Éremburge

Family/Spouse: Rodulf of Ivry. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert d'Ivry. Robert died after 1060. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"A benefactor of Le Bec, Saint-Père at Chartres, Coulombs, and Saint-Evroul. [...] He became a monk at Le Bec and died there, but the dates of both events are uncertain." [Complete Peerage]

Family/Spouse: Hildeburge "The Blessed" de Gallardon. Hildeburge (daughter of Herve de Gallardon and Beatrix) died on 3 Jun 1115 in Abbey of St. Martin, Pontoise, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1120

Notes:

Also called Ascelin Gouel de Perceval; also called "Lupus" because of his violent temper.

Commanded the Norman forces at the siege of Mantes.

"He took part in William the Conqueror's invasion of the French Vexin in July 1087 and destroyed the vineyards round Mantes. He built a strongly fortified castle at Breval. In 1089 he took the castle of Ivry by stratagem from William de Bréteuil and delivered it up to Duke Robert. William redeemed the castle from the Duke and deprived Ascelin of the provostship (praesidiatum) of Ivry. Thereafter Ascelin captured William, and rigorously imprisoned him at Breval until he obtained his freedom on the terms of a money payment, the cession of the castle of Ivry and the marriage of his daughter Isabel to Ascelin. In the following year William attempted to retake the castle, but was defeated by Ascelin, the abbey of Ivry being burnt in the conflict. William then appealed to the King of France and the Duke of Normandy, who in, the spring of 1092, aided by a leve?e en masse of the surrounding population, besieged Ascelin at Breval. Ascelin was forced to capitulate and surrender the castle of Ivry, which was restored to William. On the death of William de Bréteuil in 1103, Ascelin took the part of William's nephew, Ralf de Grancei, against Eustace de Bréteuil, William's illegitimate son, in the struggle for the succession." [Complete Peerage]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Breteuil. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1196

Notes:

"He joined the rebellion of his brother-in-law Waleran, Count of Meulan, in 1123, and took part in the unsuccessful attempt to relieve the castle of Vatteville in March 1124, but shortly after escaped from the battle of Bourgthéroulde, where the rebels were defeated. Later in the same year he made his peace with the King, and thereafter received considerable grants of land in England. A writ of Geoffrey, Duke of Normandy, is addressed to him between 1144 and 1150, and in 1150-1151 he witnessed at Rouen the charter of Henry, Duke of Normandy, for the town of Rouen. In 1153 his lands in Normandy and, those of his brother, Roger le Bègue, were overrun, and laid waste by Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux. At some time before 1162 he, with his wife and son Waleran, gave to the abbey of Haute-Bruyère three modii of meal from the mills of his castle of Ivry." [Complete Peerage]

Family/Spouse: Maud of Meulan. Maud (daughter of Robert of Meulan and Isabel de Vermandois) died after 1189. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1212

Notes:

Also called William D'Ivry. Joined the Third Crusade in 1190.

William married Isabel before 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Katherine Basset before Aug 1216. Katherine (daughter of Alan Basset and Aline de Gay) died after 6 Jul 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Governor of the castles of Northampton and Marlborough.

"In 1255 he was in the service of the young Prince Edward in Gascony. In July 1257 he was summoned to Bristol for the King's ineffectual campaign against Llewelyn. He was one of the few Barons who supported the King before the outbreak of civil war, and in March 1264, after Henry's return from France, where Louis had made the unpopular Award of Amiens, as arbitrator between the Crown and the Barons, Lovel was entrusted with the castle of Northampton. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264. In September 1265 before which time he had been knighted, he was made a commissioner to deal with lands of rebels in Northants. In the summer of 1270 he was raising money to accompany Prince Edward in the last Crusade. The service against Llewelyn for which he was summoned 1276-7 was performed by his son John, on account of his illness; in 1282 the same service was done by two servientes." [Complete Peerage]

Family/Spouse: Maud de Sydenham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1255, of Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1255, of Minster Lovel, Oxfordshire, England

Notes:

