Peter Edgcumbe
Peter Edgcumbe | |
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 Arms of Edgcumbe: Gules, on a bend ermines cotised or three boar's heads couped argent | |
| Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall | |
| In office Before 1573-1597 | |
| Member of Parliament for Cornwall | |
| In office 11 January 1563 - 2 January 1567 8 May 1572 - 1581 1586-1593 | |
| Member of Parliament for Liskeard | |
| In office 1584-1585 | |
| Member of Parliament for Devon | |
| In office 1571 | |
| Sheriff of Cornwall | |
| In office 1569 | |
| Sheriff of Devon | |
| In office 1565 | |
| Member of Parliament for Totnes | |
| In office 1555 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1536 |
| Died | 4 January 1608 (aged 71–72) |
| Spouse | Margaret Luttrell |
| Children | 9, including Richard |
| Parent |
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| Relatives | Piers Edgcumbe (grandfather) |
Peter (or Piers) Edgcumbe (1536 – 4 January 1608) of Mount Edgcumbe and of Cotehele in the parish of Calstock, both in Cornwall, was an English Member of Parliament.[1]
Origins
[edit]Piers was a traditional first name in his family. He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Edgcumbe (1499–1562), son of Sir Piers Edgcumbe (d.1539)[2][3] of West Stonehouse and Cotehele, Cornwall.
Career
[edit]He was elected a Member of Parliament for Totnes in Devon in 1555, appointed Sheriff of Devon for 1565, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1569 and Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall before 1573–1597. He was also a Member of Parliament for Cornwall in the periods 11 January 1563 – 2 January 1567 and 8 May 1572 – 1581, Devon in 1571, Liskeard in 1584–1585 and was then re-elected for Cornwall in 1586, 1589 and 1593.[1]
He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall for the period 8 August 1586 – 7 December 1587[citation needed] and was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Cornwall in 1587.[1]
Marriage and issue
[edit]In about 1555 he married Margaret Luttrell, a daughter of Sir Andrew Luttrell, feudal baron of Dunster, of Dunster Castle in Somerset, by whom he had five sons and four daughters including:
- Richard Edgcumbe (d.1639)
- Margaret Edgcumbe, who married Sir Edward Denny of Bishops Stortford in Essex. The couple's monument with recumbent effigies survives in Waltham Abbey in Essex.
Death and burial
[edit]Piers died in 1608.[1]
References
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- ^ a b c d "EDGECOMBE, Peter (c. 1536–1608), of Mount Edgcumbe and Cotehele, Cornw". History of Parliament. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
- ^ Alsager Vian (1888). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620; with additions by J.L. Vivian, Exeter, 1887, p.142 [1]
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