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Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet (13 June 1617 – 1656) was an English lawyer and politician who sat for Shropshire in the House of Commons in the Short Parliament of 1640. He fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War. ==Background== Corbet was the son of〔(Burke, John: A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage, Volume 1, p.287 )〕 : *Sir Andrew Corbet, of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire. Sir Andrew was a grandson of another Sir Andrew Corbet, a distinguished soldier, politician and administrator of the Elizabethan period,〔P.W. Hasler (editor): History of Parliament Online: Members 1558-1603 -(CORBET, Sir Andrew (1522-78) ) - Author: N. M. Fuidge, accessed 24 November 2013.〕 whose career had marked the zenith of the power and influence of the Shropshire Corbet family. However the family had suffered dynastic and financial woes since the death of the first Sir Andrew in 1578. His two older sons, Robert and Richard had both died without leaving a male heir, and the latter had run up over £6,000 worth of debts and liabilities.〔(Corbet, p.304-306 )〕 Their youngest brother, Sir Vincent, had struggled with some success, to stabilise, if not rectify, the financial situation. Part of the recovery plan was the marriage between his son, Andrew, and Elizabeth Boothby. : *Elizabeth Boothby was the step-daughter of Richard Corbet, the daughter of his second wife, Judith Austin. Judith was an assertive widow, who had gathered wealth through three marriages, and well-able to exploit deficiencies in her jointure arrangement,〔(Corbet, p.306 )〕 to the detriment of the Corbets' delicate finances. By marrying Andrew to her young daughter, Sir Vincent gave Judith an interest in the Corbet estates. Sir Andrew and Lady Elizabeth had at least seven sons and nine daughters,〔((Corbet, p.311 )〕 naming the first son and heir Vincent, after Sir Andrew's father. Sir Andrew went on to become a notable MP for Shropshire.〔Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris (editors): History of Parliament Online: (Members 1604-1629 - CORBET, Sir Andrew (1580-1637), of Moreton Corbet and Acton Reynell, Salop, ) - Author: Simon Healy, accessed 24 November 2013.〕 After supporting George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham in the reign of James VI and I, he became a strong opponent of absolute monarchy under Charles and voted for the Petition of Right. His son and heir was to take a very different political stance. 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「Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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