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[[File:EdwardChichesterViscountChichester(D1648)EggesfordChurch.jpg|thumb|Edward Chichester (died 1648), Effigy in [[Eggesford]] Church, Devon. He wears the [[Coronet]] of a viscount]]
[[File:ChichesterArmsWithCrescent.JPG|thumb|150px|Arms of Chichester of Eggesford: ''Chequy or and gules, a chief vair a crescent sable for [[Difference (heraldry)|difference]]'']]
'''Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester''' (1568 – 8 July 1648), was an English peer.

==Origins==
He was the third son of Sir [[John Chichester (died 1569)|John Chichester]] (died 1569), knight, [[lord of the manor]] of [[Raleigh, Pilton|Raleigh]], in the parish of [[Pilton, Devon|Pilton]], Devon, about three-quarters of a mile north-east of the historic centre of [[Barnstaple]],<ref>Lauder, p. 37.</ref> by his wife Gertrude Courtenay (1521–1566), a daughter by his second marriage of Sir [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Courtenay_(1477%E2%80%931535)&oldid=953732751 William Courtenay (1477–1535)] "The Great"<ref>Visitation of Devon, 1895 ed., p. 246.</ref> of [[Manor of Powderham|Powderham]], MP for [[Devon (UK Parliament constituency)|Devon]] 1529–1535, and a distant cousin of the [[Earl of Devon]].<ref>http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/WilliamCourtenayPowderham1.htm{{Unreliable source?|certain=y|reason=self published website; and Jorge H. Castelli is not an expert|date=January 2015}} Sharing common descent from [[Hugh Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon]] (died 1377).</ref> He was thus the younger brother of [[Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester|Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester of Belfast]] (1563–1625), founder of [[Belfast]].

==Career==
He was [[knight]]ed in 1616, and after his brother's death in 1625 was in his memory ennobled as '''Baron Chichester''', of [[Belfast]], and '''Viscount Chichester''', of [[Carrickfergus]], both in the [[Counties of Ireland|County]] of [[County Antrim|Antrim]], both in the [[Peerage of Ireland]]. He succeeded his brother in his extensive estates as well as in his offices of [[Governor]] of [[Carrickfergus]] and Lord High Admiral of [[Lough Neagh]]. He took his seat in the [[Irish House of Lords]] in 1634.

==Marriages and children==
Edward Chichester married twice:
[[File:ChichesterEscutcheon 1608 RuxfordBarton Devon.PNG|thumb|200px|1608 [[strapwork]] plaster escutcheon of four [[Quartering (heraldry)|quarters]] in upstairs bedroom of [[Ruxford]] [[Barton (demesne)|Barton]], near Crediton, Devon, with initials "EC" and "AC" for Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (1568–1648), and his wife Anne Copleston (1588–1616).]]
[[File:ChichesterEscutcheon 1608 RuxfordBarton Crediton Devon Detail.PNG|thumb|200px|Detail of Chichester escutcheon, Ruxford. Armorials [[Quartering (heraldry)|quarters]] 1&4: ''Chequy or and gules, a chief vair a mullet for difference'' (Chichester); 2: ''Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three lion's faces azure a crescent for difference'' (Copleston of Eggesford); 3: ''Gules, a pair of wings conjoined ermine'' (de Reigny of Eggesford)]]
*Firstly in 1605 to Anne Copleston (1588–1616), the sole daughter and heiress of John Copleston Esq., (died 1606) of Eggesford by his wife Dorothy Biston (died 29 July 1601).<ref>Dates per memorial tablet in Eggeston Church.</ref> They had the following children:
**[[Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall]] (1606–1674) the eldest son.
**Col. John Chichester (died 1647), a Royalist during the [[English Civil War|Civil War]],<ref>Axe, Chapman & Miller, p. 16.</ref> who married Mary Jones, eldest daughter of [[Roger Jones, 1st Viscount Ranelagh]] (d. 1643), an Irish peer and [[Lord President of Connaught]].<ref>Per inscription on father's monument in Eggesford Church.</ref>
**Lt-Col. Edward Chichester (born 1611), a Royalist during the [[English Civil War|Civil War]],<ref>Axe, Chapman & Miller, p. 16.</ref> who married Elisabeth Fisher, 5th daughter of Sir Edward Fisher, Knight,<ref>Per inscription on father's monument in Eggesford Church.</ref> the latter who in 1611 had obtained [[letters patent]] from King James I for extensive lands in [[Wexford]], Ireland,<ref>Collins's Peerage of England, Vol.8, London, 1812, pp. 446–7, footnote (i)[https://books.google.com/books?id=rRMwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA447]</ref> from which he ejected the local population by force of arms<ref>Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, ''History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the Civil War'', Vol.8, chapter 75, pp. 4–5 [https://books.google.com/books?id=_Et5Izs7CQwC&pg=PA4]</ref> and formed into the "Manor of Chichester", and in 1617 renamed [[List of townlands of County Wexford|Fisherstown]], with his seat at "Fisher's Prospect".
**Elizabeth Chichester, eldest daughter, wife of [[Sir William Wrey, 2nd Baronet]] (1600–1645) of Trebeigh, [[St Ive]], Cornwall, and North Russell, [[Sourton]], Devon, [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for [[Liskeard (UK Parliament constituency)|Liskeard]], Cornwall, in 1624.<ref>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/wrey-william-1601-1645 Hunneyball, Paul, biography of Wrey, William (c.1601-1645), of Trebigh, St. Ive, Cornwall, published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604–1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010]</ref> Her eldest son was [[Sir Chichester Wrey, 3rd Baronet]] (1628–1668), of Trebeigh, MP for [[Lostwithiel (UK Parliament constituency)|Lostwithiel]] in Cornwall. Both the 2nd and 3rd Baronets were Royalists during the Civil War.
**Mary Chichester, younger daughter, who married firstly Thomas Wise of [[Sydenham House, Devon|Sydenham]] in the parish of [[Marystow]], Devon, and secondly John Harris of Radford.<ref>Per inscription on father's monument in Eggesford Church.</ref>
*Secondly after 1616 and before 1626, as evidenced by a date stone on Eggesford Barton bearing the inscription: "E.C.M. 1626",<ref>Axe, Chapman & Miller, p. 14.</ref> to Mary Denham.

