Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland 1577-1635

1545. Wenceslaus Hollar. Engraving of Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland.

On 25th November 1572 [his father] Jerome Weston [aged 16] and [his mother] Mary Cave [aged 16] were married.

On 1st March 1577 Richard Weston was born to Jerome Weston [aged 21] and Mary Cave [aged 20].

Around 1593 [his mother] Mary Cave [aged 36] died.

Around 1596 Richard Weston [aged 18] and Elizabeth Pinchon were married.

Around 1602 [his daughter] Mary Weston was born to Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland [aged 24] and [his wife] Elizabeth Pinchon. She married 1629 Walter Aston 2nd Baronet, son of Walter Aston 1st Baronet, and had issue.

Around 1603 Richard Weston [aged 25] and Frances Waldegrave [aged 25] were married.

Before 15th February 1603 [his wife] Elizabeth Pinchon died.

On 31st December 1603 [his father] Jerome Weston [aged 47] died.

On 16th December 1605 [his son] Jerome Weston 2nd Earl of Portland was born to Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland [aged 28] and [his wife] Frances Waldegrave Countess Portland [aged 28]. He married 10th June 1632 Frances Stewart Countess Portland, daughter of Esmé Stewart 3rd Duke Lennox and Katherine Clifton Duchess Lennox, and had issue.

On 8th June 1607 [his daughter] Catherine Weston was born to Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland [aged 30] and [his wife] Frances Waldegrave Countess Portland [aged 30]. She married Richard Whyte.

On 9th October 1609 [his son] Thomas Weston 4th Earl of Portland was born to Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland [aged 32] and [his wife] Frances Waldegrave Countess Portland [aged 32] at Nayland, Suffolk [Map]. He married after 1666 his half fifth cousin Anne Boteler Countess Newport and Portland, daughter of John Boteler 1st Baron Boteler and Elizabeth Villiers Baroness Boteler Brantfield.

Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. 22nd June 1621. About Friday the 22nd of this month was Doctor Williams [aged 39], Dean of Westminster, sworn of the Privy Council, after he bad been first made Bishop of Lincoln; and the Earl of Southampton [aged 47] was committed prisoner to him at his Deanery of Westminster¹. For what cause none of his own servants yet knew, from which imprisonment he was again awhile after freed by the mediation of some noble persons with the beloved Marquis of Buckingham [aged 28], whom the issue showed he had only offended, crossing him often during the continuance of Parliament, and answering him shortly since it had been adjourned.

Note 1. "The Earl of Southampton is committed to Dr. Dean of Westminster, his keeper being Sir Richard Weston [aged 44]. The Earl desired three things of the Lords, 1. That in regard his lady [aged 49] was much subject unto sudden grief and passion, his letter might be the first messenger of his detainment, 2. That because his son [aged 16] was ready to go to travel, he might first speak with him and give some directions. 3. That he might be permitted, in his Majesty's presence, to answer all that should be objected against him. The two former were granted conditionally, that Sir Richard Weston might see the one and hear the other; which were accordingly performed. The third was not in them to grant, but in his Majesty, and therefore put it off." - HarL MSS,

In 1623 [his son-in-law] John Netterville 2nd Viscount Netterville [aged 20] and Elizabeth Weston were married. They had eleven children. She the daughter of Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland [aged 45] and Elizabeth Pinchon.

On 13th April 1628 Richard Weston [aged 51] was created 1st Baron Weston of Nayland in Suffolk. [his wife] Frances Waldegrave [aged 51] by marriage Baroness Weston of Nayland in Suffolk.

In 1629 [his son-in-law] Walter Aston 2nd Baronet [aged 19] and Mary Weston [aged 27] were married. She the daughter of Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland [aged 51] and Elizabeth Pinchon.

On 10th June 1632 Jerome Weston 2nd Earl of Portland [aged 26] and Frances Stewart Countess Portland [aged 15] were married. She the daughter of Esmé Stewart 3rd Duke Lennox and Katherine Clifton Duchess Lennox [aged 40]. He the son of Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland [aged 55] and Frances Waldegrave Countess Portland [aged 55].

On 17th February 1633 Richard Weston Baron Weston [aged 55] was created 1st Earl of Portland. [his wife] Frances Waldegrave [aged 55] by marriage Countess of Portland.

