1. Ferdinando Gorges was involved in Essex's Rebellion against the Queen, but escaped punishment by testifying against the main conspirators.
17 Facts About Ferdinando Gorges
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Ferdinando Gorges was born between 1565 and 1568, probably in Clerkenwell, in Middlesex where the family maintained their London town house, but possibly at the family's manor of Wraxall, in Somerset.
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Ferdinando Gorges was the second son of Edward Gorges of Wraxall, by his wife Cicely Lygon.
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The terms of the testamentary gifts led an earlier memorialist to conclude that Ferdinando had been born sometime between 1565 and 1567.
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Ferdinando Gorges was by blood in the male line a member of the Russell family of Kingston Russell, Dorset and of Dyrham in Gloucestershire, an early member of which was Sir John Russell of Kingston Russell, a household knight of King John, and of the young King Henry III, to whom he acted as steward.
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The Ferdinando Gorges family arrived in England with the Norman Conquest.
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The Ferdinando Gorges were recipients of many royal appointments and privileges since Edward's time.
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Ferdinando Gorges's great-great-grandfather married the eldest daughter of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, from which connection they claim royal descent.
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Ferdinando Gorges was named after his mother's brother, Ferdinando Lygon.
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Ferdinando Gorges was brought up at Nailsea Court at Kenn near Wraxall.
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Ferdinando Gorges fought under the command of Lord Willoughby, whose family he developed a close connection with.
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Ferdinando Gorges was knighted at the siege of Rouen in 1591.
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Ferdinando Gorges was rewarded for his services by the post of Governor of the Fort at Plymouth, which he held for many years.
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In 1622, Ferdinando Gorges received a land patent, along with John Mason, from the crown's Plymouth Council for New England for the Province of Maine, the original boundaries of which were between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers.
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Ferdinando Gorges's son was Robert Ferdinando Gorges, Governor-General of New England from 1623 to 1624.
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The epilogue to Sir Ferdinando Gorges' story is very brief.
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New England was left to follow a very different destiny from that to which Sir Ferdinando Gorges had devoted so much of his life.