"In 1277, being then a knight, he served for his father in the campaign in Wales, and in 1287 was going into Wales on the King's service with the Earl of Gloucester, when he was accompanied by his illegitimate elder brother, John Lovel of Snorscombe. Both had letters of protection going abroad in July 1287 and June 1288. In 1294 he served in the short campaign in Gascony; in 1295 was again under the Earl of Gloucester, with his brother Thomas; and in 1296 was marshal of the army in Scotland. In 1297 he was active in public service. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 February 1290 to 26 August 1307, by writs directed Johanni Lovel and later Johanni Lovel de Tichmershe, whereby he is held to have become Lord Lovel. He was summoned to the campaign in Scotland in 1298, in which Edward defeated Wallace at Falkirk, but did not serve; summonses to serve in person were continued till his death. In 1301, as lord of Docking, he joined in the Barons' letter to the Pope. From March 1302/3 he was again in Scotland on the King's service, and his wife with him. In July 1304 it was 'the nobleman, Sir John Lovel, knight,' to whom Sir William Oliphant surrendered the keys of Stirling Castle after the fierce three months' siege. In November following he had licence to crenellate his mansion of Titchmarsh. In 1306 he was lieutenant of the Earl Marshal of England. He was summoned to attend the Coronation of Edward II in February 1307/8, and in 1309 to a Council at Westminster, in which year he joined in the letter to the Pope. In March 1309/10 he was one of the magnates who declared that the permission to appoint Lords Ordainers should not be taken as a precedent, nor prejudice the King or his heirs." [Complete Peerage]

Family/Spouse: Joan de Ros. Joan (daughter of Robert de Ros and Isabel d'Aubeney) died on 13 Oct 1348. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Isabel du Bois about 1270. Isabel (daughter of Ernold du Bois and Alice de Tubney) died before 1280. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament from 16 Jun 1311 to his death. He was killed at the battle of Bannockburn.

Family/Spouse: Maud Burnell. Maud (daughter of Philip Burnell and Maud Fitz Alan) was born between 1290 and 1294; died before 1338. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1346

Maud married William la Zouche before 15 Feb 1296. William (son of Eudes la Zouche and Milicent de Cantelowe) was born on 18 Dec 1276 in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England; died on 11 Mar 1352. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He fought at Crécy in 1346.

John married Isabel before 1341. Isabel died on 2 Jul 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Millicent married William Deincourt before 26 Mar 1326. William (son of John Deincourt) was born before 1300 in of Blankney, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England; died on 2 Jun 1364. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 25 Apr 1326, Paris, France

Notes:

Also called Eon la Zouche. Fought on the king's side at Boroughbridge. A member of the Folville Gang, he was indicted as an accessory to the murder of the unpopular and probably corrupt baron of the exchequer and Despenser ally Roger Belers. After la Zouche and several others of the band fled to Paris, he died there, possibly of wounds sustained in the attack on Belers, or of injuries received during the group's hasty flight.

Eudes married Joan Inge before Jun 1322. Joan (daughter of William Inge and Marjory Grapnel) was born about 1300; died before Jan 1360. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Constable of Corfe, Devizes, and Ludlow castles. Justice of the peace for Berkshire, 1381-86. Justice of the peace for Oxfordshire 1381-83, 1386, 1397, 1399, 1403-04, 1406. Justice of the peace for Wiltshire 1386, 1391, 1394, 1397-97, 1399, 1401, 1403-06. Member of the king's council, 1403 and 1406. Governor of Banelygham Castle in France.

He was summoned to Parliament from 28 Dec 1375. In 1385 he was a commissioner in the Scrope vs. Grosvenor heraldic dispute. He accompanied Richard II to Ireland in 1399, but in August of that year he was among the first to join Bolingbroke at Chester, supporting Richard's imprisonment and hailing Bolingbroke as King Henry IV.

John married Maud Holand before 3 May 1373. Maud (daughter of Robert de Holand and Alice de Lisle) was born about 1356; died on 4 May 1423. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 4: Despenser clarifies that this Margaret Deincourt was a daughter of Sir William Deincourt d. 1364, not of his son as originally stated in CP.

Margaret married Robert Tibetot before 5 Jun 1348. Robert (son of John de Tibetot and Margaret de Badlesmere) was born before 11 Jun 1341 in Nettlestead, Bosmere, Suffolk, England; was christened on 11 Jun 1341 in Nettlestead, Bosmere, Suffolk, England; died on 13 Apr 1372. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was present at the siege of Calais. He was summoned to Parliament by writs beginning 20 Nov 1348.

William married Elizabeth de Roos before 16 Jul 1334. Elizabeth (daughter of William IV de Ros and Margery de Badlesmere) died on 24 May 1380. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippe married John Dinham before 1406. John (son of John de Dinham and Muriel Courtenay) was born between 1358 and 1359 in of Hartland, Devon, England; died on 25 Dec 1428; was buried in St. Mary's, Kingskerswell, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1371, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Notes:

Or Tybotot, or Tiptoft.

