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Edward Fiennes, or Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln KG (1512 – 16 January 1584/85) was an English landowner, peer, and Lord High Admiral. [1] He rendered valuable service to four of the Tudor monarchs.
17 de dez. de 2023 · Edward Fiennes de Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, KG (1512 – 16 January 1584/85) was an English nobleman and Lord High Admiral.[1] Edward Clinton was born at Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, the son of Thomas Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton (1490–1517), by Jane (or Joan) Poynings, one of the seven illegitimate children of Sir Edward Poynings ...
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- Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire, England
- circa 1512
A joint commander with Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick of a large army, he quelled the rising of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland in 1570 and Elizabeth created him Earl of Lincoln in 1572, employing him on diplomatic missions to France.
Edward Fiennes de Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, KG (1512 – 16 January 1584/85) was an English nobleman and Lord High Admiral.[1] was born at Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, the son of Thomas Clinton, 8th …
- Male
- Lady Ursula Stourton, Elizabeth Blount
- Origins
- Under King Henry VIII
- Under King Edward Vi
- Under Queen Mary I
- Under Queen Elizabeth I
- Death
- Children
- Likenesses
Born in 1512, he was the only son and heir of Thomas Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton, and his wife Joan Poynings, illegitimate daughter of Sir Edward Poynings. After his father died in 1517 when he was only five years old, he was made a ward of his grandfather Sir Edward Poynings. His mother then became the second wife of Sir Robert Wingfield.
By 1532 he was attending the royal court and had married a mistress of King Henry VIII. This was Elizabeth Blount, wealthy widow of Gilbert Tailboys, Baron Tailboys and first daughter of Sir John Blount and his wife Catherine Pershall. About 10 years older than him and already mother of the King's illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, s...
Under the next King Edward VI, who was only nine years old at the start of his reign, he benefited from the fact that Dudley was one of the most powerful figures in the kingdom. On various occasions he was rewarded with grants of lands, whose rentals augmented his income. He served again in the war against Scotland and then from 1548 to 1550 in the...
When King Edward VI died in Jul 1553, Dudley activated a conspiracy to put on the throne his own daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey in place of the heir, Mary Tudor. Clinton's role in the plot was to seize the Tower of London but, when the coup collapsed and Dudley was executed, he was himself imprisoned. Queen Mary pardoned him, on payment of 6000 pou...
When Queen Mary was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I in Nov 1558, he was reappointed to the Privy Council. His wife had been brought up with the Queen and was appointed as her attendant. The war against France and Scotland continued, with Clinton heading naval operations. In 1564 he was awarded an MA by the University of Cambridge. When the...
Edward died in London on 16 January 1585, aged 72, and was buried in St George's Chapel at Windsor in Berkshire, where a monument was put up in what is now called the Lincoln Chapel to him and his third wife, who had died in 1590. His will made on 11 July 1584, which divided his property between his eldest son and his wife, was proved at the Prerog...
His children with Elizabeth Blount were: 1. Bridget, who married Sir Robert Dymoke. 2. Catherine, who married William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh. 3. Margaret, who married Charles Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham. His known children with Ursula Stourton were: 1. Henry, his heir, who married first Catherine Hastings and secondly Elizabeth Morri...
Portraits of Edward in English collections may be seen in the National Portrait Gallery , the Royal Collection at Windsor , and the Royal Museums at Greenwich.
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Robert Edward Fiennes-Clinton, 19th Earl of Lincoln (born 19 June 1972) is the son of Hon. Edward Gordon Fiennes-Clinton and his wife Julia Eleanor Howson. He is a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London .
found: Oxford dictionary of national biography online, 20 May 2019 (Clinton, Edward Fiennes de, first earl of Lincoln (1512-1585); forms of name within entry: Clinton through most of article, until became Earl of Lincoln at age 60, then Lincoln; military commander; only son and heir of Thomas Fiennes de Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton and Saye (c ...
