page_title: Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Thomas Belasyse, the 1st Earl of Fauconberg (circa 1627 – 31 December 1700).
context_page_description: Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg PC was an English peer. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War, becoming close to Oliver Cromwell and marrying Cromwell's third daughter, Mary. After the Restoration of the monarchy he became a member of the Privy Council to Charles II and was elevated to an earldom by William III.
context_section_description: Belasyse was the only son of Hon. Henry Belasyse, and Grace Barton; his grandfather, Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg, was a Royalist, who went into exile after being defeated at Marston Moor in 1644. 
  Unlike his Royalist father and grandfather, Belasyse supported Parliament in the English Civil War, and subsequently became a strong adherent of Oliver Cromwell, whose third daughter, Mary, he married in 1657. His father died in 1647 and he succeeded his grandfather to the viscounty of Fauconberg in the Bishopric of Durham in 1652.
caption: The Earl Fauconberg.
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