Thomas chaloner regicide biography

Thomas Chaloner (1595–1661) was an English politician, commissioner at the trial of Charles I and signatory to his death warrant.
Thomas Chaloner (regicide) (1595–1661), English politician, commissioner at the trial of Charles I and signatory to his death warrant; Thomas Chaloner, 2nd.
Our story starts with Thomas Chaloner the Elder who was born in 1521.

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The Welsh Connection

Is it possible that Thomas Chaloner the Regicide is the father of John Chawner of Muse Lane?

Author: Graham Charles Woodward

It has long been a Chawner family tradition to talk about a Welsh connection and the descent from Welsh princes and princesses, and a link to Thomas Chaloner the regicide. Unfortunately no one has ever conclusively proved there is a Welsh connection, or link to Thomas Chaloner.

To search for the answers to these questions I began with what we know. There are quite a few pedigree charts showing the descent of the Chaloners of Guisborough from Welsh princes and princesses, so that part must be true and some of these pedigrees go back to before 1066 and William the Conqueror.

1. There is no need to go back as far as 1066 in order to prove that the ancestors of the Chaloners of Guisborough were Welsh, I start with David Chaloner of Denbigh who was born in 1410. David married Rose Anwyl daughter of Ithel Anwyl ab y Dai and Gwenllian ap Llywelyn.

On her mothers side Rose was the great-great granddaughter of Dafydd

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Thomas Chaloner (regicide)

For other people with the same name, see Thomas Chaloner (disambiguation).

Thomas Chaloner^[1] (1595–1661) was an English politician, commissioner at the trial of Charles I and signatory to his death warrant.

He was born at Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, and was the son of the courtier Sir Thomas Chaloner.^[2]

In January 1649, he and his younger brother, James Chaloner (1602–1660), served as two of the 135 commissioners of the court that tried King Charles I. Subsequently, Thomas signed the King's death warrant, whilst James did not.

In 1660, at the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, Chaloner was excluded from the Indemnity and Oblivion Act, which gave a general pardon, and escaped to the Continent to avoid a trial for high treason. He died at Middelburg in the Netherlands in 1661.

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Chaloner, Thomas (1595-1661)
CHALONER, THOMAS (1595–1661), regicide, third son of Sir Thomas Chaloner the younger [q. v.], was born at Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire, in 1595. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, when sixteen, but took no degree, and left early to be educated by his father. He returned from foreign travel a ‘perfect gentleman,’ but with ideas opposed to monarchy, and feelings embittered by the seizure of his father's Yorkshire alum mines [see Chaloner, Sir Thomas, the younger]. Settling on the paternal estate at Guisborough, he was elected burgess for Richmond, Yorkshire, in 1645, and being a fluent speaker he became one of the strongest opponents of the royal government. The same year he was a witness against Archbishop Laud at his trial. In the civil war, after the money question had been settled with the Scots in 1646, he made his famous speech on the reading of the Scottish papers respecting the disposal of the king's person. Chaloner opposed all the Scottish encroachments on what he called the ‘E