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Everard Digby

Male Abt 1578 - 1606  (~ 28 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Everard Digby was born about 1578 (son of Everard Digby and Maria Neale); died on 30 Jan 1606.

    Notes:

    Attainted and hanged for high treason for allegedly taking part in the Gunpowder Plot.

    Family/Spouse: Mary Mulsho. Mary (daughter of William Mulsho) died before 1653. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Kenelm Digby was born on 11 Jul 1603; died on 11 Jun 1665.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Everard Digby (son of Kenelm Digby and Anne Cope); died in 1592.

    Everard married Maria Neale. Maria (daughter of Francis Neale) died after 1592. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Maria Neale (daughter of Francis Neale); died after 1592.
    Children:
    1. 1. Everard Digby was born about 1578; died on 30 Jan 1606.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Kenelm Digby was born before 1518 in of Stoke Dry, Rutland, England (son of Everard Digby and Margery Heydon); died on 21 Apr 1590; was buried in Stoke Dr, Rutland, England.

    Notes:

    Knight of the shire for Stamford, 1539, and for Rutland in 1545, 1547, Mar 1553, Oct 1553, 1555, 1558, 1559, 1571, 1572, and 1584. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and at the Middle Temple. Sheriff of Rutland 1541-42, 1549-50, 1553-54, 1561-62, 1567-68, 1575-76, and 1585-86.

    "Whatever knowledge of the law Digby had acquired at the Middle Temple, an inn with which he retained a connexion for many years, was put to both public and private use: regularly named to commissions of oyer and terminer for the midlands, he was also consulted on legal matters by his friends and relatives, for whom he often acted as a feoffee. It was perhaps his legal bent which in 1572 prompted his demand to see the 3rd Earl of Huntingdon’s patent of lieutenancy before acknowledging Huntingdon’s standing in the county, a piece of officiousness which incensed the earl. With so ardent a Puritan as Huntingdon, however, Digby can have felt little at ease: in 1564 he was reported to be ‘indifferent’ in religion but towards the end of his life he was described as unsound in faith and one of his sons was a notable Catholic." [History of Parliament]

    Kenelm married Anne Cope. Anne (daughter of Anthony Cope and Jane Crewes) died after 1591. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Anne Cope (daughter of Anthony Cope and Jane Crewes); died after 1591.
    Children:
    1. 2. Everard Digby died in 1592.

  3. 6.  Francis Neale was born in of Keythorpe, Leicestershire, England.
    Children:
    1. 3. Maria Neale died after 1592.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Everard Digby was born before 1472 in of Tilton, Leicestershire, England (son of Everard Digby and Jacquetta Ellis); died on 11 Apr 1540.

    Notes:

    Knight of the shire for Rutland, 1529.

    Everard married Margery Heydon before 1518. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Margery Heydon (daughter of John Heydon and Katherine Willoughby).
    Children:
    1. 4. Kenelm Digby was born before 1518 in of Stoke Dry, Rutland, England; died on 21 Apr 1590; was buried in Stoke Dr, Rutland, England.

  3. 10.  Anthony Cope was born between 1486 and 1487 (son of William Cope and (Unknown second wife of William Cope)); died on 5 Jan 1551.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: of Hanwell, Oxfordshire
    • Alternate death: 6 Jan 1551

    Notes:

    Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire, 1548. Vice-chamberlain and later principal chamberlain to Catherine Parr, last wife of Henry VIII.

    He was the author of The Historie of the two moste noble Capitaines in the Worlde, Anniball and Scipio (1544) and A Godly Meditacion upon XX select and chosen Psalmes of the Prophet David (1547).

    Anthony married Jane Crewes. Jane (daughter of Matthew Crewes) died after Jan 1551. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Jane Crewes (daughter of Matthew Crewes); died after Jan 1551.
    Children:
    1. Edward Cope died in 1557.
    2. 5. Anne Cope died after 1591.


Generation: 5

  1. 16.  Everard Digby was born about 1450 in of Tilton, Leicestershire, England (son of Everard Digby and Anne Clarke); died in 1509.

    Notes:

    Sheriff of Rutland, 1485, 1486, 1499. Said to have fought on the victor's side at the battle of Bosworth Field.

    Everard married Jacquetta Ellis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 17.  Jacquetta Ellis (daughter of John Ellis).
    Children:
    1. Anne Digby was born in of Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England.
    2. 8. Everard Digby was born before 1472 in of Tilton, Leicestershire, England; died on 11 Apr 1540.

