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Sir John Egerton
Born 1579? Sussex Co. England
Died Dec 4, 1649 England

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Father
SPOUSE CHILDREN
?Lady Louise deSaint-Jordan


b. 1580?

d. 1600?
England?
James

b. 1600?
England?
d. 1620?
England?
Charles

b. 1600?
England?
d. by Jun 15, 1669
Norfolk Co. VA
Mary

b. 1600?
England?
d. 1659
England?
Lady Alice Frances Stanley

m. Jun 27, 1602

b. 1583

d. Mar 11, 1635/6
England
Frances

b. 1603?

d. Nov 27, 1664
Elizabeth

b. 1604?

d. Mar 1687/88
Cecilia (Cicily)

b. 1606?

d. young
Penelope

b. 1609?

d. Jul 1658
Alice

b. 1612?

d. young
Catherine

b. 1613?

d. Mar 25, 1625
Magdalene

b. 1616?

d. Oct 1664
James

b. Sep 21, 1616?

d. Dec 1620
Anne

b. 1617/8

d. Dec 27, 1625
Alice

b. 1619

d. 1689
Charles

b. 1619?

d. Apr 1623
John

b. Jun 1623

d. Dec? 1686
Thomas

b. 1625

d. 1648
In 1605, John received a degree from Oxford University.
John married his step-sister, Lady Alice Frances Stanley in 1602. She was one of the daughters of his step-mother, Lady Alice Spencer and Ferdinando Stanley.
John became the First Earl of Bridgewater in 1617. Portrait of John Egerton.
Sir John Egerton became President of Wales in 1634, at the age of 55. The inauguration was held at his residence, Ludlow Castle in Shropshire. There John Milton's masque Comus was performed, then for the first time, in his honor. Milton's work was influenced by another masque, Tempe Restored by Aurelian Townsend, in which Alice Egerton, John's daughter had performed in Feb 1632 at Whitehall Palace, London. Excerpt describing these masques from the book Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642.
Sir John and Lady Alice were both buried in Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England.
Sources:
Baker, Blanche Wilmot Egerton, comp., "Egerton Ancestry", Roxboro NC, 1946.
Baker, George B., "Brackley chart", History of the County of Northamptonshire, London, 1822-1841, v.1:564.
Culver, Francis B., "Egerton Family", Maryland Hist. Mag., v.35:292-302, 1940.
Emerson, Kathy Lynn, "Frances Stanley", in Wives and Daughters, the Women of Sixteenth-Century England, 1984.
Schelling, Felix E., "The English Masque", Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642, Houghton Mifflin & Company, New York NY, 1908, pp. 133-134.