Descendants
The descendants of William Petre remained in England as Catholics well into the reign of James I. With the rise of Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans, some descendants of William Petre fled the religious oppression of England for Sweden where they could continue to live as Catholics. There William's grandson Georg Petre joined the Swedish noble family of Joran Persson Tegel. The descendants of Georg Petre married into other Swedish noble houses including the Westerskold family and later the family of Peter von Estenberg.
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