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John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield, (''c.'' 1566 – 27 May 1637) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1625 to 1626. ==Life== Boteler was the son and heir of Sir Henry Boteler of Hatfield Woodhall and of Brantfield, Hertfordshire, by his first wife, Catharine, daughter of Robert Waller, of Hadley, Middlesex. He was knighted at Greenwich in July, 1607, and succeeded his father on 20 January 1609, aged 43. He was created baronet of Hatfield Woodhall on 12 April 1620. In 1625, he was elected Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire. He was re-elected M.P. for Hertfordshire in 1626.〔One of the members may have been his half-brother John Boteler (1587–1653).〕 He was created ''Baron Boteler of Brantfield'', co. Hertford, on 30 July 1628.〔G. E. Cokayne, (''The Complete Peerage'' (London: The St. Catherine Press, 1912), Vol. II., p. 229 ).〕 Boteler married, before 1609, Elizabeth Villiers, daughter of Sir George Villiers, of Brokesby, co. Leicester, half-sister to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.〔 They had two sons and six daughters, *Audrey, who married Francis Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester,〔 *Helen (died 2 October 1666), or Eleanor, who married on 18 May 1616, Sir John Drake, of Ash, Devon, a grandson of Sir Bernard Drake, and became the mother of Sir John Drake, 1st Baronet, and maternal grandmother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, *Jane, who married James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough,〔 *Anne, who married Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport,〔 *Sir Henry Boteler, who was a favourite with his uncle, the Duke of Buckingham, but predeceased his father, having been sent with a tutor to Spain in 1617 "to cure him of the disease of drinking, which, young as he was, he was already much given to,"〔 *William Boteler, 2nd Baron Boteler of Brantfield, who was found "to have been an idiot from his birth" and died unmarried in 1647, when all his honours became extinct,〔 *Olivia (died 13 December 1663), who was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Henrietta Maria,〔(Van Dyck painting 'found online' ), BBC News, 9 March 2013, accessed 9 March 2013〕 and who married Endymion Porter, Groom of the Bedchamber and patron of Antony Van Dyke,〔 *Mary, who married Edward Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Escrick.〔 Boteler died on 27 May 1637, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, aged about 71, and was buried at Higham Gobion, Bedfordshire. He was succeeded by his son, William.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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