Richard
Brent
Esq.
Born about in Gloucestershire, England
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Richard Brent
and Mary (Huggerford) Brent
Brother of
Mary (Brent) Catesby
Husband of
Elizabeth (Reade) Brent
— married
1594 in Gloucestershire, England [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Father of
Fulke Brent, Richard Brent, Mary Brent, Giles Brent Sr., William Brent, Edward Brent, Margaret Brent, George Brent, Catherine Brent, Elizabeth Brent, Anne Brent, Eleanor Brent and Jane (Brent) Cassy
Died before
before about age 79
in Gloucestershire, England [uncertain]
[uncertain]
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Biography
Richard Brent, Esq., Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1614/5, was the son of Mary Hugford and Richard Brent, son of William Brent of Admington, Gloucestershire.[1][2] His date and place of birth are unknown and are estimated.
Marriage and Children
- In 1594 Richard Brent married Elizabeth Reade, daughter of Giles Reade,[2] Esq., of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, by Katherine,[3] daughter of Fulk Greville, Knt., of Alcester, Warwickshire.[1] They had six sons and seven daughters:
- Fulk,[2] son and heir, Oxford University 1613, married Cecily ____, emigrated in 1638 to Maryland with his brother Giles and his two sisters, Margaret and Mary, and served on the Assembly 1638/9, 1640/1 and 1641/2, but returned to England where he died before 10 January 1656/7;[1] named in 1653 sequestration order (see below).
- Richard,[1] died before May 1679, married Margaret Peshall;[2] named in 1653 sequestration order.
- Col. Giles,[2] Esq.,[1] born about 1600, went to Maryland with his brother Fulk and two sisters, married [Mary] Kittamaquund and had children, married second Frances Whitgreaves, removed to the Brent plantation at Aquia Creek, Virginia in 1649, died before 15 February 1671/2.[1]
- William[1] educated at the College of English Jesuits at St. Omers, Grey's Inn, married Barbara _____ and died without issue 21 May 1691.[2]
- Edward,[1] unmarried;[2] named in 1653 sequestration order.
- George, born 1602, died 1671, married Anne Peyton and had 12 children.[1] Executor of his father's will in 1652[2] and named in 1653 sequestration order.
- Margaret,[4] born about 1601, immigrated to Maryland in 1638,[2] died unmarried before 19 May 1671, 1st woman in Maryland to hold land in her own right.[1]
- Mary, immigrated to Maryland in 1638,[2] died unmarried in Virginia before 21 June 1658.[1]
- Catherine, nun,[1] died 1 November 1640.[2]
- Elizabeth,[2] nun[1]
- Eleanor,[2] nun[1]
- Jane,[1][2] named in 1653 sequestration order.
- Anne,[1][2] named in 1653 sequestration order.
- His wife, Elizabeth, died shortly before 16 May 1631 (date of administration of her estate) and was buried at Bredon, Worcestershire[1] with her father.[2] Elizabeth’s children were left legacies in the 1658 will of her brother, Fulk Reade.[1]
Death and Burial
- Richard Brent was buried on 1 May 1652 at St. Mary's, Ilmington, Gloucestershire.[1][2] Administration of his estate was granted to his son George Brent on 21 May 1652[1] and further administration in 1677 was granted to his nephew, Robert Brent.[2]
Sequestration of Estate for Recusancy
- In 1644, two-thirds of Richards estate was sequestered for recusancy.[1] "25 January 1654/5, Order for search to be made in the old books as to the sequestration of the manor of Larkstoke, Co. Gloucester, for the recusancy of Richard Brent the elder, deceased, or of Foulke Brent, Richard Brent the younger, Edward Brent, George Brent, Anne Brent and Jane Brent, children of said Richard Brent the elder." ... "When his children were summoned to take the [loyalty] oath there appeared only Mrs. Anne Brent and she refused to take it. The estate was therefore continued under sequestration, all of them being known papists. Dated at Gloucester 10 May 1653". (Royalist Composition Papers, S.P. Dom, G 72, p.231).[5]
Research Notes
Elizabeth's Parents
- Chester Brent reports Richard's 1594 marriage to Elizabeth Reed, but gives her a different father: Edward Reed, of Tusburie and Witten.[3]
Other Children
- Other children previously linked (and detached) as they are not documented as children of this marriage:
- John
- Edmund appears in Virginia records in connection with the Brent family. It is not established if he is a son of Richard Brent, or if perhaps he is the same person as the Edward listed above. He is closely associated with Giles, whom many claim to be his brother, on the "Peace" Plantation in Aquia, Stafford County, Virginia, and obtained property on the Peace Plantation.
Sources
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, vol. I, pages 305-306 BRENT 17.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 Chilton, W. B., compiler, "Genealogy: The Brent Family" in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Richmond: House of the Society, 1906. Online at Google Books, vol. 14, pages 99-100.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Brent, Chester H., The Descendants of Col. Giles Brent, Capt. George Brent and Robert Brent, Gent, Immigrants to Maryland and Virginia. Rutland, VT: Tuttle Pub. Co., 1946. Online at HathiTrust.org, pages 36-37.
- ↑ Wikipedia: Margaret Brent.
- ↑ W. B. Chilton. "The Brent Family (Continued)" in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 14, no. 4, 1907, pages 426–428. Online at JSTOR, accessed 9 Mar 2020.
- See also:
- Chilton, W.B. "The Brent Family," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Apr., 1905), page 440. Online at JSTOR.
- Descendants of Richard Brent and Elizabeth Reed
Acknowledgements
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Magna Carta Project
- This profile was re-reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project by Thiessen-117 20:34, 9 March 2020 (UTC).
- Richard Brent Esq. appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestors Giles, George and Robert Brent to Magna Carta Surety Baron William Malet (vol. I, pages 304-307 BRENT). That trail was developed and badged by the Magna Carta Project in 2015 and re-reviewed/approved by Thiessen-117 on 11 March 2020. See the Magna Carta Trails on the profile of Giles Brent to view the profiles in this trail.
- See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".
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