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Paternal Family Tree: Wilmot
Around 1605 [his father] Charles Wilmot 1st Viscount Wilmot (age 33) and [his mother] Sarah Anderson (age 7) were married. The difference in their ages was 26 years.
On 26 Oct 1612 Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester was born to Charles Wilmot 1st Viscount Wilmot (age 40) and Sarah Anderson (age 14).
In 1615 [his mother] Sarah Anderson (age 17) died.
Before 1627 [his father] Charles Wilmot 1st Viscount Wilmot (age 54) and [his step-mother] Mary Colley Viscountess Moore and Wilmot were married. She by marriage Viscountess Wilmot of Athlone.
In Oct 1632 Francis Henry Lee 2nd Baronet (age 16) and [his future wife] Anne St John Countess Rochester (age 17) were married. She by marriage Lady Lee of Quarrendon in Buckinghamshire.
On 13 Jul 1643 a Royalist cavalry force under Lord Wilmot (age 30) won a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Army of the West under Sir William Waller (age 46) at Roundway Down Devizes, Wiltshire.
Maurice Palatinate Simmern (age 22) fought.
In 1644 Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester (age 31) was created 1st Viscount Wilmot. [his wife] Anne St John Countess Rochester (age 29) by marriage Viscountess Wilmot.
In 1644 [his father] Charles Wilmot 1st Viscount Wilmot (age 72) died.
In 1644 Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester (age 31) and Anne St John Countess Rochester (age 29) were married.
In 1647 Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester (age 34) lived at 2 Little Piazza Covent Garden.
On 01 Apr 1647 [his son] John Wilmot 2nd Earl Rochester was born to Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester (age 34) and [his wife] Anne St John Countess Rochester (age 32).
After Jan 1649 Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester (age 36) was appointed Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 18).
John Evelyn's Diary. 18 Aug 1649. I went to St. Germains, to kiss his Majesty's (age 19) hand; in the coach, which was my Lord Wilmot's (age 36), went Mrs. Barlow (age 19), the King's mistress and mother to the Duke of Monmouth, a brown, beautiful, bold, but insipid creature.
John Evelyn's Diary. 25 Dec 1651. The King (age 21) and Duke (age 18) received the Sacrament first by themselves, the Lords Byron (age 52) and Wilmot (age 39) holding the long towel all along the altar.
In 1652 Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester (age 39) was created 1st Earl Rochester. [his wife] Anne St John Countess Rochester (age 37) by marriage Countess Rochester.
On 02 Apr 1656 the Treaty of Brussels agreeing mutual support between England (Royal) and Spain was signed by Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester (age 43) and James Butler 1st Duke Ormonde (age 45) on behalf of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 25), and Alonso Cárdenas on behalf of Philip IV King Spain (age 50).
On 19 Feb 1658 Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester (age 45) died at Sluys [Map]. He was buried in Bruges [Map]. After the Restoration his remains were reburied in All Saints Church, Spelsbury [Map]. His son [his son] John (age 10) succeeded 2nd Earl Rochester, 2nd Viscount Wilmot.
On 18 Mar 1696 [his former wife] Anne St John Countess Rochester (age 81) died.
GrandFather: Edward Wilmot of Culham
Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Anderson
GrandFather: Henry Anderson
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Hopton
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Hopton
Great x 1 Grandmother: Katherine Hopton
Mother: Sarah Anderson
Great x 1 Grandfather: Francis Bowyer
GrandMother: Elizabeth Bowyer