Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers

He was the son of John Darcy, 2nd Baron Darcy of Chiche and Frances Rich. His grandfather was Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche, a supporter of Lady Jane Grey.F. G. Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants (Chelmsford, 1978), p. 8. He succeeded to his father's title as 3rd Baron Darcy of Chiche in March 1581.F. G. Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants (Chelmsford, 1978), p. 9. In 1613, he obtained a new grant of the Barony of Darcy of Chiche with a special remainder, on the failure of his male issue, to his son-in-law, Sir Thomas Savage, and his heirs. He attended the courts of Elizabeth I and James I, and was created Viscount Colchester in the Peerage of England on 5 July 1621.{{sfn|Cokayne XI|1949|p=25}} During the reign of Charles I, Darcy was further honoured when he was made Earl Rivers on 4 November 1626.{{sfn|Cokayne XI|1949|p=25}} Both of these titles were created with the special remainder to Sir Thomas Savage and his heirs.{{sfn|Collins IX|1812|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=PfwUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA400 400–401]}}

*Chiche was the old name for St Osyth, Essex.

File:Mary Kytson later Lady Rivers.jpg

Earl Rivers married Mary Kitson, a daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson, and by her had issue:{{sfn|Burke|1866|pp=[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hl5dxz&view=2up&seq=182 156–157]}}

• Thomas Darcy (d. 1614). He was a page to Prince Henry and performed at the tournament Prince Henry's Barriers in January 1610.John Gage, History and Antiquities of Hengrave (London, 1822), pp. 221-2.Norman Egbert McClure, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005854481&view=image&seq=317 Letters of John Chamberlain, vol. 1 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 293]
• Elizabeth Darcy (1581–1651), married Thomas Savage, 1st Viscount Savage and had issue, including John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers{{sfn|Cokayne XI|1949|p=458}}
• Mary Darcy (d. 31 July 1627), married in 1615, Roger Manwood (1591–1623), without issue{{sfn|Moseley & Thrush|2010}}
• Penelope Darcy (d. 1661), a noted recusant, married firstly, 11 June 1610, as his second wife, Sir George Trenchard (c.1575–1610) of Wolveton,{{sfn|Hasler|1981}} secondly, in 1611, Sir John Gage, 1st Baronet, by whom she had issue,{{sfn|Gage|1822|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xMpcAAAAcAAJ&q=%22issue+by+penelope%22&pg=PA236 238–239]}} and thirdly, Sir William Hervey in 1642{{sfn|Ferris & Sgroi|2010}}
• Susan Darcy, died unmarried

The Earl died on 25 February 1640 at Winchester House, near Broad Street, London and was buried with his ancestors at St Osyth, Essex.{{sfn|Cokayne XI|1949|p=25}} He was succeeded in his titles, except for the original barony of Darcy of Chiche of 1581, by his grandson, John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers.{{sfn|Cokayne XI|1949|p=25}}

An inventory was made of the goods of Mary Countess-Dowager Rivers on 28 June 1644. The furnishings are listed in the rooms of an unnamed house, not St Osyth's Priory.{{sfn|HMC 1|1913|pp=[https://archive.org/details/reportonmanuscri01greauoft/page/34/mode/2up 35–51]}}

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite book |last1=Boothman |first1=Lyn |last2=Parker |first2=Richard Hyde |title=Savage Fortune: An Aristocratic Family in the Early Seventeenth Century |series=Suffolk Records Society|volume=49 |date=2006 |publisher=Boydell; Suffolk Records Society |location=Woodbridge |isbn=1843831996|ref={{sfnref|Boothman|2006}}}}
• {{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |author1-link=Bernard Burke |title=A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, By Sir Bernard Burke, LL.D., Ulster King of Arms |edition=New |date=1866 |publisher=Harrison |location=London |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hl5dxz&view=2up&seq=182}}
• {{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=John |author1-link=John Burke (genealogist) |last2=Burke |first2=Bernard |author2-link=Bernard Burke |title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland |edition=2nd |date=1844 |publisher=John Russell Smith |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j3Q-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA470|ref={{sfnref|Burke|1844}}}}
• {{cite book |last1=Cokayne |first1=G. E. |author-link=George Edward Cokayne |editor1-last=White |editor1-first=Geoffrey H. |title=The Complete Peerage; or, a History of the House of Lords and all its Members from the Earliest Times |volume=XI |date=1949 |publisher=St Catherine Press |location=London |ref={{sfnref|Cokayne XI|1949}}}}
• {{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=Arthur |author1-link=Arthur Collins (antiquarian)|last2=Brydges |first2=Egerton |author2-link=Egerton Brydges|title=Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Historical, and Biographical; Greatly Augmented, and Continued to the Present Time by Sir Egerton Brydges, K. J. |date=1812 |publisher=F. C. and J. Rivington, and others |edition=6th |location=London |volume=IX |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PfwUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA400 |ref={{sfnref|Collins IX|1812}}}}
• {{cite book |last1=Ferris |first1=John P. |last2=Sgroi |first2=Rosemary |editor1-last=Thrush |editor1-first=Andrew |editor2-last=Ferris |editor2-first=John P. |chapter=Hervey, Sir William II (1586-1660), of Ickworth, Suff. |title=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629|date=2010 |chapter-url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/hervey-sir-william-ii-1586-1660#footnote6_u4zh7pk |publisher=historyofparliamentonline.org |ref={{sfnref|Ferris & Sgroi|2010}}}}
• {{cite book |last1=Gage |first1=John |title=The History and Antiquities of Hengrave, in Suffolk |date=1822 |publisher=James Carpenter |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xMpcAAAAcAAJ }}
• {{cite book |last1=Hasler |first1=P.W. |editor1-last=Hasler |editor1-first=P.W. |chapter=Trenchard, George II (c.1575-1610), of Wolveton, Dorset and London |title=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603|date=1981 |chapter-url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/trenchard-george-ii-1575-1610 |publisher=historyofparliamentonline.org }}
• {{cite book |last1=Historical Manuscripts Commission |title=Report on the Manuscripts of Allan George Finch, Esq., of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland |date=1913 |publisher=His Majesty's Stationery Office |location=London |volume=1 |url=https://archive.org/details/reportonmanuscri01greauoft/page/34/mode/2up |ref={{sfnref|HMC 1|1913}}|author1-link=Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts }}
• {{cite book |last1=Kyle |first1=Chris |editor1-last=Thrush |editor1-first=Andrew |editor2-last=Ferris |editor2-first=John P. |chapter=Savage, John (1603-1654), of Rock Savage, Cheshire |title=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629|date=2010 |chapter-url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/savage-john-1603-1654 |publisher=historyofparliamentonline.org }}
• {{cite book |last1=Moseley |first1=Virginia C.D. |last2=Thrush |first2=Andrew |editor1-last=Thrush |editor1-first=Andrew |editor2-last=Ferris |editor2-first=John P. |chapter=Manwood, Roger (1591-1623), of Hackington, Kent |title=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629|date=2010 |chapter-url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/manwood-roger-1591-1623 |publisher=historyofparliamentonline.org |ref={{sfnref|Moseley & Thrush|2010}}}}
• {{cite ODNB |last1=Walter |first1=John |title=Savage [née Darcy], Elizabeth, suo jure Countess Rivers |date=3 January 2008 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/69349}}

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