Spencer Compton Biography

Birth of Spencer Compton, son of the 1st Earl of Northampton

Created a Knight of the Bath

Appointed Master of the Robes to the Prince of Wales

Elected Member of Parliament for Ludlow

Northampton leads Royalist forces attempting to capture Parliamentarian-held Warwick Castle.

Northampton's cavalry clashes with Parliamentarian forces during the opening mobilisation.

Northampton's Royalist force is attacked at Banbury and relieved the following day.

Marches from Banbury to relieve Lichfield, and having failed there proceeds to Stafford, which he occupies

Joins forces with General Hastings prior to the Battle of Hopton Heath

Defeats the Roundheads under John Gell & William Brereton but killed in battle. Accompanied by three of his sons, marches out with his troops Compton engages Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet and Sir William Brereton at Hopton Heath

Death of Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton

Death of Spencer Compton, killed at the Battle of Hopton Heath

Birth of Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, third son of the 3rd Earl of Northampton

Compton & 6 other leading men in England invite William of Orange to claim the throne

First elected as Member of Parliament for the Eye Division of Suffolk. Elected as a Tory but changes allegiance to the Whigs

Death of Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, died unmarried and without issue, and therefore all his titles became extinct upon his death