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Robert Filmer

(Abt 1588 - 26 May 1653)

== Biography ==m. 8 August 1618 Sir Robert Filmer (c1588-26 May 1653), eldest child of Sir Edward Filmer and Elizabeth (Argall) Filmer. They had three sons and one daughter survive to adulthood, (1s and 1d died before 1653.) Their first son Sir Edward Filmer was a Gentleman of the Privy chamber and d. 1668, and was succeeded by their 2nd son Robert was created 1st Baronet Filmer, of East Sutton 26 Dec 1674 as a reward for Robert's loyalty to the Royalist cause during the English Civil War.[[wikipedia:Filmer_baronets]] Their third son Samuel Filmer, married Maria Horsmanded and lived in Virginia, dying childless.[[wikipedia:Robert_Filmer]]

== Research Notes ==Oxford Dictionary of National Biography shows birth as "1588?"Glenn Burgess, Biography [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9424 Robert Filmer] (extract accessed 26 October 2019). which is cited as source for Wikipedia's article for him.
: Sir Robert Filmer (1587 – 26 May 1653) was an English political theorist who defended Divine rights absolute monarchy. His best known work, Patriarcha, published posthumously in 1680, was the target of numerous Whig rebuttals, including Algernon Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government, James Tyrrell's Patriarcha Non Monarcha, and John Locke's Two Treatises of Government. Filmer also wrote critiques of Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, Hugo Grotius, and Aristotle.Source: [[#S25]]
: Sir Robert Filmer, father of the first Baronet, was a supporter of the Crown during the English Civil War. The baronetcy was created for his son, also Robert Filmer, after the Restoration of Charles II in his honour.Source: [[#S25]]

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    Events

    BirthAbt 1588East Sutton, Kent, England
    Death26 May 1653East Sutton, Kent, England
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    Families

    FatherSir Edward Filmer Sr. (1566 - 1629)
    MotherElizabeth Argall (1570 - 1638)
    SiblingKatherine Filmer (1597 - 1662)
    SiblingMary Filmer (1586 - 1647)
    SiblingMargaret Filmer (1588 - 1629)
    SiblingEdward Filmer Jr (1589 - 1651)
    SiblingJohn Filmer (1590 - 1624)
    SiblingElizabeth Filmer (1592 - 1678)
    SiblingJudith Filmer (1594 - 1629)
    SiblingThomas Filmer (1595 - 1614)
    SiblingReginald Filmer (1596 - 1638)
    SiblingJane Filmer (1598 - 1629)
    SiblingAnne Filmer (1599 - )
    SiblingHenry Filmer (1600 - 1671)
    SiblingSusanna Filmer (1603 - 1629)
    SiblingRichard Filmer (1604 - 1629)
    SiblingSarah Filmer (1606 - )
    SiblingAugustinus Filmer (1609 - 1629)