John Throckmorton (died 1624)

Sir John Throckmorton (d. 1624) was an English soldier, Lieutenant-Governor of Flushing or Vlissingen and the Rammekens fortress.

He was a son of John Throckmorton, and grandson of Sir Richard Throckmorton of Higham Ferrers.[1]

Throckmorton was commander of the Rammekens fortress at Flushing

He was deputy Governor of Flushing, now Vlissingen, one of the Cautionary Towns, for Viscount Lisle. The seaways around Vlissingen remained Dutch territorial waters during the English occupation.

He wrote many letters to Lisle describing the business of the garrison and political news which he discussed with travelling diplomats including Robert Anstruther and Stephen Lesieur.[2] He joked with Lisle that providing a dowry for his daughter Philippa Sidney on her marriage to Sir John Hobart would leave him out of pocket.[3]

In September 1613 he reported that Henry Howard, a son of the Earl of Suffolk had travelled to Veere to fight a duel with the Earl of Essex over issues concerning his sister Frances Howard, but the courtier Henry Gibb prevented the combat. Throckmorton felt that the laws of England ought to prevent such duels being fought abroad.[4]

Throckmorton was concerned by an arms dealer Antonis Antonison, nicknamed "Moy" or handsome, who was smuggling cannon made in Cardiff against custom restrictions and selling them to the Dutch East India Company.[5]

An English captain George Wood caused trouble in June 1614 by demanding that ships of other nations should salute the English flag, despite the sea roads being Dutch waters.[6]

In February 1615 he spoke to Anne Herbert, the widow of Sir William Stanley's son, and her four daughters, who were travelling by coach from Veere to Antwerp. She said her plan was to stay near Mechelin and return to England with the Countess of Pembroke who was at Spa.[7]

John Throckmorton died at the siege of Breda in 1624.[8]

Marriage and family

John Throckmorton married Anne Sotherton, daughter of John Sotherton (1562–1631), a baron of the Exchequer. She died in childbirth at Vlissingen in November 1614.[9] Their children included:[10]

One of his sons joined Lisle's company of soldiers in 1614.[11]

References
  1. Frances Grimes Sitherwood, Throckmorton Family History (Bloomington, 1929), pp. 32-3
  2. William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen, HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle Penshurst, vol. 5 (London, 1961).
  3. William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen, HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle Penshurst, vol. 5 (London, 1961), p. 164.
  4. William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen, HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle, Penshurst, vol. 5 (London, 1961), pp. 120-3.
  5. William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen, HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle, Penshurst, vol. 5 (London, 1961), p. 205.
  6. William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen, HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle, Penshurst, vol. 5 (London, 1961), pp. 219-21.
  7. William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen, HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle, Penshurst, vol. 5 (London, 1961), pp. 276-7.
  8. Frances Grimes Sitherwood,Throckmorton Family History (Bloomington, 1929), p. 33.
  9. William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen, HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle, Penshurst, vol. 5 (London, 1961), p. 255.
  10. George John Armytage & Robert Davies, The visitation of the county of Yorke (Durham, 1859), p. 84
  11. William Shaw & G. Dyfnallt Owen, HMC 77 Viscount De L'Isle Penshurst, vol. 5 (London, 1961), p. 164.
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