John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury

Who was John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury?

John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury, 10th Earl of Waterford was an English nobleman.

He was the only child and son of John Talbot of Longford, Newport, Shropshire, and wife Eleanor Baskerville, daughter of Sir Thomas Baskerville of Wolvershill, Herefordshire, and of Brinsop, Herefordshire, and grandson of Sir John Talbot of Grafton and Catherine or Katharine Petre.

He remained in his family's Roman Catholic faith and took part on the side of King Charles I in the English Civil War. He was First Commissioner of Advice for the counties of Worcestershire, Shropshire and Staffordshire in 1644/45, and he served on the Royalist garrison at Worcester when it surrendered to Parliament in July 1646. In 1647 his estates were sequestered and compounded by Parliament on grounds of his being a "Papist and delinquent".

In September 1651 he accompanied Charles II when he fled after defeat at the battle of Worcester, escorting him to Whiteladies in Shropshire, where the king was hidden for a time.

He married Mary Fortescue, by whom he had five children:

Lady Frances Talbot, married George Winter, 1st Baronet and had issue Thomas Winter