was buried at Bruges. After the Restoration, his body was transferred to the family vault at Spelsbury church, Oxfordshire. He was succeeded by his son John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, a noted poet and libertine at the Restoration court. Family On 21 August 1633, Wilmot married Frances Morton, daughter of Sir George Morton of Clenston. In 1644, some time after Frances had died, Wilmot married Anne Lee, daughter of Sir John St John, 1st Baronet St John of Lydiard Tregoze, and widow of Sir Francis Henry Lee, 2nd Baronet Lee of Quarendon. They had a son John, who was born on 10 April 1647. John inherited his father's title and went on to become a well-known raconteur, wit and poet at the court of Charles II. Notes References Aubrey, Philip. Mr Secretary Thurloe: Cromwell's Secretary of State, 1652–1660. Athlone Press, 1990. cites: online review: Attribution: Further reading Biography of Wilmot British Civil Wars & Commonwealth website Oswald Barron, 'The Wild Wilmots', The Ancestor XI (1904), 3–8 22–23. |- 1612 births 1658 deaths Wilmot, Henry Cavaliers Grenadier Guards officers English generals Ambassadors of England to Denmark Earls of Rochester Peers of England created by Charles I 17th-century Anglo-Irish people 17th-century English diplomats Royalist military personnel of the English Civil War