The Tresham Baronetcy, of Rushton in the County of Northamptonsire, was a title in the

Baronetage of England Baronets are hereditary titles awarded by the Crown. The current baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier, existing baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland and Great Britain. To be recognised as a baronet, it is necessary ...

. It was created on 29 June 1611 for Lewis Tresham. He was the son of Sir Thomas Tresham, the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Tresham and the younger brother of

Francis Tresham Francis Tresham ( 1567 – 23 December 1605) was a member of the group of English provincial Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a conspiracy to assassinate King James I of England. Tresham joined the Earl of Essex's fail ...

. As a member of a prominent Roman Catholic family, Lewis was fined for

recusancy Recusancy (from ) was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation. The 1558 Recusancy Acts passed in the reign of Elizabeth I, and temporarily repea ...

in the reign of

James I James I may refer to: People *James I of Aragon (1208–1276) * James I of Sicily or James II of Aragon (1267–1327) * James I, Count of La Marche (1319–1362), Count of Ponthieu * James I, Count of Urgell (1321–1347) *James I of Cyprus (1334� ...

. The Treshams were Northamptonshire landowners, owning

Lyveden New Bield Lyveden New Bield (sometimes called New Build) is an unfinished Elizabethan summer house in the parish of Aldwincle in North Northamptonshire, commissioned by Sir Thomas Tresham (died 1605), Thomas Tresham and now owned by the National Trust. I ...

Aldwincle Aldwincle (sometimes Aldwinkle or Aldwinckle) is a village and civil parish in the North Northamptonshire district, in Northamptonshire, England, with a population at the time of the 2011 census of 322. It stands by a bend in the River Nene, t ...

, and other manors at Great Houghton, Hannington, Pilton, Rushton and

Sywell Sywell is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England. At the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Census, the population of the parish was 792. The name Sywell is thought to mean "seven wells". Facilities The facilities found i ...

. The title was inherited by Lewis' younger brother, William, who fought on the Royalist side in the

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as Colonel of the English regiment in Flanders. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in c. 1642.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage'' 1900
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Tresham baronets, of Rushton (1611)

*Sir Lewis Tresham, 1st Baronet (–1639) *Sir William Tresham, 2nd Baronet (died )

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{{s-end Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England