Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt

Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt (21 September 1538 – 16 June 1601) was an English peer and politician.

He was the son of John Mordaunt, 2nd Baron Mordaunt and Ela (née FitzLewis) Mordaunt. He became the third Baron Mordaunt in 1571 on the death of his father.

He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedfordshire (1563–67) and High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1570.

A lover of art and buildings, he was a reluctant judge at the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, beheaded in 1587, with whose death sentence he did 'most unwillingly concur'. He commanded troops recruited to resist when it was thought that the Spanish Armada would invade in 1588.[1]

He married Elizabeth Darcy, daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy and Mary Carew and was succeeded by their son Henry. His daughter Mary married Sir Thomas Mansell, 1st Baronet.[2]

He died at his manor house in Drayton, Northamptonshire on 16 June 1601 and was buried in All Saints church Turvey, Bedfordshire on 20 July, where there is a plain black marble tomb.[3]

Notes
  1. The Mordaunt Family in Turvey http://www.turveybeds.com/mordaunts.html
  2. W R Williams Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales
  3. MORDAUNT, Lewis (1538-1601), of Turvey, Beds. and Drayton, Northants. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/mordaunt-lewis-1538-1601
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References
Parliament of England
Preceded by
John St John
Thomas Pigott		 Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire
1563–1567
With: John St John		 Succeeded by
George Rotherham
Thomas Snagge
Political offices
Preceded by
Sir Edmund Ashfield		 High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
1570–1571		 Succeeded by
Thomas Pigott
Peerage of England
Preceded by
John Mordaunt		 Baron Mordaunt
1571–1601		 Succeeded by
Henry Mordaunt


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