Fleetwood (noble family)

English Origins

Descent and claims

Notable Members

• Thomas Fleetwood originated from Heskin, Lancashire and purchased the manor of the Vache in Chalfont, Buckinghamshire in 1564. He was a member of parliament and a judge, and Master of the Royal Mint under King Henry VIII.The Vache was inherited by Sir George Fleetwood who died December 1620. It passed to his son Charles Fleetwood the father of George Fleetwood , who inherited the estate on the death of his father. The Estate was confiscated and given to the Duke of York.
• William Fleetwood was an English lawyer and politician. He was Member of Parliament for Marlborough in 1558, Lancaster in 1559 and 1567, and for the City of London several times between 1572 and 1592, but his most significant position was as Recorder of London from 1571 to 1591. A lawyer of the Middle Temple, he was a Queen's Serjeant in 1592.
• James Fleetwood was an English clergyman and Bishop of Worcester.
• William Fleetwood of Misseden, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1628.
• Sir Thomas Fleetwood, Attorney General to Prince Henry, son of James I.
• Sir William Fleetwood, Cup bearer to James I and Charles I.
• Sir Miles Fleetwood of Aldwinkle, was an English office-holder and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1641.
• Sir William Fleetwood of Cranford, of High Lodge, Woodstock Park, Oxfordshire was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and again from 1661 to 1674. Receiver of the Court of Wards.
• Lord Charles Fleetwood, was a Parliamentary soldier and politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1652–55, where he enforced the Cromwellian Settlement. At the Restoration he was included in the Act of Indemnity as among the twenty liable to penalties other than capital, and was finally incapacitated from holding any office of trust. His public career then closed, though he survived until 4 October 1692. He was buried in Bunhill Fields.
• Sir George Fleetwood, came into Swedish service in 1629, became colonel for a regiment he had recruited himself in England in 1630 and finally lieutenant-general. Introduced in Sweden's Riddarhuset as a Baron.
• William Fleetwood was an English preacher, Bishop of St Asaph and Bishop of Ely, remembered by economists and statisticians for constructing a price index in his Chronicon Preciosum of 1707.

  Swedish nobility

Riddarhuset

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