Roger North, 2nd Baron North
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Roger North, 2nd Baron North (1531 – 3 December 1600) was an English peer and politician at the court of Elizabeth I.
He was born 27 February 1531 to Edward North, 1st Baron North and his first wife.[1] His father had represented Cambridgeshire in 3 Edwardian parliaments, and following his father's ennoblement by Mary I and presumably through his influence North sat for the Cambridgeshire in the queen's first parliament of 1555.[2] His opposition to a government bill may have resulted in his failure to be returned for the next parliament, but he sat for Cambridge in the first two parliaments of Elizabeth I.[1] He was created a knight of the Bath at Elizabeth's coronation and succeeded his father as Lord North in 1564.[3]
In 1568 he was sent to Vienna with the Earl of Sussex to invest Emperor Maximilian with the Order of the Garter.[3] He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire in 1569, and was Custos Rotulorum of Cambridgeshire by 1574.[1] In 1574 he was sent on embassy to France, following the accession of Henry III.[3] He was appointed Treasurer of the Household in 1596 after the death of Sir Francis Knollys.[1]
North played card games called "maw" and Primero with Elizabeth on 6 August 1576.[4] The queen came to his house at Kirtling for three days on 1 September 1578.[5] The visit cost Lord North £642. He gave the queen a jewel worth £120.[6]
North was a personal friend of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the Queen's favourite. He was present at the latter's secret marriage to Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex in 1578,[7] and served at his expedition to the Netherlands in 1585–1587. Leicester wanted to make Lord North governor of Brill in 1586, which desire was, however, declined by Elizabeth.[3]
Family
He married Winifred(d. 1578), daughter of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich and widow of Sir Henry Dudley (d. 1544).[3][8] Their children included:
North was succeeded upon his death in 1600 by his grandson, Dudley North, 3rd Baron North, the son of Sir John North.
References
- 1 2 3 4 "NORTH, Roger (1531-1600), of Kirtling, Cambs. and Mildenhall, Suff". History of Parliament. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
- ↑ "House of Commons 1509-1558:Cambridgeshire". History of Parliament. Retrieved 15 January 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Bushby, Frances (1895). "North, Roger (1530-1600)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ↑ William Stevenson, 'Extracts from the Household Book of Lord North', Archaeologia, vol. 19 (London, 1821), p. 292.
- ↑ Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight, John Nichol's Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth I: 1572-1578, vol. 2 (Oxford, 2014), pp. 834–40: William Stevenson, 'Extracts from the Household Book of Lord North', Archaeologia, vol. 19 (London, 1821), pp. 287–290
- ↑ Lawrence Stone, Crisis of the Aristocracy (Oxford, 1965), p. 452.
- ↑ Dovey, Zillah (1996). An Elizabethan Progress. p. 148.
- ↑ Adlard, George (1862). "Pedigree B". The Sutton-Dudleys of England and the Dudleys of Massachusetts in New England.
- Bruce, John (ed.) (1844): Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester, during his Government of the Low Countries, in the Years 1585 and 1586 Camden Society
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| Preceded by | Treasurer of the Household 1596–1600 |
Vacant Title next held by Sir William Knollys |
| Unknown | Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire 1569–1600 |
Vacant Title next held by The Earl of Suffolk |
| Preceded by | Custos Rotulorum of Cambridgeshire bef. 1573–1600 |
Succeeded by Sir John Cotton |
| Peerage of England | ||
| Preceded by | Baron North 1564–1600 |
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