Cicely Brabazon

• Cecilia Brereton1
• F, #490284, d. 12 July 1704
• Last Edited=10 Feb 2012
• Cecilia Brereton was the daughter of Sir William Brereton, 1st Bt.1 She married Edward Brabazon, 4th Earl of Meath, son of Edward Brabazon, 2nd Earl of Meath and Mary Chambré, before 1677.1 She died on 12 July 1704.1
• From before 1677, her married name became Brabazon.1 As a result of her marriage, Cecilia Brereton was styled as Countess of Meath circa 28 February 1685.
• Citations
• 1.[S37] BP2003 volume 2, page 2659. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p49029.htm#i490284 ____________________________
• Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet (13 September 1604 – 7 April 1661) was an English writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1628 and 1659. He was a commander in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War.
• Brereton was the son of William Brereton and was baptised at Collegiate Church, Manchester, in 1604. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 2 November 1621, aged 18 and was a student of Gray's Inn in 1623. He was then of Handforth Hall, Cheshire.[1] He worked hard to increase the value of his estates. For example he was interested in field sports and built a duck decoy at Dodleston which became something of a commercial operation. He was created a baronet on 10 March 1627.
• In 1628 Brereton was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheshire and sat until 1629 when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.[2] In the summer of 1634 Brereton visited Holland and the Seventeen Provinces and wrote a detailed account of his travels. He took a keen interest in military matters and studied siege warfare there at first hand. In the following year from 11 June to 4 August he journeyed through north eastern England to lowland Scotland and thence to Ireland, returning to land in England at Minehead from where he made his way back to Chester. In other years he journeyed in France and other parts of England although his records of the journeys have been lost.
• In April 1640, Brereton was re-elected MP for Cheshire in the Short Parliament. He was re-elected for the Long Parliament in November 1640.[2] He took a stand against King Charles by organising a petition, said to contain over 1000 signatures, directed against episcopacy - rule of the Church by bishops.
• In 1642, Brereton joined the Parliamentarian forces, and in March 1643 was appointed Commander-in-Chief for Parliament's army in Cheshire, where he quickly established a formidable intelligence network of spies and agents. He defeated the Royalists at the First Battle of Middlewich on 13 March[3] and established his Cheshire headquarters at Nantwich. In 1643, when Parliament's cause floundered elsewhere, Brereton stood out as a success, establishing Parliamentary dominance in Cheshire. With success came attention from the Royalists. More Cavaliers entered Cheshire to counter Brereton's forces and in late 1643 he suffered his only major defeat at the Second Battle of Middlewich. The Royalists were unable to press home the initiative however and in January 1644 Lord Byron's Royalists were routed by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Brereton at the Battle of Nantwich.
• After some time in London, Brereton returned to Cheshire. He was one of three officers (the other two being Sir Thomas Middleton (soldier)[citation needed] and Oliver Cromwell) specifically exempted by Parliament from the provisions of the Self-denying Ordinance. Brereton turned his attentions to besieging Chester, a Royalist stronghold. Byron, now Governor of the City, held out until February 1646, but finally had to capitulate. Brereton played an important role in the first civil war's final major pitched Battle at Stow-on-the-Wold, but thereafter faded into the background vis-a-vis military matters.
• Brereton survived Pride's Purge in 1648 and although he was one of the commissioners on the trial of the king, he did not act. He was present in the restored Rump Parliament in 1659.
• Brereton died at the age of 56. A series of letter books survive in which he preserved copies of letters he wrote, especially during the English Civil War.
• Sir William Brereton married as his first wife Susanna, daughter of Sir George Booth of Dunham Massey, Baronet. By her Brereton had Sir Thomas, his only son and successor in the baronetcy, and three daughters: Frances, wife of Edward Ward, 10th Baron Dudley and 2nd Baron Ward; Susanna, who married Edmund Lenthall, son of Sir John Lenthall; and Catherine, who died unmarried. Brereton's second wife was Cicely, daughter of Sir William Skeffington, Baronet, of Staffordshire. They had a daughter, Cicely, who became the wife of Edward, 4th Earl of Meath.
• In 1699, a family dispute broke out between these heirs, when Susanna Brereton's daughter Mary, who had married John Levett Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple, London, petitioned the House of Lords in London on behalf of Edward Ward, 11th Baron Dudley and 3rd Baron Ward, who was an infant when his father died, and whose guardianship had been held by Edward, Earl of Meath, and his wife, who was the aunt of the infant lord.[4][5]
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Brereton,_1st_Baronet ___________________
• Meath, Earl of (I, 1627)
