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John Smythe (abt. 1599 - 1640)

Sir John Smythe
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Husband of — married Nov 1618 in Londonmap [uncertain]
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Died at about age 41 in Siena, Tuscanymap
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Biography

John Smythe, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Smythe by his wife Sarah Blount, married Isabella Rich, youngest daughter of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick.[1][2] The 2nd Earl of Warwick was the largest stockholder in the Somers Island Company (aka the Bermuda Company).

John 'Smith' was knighted at Whitehall on 22 Sep 1618.[3]

His marriage to Isabella Rich was recorded in correspondence from John Chamberlain.[4] On 21 Nov 1618 he wrote:

Sir Thomas Smythe’s son come lately from travel, a proper young gentleman of some 19 years old and the only child he hath, is so inveigled and cunningly caught in affection with the Lady Isabella Rich (five or six years older than) himself that I hear he hath married her two days since without his father’s privity, and contrary to his express command.

and then:

It falls out true that I wrote this last week that Sir Thomas Smythe’s son had married the Lady Isabella Rich, without his father’s consent or privity, and the affront is the more being done in so good company as the Countess of Bedford with divers other ladies and persons of account, whereof the Lord Chamberlain gave the bride, but not one of his friends or kindred present or made acquainted withal.

on 30 Jan 1618/1619 Chamberlain noted:

Our new bride-groom Sir John Smythe is arrested by the smallpox, and his Lady Isabella forgetting her late promise of better or worse in sickness and in health is fled to save her fair skin.

and on 31 Jul 1619 Chamberlain wrote:

Young Sir John Smythe that married the Lady Isabella Rich is stepped aside and gone over secretly into France, which breeds many surmises, but himself hath written to his father, that the clamour of creditors, the high state of expense he was fallen into, the unequal division of his maintenance, the avoiding of some company unfit for him, and the enabling himself to live more providently herafter, had caused him to absent himself.

Sir John along with his mother, Sarah, were the principal beneficiaries of the will of his father Sir Thomas Smythe, the will made in Jan 1621/1622 and proved in 1625.[5]

He died at Siena on 16 Oct 1640.[1]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 Smythe, Sir John III (c.1599-1640), of Sutton-at-Hone, Kent. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010 HOP.
  2. Smythe, Sir Thomas (c.1558-1625), of Philpott Lane, London and Bounds Place, Bidborough, Kent. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010 HOP.
  3. Shaw W A (1906) The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland. Vols I & II. London. Reprinted 1971.
  4. The Correspondence (c.1626-1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester. Brennan M G, Kinnamon N J and Hanny M P (Eds). The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions. 2010.
  5. Will of Sir Thomas Smithe of London. 1625. PROB 11/147/84. The National Archives, Kew.

See also:

  • Smith, John, knight: Kent. Inquisition Post Mortem. 17 Charles I (1641-1642). C 142/613/64. The National Archives, Kew Discovery.
  • Debrett;s Peerage (1836) & (1838)
  • History of Parliament, Sir Thomas Smythe MP
  • Wadmore J F (1893) Sir Thomas Smythe Knt (A.D. 1558-1625). Archaeologia Cantiana Vol 20 p82-103.
  • Family Tree provided by Lanhydrock House, Cornwall, England




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