| Relationship to me: | Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather | Gen -10 | ![]() Sir Hugh Wyndham See note below |
| Born | 1603 | ||
| Died | ???? | ||
| Age | ?? | ||
| Father: | Edmond Wyndham | ???? - ???? | |
| Mother: | Margaret Chamberlayne | ||
| Brothers: | |||
| Sisters: | |||
| Married: | Mary Alanson | m. ???? | |
| Children: | Dinah Wyndham | 1635 - ???? | |
| Sarah Wyndham | |||
| Rachel Wyndham |
Notes from Jerry Gandolfo:
Sir Hugh Wyndham: Created Baronnet
4 Aug 1641, an ardent Royalist, extinct about 1663
Tony Newman list as: Sir Hugh Mompesson, of Pitsdown, Dorset, children:
Eleanor Windham
Burke's, Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, gives the name as Hugh
Wyndham, esq. of Pilsden Court
Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 [http://www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk/maximilia/pafg387.htm]
list Sarah Wyndham; and Rachel Wyndham as only children.
Sir Hugh Wyndham and Escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester: The Prince's pursuers first came to the house of the Royalist judge, Sir Hugh Wyndham, at Pilsden thinking he was hiding there. As Sir Hugh fumed and raged in the Hall they proceeded to ransacked it in their search for the prince. Intelligence was at fault, the prince being at the Manor house of Sir Hugh's nephew, Colonel Francis Wyndham [son of Sir Thomas Wyndham], at Trent. Prince Charles had arrived at Trent, disguised as the servant of Jane Lane. The Prince's hiding place off Lady Wyndham's room is still preserved. It is said that Charles became petulant when the ringing of the church bells disturbed him, and even more angry when he told the villagers had rung them because, mistakenly, they had thought he had been captured. On September 22nd he set out for Charmouth and a promised boat that would take him to France. [http://www.thedorsetpage.com/history/Flight_of_Charles/flight_of_charles.htm]
Hugh Wyndham's Monument: In the far north, where Somerset and Wiltshire jostle with Dorset for the rich farmland of the headwaters of the Stour, is the village of Silton. It's a fairly ordinary place However, the village church of St. Nicholas houses a memorial to one, Sir Hugh Wyndham, that is far from ordinary. The huge edifice is by John Nost of Tring and dates from 1692. Nost was one of the most renowned sculptors of his day and sculpted the Digby monument in Sherborne Abbey. As for Sir Hugh Wyndham, he was Justice of the Common Pleas during the Commonwealth and was cute enough to keep the job under Charles II. Sir Hugh's memorial is melodramatic if you're feeling charitable, or ostentatious and pompous if you're not - however, there can be no argument about its impact: the memorial dominates its surroundings to the point where you find yourself wondering about the ego of the individual who commissioned it - especially when it dawns on you that the portentous figure standing between the barley twist columns is the great man and the two weeping figures at this feet are those of his wives who predeceased him. Having said all that, the memorial is a superb example of its kind and probably says more about the aesthetics of the period rather than the personality of the individual who had the thing produced - you hope so, if only for the sake of his two wives. [http://www.thedorsetpage.com/locations/Place/S130.htm]
Portrait of Sir Hugh Wyndham:
Ritratto of Sir Hugh Wyndham: 1670-1680, oil on
burlap, cm 125,5x102. Of an aristocratic family, after having studied at
Oxford Sir Hugh (1603-1684) undertook a career in magistracy, exceeding
with alternate fortunes the years of the civil war, until the nomination
to judge in 1660 and baron of the "Exchecquer" in 1670. It appears
here in a sontuoso ritratto official in judge garments exactly: the clear
painting of Wright picks with puntiglio every detail, from the collar inamidato
to the gloves in skin rich embroiders to you, but it knows also to render
the nature tests and it does not alter of the personage, than familiar window
opened on the landscape is felt sorry of one.
[http://www.accademiacarrara.bergamo.it/iniziat/Rau/visita/wjrwynd0.html]
Sources: Hand-written
notes from an unknown source passed down from Harold Ernest Montague
Newman
Tony Newman: shipshaper@hotmail.com
Tim Sandberg: tsandberg50@hotmail.com [The Sandberg and Floyer Genealogy
Site]
Website: http://www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk/maximilia/pafg388.htm (omits Dinah)
Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 [http://www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk/maximilia/pafg387.htm]