• Edward [Brabazon], 2nd Earl of Meath, PC
• born c.1610
• mar. 1632 Mary Chambré (bur. 14 Sep 1685), 2nd dau. of Calcot Chambré, of Denbigh, Wales, and of Carnowe, co. Wicklow, by his second wife Mary Villiers, dau. of Edward Villiers, of Howthorpe, co. Northampton
• children
  • 1. Hon William Brabazon, later 4th Baron Ardee later 3rd Earl of Meath
  • 2. Hon Edward Brabazon, later 4th Earl of Meath
  • 3. Hon Chambré Brabazon, later 5th Earl of Meath
  • 1. Lady Jane Brabazon, mar. as his first wife Hon Randall Moore, of Ardee, co. Louth, 5th son of Charles [Moore], 2nd Viscount Moore, by his wife Hon Alice Loftus, yst. dau. of Adam [Loftus], 1st Viscount Loftus, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and had issue
  • 2. Lady Mary Brabazon, mar. Robert Needham
• died 25 Mar 1675
• suc. by son
• note knighted 1626; Member of Parliament for Athlone 1634-35 ; served against the Roman Catholic rebels in 1643; Capt of a Troop of Horse for King Charles I, captured by the Parliamentary forces and, like his father, imprisoned in the Tower of London 1644/5; fought at the Battle of Edgehill and afterwards imprisoned in Worcester Castle; Privy Councillor [I] 1660; drowned off Holyhead while sailing to England
• Edward [Brabazon], 4th Earl of Meath, PC
• born c.1638
• mar. (1) bef. 1677 Cecilia Brereton (d. 12 Jul 1704), 1st dau. of Sir William Brereton, 1st Bt., of Honford, co. Cheshire, by his second wife Cecilia Skeffington, 2nd dau. of Sir William Skeffington, 1st Bt., of Fisherwick, co. Stafford
• mar. (2) 22 Sep 1704 Dorothea Stopford (mar. (2) Dec 1716 as his second wife Lieut Gen Richard Gorges, of Kilbrew, co. Meath; d. 10 Apr 1728), 2nd dau. and cohrss. of James Stopford, of Tara Hill, co. Meath, by his second wife Mary Forth, dau. of Rt Hon Sir Robert Forth
• died s.p. 22 Feb 1707
• suc. by brother
• note Capt of Foot 1661 and later of Horse; Member of Parliament for co. Wicklow 1666; Ranger of Phoenix Park and of all the Royal Parks in Ireland 1675; Privy Councillor [I] 1679 and 1690; Custos Rotulorum of co. Dublin and co. Kildare 1685; Col of a Regiment of Foot 1689; attainted in absentia by the Irish Parliament and his estate sequestrated 1689; in command against King James II at Carrickfergus 1689 and fought at the Battle of the Boyne and at Limerick 1690; Governor of the Company of the Royal Fishery of Ireland 1692; a Commissioner of the Great Seal of Ireland 1693, 1697 and 1702
• From: http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/meath1627.htm?zoom... - SEARCE SITE FOR Brereton ____________________
• 'Brereton03'
• Randle Brereton of Malpas
• m. Alice Ipstones (dau of William de Ipstones)
  • 1. Randle Brereton of Ipstones & Malpas
  • m. Katherine Bulkeley (dau of William Bulkeley of Eaton)
    • A. Randle (Randoll) Brereton
    • m. Emma (heir of John Carington of Carington)
      • i. Sir Randle Brereton of Ipstones, Shoclach and Malpas (a 1522, Chamberlain of Chester)
      • m. Eleanor Dutton (dau of Piers Dutton of Hatton)
        • a. .... etc.
        • e. Sir Urian Brereton of Honford or Hanford or Handforth or Handford (d 19.03.1578, 9th son)
        • The following is supported by Visitation (Cheshire, 1580, Brereton of Hanford) & Visitation (Cheshire, 1663, Brereton of Malpas).
        • m1. Margaret Honford (dau of William Honford (or Hanford or Handford) of Honford, relict of Sir John Stanley)
        • The following is supported by Ormerod (Cheshire, vol 3, Honford and Brereton of Honford).
          • (1) .... etc.
          • (2) William Brereton of Honford, Sheriff of Cheshire (d 05.06.1601, 2nd son)
          • m. (1548) Katherine Hurleston (dau of Roger Hurleston of Chester, m2. Sir Randle Mainwaring)
            • (A) William Brereton of Honford or Hanford (bpt 13.10.1584, d 18.02.1609-10, 2nd son)
            • m. Margaret Holland (bur 14.04.1609, dau of Richard Holland of Denton)
              • (i) Sir William Brereton, 1st Bart of Honford (b c1605, d 07.04.1661, parliamentary general)
              • m1. Susan Booth (dau of Sir George Booth, Bart of Dunham)
                • (a) Sir Thomas Brereton, 2nd Bart of Honford (b 1632, dsp 07.01.1673)
                • m. Theodosia Ward (dau of Humble Ward, Lord of Birmingham)
                • (b) Frances Brereton (bur 21.11.1676)
                • m. Edward Ward, Lord Dudley, Lord Ward of Birmingham (b 1631, d 03.08.1701)
                • (c) Susannah Brereton (b 1627)
                • m. Edmund Lenthall (son of Sir John of Great Haseley)
                • (d) Catherine Brereton (b 1635, d young)
              • m2. Cicely Skeffington (dau of Sir William Skeffington, Bart of Fisherwick)
                • (e) Cicely Brereton (d 12.07.1704)
                • m. (before 1677) Edward Brabazon, 4th Earl of Meath (b c1638, dsps 22.02.1707)
                • (f) Mary Brereton
              • (ii) .... etc.
• Main source(s): BEB1841 (Brereton of Honford (both main & supplement)), Visitation (Cheshire, 1580 & 1663, Brereton of Malpas) with support/input as reported above
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/bb4fz/brereton03.php ______________________________________

Brereton's second wife was Cicely, daughter of Sir William Skeffington, Baronet, of Staffordshire. They had a daughter, Cicely, who became the wife of Edward, 4th Earl of Meath.

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