Everything about George Goring 1st Earl Of Norwich totally explained
George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich (
28 April,
1585–
6 January,
1663) was an
English soldier.
He was the son of George Goring of Hurstpierpoint and Ovingdean,
Sussex, and of Anne Denny, sister of Edward Denny,
Earl of Norwich. He was
knighted in and became a
favourite at
court, benefitting largely from monopolies granted by King
Charles I. He became Baron Goring in 1628, and a privy councillor in 1639.
When the troubles between Charles and his
Parliament became acute, Goring devoted his fortune freely to the royal cause; and the king in November 1644 renewed for him the title of Earl of
Norwich which had become extinct at his uncle's death. He went with Queen
Henrietta Maria to the
Netherlands in
1642 to raise money for the king, and in the autumn of the next year he was seeking arms and money from
Cardinal Mazarin in
Paris. His proceedings were revealed to the parliament in January 1644 by an intercepted letter to Henrietta Maria. He was consequently impeached of
high treason, and prudently remained abroad until 1647, when he received a pass from the parliament under a pretext of seeking reconciliation.
Thus he was able to take a prominent part in the Second
Civil War of
1648. He commanded the
Kentish levies, which
Fairfax dispersed at
Maidstone and elsewhere, and was forced to surrender unconditionally at
Colchester. He was condemned to
exile in November 1648 by a vote of the
House of Commons, but in the next month the vote was annulled.
Early in the next year a court formed under
John Bradshaw to try Norwich and four others. All five received a death sentence on
6 March 1649, but petitions for mercy were presented to parliament, and Norwich's life was spared by the Speaker's casting vote. Shortly after his liberation from prison in May 1649 he joined the exiled court of
Charles II, who employed him in fruitless negotiations with the duke of
Lorraine. He became captain of the king's guard at the
Restoration, and in consideration of the fortune he'd expended in the king's service a pension of 2000 pounds per year was granted him.
Norwich died at
Brentford on
6 January 1663. By his wife Mary Nevill (died 1648), daughter of the
8th Baron Bergavenny, he'd four daughters and two sons:
George, Lord Goring; and Charles, who fought in the Civil War, succeeded his father in the
earldom, and died without heirs in March
1671.
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