==Death and burial==
Lord Chichester died on 8 July 1648 at his manor of Eggesford in [[Devon]], where he was buried.

==Monument==
[[File:EdwardChichesterTombEggesfordChurchDevon.JPG|thumb|200px|Monument to Edward Chichester (1568–1648), 1st Viscount Chichester, and his wife Anne Copleston (1588–1616), Eggesford Church, Devon. The [[Achievement (heraldry)|heraldic achievement]] above shows an escutcheon of Chichester impaling Copleston, with the [[Supporter (heraldry)|supporters]] of Chichester, two wolves and the Chichester [[Crest (heraldry)|crest]] of a heron rising with an eel in her beak proper.<ref>Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage, 1968, p. 172, Chichester of Raleigh.</ref> The Latin motto of Chichester is: ''Invitum Sequitur Honor'', literally translated as "Honour follows against one's will", rendered generally as "Honour is awarded when unsought"]]
[[File:Chichester&CoplestonArmsImpaledEggesfordChurch.JPG|thumb|200px|Heraldic [[Escutcheon (heraldry)|escutcheon]] from monument to Edward, 1st Viscount Chichester (1568–1648), and his wife Anne Copleston (1588–1616), Eggesford Church, Devon. Arms of Chichester [[Impalement (heraldry)|impaling]] Copleston: ''Baron: Chequy or and gules, a chief vair a crescent sable for [[Difference (heraldry)|difference]]'' (Chichester)''; Feme: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three lion's faces azure'' (Copleston), surmounted by the [[Coronet|coronet of a viscount]] showing 9 of its 16 pearls. The difference of a crescent indicates the arms of a second son]]
[[File:Edward&AnneChichesterEffigiesEggesfordChurch.JPG|thumb|200px|Alabaster effigies of Edward, 1st Viscount Chichester (1568–1648), and his wife Anne Copleston (1588–1616), Eggesford Church, Devon]]
Lord Chichester has a particularly fine alabaster effigy and monument against the north wall of the north aisle (Chichester Chapel) in Eggesford Church, Devon, to the immediate west of which stood his manor house, Eggesford House, demolished in 1824. The monument shows recumbent effigies of himself and his first wife with two tablets above inscribed as follows:

:"Here rest in hope of Resurrection the body of the Right Hon.bl Sr. Edward Chichester knt., Lord Chichester, Barron of Belfast. Viscount Chichester of Carrickfergus, governor of the same &c., and one of His Majesties most hon.ble Privy Counsell for the Kingdome of Ireland, sonne of Sr. John Chichester of Rawleigh knight; and the body of Dame Anne his wife sole daughter and heire of John Copleston of Eggesford Esq.r. who had issue Arthur his eldest sonne now Lord Viscount Chichester, Earle of Donegall &c, who first married Dorcas, daughter of John Hill of Honnely in Warwickshire, Esq. and had issue by her one daughter; afterwards the Lady Mary eldest daughter of John, Earle of Bristol and had issue by her six sonnes & two daughters. John his second sonne who married Mary, eldest daughter of Roger Viscount Rannelagh and Edward his youngest sonne who married Elisabeth daughter of Sr. Edward Fisher knight; Elisabeth his eldest daughter who married Sr. William Wrey knt. & Barro.ett; Mary his youngest daughter who first married Thomas Wise of Syddenham afterwards John Harris of Radforde Esq. Hee departed this life on the 8 and was buried on ye 13-day of July Anno 1648. Shee departed this life on the 8 and was buried on the 11-day of March Anno 1616. This monument was prepared by himself in his lifetime but now erected and finished by the said Arthur Lord Viscount Chichester, Earle of Donegall, January the 11 Anno Domini 1648".

On a lunette above, probably the text planned by the deceased himself:
<blockquote>
"In memory of Edward Lord Viscount Chichester & Dame Anne his wife and in humble acknowledgement of the good providence of God in advancing their house".</blockquote>
<blockquote>
"Fam'd Arthur Ireland's dreade in armes in peace, 
Her tutelar genius Bellfast's honour wonne, 
Edward and Anne, blest payre, begott increase, 
Of lands and heires: Viscount was grafted onn, 
Next Arthur in God's caus and King's stak't all, 
And had to's honour added Donnegall". </blockquote>

On the wall to the right above the monument is a black stone tablet inscribed as a memorial to Anne Copleston's parents:
<blockquote>
"Here lyeth buried ye bodies of John Copleston Esq., & Dorothie his wife daughter to Sr. George Biston of [[Beeston Castle|Biston Castel]] in [[Cheshire|Chelshere]], knight. They had issue Anne their sole daught. & heire who is now maryed to Edwarde Chichester Esq., one of ye sonnes of Sr. John Chichester of Rawleigh, knight, in whose memory the said Edwarde Chichester their son in law hath erected this monument in ye yere 1614. She departed ye 29 July in ye yere 1601 he departed ye 11 of ... in ye yere 1606, living together 30 yeres in much peace w.th God & lovinge societie e.ch w.th other".</blockquote>
Sir George Beeston (c. 1520 – 1601) of Beeston House near [[Bunbury, Cheshire|Bunbury]], [[Crewe]], Cheshire, acquired [[Beeston Castle]] from the Crown shortly before his death. He was a naval captain who commanded the [[English ship Dreadnought (1573)|''Dreadnought'']] against the [[Spanish Armada]] in 1588, and was knighted at sea on board the [[English ship Ark Royal (1587)|''Ark Royal'']] by [[Lord Howard of Effingham]] the [[Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom|Lord High Admiral]]. He served as MP for [[Cheshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Cheshire]] in 1589. His wife, and Dorothy's mother, was Alice Davenport (died 1591), daughter of Thomas Davenport Esq., of Henbury. Sir George's effigy and elaborate monument exist against the north wall of the sanctuary in [[St Boniface's Church, Bunbury]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bunbury.org.uk/johnpapers/sirgeorgebeeston3frame.htm |title=Elsworth, John, (Churchwarden of St Boniface's Church, Beeston) Notes on Sir George Beeston, 2000 |access-date=8 June 2012 |archive-date=5 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205124331/http://www.bunbury.org.uk/johnpapers/sirgeorgebeeston3frame.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Sources==
*{{ODNBweb|id=5275|title=Chichester, Arthur|first=R. M.|last=Armstrong}}, on the son.
*Axe, Matthew, Chapman, Lesley & Miller, Sharon. The Lost Houses of Eggesford, published by Eggesford Gardens Ltd., Eggesford, 1995.
*Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, Chichester of Hall and Arlington, pp. 35–40.

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