Elizabeth married Philip le Despenser before 23 Nov 1385. Philip (son of Philip le Despenser and Elizabeth) was born about 1365 in of Goxhill, Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire, England; died on 20 Jun 1424. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Roger le Scrope before 23 Nov 1385. Roger (son of Richard le Scrope and Blanche de la Pole) was born before 1373; died on 3 Dec 1403; was buried in Easby Abbey, Richmond, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Niandser between 1405 and 1406. John died after Aug 1420. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Milicent married Stephen Scrope before 23 Nov 1385. Stephen (son of Richard le Scrope and Blanche de la Pole) died on 4 Sep 1408 in Castledermot, Kildare, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Milicent married John Fastolf on 13 Jan 1409 in Ireland. John (son of John Fastolf and Mary Park) was born about 1378 in of Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, England; died on 6 Nov 1459; was buried in Abbey Church of St. Benet's-at-Holm, Horning, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married Robert de Willoughby before 1 Oct 1369. Robert (son of John de Willoughby and Cecily de Ufford) was born between 1348 and 1350 in of Eresby, Lincolnshire, England; died on 9 Aug 1396; was buried in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Joan Arches before 12 Jul 1434. Joan (daughter of Richard Arches and Joan Ardern) was born about 1410; died between 26 Jan 1497 and 3 Nov 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married Roger Wentworth before 2 Mar 1423. Roger (son of John Wentworth and Agnes Dronsfield) was born in of Nettlestead, Bosmere, Suffolk, England; died on 24 Oct 1452. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was present at Agincourt, commanding a squadron of four barges and four balingers. He was also at the 1418-19 siege of Rouen.

Richard married Margaret Neville before 31 Dec 1413. Margaret (daughter of Ralph de Neville and Margaret Stafford) was born in 1396; died between 4 Mar 1463 and 3 Mar 1464; was buried in Church of the Austin Friars, Clare, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Bingham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1403-04. Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire. Alderman of the guilds of both St. George and Corpus Christi, Boston.

Thomas married Elizabeth Neville before 27 May 1396. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

King's councillor. Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 30 Nov 1396 to 26 Oct 1409. "He was present in the Tower, 29 Sep 1399, at the abdication of Richard II, to whose imprisonment he agreed, 23 Oct. following; and in the Parliament which met in January 1401, when the lands of the Earls of Kent, Huntingdon, and Salisbury were declared forfeit." [Complete Peerage XII/2, p. 662.]

Family/Spouse: Joan Holand. Joan (daughter of Thomas de Holland and Alice Fitz Alan) died on 12 Apr 1434. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Lucy le Strange after 3 Jan 1383 in Middle, Shropshire, England. Lucy (daughter of Roger le Strange and Aline de Arundel) died after 28 Apr 1398; was buried in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Nicholas Carew after 26 Oct 1461. Nicholas (son of Thomas Carew and Joan Carminow) was born about 1444 in of Carew Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died before 21 Nov 1470; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Constable. Robert (son of Robert Constable and Agnes Gascoigne) was born in of Flamborough, Bridlington, Yorkshire, England; died on 23 May 1488. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Howard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married William Hopton about Apr 1451. William (son of John Hopton and Margaret Savile) died on 7 Feb 1485. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was beheaded by the Yorkists after the Battle of Hexham.

Family/Spouse: Mary Clifford. Mary (daughter of John Clifford and Elizabeth Percy) was buried in Friars Minor, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 3 Dec 1441 to 26 May 1455.

Henry married Elizabeth Scrope before 1436. Elizabeth (daughter of John le Scrope and Elizabeth Chaworth) died on 10 May 1504. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1492.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Wrottesley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jane Welby. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married William Fitz Hugh before 18 Nov 1406 in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England. William (son of Henry Fitz Hugh and Elizabeth Grey) was born between 1396 and 1399 in of Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England; died on 22 Oct 1452. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Joan Arundel after 16 Sep 1428. Joan (daughter of Richard Arundel and Alice) was born about 1407; died before 1 Jul 1439. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1497 he marched to the relief of Exeter when that city was besieged by the pretender Perkin Warbeck. He was killed by a cannonball while sitting in council at the Siege of Thérouanne, a stage in the Battle of the Spurs.

