Robert (Greville), 2nd Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court

1607 - 1643  (36 years)

• Name	Robert (Greville)  [1]
  Suffix	2nd Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court
  Born	1607  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Education	Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England   [1]
  	University of Cambridge
  Office	Between Feb. 1628 and May 1628  [1]
  	Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Warwick
  Hereditary Title	From 30 Sept. 1628 to 2 March 1642/43  [1]
  	2nd Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court, co. Warwick [E., 1621]
  Office	Sept. 1640	Ripon, Yorkshire, England   [1]
  	Joint Commissioner to the Scots
  Office	Nov. 1640	London, England   [1]
  	Joint Commissioner to the Scots
  Office	Between 1641 and 2 March 1642/43  [1]
  	Recorder of Warwick
  Military Service	1642  [1]
  	Colonel of a Regiment of Foot
  	He fought at the Battle of Edgehill, 22 October 1642, and was appointed Major-General (for the Parliamentarians) for Warwickshire and Staffordshire, 7 January 1642/43.
  Office	1642  [1]
  	Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire
  	On the nomination of Parliament
  Died	2 March 1642/43	The house of Michael Biddulph M.P., Lichfield, Staffordshire, England   [1]
  	He was struck with a musket ball while looking out of a window to direct the siege of St. Chad's Church. His death is said to have occurred "just after he had prayed publicly that, if the cause he were in were not right and just, he might be presently cut off."
  Person ID	I2629	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	10 July 2021

  
  

  Father	Fulke Greville,   d. 1632
  Mother	Margaret Copley
  Married	15 May 1602  [2]
  Family ID	F1314	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lady Catharine Russell,   d. circa 1 Dec. 1676
  Married	circa 1630  [1]
  Children	1. Francis (Greville), 3rd Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court,   b. Before 1638,   d. 19 Nov. 1658, Chiswick, Middlesex, England  (Age > 20 years) + 2. Robert (Greville), 4th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court,   b. 4 Jan. 1638/39,   d. 17 Feb. 1676/77, Bath, Somerset, England  (Age 38 years) + 3. Fulke (Greville), 5th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court,   b. After 2 March 1642/43,   d. 22 Oct. 1710, Twickenham, Middlesex, England  (Age < 66 years)
  Last Modified	10 July 2021
  Family ID	F1307	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Greville quartering Willoughby and Beauchamp (Earl of Warwick, etc.) Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Sable on a cross engrailed Or, five pellets, a bordure engrailed of the second (GREVILLE); 2nd, Or, fretty Azure (WILLOUGHBY); 3rd, Gules a fess between six crosses crosslet Or (BEAUCHAMP). Source: Burke's General Armory (London: Harrison, 1884), page 427.

  
  

• Notes

  In 1628 he succeeded his cousin (by whom he had been adopted when but four years of age) in the Peerage under the special limitation of the patent. [1] He early imbibed republican notions, and with Viscount Saye and Sele, was one of the two noblemen who refused to profess their loyalty to the King as required by the Council of York in 1639. [1] "Those who were acquainted with him believed him to be well natured and just, and rather seduced and corrupted in his understanding than perverse and malicious. Whether his Passions, or Conscience swayed him, he was undoubtedly one of those who could have been with most difficulty reconciled to the government of Church or State." (Clarendon). [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume II, page 333. [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 3, page 4081.