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John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare (13 June 1595 – 2 January 1666) was an English nobleman.
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John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare (13 June 1595 – 2 January 1666) was an English nobleman.
Holles was born in Haughton, Nottinghamshire, the eldest son of John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare and Anne Stanhope, and the brother of Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles. [1]
Holles married Elizabeth Vere, [2] daughter of Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury, on 4 September 1626. They had eight children:
Holles is buried in St. Mary's Church, Nottingham.
Styled Lord Haughton from 1624, he was member of parliament for East Retford in three parliaments (1623–1626) [4] before succeeding to the peerage in 1637. [1]
During the Thirty Years’ War, at the siege of Bois-le-Duc in 1629, he served as a volunteer under the command of his father-in-law, Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury. [5]
Although he had quarrelled with Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, who had married his sister, Arabella, in 1641 he opposed Strafford's impeachment in the House of Lords, and during the trial asked several questions favourable to his defence. After Parliament sentenced Strafford to death by attainder, he pleaded hard with King Charles I for Strafford's life, but without success.
He took some part in the Civil War, but "he was very often of both parties, and never advantaged either". [1] His attitude has been described as one of "dubious neutrality". He was made Recorder of Nottingham in 1642. After the Restoration, he gained a pardon from King Charles II. [6]
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