Edmund married Katherine Huddesfield before 16 Jan 1479. Katherine (daughter of William Huddesfield and Elizabeth Bozun) died after 9 Jun 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Tyrwhit. William (son of Robert Tyrwhit and Jane Waterton) was born about 1456 in of Kettleby, Lincolnshire, England; died on 9 Apr 1522; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Eure. William (son of Ralph Eure and Eleanor Greystoke) was born in of Malton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the Body to Henry VII. Sheriff of Staffordshire 1484-85, and of Yorkshire, 148081, 1488-89, 1493-94, 1509-10. Knight of the shire for York, 1495.

Fought at Bosworth. Commanded the left at Flodden Field. Died after accidentally drinking a glass of water with a live frog in it, thus disproving the widely-repeated saying that if you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen to you all day.

Family/Spouse: Joyce Stafford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married William Waldegrave before 1483. William was born about 1465 in of Smallbridge in Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England; died on 30 Jun 1527; was buried in Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Clere. Robert (son of Robert Clere and Elizabeth Uvedale) was born in of Ormesby, Norfolk, England; died on 10 Aug 1529; was buried in Ormesby St. Margaret, Ormesby, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 28 Apr 1479

Family/Spouse: Thomas Cotton. Thomas (son of William Cotton and Alice Abbott) was born in 1438; died on 30 Jul 1499. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Martin de la See. Martin (son of Brian de la See and Maud Monceaux) was born about 1420 in of Barmston, Yorkshire, England; died between 20 Nov 1494 and 15 Dec 1494; was buried in All Hallows, Barmston, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ann Saye. Ann (daughter of John Say and Elizabeth Cheyne) died after 25 Feb 1484. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Washbourne. Eleanor (daughter of Norman Washbourne and Elizabeth Kniveton) died between 11 Dec 1505 and Jan 1506. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Vynar. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Vyner. Henry (son of Thomas Vinar and Lucy) was born in of Castlecombe, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Wiltshire 1453-54, 1472-73. Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset 1455-56. Knight of the shire for Wiltshire. Knight of the shire for Somerset.

Knighted 3 May 1461 by Edward IV at Grafton by Tewkesbury. Fought at Towton as a Lancastrian.

John married Anne Cheyne before 4 Mar 1445. Anne (daughter of Edmund Cheyne and Alice Stafford) was born on 26 Jul 1428 in Brook in Westbury, Wiltshire, England; died after 1473. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Ralph Greystoke on 1 Jul 1436. Ralph (son of John de Greystoke and Elizabeth Ferrers) was born about 1414; died on 1 Jun 1487. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Bowes. William (son of William Bowes and Joan Greystoke) was born in of Streatlam, Durham, England; died on 28 Jul 1466. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Cecily Welles. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Many sources, including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, have her as a daughter of Philip Champernoun, but Brice Claggett (citation details below) and Neil P. Thompson argued convincingly that he has to have been, instead, her first husband, after whom she married John Astley.

As "Kat" Champernoun she was governess to the young Lady Elizabeth and, in the words of Brice Clagett (citation details below), "is credited with providing her with the foundation of her excellent education. On Elizabeth's accession in 1558 Kat, now Mrs. Astley, became chief gentlewoman of the privy chamber, and was one of the Queen's closest confidantes until her death in 1565."

Family/Spouse: Philip Champernoun. Philip (son of John Champernoun and Margaret Courtenay) was born about 1479; died on 2 Aug 1545 in Modbury, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married John Astley about 1545. John (son of Thomas Astley and Anne Wood) was born in of Norfolk, England; died about Jul 1595; was buried in All Saints, Maidstone, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1519-20, 1523-4, 1540-1.

Entertained Henry VIII and his court in Kettleby on 8 and 9 Oct 1541. According to Notices and Remains of the Family of Tyrwhitt (citation details below), Tyrwhit "hanged the trees on the way from Kettleby to Brigg with carcases of sheep and beasts (oxen), to show that he could feed all comers."

He is said by some to have been a vice-admiral of England under Henry VIII, but as Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (citation details below) points out, he is more likely to have been one of many titular "vice-admirals" for a piece of his nearby Lincolnshire coast, a distinction shared by many armigerous men whose seats adjoined important pieces of coast.

