Francis Willoughby 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham -1666

Francis Willoughby 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham was born to William Willoughby 3rd Baron Willoughby of Parham and Frances Manners Baroness Willoughby of Parham.

On or after 4th February 1603, the date of the license, [his father] William Willoughby 3rd Baron Willoughby of Parham [aged 19] and [his mother] Frances Manners Baroness Willoughby of Parham [aged 14] were married. She by marriage Baroness Willoughby Parham. She the daughter of [his grandfather] John Manners 4th Earl of Rutland and [his grandmother] Elizabeth Charlton Countess Rutland. They were fifth cousin once removed.

Around 1611 Charles Willoughby 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham [aged 74] died. His grandson [his father] William [aged 27] succeeded 3rd Baron Willoughby Parham.

On 28th August 1617 [his father] William Willoughby 3rd Baron Willoughby of Parham [aged 33] died. His son [his brother] Henry succeeded 4th Baron Willoughby Parham.

On 14th October 1617 Henry Willoughby 4th Baron Willoughby of Parham died. His brother Francis succeeded 5th Baron Willoughby Parham.

In 1625 [his daughter] Frances Willoughby Baroness Brereton was born to Francis Willoughby 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham and [his future wife] Elizabeth Cecil Baroness Willoughby of Parham. She married 21st October 1658 her fourth cousin William Brereton 3rd Baron Brereton, son of William Brereton 2nd Baron Brereton and Elizabeth Goring Baroness Brereton, and had issue.

On 16th November 1628 Francis Willoughby 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham and Elizabeth Cecil Baroness Willoughby of Parham were married. She by marriage Baroness Willoughby Parham. They were sixth cousins.

Around 1633 [his daughter] Elizabeth Willoughby Countess Ranelagh was born to Francis Willoughby 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham and [his wife] Elizabeth Cecil Baroness Willoughby of Parham. She married 28th October 1662 Richard Jones 1st Earl Ranelagh, son of Arthur Jones 2nd Viscount Ranelagh and Katherine Boyle Viscountess Ranelagh, and had issue.

Around 1635 [his son] William Willoughby was born to Francis Willoughby 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham and [his wife] Elizabeth Cecil Baroness Willoughby of Parham.

Before 1637 [his brother] William Willoughby 6th Baron Willoughby of Parham [aged 20] and [his sister-in-law] Anne Carey Baroness Willoughby of Parham [aged 21] were married.

In 1643 [his mother] Frances Manners Baroness Willoughby of Parham [aged 54] died.

On 21st May 1645 [his son-in-law] Heneage Finch 3rd Earl Winchilsea [aged 17] and [his daughter] Diana Willoughby Countess Winchelsea were married. She by marriage Countess Winchilsea. He the son of Thomas Finch 2nd Earl Winchilsea and Cecily Wentworth Countess Winchelsea. They were half fourth cousin twice removed.

John Evelyn's Diary. 15th July 1658. Came to see my Lord Kilmurry and Lady, Sir Robert Needham, Mr. Offley, and two daughters of my Lord Willoughby, of Parham.

On 21st October 1658 [his son-in-law] William Brereton 3rd Baron Brereton [aged 27] and [his daughter] Frances Willoughby Baroness Brereton [aged 33] were married at St Margaret Pattens. They were fourth cousins.

In 1661 [his wife] Elizabeth Cecil Baroness Willoughby of Parham died.

On 28th October 1662 [his son-in-law] Richard Jones 1st Earl Ranelagh [aged 21] and [his daughter] Elizabeth Willoughby Countess Ranelagh [aged 29] were married.

On 23rd July 1666 Francis Willoughby 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham died. His brother William [aged 50] succeeded 6th Baron Willoughby Parham. Anne Carey Baroness Willoughby of Parham [aged 51] by marriage Baroness Willoughby Parham.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 29th November 1666. "I doubt not of your lordship's hearing of Sir Thomas Clifford's [aged 36] succeeding Sir H. Pollard [deceased] in the Comptrollership of the King's house but perhaps our ill, but confirmed, tidings from the Barbadoes may not [have reached you] yet, it coming but yesterday; viz., that about eleven ships, whereof two of the King's, the Hope and Coventry, going thence with men to attack St. Christopher's, were seized by a violent hurricane, and all sunk-two only of thirteen escaping, and those with loss of masts, &c. My Lord Willoughby himself is involved in the disaster, and I think two ships thrown upon an island of the French, and so all the men, to 500, become their prisoners. 'Tis said, too, that eighteen Dutch men-of-war are passed the Channell, in order to meet with our Smyrna ships; and some, I hear, do fright us with the King of Sweden's [aged 11] seizing our mast-ships at Gottenburgh. But we have too much ill newes true, to afflict ourselves with what is uncertain. That which I hear from Scotland is, the Duke of York's [aged 33] saying, yesterday, that he is confident the Lieutenant-Generall there hath driven them into a pound, somewhere towards the mountains".

[his daughter] Diana Willoughby Countess Winchelsea was born to Francis Willoughby 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham and Elizabeth Cecil Baroness Willoughby of Parham. She married 21st May 1645 her half fourth cousin twice removed Heneage Finch 3rd Earl Winchilsea, son of Thomas Finch 2nd Earl Winchilsea and Cecily Wentworth Countess Winchelsea.