Person:John Arundell (32)

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John Arundell
b.1576
d.Abt 1656
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  1. John Arundell1576 - Abt 1656
  2. Thomas Arundell - 1648
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  • H.  John Arundell1576 - Abt 1656
  • W.  Mary Cary (add)
  1. John Arundell1613 - 1701
  2. Richard Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Trerice1616 - 1687
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Name John Arundell
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1576
Marriage to Mary Cary (add)
Death[1] Abt 1656
Reference Number? Q6219532?


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John Arundell (1576 – December 1654), Esquire, of Trerice in Cornwall, later given the epithet "Jack for the King", was a member of an ancient Cornish gentry family, who as a Royalist during the Civil War served King Charles I as Governor of Pendennis Castle, Falmouth. In 1646 he retained the castle in a heroic manner during a five-month long siege by Fairfax, during which his forces were reduced by hunger to eating their horses, and finally achieved an honourable surrender

He served twice as MP for the prestigious county seat of Cornwall (1601 and 1621), and for his family's pocket boroughs of Tregony (1628) and Mitchell (1597) and also for St Mawes (1624). His family "of Trerice" should not be confused with the contemporary ancient and even more prominent Cornish family of Arundell "of Lanherne", six miles north of Trerice, "The Great Arundells", with which no certain shared origin has been found, but which shared the same armorials, the Arundell swallows.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 John Arundell (born 1576), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Sir John Arundell, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
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