sentences:  In 1572 he was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Compton, of Compton in the County of Warwick.After his ennoblement Lord Compton was one of the peers at the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1586.He married, firstly, Frances, daughter of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and Katherine Pole, with whom he had one son.