Sir Thomas Perrot was an Elizabethan courtier, soldier, and member of parliament.
11 Facts About Thomas Perrot
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Thomas Perrot campaigned in Ireland and the Low Countries, and was involved in the defence of England against the Spanish Armada.
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Thomas Perrot was imprisoned several times, on one occasion to prevent a duel with Sir Walter Raleigh, and on another occasion because of his secret marriage to Dorothy Devereux, a Lady-in-waiting to the Queen, and sister of the Queen's favourite, the Earl of Essex.
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Thomas Perrot saw his first service as a soldier when he accompanied his father to Ireland in 1579.
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Thomas Perrot was knighted when the English forces landed at Waterford.
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Shortly thereafter Thomas Perrot was again imprisoned in the Fleet for his secret marriage to Dorothy Devereux, one of the Queen's ladies in waiting.
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In 1590 Thomas Perrot was removed from the Deputy Lieutenancy of Pembrokeshire, allegedly at the behest of Sir Christopher Hatton, who is said to have been his 'unremitting foe'.
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In 1592 his father, Sir John Thomas Perrot, was convicted of treason and attainted, and died in the Tower of London, not without suspicion that he had been poisoned.
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Thomas Perrot was a member of two committees in the 1581 session of the prorogued 1572 Parliament, although the identity of his constituency at the time is uncertain.
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Thomas Perrot sat in the 1586 Parliament as Knight of the Shire for Cardiganshire.
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Sir Robert Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia is the source of the claim that Thomas Perrot's father, Sir John Perrot, was an illegitimate son of Henry VIII.