  3. 18.  John Heydon was born about 1468 in of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England (son of Henry Heydon and Anne Boleyn); died on 16 Aug 1550.

    John married Katherine Willoughby. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 19.  Katherine Willoughby
    Children:
    1. 9. Margery Heydon

  5. 20.  William Cope was born about 1440 in of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England (son of Alexander Cope); died on 7 Apr 1513 in Hanwell Manor, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England; was buried in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1450, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England

    Notes:

    Cofferer of the household of Henry VII. Serjeant of Catery, and later of the Poultry. Steward of Worpledon and Witeby, 1510. Constable of Porchester Castle, 1511. Lieutenant of Southbere Forest. Steward and Bailiff of Bedhampton. Secretary to the Duchess of Savoy, 1513.

    Alleged in some online sources to have fought at Bosworth, a claim we have been unable to confirm.

    Royal Ancestry (vol. III, p. 242) has him as cofferer to Henry VIII rather than VII, but we assume that to be a typographical error.

    Cofferer of the household of Henry VII. Serjeant of Catery, and later of the Poultry. Steward of Worpledon and Witeby, 1510. Constable of Porchester Castle, 1511. Lieutenant of Southbere Forest. Steward and Bailiff of Bedhampton. Secretary to the Duchess of Savoy, 1513.

    Burgess to Parliament from Ludgershall, Wiltshire, 1491-92.

    Alleged in some online sources to have fought at Bosworth, a claim we have been unable to confirm.

    Royal Ancestry (vol. III, p. 242) has him as cofferer to Henry VIII rather than VII, but we assume that to be a typographical error.

    William married (Unknown second wife of William Cope). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 21.  (Unknown second wife of William Cope)
    Children:
    1. 10. Anthony Cope was born between 1486 and 1487; died on 5 Jan 1551.

  7. 22.  Matthew Crewes was born in of Pynne in Stoke English, Devon, England.
    Children:
    1. 11. Jane Crewes died after Jan 1551.


Generation: 6

  1. 32.  Everard Digby was born in of Welby, Lincolnshire (son of Simon Digby and Joan Bellers); died on 29 Mar 1461 in Towton, Yorkshire, England.

    Notes:

    Killed at the Battle of Towton, fighting on the Lancastrian side.

    Everard married Anne Clarke. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 33.  Anne Clarke (daughter of Francis Clarke and Agnes Flower).
    Children:
    1. 16. Everard Digby was born about 1450 in of Tilton, Leicestershire, England; died in 1509.

  3. 34.  John Ellis was born in of Devon, England.
    Children:
    1. 17. Jacquetta Ellis

  4. 36.  Henry Heydon was born in of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England (son of John Heydon and Eleanor Winter); died between 20 Feb and 22 May 1504 in Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England.

    Notes:

    From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

    Henry Heydon, also a common lawyer, was knighted at Henry VII's coronation in 1485 and married Anne (d. 1510), daughter of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn of Blickling, Norfolk. He was survived by three sons, the eldest of whom, John Heydon (1468–1550), inherited the Norfolk and Kent estates, and five daughters, for whom he arranged good marriages.

    Many prominent sixteenth-century East Anglian families (such as the Townshends, Pastons, and Jenneys) owed their rise to a successful fifteenth-century lawyer of humble origins, but even by these standards the rapid ascent of the Heydons is remarkable and owed much to the opportunities and tenacity of the first John Heydon. In the pedigree devised by Clarenceux king of arms for Sir Christopher Heydon in 1563, the family tree before the first John Heydon is fictitious: and the arms of Sir Christopher himself were derived from those of the Hertfordshire Heydons, who were unrelated to the Norfolk family.

    Henry married Anne Boleyn. Anne (daughter of Geoffrey Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London and Anne Hoo) died about 1510. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  5. 37.  Anne Boleyn (daughter of Geoffrey Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London and Anne Hoo); died about 1510.
    Children:
    1. Anne Heydon died before 8 May 1521.
    2. 18. John Heydon was born about 1468 in of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England; died on 16 Aug 1550.
    3. Bridget Heydon was born about 1480; died before 17 Jan 1554; was buried on 17 Jan 1554 in St. Margaret's, Paston, Norfolk, England.

  6. 40.  Alexander Cope was born in of Bramshill, Hampshire, England (son of William Cope and (Unknown daughter of William Gossage)).
    Children:
    1. 20. William Cope was born about 1440 in of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England; died on 7 Apr 1513 in Hanwell Manor, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England; was buried in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England.


 

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