12] A lawyer of the Middle Temple, he was a Queen's Serjeant in 1592.[13]
- James Fleetwood (baptised 25 April 1603, Chalfont St Giles; died 17 July 1683, Hartlebury Castle[14]) was an English clergyman and Bishop of Worcester.
- William Fleetwood of Misseden, (1563 – 13 December 1630) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1628.
- Sir Thomas Fleetwood, Attorney General to Prince Henry, son of James I.[11]
- Sir William Fleetwood, Cup bearer to James I and Charles I.[15]
- Sir Miles Fleetwood of Aldwinkle, (died 8 March 1641) was an English office-holder and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1641.
- Sir William Fleetwood of Cranford, (c 1603 – 12 February 1674) of High Lodge, Woodstock Park, Oxfordshire was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and again from 1661 to 1674. Receiver of the Court of Wards.[11]
- Lord Charles Fleetwood (c. 1618–1692), was a Parliamentary soldier and politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1652–55, where he enforced the Cromwellian Settlement. At the Restoration he was included in the Act of Indemnity as among the twenty liable to penalties other than capital, and was finally incapacitated from holding any office of trust. His public career then closed, though he survived until 4 October 1692. He was buried in Bunhill Fields.
- Sir George Fleetwood (baptised 30 June 1605 in Cople, Bedfordshire, died 11 June 1667 in Jälunda, Gryt, Södermanland, Sweden), came into Swedish service in 1629, became colonel for a regiment he had recruited himself in England in 1630 and finally lieutenant-general. Introduced in Sweden's Riddarhuset as a Baron.[5]
- William Fleetwood (1 January 1656 – 4 August 1723) was an English preacher, Bishop of St Asaph and Bishop of Ely, remembered by economists and statisticians for constructing a price index in his Chronicon Preciosum of 1707.[16]
Swedish nobility
Riddarhuset
Sir George was knighted 3 June 1632 by the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf;[5] created Swedish Baron 1 June 1654 at Uppsala Castle by Queen Christina of Sweden,[17] and was introduced into the Riddarhuset on 19 June 1654 as Baronial family N:o 49 with the following Blazon:
[..] Quarterly with an inescutcheon with the former Fleetwood weapon; in the uppermost quarter on the left and lowest on right an upright standing lion of red color in a field argent; In the upper one on the right and the last Shield on the left a crown in gold in field azure. [..] [5]
Descendants of George Fleetwood, the Swedish general and baron, include the former member of the Swedish parliament, Riksdagen Elisabeth Fleetwood and William Fleetwood, painter.
Family chart
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Swedish introduction |
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Notes
- (not 3 and 3 as per Burke)
- Memoirs of the Protectoral-house of Cromwell: Deduced from an Early Period, and Continued Down to the Present Time, Volumen 2, Page 348. Fleetwoods Arms and Crest
- A topographical, statistical, & historical account of the borough of Preston. By Marmaduke Tulket Page 168. Fleetwoods Arms and Crest
- The English Baronets: Being a Genealogical and Historical Account of Their Families by T. Wotton, 1727. nº79 - Fleetwoods Arms and Crest
- Riddarhuset's arms database: Fleetwood. (in Swedish)
- Adelswapen: Friherrliga ätten Fleetwood nr 49 (in Swedish)
- Burke 1838, p. 522.
- The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham: Pedigree of Fleetwood of the Vache in Chalfont
- The History of Parliament: FLEETWOOD, Thomas (1517/18-70)
- Durston 2004
- The Baronetage of England Vol I. Rev. William Betham (1801). pp120-123 Google Books
- The House of Commons, 1509-1558
- A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1911. The Manor of Heskin, footnote 14.
- B. S. Benedikz, ‘Fleetwood, James (bap. 1603, d. 1683)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 1 Jan 2009
- The English Baronetage Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets ... Illustrated with Their Coats of Arms, Volumen 1, Page 195. Ref. Fleetwood of Calwiche
- "Fleetwood, William (FLTT675W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Derby 1889, p. 266.
References
- Derby, Charles Henry (1889). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 19. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 266.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Durston, Christopher (2004). "Fleetwood, George, appointed Lord Fleetwood under the protectorate (bap. 1623, d. in or after 1664)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Burke, John (1838). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours. 4. Colburn. p. 522.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)