According to Maddison's 1904 Lincolnshire Pedigrees, he and Maud Tailboys had a daughter Matilda who, according to William Addams Reitwiesner, was an ancestor of Camilla Parker-Bowles:

Robert Tyrwhit (~1482-1548) = Maud Tailboys
Matilda Tyrwhit = John Portington
John Portington (d. <1589) = Anne Langton
Joan Portington (d. 1608) = Ralph Rokeby (d. 1595)
Anne Rokeby (1593-~1624) = John Hotham (~1589-1644) (1)
Charles Hotham (1615-1672) = Elizabeth Thompson (d. 1685)
Charles Hotham (d. 1723) = Bridget Gee (1671-1707)
Beaumont Hotham (d. 1771) = Frances Thompson (d. 1771)
Beaumont Hotham (1737-1814) = Susannah Hankey (1737-1799)
Louisa Hotham (1778-1840) = Charles Edmonstone (1764-1821)
William Edmonstone (1810-1888) = Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1823-1902)
Alice Frederica Edmonstone (1869-1947) * = George Keppel (1865-1947)
Sonia Rosemary Keppel (1900-1986) = Roland Calvert Cubitt (1899-1962)
Rosalind Maud Cubitt (1921-1994) = Bruce Middleton Hope Shand (1917-1946)
Camilla Rosemary Shand (1947- ), = (1) Andrew Henry Parker Bowles (1939- ), = (2) HRH Prince Charles Philip Arthur George (1948- ), now Charles III, King of England

* She is known to have been a mistress of King Edward VII from 1898 forward.

Family/Spouse: Maud Tailboys. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Ralph Evers.

Ralph married Muriel Hastings on 18 Jan 1482. Muriel (daughter of Hugh Hastings and Anne Gascoigne) died before Jan 1516. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John St. John before 1522. John (son of John St. John and Sibyl ferch Morgan ap Jenkin ap Philip) was born before 1495 in of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England; died on 19 Dec 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Paston. Elizabeth (daughter of John Paston and Margery Brewse) died in 1539. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Peyton. Robert (son of Thomas Peyton and Jane Calthorpe) was born in of Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England; died on 18 Mar 1518. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Joan de la See, Joan at See.

Jane married Peter Hildyard between 1480 and 1485. Peter (son of Robert Hildyard and Elizabeth Hastings) was born about 1460 in of Winestead, Yorkshire, England; died on 20 Mar 1502. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Seymour. John was born in of Wolfhall, Wiltshire, England; died on 21 Dec 1536; was buried in Easton Priory, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Wyndham. Thomas (son of John Wyndham and Margaret Howard) was born in of Felbrigg, Norfolk, England; died between 22 Oct 1521 and 4 Mar 1523. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Under-sheriff of Cornwall 1478. Sheriff of Devon 1480-81, 1487-88. Knight of the Body to Henry VII. King's councillor. Lord Steward of the Household. Receiver of the Duchy of Cornwall. Admiral of the Fleet and Marshal of the Army in the Boulogne campaign of 1492.

He was with Buckingham's rebels against Richard III in 1483, and upon its failure, he took refuge in Brittany with Henry Tudor. Attainted in 1484, he was in exile at the court of Charles VIII of France until 1485, when he returned to England and fought at Bosworth Field.

He was summoned to Parliament by writ 12 Aug 1491.

Family/Spouse: Blanche Champernoun. Blanche (daughter of John Champernoun and Elizabeth Bikebery) was born about 1453; died before Dec 1480. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gilbert Talbot. Gilbert (son of John Talbot and Elizabeth Butler) was born in 1452 in of Grafton, Worcestershire, England; died on 16 Aug 1517; was buried in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Durham, 1482.

Family/Spouse: Margery Conyers. Margery (daughter of Richard Conyers and Alice Wycliffe) died after 6 Aug 1524. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Eresby, Lincolnshire, England

Christopher married Margaret Jenney before 28 Mar 1482. Margaret (daughter of William Jenney and Elizabeth Cawse) died between 1515 and 1516. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"She […] had a position in the households of queens Anne of Cleves and Katherine Parr, while her sister-in-law Lady Berkeley was governess to Princess Elizabeth. A committed protestant, with her sister Katherine Raleigh she is reported to have protected the persecuted reformers in Devon. In the summer of 1546 Lady Denny (and by extension her husband) was one of the court protestants whom religious conservatives tried to incriminate through accusations wrung from Anne Askew, a distant relative of Joan's uncle Sir Gawain Carew; Anne would admit only that Lady Denny's servant had brought her money, and Sir Anthony survived as a leading figure among Seymour's associates at the close of the reign." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

Joan married Anthony Denny about 4 Feb 1538. Anthony (son of Edmund Denny and Mary Coke) was born on 16 Jan 1501 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England; died on 10 Sep 1549 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in St. Mary's, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter Ralegh. Walter was born in 1505 in of East Budleigh, Devon, England; died in 1581. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Joan, which has led to confusion with her sister who was definitely named Joan.

