Tresham Baronets
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The Tresham Baronetcy, of Rushton in the County of Southampton, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 29 June 1611 for Lewis Tresham. He was the son of Sir Thomas Tresham
, the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Tresham
and the younger brother of Francis Tresham
. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in circa 1642.
Thomas Tresham II
Sir Thomas Tresham was a Catholic recusant politician at the end of the Tudor dynasty and the start of the Stuart dynasty in England....
, the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Tresham
Thomas Tresham I
Sir Thomas Tresham was a leading Catholic politician during the middle of the Tudor dynasty in England.The eldest son of John Tresham of Rushton, Northamptonshire, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Harrington, of Hornby, Lancashire, he married Mary Parr, youngest daughter and co-heir of William...
and the younger brother of Francis Tresham
Francis Tresham
Francis Tresham , eldest son of Sir Thomas Tresham and Merial Throckmorton, was a member of the group of English provincial catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a conspiracy to assassinate King James I of England...
. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in circa 1642.
Tresham Baronets, of Rushton (1611)
- Sir Lewis Tresham, 1st Baronet (c. 1575-1639)
- Sir William Tresham, 2nd Baronet (d. c. 1642)