Name Henry Belasyse Role Died 1667 | Died 1667 | |
Sir Henry Belasyse KB (c. 1639 – August 1667) was an English army officer and Member of the Parliament of England.
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Biography
He was the only son of John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse and his first wife Jane Boteler. Belasyse was captain of foot in the garrison of Hull in 1660–62 and from 1665 to his death, as well as holding a lieutenant's commission for a few months during 1666 in the Duke of Buckingham's Regiment of Horse.
He was made a Knight of the Bath in 1661. In November 1666 was elected to Parliament for Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Nine months later he was killed in a duel with a Mr. Porter.
Family
He married Susan, daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Airmine, 2nd Baronet and Anne Crane: they had one son.
His widow Susan was created Baroness Belasyse of Osgodby for life in 1674, and their son Henry succeeded his grandfather as second and last Baron Belasyse of Worlaby in 1689. Susan remarried James Fortrey and died in 1713, having outlived her only son by many years. After the death of his first wife Anne Hyde in 1671 the future James. II was pledged to marry Susan, but his brother Charles II forbade the marriage.