Jane married Robert Gamage before 1531. Robert (son of Thomas Gamage and Margaret St. John) was born in of Coety, Glamorgan, Wales; died between 27 Oct 1570 and 4 Jan 1571. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Thimbleby. Richard (son of John Thimbleby and Margaret Boys) was born about 1507 in of Irnham, Lincolnshire, England; died on 25 Sep 1590 in Irnham, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Esquire of the Body; Chamberlain at Berwick-upon-Tweed; Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1540-41; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber; Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire 1557-58; Knight of the shire for Lincolnshire 1545; Knight of the shire for Huntingdonshire 1554 and 1559.

Family/Spouse: Bridget Wiltshire. Bridget (daughter of John Wiltshire and Margaret) died after Jan 1534. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elizabeth Oxenbridge between Apr 1538 and 4 Aug 1539. Elizabeth (daughter of Goddard Oxenbridge and Anne Fiennes) died before 28 Apr 1578 in St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Willoughby about 1503. Elizabeth (daughter of Christopher Willoughby and Margaret Jenney) was born about 1483. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gentleman waiter extraordinary in household of Prince Edward by 1547, member of the royal household 1547; Knight of the shire for Bedfordshire in 1547. Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire 1551-52. Created 1st Baron St. John of Bletso 13 Jan 1559.

Notes:

Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire 1526, 1535-36. Knight of the shire for Cambridgeshire. Groom of the Privy Chamber to Henry VIII.

Robert married Frances Hasilden in Jan 1516. Frances (daughter of Francis Hasilden and Elizabeth Calthorpe) died on 18 Mar 1582 in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England; was buried in St. Andrew's, Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dorothy Tyndall. Dorothy (daughter of John Tyndall and Amphyllis Coningsby) died after 18 Oct 1559. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Ralph Legard about 1520. Ralph (son of Robert Legard and Joan Haldenby) was born about 1490 in of Anlaby, Yorkshire, England; died on 30 Jun 1540. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anthony Oughtred. Anthony died in 1534. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gregory Cromwell. Gregory (son of Thomas Cromwell and Elizabeth Wykes) died in 1551. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Henry VIII, King of England on 30 May 1536 in Whitehall Palace, London, England. Henry (son of Henry VII, King of England and lord of Ireland and Elizabeth of York, Queen Consort of England) was born on 28 Jun 1491 in Greenwich, Kent, England; died on 28 Jan 1547 in Hampton Court Palace, Richmond upon Thames, London, England; was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was knighted at the coronation of Edward VI, February 1547.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Sydenham. Elizabeth (daughter of John Sydenham and Joan) died on 1 Jan 1571; was buried in St. Decuman's, Watchet, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1596

Mary married Erasmus Paston after 22 Oct 1521. Erasmus (son of William Paston and Bridget Heydon) was born before 1508; died before 6 Nov 1540; was buried on 6 Nov 1540 in Paston, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Nov 1521

Notes:

Steward of the Duchy of Cornwall. Warden of the Stanneries in Devon and Cornwall.

Robert married Elizabeth Beauchamp before 28 Feb 1495. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Beauchamp and Elizabeth Stafford) died on 10 Aug 1503. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Albrighton, Shropshire, England

Notes:

Sheriff of Shropshire 1527-28, 1533-34, 1537-38, 1541-42.

John married Margaret Troutbeck before 1510. Margaret (daughter of Adam Troutbeck and Joan Molyneux) was born about 1492; died after 11 Jul 1521. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He fought at Flodden Field in 1513.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Clifford. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Tyrrell. Thomas (son of James Tyrrell and Anne Arundell) was born in of Gipping, Suffolk, England; died between 12 Jun 1551 and 25 Aug 1551. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William Eure about 1503. William (son of Ralph Eure and Muriel Hastings) was born about 1483 in of Witton in Weardale, Durham, England; died on 15 Mar 1548 in Eresby, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Thomas Astley before 1563. Thomas (son of Thomas Astley and Ann Cruse) was born in of Writtle, Essex, England; died in 1595; was buried in Writtle, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The courtier, author, and explorer. The Walter Ralegh that you're thinking of.

Elizabeth married Thomas Welby on 20 Jul 1560 in Irnham, Lincolnshire, England. Thomas (son of Thomas Welby and Katherine Bray) was born in of Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1570 in Bath, Somerset, England; was buried on 15 Feb 1571 in St. Peter's, Bath, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Darcy. Henry (son of Arthur Darcy and Mary Carew) was born in of Brimham, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was slain in the Battle of Ancrum Moor, part of the 1542-51 War of the Rough Wooing.

