Robert Levinz

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Robert Levinz (1615–18 July 1650) was an English Royalist who fought in the Civil War. He came from the Levinz family of Oxford; his father ran a brewery near Abingdon, and his grandfather was an alderman and five-time mayor of Oxford. He studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, earning a BA in 1634 and a Doctor of Civil Law in 1642, and in 1640 he acted as commissary to the Bishop of Norwich, Richard Montagu. When the war began, Levinz joined the king’s side at Oxford and became a captain. After Oxford surrendered in 1646, he seems to have returned to his studies. After Charles I’s execution, he worked for Charles II and was given a commission to raise troops in England for the king during the 1650 Scottish expedition. The plot was discovered; Levinz was arrested in London. His papers included many blank royal commissions. He was tried by a court-martial and hanged on 18 July 1650. He refused to betray his accomplices but admitted the charges against himself and defended his cause as just. David Lloyd praised his prudence and integrity. His wife was from the Bertie family, granddaughter of the Earl of Lindsey. A portrait of him appears in Loyal Martyrology (1665).