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Encyclopedia > Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth

Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth, KB, PC (bapt. 2 February 16121 March 1665) was an English soldier and politician. Military Badge of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. ... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... Baptism in early Christian art. ... February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events January 20 - Mathias becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 1665 (MDCLXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right)1 Capital Winchester, then London from 11th century. ...


Wentworth was the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Cleveland and his first wife, Anne. From 1639-40, he fought against the Scots in the Bishops' Wars and was briefly MP for Bedfordshire in 1640 before he was called up to the House of Lords, in his father's barony of Wentworth in November of that year. En Dieu Est Tout In God is all Thomas Wentworth was born in 1591, the son of Henry Baron Wentworth of Nettlestead. ... Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity) Capital Edinburgh Government Monarchy Head of State King of Scots Parliament Parliament of Scotland Currency Pound Scots This article is about the historical state called the Kingdom of Scotland (843-1707). ... The Bishops Wars, a series of armed encounters and defiances between England and Scotland in 1639 and 1640, were part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Bedfordshire is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. ... A writ of acceleration was a type of writ of summons to the House of Lords that enabled the eldest son and heir apparent of a peer with multiple peerage titles to attend the House of Lords using one of his fathers subsidiary titles. ... The title Baron Wentworth was created in 1529 for Thomas Wentworth, who was de jure Baron le Despencer of the 1387 creation. ...


During the English Civil War, Wentworth was the Sergeant-Major-General of Horse and commanded the Prince of Wales's Regiment of Horse, seeing action at Tipton Green, Cropredy Bridge, Langport, Worcester and possibly at the Second Battle of Newbury. He fought most battles alongside his father and when the Royalists were defeated, Lord Wentworth raised a regiment (which later became the Grenadier Guards) at Bruges as a bodyguard to the exiled Charles II. The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians (known as Roundheads) and Royalists (known as Cavaliers) from 1642 until 1651. ... The Battle of Cropredy Bridge was the last battle won on English soil under the command of an English King. ... The Battle of Langport was a Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War, which destroyed the last Royalist field army, and ultimately gave Parliament control of the West of England, which had hitherto been a major source of manpower, raw materials and imports for the Royalists. ... The Battle of Worcester was the final battle of the English Civil War. ... Combatants Parliamentarians Royalists Commanders Earl of Essex Sir William Waller Earl of Manchester King Charles I Prince Maurice Strength 7,000 horse 12,000 foot 3,500 horse 5,000 foot Casualties unknown unknown The Second Battle of Newbury was a battle of the English Civil War fought on October... Look up Royalist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Grenadier Guards is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. ... Sometimes referred to as the Venice of the North, Bruges has many waterways that run through the city. ... Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from 30 January 1649 (de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death. ...


Lord Wentworth predeceased his father and so did not inherit the latter's earldom and his barony passed to his only child, Henrietta, who later became a mistress to the king's illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth. James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth James Crofts, later James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and of Buccleuch (April 9, 1649 – July 15, 1685) was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the illegitimate son of Charles II and his mistress, Lucy Walter, who had followed him into continental exile after...

Military Offices
Preceded by:
New regiment
Colonel of Lord Wentworth's Regiment
1656–1660
Succeeded by:
Hon. John Russell
Peerage of England
Preceded by:
Thomas Wentworth
Baron Wentworth
(writ of acceleration)
1640–1665
Succeeded by:
Henrietta Wentworth


 

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