Title:

Baron/Lord

Military Rank:

General

First Name:

John

Last Name:

Belasyse

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

No

Installation Date:

1736

Inscription:

In the south porch are three tablets. The first, which is of marble, and was formerly affixed to a monument which stood on the north side of the chancel in the second church[663], reads as follows:—

This Monument was Erected in the Year of Our Lord 1736. by the Pious Direction of the Honourable/Dame BARBARA WEBB wife of Sr. JOHN WEBB of Canford Magna in the County of Dorset Bart. and the Honourable/CATHERINE TALBOT wife of the Honourable JOHN TALBOT of 137Longford in the County of Salop Esq. Surviveing/Daughters and Coheirs of the Right Honourable JOHN Lord BELASYSE Second Son of THOMAS Lord Viscount/FAUCONBERG, in memory of their most dear Father his wives and Children./

Who for his Loyalty Prudence and Courage was promoted to Several Commands of great Trust by their/Majesty’s King Charles the First and Second (Viz.) Having raised Six Regiments of Horse and Foot in the late Civil Wars/He commanded a Tertia in his Majesty’s Armies att the Battles of Edge Hill, Newbury, and Knaseby, ye Seiges of Reading/and Bristol. Afterwards being made Governour of York and Commander in Chief of all his Majesty’s Forces in/Yorkshire, He fought the Battle of Selby with the Lord Fairfax, then being Lieutenant General of ye Countys of Lincoln,/Nottingham, Darby, and Rutland, and Governour of Newark. He Valiantly defended that Garrison against the English/and Scotch Armies, till his Majesty Came in Person to the Scotch Quarters and Commanded the surrender of it./At which time he also had the honour of being General of the Kings Horse Guards. in all which Services dureing/the Wars and other Atchievements, he deported himself with eminent Courage & Conduct & received many wounds/Sustained Three Imprisonments in the Tower of London, and after the Happy Restauration of King CHARLES the second/He was made Lord Lieutenant of the East Rideing of the County of York, Governour of Hull, General of His Majesty’s/Forces in Africa, Governour of Tangier, Captain of his Majesty’s Guards of Gentlemen Pensioners, & First Lord/Commissioner of the Treasury to King JAMES the Second. He dyed the 10TH day of September 1689. whose remaines/are deposited in this Vault./

He married to his first wife JANE daughter and Sole Heiress of Sr. ROBERT BOTELER of Woodhall in the/County of Hertford, Knt. by whom he had Sr. HENRY BELASYSE Knt. of the most Honourable Order of the Bath/interr’d in this Vault, MARY Viscountess DUNBAR, and FRANCES both Deceased.

He married to his second Wife ANN Daughter and Coheir to Sr. ROBERT CRANE of Chilton in ye County/of Suffolk Bart. who also lyes interr’d here.

He married to his third Wife the Right Honourable the Lady ANN POWLET Second Daughter of the/Right Noble JOHN Marquiss of Winchester, sister to CHARLES late Duke of Bolton, and is here interr’d, the/Issue by that Marriage as above.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence teken from https://alondoninheritance.com/london-churches/st-giles-in-the-fields/

Memorial Notes:

See:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/1977

https://alondoninheritance.com/london-churches/st-giles-in-the-fields/

David Plant, Biography of John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belsasyse of Worlaby, BCW Project
http://bcw-project.org/biography/john-lord-belasyse

John Belasyse (Bellasis), 1st Baron Belasyse of Worlaby

by Robert White, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
line engraving, late 17th century
12 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in. (316 mm x 217 mm) paper size
NPG D12225

Newman, P.R. 1980 The Defeat of John Belasyse: Civil War in Yorkshire, January – April 1644
The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 52, 1980