Edward Baynton

Abt 1480 - 1544  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Edward Baynton
  Birth	Abt 1480	of Bromham, Wiltshire, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Bef 1495  [3]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1495  [4]
  Death	27 Nov 1544  [2, 5]
  Person ID	I21494	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	8 May 2020

  
  

  Father	John Baynton,   b. Abt 1460, of Bromham, Wiltshire, England d. 31 Oct 1516 (Age ~ 56 years)
  Mother	Joan Digges   d. Bef 31 Oct 1516
  Family ID	F12787	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Isabel Leigh   d. 16 Feb 1573
  Marriage	Abt 18 Jan 1532  [2, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Henry Baynton,   b. Abt 1536, of Edington, Wiltshire, England d. Aft 1594 (Age ~ 59 years)
  Family ID	F12748	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  A courtier and survivor at the court of Henry VIII, perhaps best described as a combination of Littlefinger and the Vicar of Bray. Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1522-23. Esquire of the body to Henry VIII by 1522. Knight of the shire for Wiltshire, 1529 and 1539. Burgess for Wilton in 1542. "[H]e was an astute courtier who served in the royal household (he was vice-chamberlain to all save the first of Henry VIII's wives) and on military expeditions to the Scottish borders and France, as well as in local affairs. He sat in the parliaments of 1529 and 1539 as a knight of the shire for Wiltshire, and in that of 1542 as a burgess for Wilton. Probably during his association with Thomas Cromwell he began the family tradition of strong protestantism, and at the dissolution he gained much former monastic land in and near Wiltshire, especially the site of Stanley Abbey and sixteen of its manors. He built an imposing manor house at Bromham, which was said to be almost as large as the king's new court at Whitehall, and which remained the family's chief residence until demolished during the civil war. [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2204] Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) by Walter Goodwin Davis. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996., year only. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S2204] Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966) by Walter Goodwin Davis. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996.