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THOMAS ARUNDELL, 1ST See also:BARON (c. 1562-1639) , son of See also:Sir See also:Mathew Arundell of Wardour See also:Castle in See also:Wiltshire, a member of the See also:ancient See also:family of Arundells of Lanherne in See also:Cornwall, and of See also:Margaret, daughter of Sir See also:Henry See also:Willoughby, was See also:born about 1562. In 1579 he was personally recommended by See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth to the See also:emperor See also:Rudolph II. He greatly distinguished himself while serving with the imperial troops against the See also:Turks in See also:Hungary, and at the See also:siege of Gran or See also:Esztergom on the 13th of See also:August 1595, he captured the enemy's banner with his own See also:hand. He was created by Rudolph II. a See also:count of the See also:Holy See also:Roman See also:Empire in See also:December 1595, and returned to See also:England after suffering shipwreck and barely preserving his See also:life in See also:January 1 596. His See also:assumption of the See also:foreign See also:title created See also:great See also:jealousy among the See also:English peers, who were wont to give a See also:precedence by See also:courtesy to foreign nobles, and he incurred the resentment of his See also:father, who objected to his See also:superior See also:rank and promptly disinherited him. The queen, moreover, was seriously displeased, declared that " as chaste wives should have no glances but for their own spouses, so should faithful subjects keep their eyes at See also:home and not gaze upon foreign crowns," and committed him to the See also:Fleet immediately on his arrival, while she addressed a See also:long See also:letter of remonstrance on the subject to the emperor. Arundell remained under See also:arrest till See also:April, when he was liberated after an examination. In April 1597, however, he was again confined, but declared See also:innocent of any See also:charge See also:save that of " practising to contrive the See also:justification of his vain title with Ministers beyond the seas." In December he was liberated and placed under the care of his father, but next See also:year he was again arrested and accused of a See also:conspiracy against the See also:government. His petitions for a See also:licence to undertake an expedition by See also:sea, wherein he declared " his end was See also:honour which some See also:base minds See also:call ambition," were refused, but in 1599 he was apparently again restored to favour. On the 4th of May 16o5 he was created by See also:James I. Baron Arundell of Wardour, but See also:fell again under temporary suspicion at the See also:time of the See also:Gunpowder See also:Plot.

En 1623 he once more got into trouble by championing the cause of the recusants, of whom he was himself one, on the occasion of the visit of the See also:

Spanish envoys, and he was committed to custody, and in 1625 all the arms were removed by the government from Wardour Castle. After the See also:accession of See also:Charles I. he was pardoned, and attended the sittings of the See also:House of Lords. He was indicted in the See also:king's See also:bench about the year 1627 for not paying some contribution, and in 1632 he was accused of harbouring a See also:priest. In 1637 he was declared exempt from the zecusancy See also:laws by the king's See also:order, but in 1639 he againpetitioned for See also:relief. The same year he paid f 500 in lieu of attending the king at See also:York. He died on the 7th of See also:November 1639. Arundell was an See also:earnest Roman See also:Catholic, but the suspicions of the government as to his See also:loyalty were probably unfounded and stifled a career destined by nature for successful See also:adventure. He married (1) See also:Mary, daughter of HenryWriothesley, 2nd See also:earl of See also:Southampton, by whom besides other See also:children he had Thomas, who succeeded him as 2nd baron; and (2) See also:Anne, daughter of See also:Miles Philipson, by whom he had several daughters.

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