Ralph married Margery Bowes before 1529. Margery (daughter of Ralph Bowes and Elizabeth Clifford) died after 1566. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Cambridgeshire.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Rich. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Rich, Speaker of the House of Commons and Elizabeth Jenkes) died on 17 Oct 1591; was buried in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"He served with distinction in the Irish Wars until the end of 1576, when he returned to England. [...] He served in the English army expedition in the Netherlands under the command of the Earl of Leicester in 1586. From this time he was in constant favor with Queen Elizabeth I. He was made Lieutenant of the Tower, and a member of the Queen's Privy Council. After Queen Elizabeth's death he was made Governor of Jersey by King James I." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below]

John married Dorothy Beaupré on 8 Jun 1578 in Outwell, Norfolk, England. Dorothy (daughter of Edmund Beaupré and Katherine Bedingfield) died in Feb 1603. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Joan Ledgard.

Joan married Richard Skepper after 4 Feb 1551. Richard (son of Richard Skepper and Audrey Grynne) was born about 1495 in of East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England; died after 26 May 1556. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Francis. John was born in of Combe Florey, Somerset, England; died before 25 Nov 1619; was buried on 25 Nov 1619 in Combe Florey, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1565-66.

“He played little part in national affairs but took a prominent role in the government and political life of his native county and was known as a careful administrator and a ‘just and painstaking magistrate’ [...] A supporter of Edmund Freake, bishop of Norwich (1575–84), Paston was involved in the bitter conflict between the bishop and the puritans for control of the chancellorship of the diocese in 1578. He was described by Bishop Scrambler as an ‘observer of law’ which has been taken to mean that his religious views were either conformist Church of England or impartial (Smith, 214). In 1597 he moved to the new house which his uncle, Sir Clement Paston, had built at Oxnead. Known for his liberality, hospitality and benefactions, Paston is chiefly remembered for the founding and endowment of North Walsham grammar school (the Paston School), in 1606.” [Oxford DNB, citation details below.]

As he lived through her entire reign, presumably he was aware that queen Elizabeth was his third cousin, both of them being great-great grandchildren of London mayor Geoffrey Boleyn and his wife Anne Hoo.

William married Frances Clere on 5 May 1551 in St. Margaret's, Paston, Norfolk, England. Frances (daughter of Thomas Clere and Ann Gyggs) was born in 1531; died in 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Margaret Neville after 22 Nov 1505. Margaret (daughter of Richard Neville and Anne Stafford) was born on 9 Mar 1495. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Thomas Needham on 1 Feb 1526. Thomas (son of Robert Needham and Agnes Mainwaring) was born in 1510 in of Cranage, Cheshire, England; died before 1556. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married Ralph Eure before 1529. Ralph (son of William Eure and Elizabeth Willoughby) was born about 1510 in of Foulbridge in Brompton, Yorkshire, England; died on 6 Mar 1545 in near Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland; was buried in Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married John Clere before 19 Aug 1529. John (son of Robert Clere and Alice Boleyn) was born about 1511 in of Ormesby St. Margaret, Norfolk, England; died on 21 Aug 1557 in At sea. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edward Darcy. Edward (son of Arthur Darcy and Mary Carew) was born about 1543 in of Dartford, Kent, England; died on 28 Oct 1612 in Dartford, Kent, England; was buried in St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Frances Bulkeley on 4 Jun 1595 in Whaplode, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England. Frances (daughter of Dr. Rev. Edward Bulkeley, D.D. and Olive Irby) was born about 1568; died before 7 Jun 1610 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; was buried on 7 Jun 1610 in Moulton near Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lancelot Mansfield. Lancelot was born about 1533 in of Skirpenbeck, Yorkshire, England; died after 20 Sep 1563. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Created a baronet by James I on 22 May 1611.

John married Alice Osborne on 29 Jun 1580 in St. Dionis Backchurch, Langbourn, London, England. Alice (daughter of Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London and Anne Hewitt) was born before 4 Mar 1563; was christened on 4 Mar 1563 in St. Dionis Backchurch, Langbourn, London, England; died between 29 Jan 1626 and 6 Dec 1626. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey. Admitted 1594 a Fellow Commoner of Queen's College, Cambridge.

