Paternal Family Tree: De Cotton
On 10th March 1635 [his father] Thomas Cotton of Combermere Abbey in Cheshire [aged 26] and [his mother] Elizabeth Calverley [aged 25] were married.
After 10th March 1635 Robert Cotton 1st Baronet was born to Thomas Cotton of Combermere Abbey in Cheshire [aged 26] and Elizabeth Calverley [aged 25].
Around 1647 [his father] Thomas Cotton of Combermere Abbey in Cheshire [aged 38] died.
In 1647 [his mother] Elizabeth Calverley [aged 37] died.
Around 1666 Robert Cotton 1st Baronet [aged 30] and Hester Salusbury [aged 29] were married. They had five sons and eleven daughters and over one hundred grandchildren.
In or before 1671 [his son] Hugh Calveley Cotton was born to Robert Cotton 1st Baronet [aged 35] and [his wife] Hester Salusbury [aged 33]. He married before 18th December 1712 Mary Russell, daughter of William Russell 1st Baronet and Hester Rouse Lady Russell.
Around 1672 [his son] Thomas Cotton 2nd Baronet was born to Robert Cotton 1st Baronet [aged 36] and [his wife] Hester Salusbury [aged 35]. He married before 2nd January 1695 Philadelphia Lynch Lady Cotton and had issue.
In 1677 Robert Cotton 1st Baronet [aged 41] was created 1st Baronet Cotton of Combermere in Cheshire.
In 1679 Robert Cotton 1st Baronet [aged 43] was elected MP Cheshire which seat he held until 1681.
On 23rd May 1684 [his brother-in-law] John Salusbury 4th Baronet [aged 47] died. Baronet Salusbury of Lleweni in Denbighshire extinct. His sister [his wife] Hester Salusbury [aged 47] and her husband Robert Cotton 1st Baronet [aged 49] inherited his estates.
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Combermere Papers. In 1685 Sir Robert [aged 50] was committed to the Tower [Map] on a charge of treasonable correspondence with the Electress Sophia [aged 54]. The following is a copy of the warrant for his committal:
Robert Earl of Sunderland Baron Spencer & c & c
These are in His Majesty's name to authorize and require you to receive into your custodie the bodie of Sir Robert Cotton of Cheshire herewith sent to you for dangerous and treasonable practices!Keep him safe and close till he be discharged by due course of law for which this shall be your warrant.
Given at the Court at Windsor the 23rd daye of September 1685
SUNDERLAND [Robert Spencer 2nd Earl of Sunderland [aged 44]]
To the Lieutenant of the Tower
Combermere Papers. After 23rd September 1685. By an act of kindness unusual on the part of James II Sir Robert [aged 50] was allowed the society of one of his family within the Tower He chose his fourth son Thomas [aged 13] a boy of eleven years old and beguiled the tedium of captivity by teaching him to read. Lady Cotton [aged 48] not being allowed to share her husband's imprisonment used to walk every day at a certain hour on Tower Hill till she learnt by an agreed signal hung out from a window that her husband was well. After a short delay Sir Robert was released the charge made against him having been found to be groundless. That there were however letters although perhaps not treasonable from the Electress Sophia [aged 54] we learn from Mrs Piozzi who when a child saw some of this correspondence. She was too young to recollect anything about the contents but was afterwards told that they were full of Latin quotations. In accordance with what seems to have been a family mania for the destruction of papers Lord Combermere's father burnt the letters in question
Combermere Papers. 1689. When Sir Thomas Cotton [aged 17] reached the age of seventeen his father [aged 53] received a most extraordinary proposal from Admiral Sir George Herbert [aged 41] [Note. George a mistake for Arthur?] afterwards Lord Torrington which he seems to have accepted without the slightest misgiving as to its morality. George was uncle and guardian to Philadelphia [aged 13] daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Lynch twice Governor and Captain General of Jamaica who had died possessed of large estates in the West Indies a share in which Sir George coveted He therefore agreed to marry his ward though only thirteen years old to young Thomas Cotton on condition that his consent was purchased by a portion of the property. The marriage actually took place and the terms were duly carried out. Eventually Thomas though only a fourth son succeeded through the death of his elder brothers to the title and estates but did not enjoy them long dying in 1715 after only a three years tenure. His widow shortly afterwards married a Mr King on whom she bestowed the whole of her large fortune to the entire exclusion of her nine sons and six daughters. In the parish register of Wrenbury Church [Map] near Combermere the birth of a young King is recorded who soon after was christened there by the name of Cotton a novel compliment to the memory of the lady's first husband. Sir Thomas Lady Cotton survived her second partner for some years and lived at East Hyde a fine place in Hertfordshire where her four magnificent horses were the objects of great attention to her little niece Hester Salusbury afterwards Mrs Piozzi. The stately old lady was in the habit of driving about in the neigh bourhood of her country place in a ponderous anti quated coach drawn by four black horses as solemnly grand as herself The animals were the delight of her little niece who in her autobiography thus fondly alludes to them:
At East Hyde I learned to love horses and when my mother hoped I was gaining health by the fresh air I was kicking my heels in a corn bin and learning to drive of the old coachman who like everybody else small and great delighted in taking me for a pupil. Grandmamma kept four great ramping war horses chevaux entiers for her carriage with immense long manes and tails which we buckled and combed and when after long practice I showed her and my mother how two of them poor Colonel and Peacock would lick my hand for a lump of sugar or fine white bread much were they amazed and more when my skill in guiding them round the court yard on the break could no longer be doubted or denied though strictly prohibited for the future.