Before 10th March 1635 [his son-in-law] Basil Feilding 2nd Earl Denbigh [aged 27] and Anne Weston were married. She the daughter of Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland [aged 58] and Frances Waldegrave Countess Portland [aged 58]. He the son of William Feilding 1st Earl Denbigh [aged 48] and Susan Villiers Countess Denbigh [aged 52].

On 10th March 1635 [his daughter] Anne Weston died without issue.

On 13th March 1635 Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland [aged 58] died. He was buried at Winchester Cathedral [Map] where he has a monument. The marble elments sculpted by Isaac Besnier, Sculptor in Ordinary and Keeper of the Statues to Charles I until 1643, when he was superseded by his son Peter; the bronze elements perhaps cast by Hubert le Sueur. His son Jerome [aged 29] succeeded 2nd Earl of Portland, 2nd Baron Weston of Nayland in Suffolk. Frances Stewart Countess Portland [aged 18] by marriage Countess of Portland.

Jerome Weston 2nd Earl of Portland: On 16th December 1605 he was born to Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland and Frances Waldegrave Countess Portland. On 10th June 1632 he and Frances Stewart Countess Portland were married. She the daughter of Esmé Stewart 3rd Duke Lennox and Katherine Clifton Duchess Lennox. He the son of Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland and Frances Waldegrave Countess Portland. On 17th March 1663 he died. His son Charles succeeded 3rd Earl of Portland, 3rd Baron Weston of Nayland in Suffolk.

Frances Stewart Countess Portland: In 1617 she was born to Esmé Stewart 3rd Duke Lennox and Katherine Clifton Duchess Lennox. In 1694 Frances Stewart Countess Portland died.

On 24th February 1644 [his former wife] Frances Waldegrave Countess Portland [aged 66] died.

John Evelyn's Diary. 18th October 1671. I returned to Euston, in Lord Henry Howard's [aged 43] coach, leaving him at Norwich, in company with a very ingenious gentleman, Mr. White, whose father and [his daughter] mother (daughter to the late Lord Treasurer Weston, Earl of Portland) I knew at Rome, where this gentleman was born, and where his parents lived and died with much reputation, during their banishment in our civil broils.

[his daughter] Elizabeth Weston was born to Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland and Elizabeth Pinchon. She married 1623 John Netterville 2nd Viscount Netterville and had issue.

State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason. After he had received the said Commission he commanded an O Yes to be made, by one of the Serjeants at Arms, for a general silence: and then delivered the said Commission to sir Thomas Fenshaw, Clerk of the Crown, to be openly read. Which being done, Mr. Maxwell kneeled down and presented his lordship with a white staff verge of state, which he gave to one of the Serjeants at Arms, who held the same up by the cloth of state on the right hand thereof. And after the Commission was read, and the staff received as aforesaid, his grace commanded a solemn O Yes to be made; and then gave leave to all the lords, the peers, and the judges, and to all privy counsellors there present, to be covered; and command was given, that none under that degree should keep on their hats upon pain of imprisonment. And then the peers were severally called by thieir names, and each of them answered particularly, viz. 1. Lord Weston, Lord High Treasurer of England; 2. Earl of Manchester, Lord Privy Seal; 3, Eari of Arundel and Surrey, Earl Marshal; 4. Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery Lord Chamberlain; 5. Earl of Kent; 6. Earl of Worcester; 7. Earl of Bedford; 8. Earl of Essex; 9. Earl of Dorset; 10. Earl of Salisbury; 11. Earl of Leicester; 12. Earl of Warwick; 18. Earl of Cariisle; 14. Earl of Holland; 15. Earl of Berks; 16. Earl of Denbigh;. 17. Viscount Wimbledon; 18. Visc. Conway; 19. Visc. Dorchester; 20. Visc. Wentworth; 21. Lord Percy; 22. Lord Strange; 23. Lord Clifford; 24. Lord Petre; 25. Lord North; 26. Lord Goring; 27. Lord Howard.

[his daughter] Anne Weston was born to Richard Weston 1st Earl of Portland and Frances Waldegrave Countess Portland. She married before 10th March 1635 Basil Feilding 2nd Earl Denbigh, son of William Feilding 1st Earl Denbigh and Susan Villiers Countess Denbigh.