Charles Wilmot (abt. 1571 - 1644)

Born about 1571 in England

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Sir Charles Wilmot was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Charles Wilmot is Notable.

Charles was the son of Edward Wilmot of Culham, and Elizabeth Stafford. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford which he entered aged 16 in 1587. Knighted in Dublin on 5 August 1599 and created Viscount Wilmot of Athlone on 4 January 1620, Charles served as Governor of Kerry and Desmond in Ireland.

In 1634 he sold the manor of Godsfield in Hampshire to the widow, Constance , and the son, Robert, of Thomas Lucy of Charlecote in Warwickshire. ^[1]

Wilmot m.(1) c1605, Sarah Anderson (bur. 8 Dec 1615), fourth daughter of Sir Henry Anderson, sheriff of London in 1601–2 and (2) Mary Colley (d. 3 June 1654), daughter of Sir Henry Colley of Castle Carbury and widow of Garret Moore, 1st Viscount Moore, who died in 1627.

Children by Sarah Anderson:

1. Arthur Wilmot (born before 1610, died 31 October/1 November 1632); married Penelope, daughter of Sir Moyses Hill of Hillsborough, Provost Marshall of Ulster.
2. Charles Wilmot (baptised 3 March 1610/1, and died unmarried, before 21 August 1633).
3. Elizabeth Wilmot(1612–1635). She was baptised 25 May 1612. She married Arthur Ayshford, of Ayshford Manor, Burlescombe, Devon, eldest son of Henry Ayshford, Esquire. She died aged 23, and is sculpted with her husband on an ornate mural monument in Burlescombe Church, near Tiverton, Devon.
4. Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester (baptised 26 October 1613 – 24 February 1658) married first on 28 August 1633 to Frances Morton daughter of Sir George Morton of Milborne St. Andrews, and second to Anne St John, daughter of Sir John St John, 1st Baronet.

Sources

1. ↑ British History Online Godsfield, Hampshire

• Oxford Alumni
• Stirnet: Wilmot

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilmot,_1st_Viscount_Wilmot