In 1689 Robert Cotton 1st Baronet [aged 53] was elected MP Cheshire which seat he held until 1702.
Before 2nd January 1695 Thomas Cotton 2nd Baronet [aged 23] and Philadelphia Lynch Lady Cotton [aged 19] were married. They had nine sons and six daughters.
On 7th October 1710 [his wife] Hester Salusbury [aged 73] died. She was buried at St Marcella's Church, Denbigh [Map].
Hester Salusbury: In 1637 she was born to Thomas Salusbury 2nd Baronet and Hester Tyrrell Lady Salusbury. Around 1666 Robert Cotton 1st Baronet and she were married. They had five sons and eleven daughters and over one hundred grandchildren. On 23rd May 1684 John Salusbury 4th Baronet died. Baronet Salusbury of Lleweni in Denbighshire extinct. His sister Hester Salusbury and her husband Robert Cotton 1st Baronet inherited his estates. Combermere Papers. After 23rd September 1685. By an act of kindness unusual on the part of James II Sir Robert was allowed the society of one of his family within the Tower He chose his fourth son Thomas a boy of eleven years old and beguiled the tedium of captivity by teaching him to read. Lady Cotton not being allowed to share her husband's imprisonment used to walk every day at a certain hour on Tower Hill till she learnt by an agreed signal hung out from a window that her husband was well. After a short delay Sir Robert was released the charge made against him having been found to be groundless. That there were however letters although perhaps not treasonable from the Electress Sophia we learn from Mrs Piozzi who when a child saw some of this correspondence. She was too young to recollect anything about the contents but was afterwards told that they were full of Latin quotations. In accordance with what seems to have been a family mania for the destruction of papers Lord Combermere's father burnt the letters in question
Before 18th December 1712 [his son] Hugh Calveley Cotton [aged 41] and [his daughter-in-law] Mary Russell [aged 43] were married.
Before 18th December 1712 [his son] Hugh Calveley Cotton [aged 41] died.
On 18th December 1712 Robert Cotton 1st Baronet [aged 77] died. His son Thomas [aged 40] succeeded 2nd Baronet Cotton of Combermere in Cheshire. Philadelphia Lynch Lady Cotton [aged 37] by marriage Lady Cotton of Combermere in Cheshire.
On 12th January 1713 Robert Cotton 1st Baronet was buried at St Marcella's Church, Denbigh [Map] next to his wife Hester Salusbury.
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Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 22 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: William de Cotton
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Cotton
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Cotton of Combermere 8 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Mainwaring 11 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Cecily Mainwaring 7 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Dudley 
6 x Great Granddaughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Cotton 9 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Grandfather: George Cotton 10 x Great Grandson of King John of England
father: Thomas Cotton of Combermere Abbey in Cheshire 11 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Robert Cotton 1st Baronet 12 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Calverley
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Calverley
Great x 2 Grandfather: Hugh Calverley
Great x 1 Grandfather: Hugh Calverley
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Tattershall of Bulkeley
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Tattershall
Grandfather: George Calverley
mother: Elizabeth Calverley
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Cholmondeley 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Hugh "The Elder" Cholmondeley
Great x 1 Grandfather: Hugh "The Younger" Cholmondeley
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Dorman
Great x 2 Grandmother: Ann Dorman
Grandmother: Mary Cholmondeley
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Holford