Sir Francis Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet
Sir Francis Throckmorton, 2nd Baronet (1641–1680), of Coughton Court, Warwickshire and Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire, was a member of a prominent English family of Roman Catholic dissenters.
Origins[]
Francis was born in 1641, the son of Sir Robert Throckmorton, 1st Baronet (d.1650) by his second wife Mary Smyth, daughter of Sir Francis Smyth (d.1629) of Ashby Folville and Queensborough, Leicestershire and Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, by Anne Markham. His uncle was Charles Smyth, 1st Viscount Carrington.
Marriage[]
He married Anne Monson (d.1728), daughter of John Monson,[1] a Catholic and eldest son of Admiral Sir William Monson (1569–1643) of Kinnersley Manor, Horley, Surrey and Croft and Skegness in Lincolnshire. Anne sold Kinnersley in 1666.[2]
Death and burial[]
He died on 7 November 1680 and was buried at Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire. His will was granted probate in 1681.
Private life[]
He and Anne had the following children:
- Mary Throckmorton, married Martin Wollascot.
- Sir Robert Throckmorton, 3rd Baronet (1662-1720/1)
- Anne Throckmorton (1664-1734), Abbess 1720-1728 of the English Augustinian Convent of Notre-Dame-de-Sion, Paris.[1]
- George Throckmorton (1671-1705), had a religious life, a Jansenist dévot [1]
Sir Francis and his wife, Anne, separated in 1677 and she went to live in a convent in Paris.[1]
Sources[]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e "Throckmorton, Margaret [name in religion Magdalen] (1591–1668), prioress of St Monica's, Louvain". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/106107. ISBN 9780198614111. Retrieved 2021-02-09. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ History of Parliament, House of Commons, 1558–1603, Sir William Monson
- 1641 births
- 1680 deaths
- Baronets in the Baronetage of England
- Throckmorton family
- 17th-century English people