Montagu Bertie | |
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Earl of Lindsey | |
The Earl of Lindsey.
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Spouse(s) | Martha Ramsay (née Cockayne), Dowager Countess of Holderness |
Issue
Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey
Hon. Peregrine Bertie Hon. Richard Bertie Hon. Vere Bertie Hon. Charles Bertie Elizabeth, Viscountess Campden Bridget, Duchess of Leeds Lady Catherine Dormer |
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Noble family | Bertie |
Father | Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey |
Mother | Elizabeth Montagu |
Born | 1608 Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England |
Died | 25 July 1666 (aged 57–58) Campden House, Kensington, London, England |
Buried | Grimsthorpe |
Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey, KG, PC (1608 – 25 July 1666) was an English soldier, courtier, and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1624 and 1626. He was created Baron Willoughby de Eresby by writ of acceleration in 1640 and inherited the peerage of Earl of Lindsey in 1642. He fought in the Royalist army in the English Civil War.
Bertie was born in Grimsthorpe, the eldest son of Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, and his wife Elizabeth Montagu, daughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton. After a brief term at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1623, Bertie then served as Member of Parliament for Lincolnshire in 1624 and Stamford from 1625 to 1626, when, upon his father's elevation to an earldom, he assumed the style of Lord Willoughby de Eresby.
At some point during his early life, he was also Captain of a cavalry troop in the Low Countries. He rose in favour with King Charles I and was appointed a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, High Steward of Boston, and Steward, Warden and Chief Ranger of Waltham Forest in 1634.