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Bertie, Robert (1582 - 1642)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1582-12-16
Death Date: 1642-10-23

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Montagu, Elizabeth (1586 - 1654)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1605
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Union produced four additional sons and one additional daughter.

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 14th Baron Willoughby de Eresby

Titles

  • 14th Baron Willoughby de Eresby
    Assumed: 1601-16-25
    Vacated: 1642-10-23
  • 1st Earl of Lindsey
    Assumed: 1626-11-22
    Vacated: 1642-10-23
  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed: 1630-04-18 (date elected; installed 5 Oct. 1630)
    Vacated: 1642-10-23

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Deputy Lieut, Lincolnshire 1612
Lord High Admiral, England 1628 -9 -20 Held jointly with Richard, 1st Baron Weston
Privy Councillor, England 1628 -7 -10
Lord Lieut, Lincolnshire 1628/9 -1 -23 1642 -10 -23 Deprived of office by Parliament Feb. 1641/2, but reappointed by King Charles
Lord High Admiral, England 1635 -4 -10 1635/6 -03 -16
High Steward, Lincolnshire 1638
Governor, Northumberland 1638/9 -4 -20 1639/40 -01 Part of the Marches towards Scotland
Recorder, Lincolnshire 1639
Colonel of Foot Guards, England 1642
Lieut-gen of Royalist Army, England 1642 -8 -1

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Lincolnshire
  • Oxfordshire

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Cambridge (Unknown), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Earl of Lindsey's Trumpeter/s
Performance - Coventry (Unknown), Coventry, Coventry (city-county) in Warwickshire Lord Willoughby's Men
Performance - St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry, Coventry (city-county) in Warwickshire Lord Willoughby's Men
Performance - Trinity College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Lord Willoughby's Musicians

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Willoughby's Musicians Bertie, Robert (1582 - 1642) Musicians 1
Earl of Lindsey's Trumpeter/s Bertie, Robert (1582 - 1642) Musicians 1
Lord Willoughby's Men Bertie, Robert (1582 - 1642) Players 1
Lord Willoughby's Men Bertie, Robert (1582 - 1642) Players 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Eresby Castle Lincolnshire Private Residence
Grimsthorpe Castle Lincolnshire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Charles I [1625--49]. 23 vols. London: HMSO, 1858--97
  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Fryde, E.B., D.E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy, eds. Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.