Francis Greville, 3rd Baron Brooke (1637-1658) supported the Parliamentary (Roundhead) cause in the English Civil War.
Biography
Francis Greville was the eldest son and heir of Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke and his wife Catharine, daughter of Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford.[1]
Greville served as recorder of Warwick.[2]
Greville died unmarried in 1658, and was succeeded in turn by his two brothers, Robert, 4th Baron Brooke,[1] (died 1676) and Fulke, 5th Baron Brooke (died 22 Oct 1710).[3]
Notes
- ^ a b Rigg 1890, p. 164.
- ^ Lundy2011, p. 5781 § 57810 cites Cokayne 2000, p. 334.
- ^ Burke 1938, p. 2520.
References
- Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1938), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, London: Shaw, p. 2520
- Lundy, Darryl (3 September 2011), Francis Greville, 3rd Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court, p. 5781 § 57810, retrieved 21 September 2017 endnote:
- Cokayne, G.E.; et al., eds. (2000), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, vol. II (new, reprint in 6 volumes ed.), Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, p. 334
- Rigg, James McMullen (1890), , in Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.), Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 23, London: Smith, Elder & Co, p. 164
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