Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend 1630-1687

Paternal Family Tree: Townshend

Before 1628 [his father] Roger Townshend 1st Baronet [aged 31] and [his step-mother] Mary Vere Countess of Westmoreland [aged 19] were married. She by marriage Lady Townshend.

On 14th December 1630 Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend was born to Roger Townshend 1st Baronet [aged 34].

On 1st January 1637 [his father] Roger Townshend 1st Baronet [aged 41] died. His son [his half-brother] Roger succeeded 2nd Baronet Townshend.

In 1648 [his half-brother] Roger Townshend 2nd Baronet died. His brother Horatio [aged 17] succeeded 3rd Baronet Townshend.

Coronation of Charles II

                    John Evelyn's Diary. 22nd April 1661. Was the splendid cavalcade of his Majesty [aged 30] from the Tower of London to Whitehall, when I saw him in the Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace [Map] create six Earls, and as many Barons, viz:
                
                    Edward Lord Hyde, Lord Chancellor [aged 52], Earl of Clarendon; supported by the Earls of Northumberland [aged 58] and Sussex [aged 14]; the Earl of Bedford [aged 44] carried the cap and coronet, the Earl of Warwick [aged 46], the sword, the Earl of Newport [aged 64], the mantle.
                
                    Next, was Capel, created Earl of Essex.
                
                    Brudenell, Cardigan;.
                
                    Valentia, Anglesea;.
                
                    Greenvill, Bath;.
                
                    Howard, Earl of Carlisle.
                
                    The Barons were: Denzille Holles; Cornwallis; Booth; Townsend; Cooper; Crew; who were led up by several Peers, with Garter and officers of arms before them; when, after obedience on their several approaches to the throne, their patents were presented by Garter King-at-Arms, which being received by the Lord Chamberlain [aged 59], and delivered to his Majesty, and by him to the Secretary of State, were read, and then again delivered to his Majesty, and by him to the several Lords created; they were then robed, their coronets and collars put on by his Majesty, and they were placed in rank on both sides of the state and throne; but the Barons put off their caps and circles, and held them in their hands, the Earls keeping on their coronets, as cousins to the King.
                
                    I spent the rest of the evening in seeing the several archtriumphals built in the streets at several eminent places through which his Majesty was next day to pass, some of which, though temporary, and to stand but one year, were of good invention and architecture, with inscriptions.
                
                    Notes:
                
                    Arthur Capell 1st Earl Essex [aged 29] was created 1st Earl Essex. Elizabeth Percy Countess Essex [aged 25] by marriage Countess Essex.
                
                    Thomas Brudenell 1st Earl Cardigan [aged 78] was created 1st Earl Cardigan. Mary Tresham Countess Cardigan by marriage Countess Cardigan.
                
                    Arthur Annesley 1st Earl Annesley [aged 46] was created 1st Earl Anglesey, 1st Baron Annesley Newport Pagnell Buckinghamshire. Elizabeth Altham Countess Anglesey [aged 41] by marriage Countess Anglesey.
                
                    John Granville 1st Earl Bath [aged 32] was created 1st Earl Bath, 1st Baron Granville of Kilkhampton and Biddeford.
                
                    Charles Howard 1st Earl Carlisle [aged 32] was created 1st Earl Carlisle.
                
                    Denzil Holles 1st Baron Holles [aged 61] was created 1st Baron Holles. Jane Shirley Baroness Holles by marriage Baroness Holles.
                
                    Frederick Cornwallis 1st Baron Cornwallis [aged 50] was created 1st Baron Cornwallis.
                
                    George Booth 1st Baron Delamer [aged 38] was created 1st Baron Delamer. Elizabeth Grey Baroness Delamer [aged 39] by marriage Baroness Delamer.
                
                    Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend [aged 30] was created 1st Baron Townshend of Lynn Regis in Norfolk.
                
                    Anthony Ashley-Cooper 1st Earl Shaftesbury [aged 39] was created 1st Baron Ashley of Wimborne St Giles.

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Around 1670 Peter Lely [aged 51]. Portrait of Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend [aged 39].

Before 22nd May 1673 Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend [aged 42] and Mary Lewkenor [aged 38] were married.

On 22nd May 1673 [his wife] Mary Lewkenor [aged 38] died.

On 24th November 1673 Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend [aged 42] and Mary Ashe Viscountess Townshend [aged 21] were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years.

On 18th April 1674 [his son] Charles Townshend 2nd Viscount Townsend was born to Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend [aged 43] and [his wife] Mary Ashe Viscountess Townshend [aged 22]. He married (1) before 11th May 1711 Elizabeth Pelham Viscountess Townsend, daughter of Thomas Pelham 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton and Elizabeth Jones, and had issue (2) before 25th July 1713 Dorothy Walpole Viscountess Townsend and had issue.

Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses

Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.

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In 1682 Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend [aged 51] was created 1st Viscount Townsend. [his wife] Mary Ashe Viscountess Townshend [aged 30] by marriage Viscountess Townsend.

Around 1682 [his son] Horatio Townshend was born to Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend [aged 51] and [his wife] Mary Ashe Viscountess Townshend [aged 30].

In December 1685 [his wife] Mary Ashe Viscountess Townshend [aged 33] died.

On 10th December 1687 Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend [aged 56] died. His son Charles [aged 13] succeeded 2nd Viscount Townsend, 2nd Baron Townshend of Lynn Regis in Norfolk, 4th Baronet Townshend.