Lady Blanche Arundell
Lady Blanche Arundell( née Somerset)( 1583 or c. 1584 – 28 October 1649) was an English noblewoman, known as the defender of Wardour Castle.
She was born to Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester and Lady Elizabeth Hastings.
On 11 May 1607( date of settlement for the marriage) she married Thomas Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Wardour, son of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron and Lady Mary Wriothesley.
They had one son Henry Arundell, 3rd Baron Arundell of Wardour, and two daughters, Katherine and Anne.
From 2 May 1643, during the absence of her husband, she defended Wardour Castle, near Tisbury, Wiltshire, for nine days with only herself, her children, a few maid- servants, and twenty- five men against the Parliamentary forces of thirteen hundred men and artillery commanded by two Parliamentary officers, Sir Edward Hungerford and Colonel Edmund Ludlow.
She finally was forced to surrender on honourable terms.
However the terms were not honoured, with the castle being sacked, and she was removed as a prisoner to Dorchester.
But on her husband's return the parliament forces were soon dislodged.
She died at Winchester, Hampshire, and was buried at Tisbury.
Her will dated 28 September 1649 was probated on 2 November 1649.
Cicely Compton, Lady Arundell of Wardour
Cicely, Lady Arundell of Wardour(" née" Compton, c. 161024 March 1676) was the wife of Henry Arundell, 3rd Baron Arundell of Wardour of Wardour Castle.
She was the daughter of the Hon. Sir Henry Compton KB, of Brambletye, Sussex.
She firstly married Sir John Fermor, of Somerton, Oxfordshire and secondly Baron Arundell.
They had 3 children:
John Arundell, 16th Baron Arundell of Wardour
John Francis Arundell, 16th Baron Arundell of Wardour JP TD( 18 June 1907 – 25 September 1944) was a British soldier.
He was the only son of Gerald Arthur Arundell, 15th Baron Arundell of Wardour by his marriage to Ivy Florence Mary Segrave, daughter of Captain W. F. Segrave.
He was educated at Stonyhurst College and New College, Oxford, where graduated BA.
After Oxford, he became a member of the London Stock Exchange, and succeeded to the barony upon the death of his father in 1939.
Arundell served in the Territorial Army, rising to the rank of captain in the 2nd Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment.
He was part of the British Expeditionary Force and in 1940, during the Battle of France, was taken prisoner- of- war by the Germans.
He escaped but was recaptured and was transferred to Oflag IV- C at Colditz Castle.
There he had a habit of exercising in the snow and perhaps as a result contracted tuberculosis.
In accordance with the Geneva Convention, he was repatriated and died in hospital in Chester.
He was buried in the Chapel of Wardour Castle.
He was unmarried.
The barony became extinct upon his death.
Henry Arundell, 3rd Baron Arundell of Wardour
Henry Arundell, 3rd Baron Arundell of Wardour, PC( bef. 23 February 1607/ 828 December 1694) was a Peer of England during the 17th century, and the most famous of the Lords Arundell of Wardour.
He served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord High Steward, and was appointed to the Privy Council.
During the Popish
Plot he suffered a long period of imprisonment, although he was never brought to trial.
Henry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour
Henry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour (31 March 1740 – 4 December 1808) was a British nobleman in the 18th century.
He married Mary Christina Conquest, the daughter of Benedict Conquest of Irnham Hall and Mary Ursula Markham, on 31 May 1763.
They had two daughters: Mary Christina (1764–1805), who married James Everard Arundell, 9th Baron Arundell of Wardour, and Eleanor Mary (1766–1835), who married Charles Clifford, 6th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh.
An avid collector of art, he accumulated immense debts in building and furnishing New Wardour Castle, designed in the Palladian style by Giacomo Quarenghi.
A portrait was painted of him by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
After his death, his trustees were forced to sell off a portion of his lands in Dorset.
John Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Trerice
John Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Trerice( 1649 – 21 June 1698) of Trerice, Cornwall, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1666 and 1687 when he inherited his peerage.
Thomas Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Wardour
Thomas Arundell, 2nd Baron Arundell of Wardour (– 19 May 1643) was an English nobleman son of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour and Lady Mary Wriothesley.
James Arundell, 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour
James Everard Arundell, 10th Baron Arundell of Wardour (3 November 1785 – 21 June 1834), styled The Honourable James Arundell between 1808 and 1817, was an English peer.
Arundell was born at Clifford Street, St. James's, London, the son of James Everard Arundell, 9th Baron of Arundell of Wardour, by his first wife the Honourable Mary Christina Arundell, daughter of Henry Arundell, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour.
He was the only Roman Catholic peer to vote against the Reform Act 1832.
Lord Arundell of Wardour married Mary Anne Nugent-Temple-Grenville, daughter of George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, and Mary Elizabeth Nugent, 1st Baroness Nugent, at Buckingham House, London, in 1811.
The marriage was childless.
He died in Rome in June 1834, aged 48, and was succeeded in the barony by his younger brother, Henry.
Lady Arundell of Wardour died in June 1845, aged 57.
Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour
Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour (c. 15607 November 1639) was the eldest son of Sir Matthew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire (ca. 1532/1534 – 24 December 1598), and Margaret Willoughby, the daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, and wife Margaret Markham.
He distinguished himself in battle against the Ottoman Turks in the service of the Emperor Rudolf II, and was created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire.
His assumption of the title displeased Queen Elizabeth, who refused to recognize it, and imprisoned him in the Fleet Prison.
In 1605 Arundell was created 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour.
In the same year he was briefly suspected of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot.
Anne Arundell
Anne Calvert, Baroness Baltimore( née Hon. Anne Arundell; c. 1615/ 1616 – 23 July 1649) was an English noblewoman, daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, by his second wife Anne Philipson, and wife of Lord Baltimore, who founded the Province of Maryland colony.
Anne Arundel County in the US state of Maryland was named for her.
In addition,, an American naval transport ship of the Elizabeth C. Stanton- class was in turn named after the county.
It served in the United States Navy from 1940 to 1970.

Question: Who is Thomas Arundell, 2Nd Baron Arundell Of Wardour's paternal grandfather?
Answer: Matthew Arundell