13 Facts About Edmund Ludlow

Edmund Ludlow was born in Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, the son of Sir Henry Edmund Ludlow of Maiden Bradley and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Phelips of Montacute, Somerset.

Edmund Ludlow was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1638.

At the start of the Civil War in 1642, Edmund Ludlow engaged as a volunteer in the lifeguard of Lord Essex.

Edmund Ludlow was a Baptist and Calvinist predestinarian, and his political views were inextricably interlinked with providentialist and apocalyptic religious views.

Edmund Ludlow opposed negotiations with Charles I, and was one of the chief promoters of Pride's Purge in 1648.

Edmund Ludlow was one of the king's judges, and signed the warrant for his execution.

Edmund Ludlow sat in the restored Rump Parliament, and was a member of its Council of State and of the Committee of Safety after its second expulsion, and a commissioner for the nomination of officers in the army.

Edmund Ludlow failed in these final reconciliation attempts primarily because of the divisions and corruption within the military, legal, and Presbyterian factions.

Edmund Ludlow was not protected under the Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion Act.

For security, he adopted the pseudonym of Edmund Ludlow Phillips, based on a variant of his mother's maiden name.

Edmund Ludlow was however remembered only as a regicide, and an address from the House of Commons was presented to William III by Sir Edward Seymour requesting the king to issue a proclamation for his arrest.

Edmund Ludlow escaped again, and returned to Vevey, where he died in 1692.

Edmund Ludlow married Elizabeth, daughter of William Thomas, of Wenvoe, Glamorganshire, but left no children.