copy. Marriage and children Belasyse married three times and by his first and third wives had at least sixteen children, many of whom died in infancy. His wives were as follows: Firstly he married Jane Boteler, a daughter of Sir Robert Boteler by his wife Frances Drury, by whom he had issue: Sir Henry Belasyse (died 1667), only surviving son and heir, who married his step-sister Susan Airmine (d.1713), a daughter of Sir William Airmine, 2nd Baronet by his wife Anne Crane. Unlike her husband's family, she was a Protestant. Henry predeceased his father, having been killed in a duel in 1667 following a drunken quarrel with the dramatist Thomas Porter (described by Samuel Pepys as the silliest, most trivial quarrel imaginable) and the title passed to his son Henry Belasyse, 2nd Baron Belasyse (d.1691) who died with no sons, whereby the title became extinct. Unusually, in her widowhood Susan was created Baroness Belasyse of Osgodby in her own right, in 1674, which title expired on her death. After King Charles II had firmly vetoed her as a wife for his brother James, she remarried James Fortrey. Secondly he married Anne Crane (d.1662), a daughter of Sir Robert Crane, 1st Baronet by his second wife Susan Alington, and widow of Sir William Airmine, 2nd Baronet (1622-1658). Thirdly he married Anne Paulet, a daughter of John Paulet, 5th Marquis of Winchester by his second wife Honora de Burgh. Daughters He had seven surviving daughters, by his first and third wives: Isabel Belasyse, who married Thomas Stonor Mary Belasyse, who married Robert Constable, 3rd Viscount of Dunbar. Samuel Pepys records meeting Mary Belasyse, later Lady Dunbar, in 1666, and was charmed by her passion for music: "the greatest I ever saw in my life". Barbara Belasyse, who married Sir John Webbe, 3rd Baronet Honora Belasyse, who married George Nevill, 12th Baron Bergavenny Catherine Belasyse, who married John Talbot Anne Belasyse Elizabeth Belasyse (died 1699) Death and burial He died on 10 September 1689 and was buried on 14 September 1689 at the church of St Giles in the Fields, London. A monument erected to his memory in the old Church was moved to the churchyard when the present Georgian church was built and subsequently decayed, but the inscribed tablet survives now in the south porch, reading as follows: This Monument was Erected in the Year of Our Lord 1736. by the Pious