John Alured was an army officer who fought for the parliamentary cause in the English Civil War

English Civil War

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 and was one of the regicide

Regicide

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s of King Charles I

Charles I of England

Charles I was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles engaged in a struggle for power with the Parliament of England, attempting to obtain royal revenue whilst Parliament sought to curb his Royal prerogative which Charles...

 in 1649.

He was born in Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull

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. He inherited the family estate in 1628 and married Mary Darley (second cousin) in 1631.

Alured was the MP

Member of Parliament

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 for Hedon

Hedon (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in both the Short

Short Parliament

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 and Long Parliament

Long Parliament

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s. He spent most of the First Civil War as a colonel in, Lord Fairfax's northern parliamentarian army and is known to have fought at Adwalton Moor

Battle of Adwalton Moor

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 in 1643 and possibly at Marston Moor in 1644. In February 1645 he took up a new command in the New Model Army

New Model Army

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. In 1649, appointed to the High Court of Justice

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 at the trial of King Charles, he was one of the signatories of the King's death warrant.

At the restoration of the monarchy

English Restoration

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, because of his act of regicide he was a named exception in the general pardon (Act of Oblivion, section XXXVIII), which meant that any property that was held by the beneficiaries of his estate, could be confiscated.