"On the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, he was dispatched by his father to Edinburgh to assure King James I of his father's loyalty and that the Tower was being held at the king's disposal. The king received him with much distinction, and, recognizing his father's services, selected him as the first person on whom he bestowed knighthood." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below]

John married Alice Peyton on 25 Nov 1602 in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. Alice (daughter of John Peyton and Alice Osborne) died after 1637. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Mary Robinson on 11 Apr 1592 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Mary died after 1630. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Christopher Anketell on 9 Aug 1573 in Combe Florey, Somerset, England. Christopher (son of Christopher Anketell and Elizabeth Phillips) was born in of Stow Provest, Dorset, England; died before 1 Aug 1628. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Anthony Cope on 7 Apr 1600. Anthony (son of Edward Cope and Elizabeth Mohun) was born between 1548 and 1550; died on 6 Jul 1614. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Fulk Greville before 11 Apr 1526. Fulk (son of Edward Greville and Anne Denton) was born in of London, England; died on 10 Nov 1559; was buried in Alcester, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Shropshire, 1564-65, 1587-87, 1595-96. Vice-President of the Council in the Marches of Wales.

Robert married Frances Aston before 1558. Frances (daughter of Edward Aston and Jane Bowles) died before 31 Aug 1601; was buried on 31 Aug 1601 in Adderley, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 3 Jun 1606, London, England

Notes:

Burgess for Thetford 1557-58, 1562-63. Burgess for Grampound 1571. Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk 1567-68. Sheriff of Norfolk 1580-81.

From the History of Parliament (citation details below):

Though a younger son, Clere succeeded to an extensive patrimony on the north-east coast of Norfolk, being licensed to enter his lands on 22 Feb. 1558. In May of that year he purchased further property at Wymondham, and in 1561, on the death of his great-uncle Sir James Boleyn he inherited Blickling, which he made his chief seat. On the death of his father-in-law (Sir) Richard Fulmerston in 1567, Clere and his wife came into possession of most of his extensive estates in and around Thetford as well as inheriting most of his personal property.

Thus, after 1567 Clere was one of the greatest landowners in Norfolk, appearing in 1588 on Lord Burghley’s list of ‘knights of great possessions’ able to support a peerage. He was a second cousin to the Queen and to Lord Hunsdon, and brother-in-law to Walter Haddon, the master of requests. His connexion with the Duke of Norfolk through his father-in-law Fulmerston, the Duke’s servant, caused him to be among those questioned on Norfolk’s arrest in October 1569, and in September 1571 he and others were ordered to take an inventory of the Duke’s goods at Kenninghall. In 1570 he was made collector in Norfolk of the forced loan. This inevitably made him unpopular with his fellow gentry, and gave rise to probably well-founded accusations of fraud and extortion. He was also in conflict with his manorial tenants, and at loggerheads with the Thetford corporation. He had to attend upon the Privy Council for a while after the forced loan episode, but he never lost the Council’s confidence. In 1578 he entertained the Queen during her Norfolk progress, ‘worthily feasted’ her retinue, and was knighted by the Queen at Norwich. In 1583 he signed a petition on behalf of certain puritan ministers and four years later was noted by the bishop of Norwich as a ‘favourer of religion’.

Clere’s election at Thetford to the Parliaments of 1558 and 1563 was due to the local influence of his father-in-law, Fulmerston. Clere succeeded to Fulmerston’s land in 1567 and what made him resort to Grampound for a seat in 1571 is not evident, nor is it clear who was his patron there. Possibly there was a court connexion with the 2nd Earl of Bedford. Clere’s committee work concerned the continuance of statutes (20 Mar. 1563), priests disguised as servants (1 May 1571), and tillage and the navy (25 May 1571). He spoke on the treasons bill (9 Apr. 1571), the anonymous diarist commenting, ‘Mr. Clere of Norfolk, a gentleman of great possessions, made hereupon a staggering speech: his conclusion I did not conceive’. Of another speech, again on a religious topic (11 Apr.), he wrote ‘such was my ill hap I could not understand what reason he made’. D’Ewes records Clere as speaking on the bill for Bristol, also on 11 Apr. In the discussion on Strickland’s case on 20 Apr., he defended the prerogative of the Crown.

In 1572 Clere decided to try for the county seat, Sir Thomas Cornwallis reporting just before the election that Clere ‘leaveth no stone untouched that may further his part’, and that ‘a great number of the shire’ were ‘evil affected towards him’. Unsuccessful, he wrote a series of letters to Richard Southwell, whom he had addressed as ‘loving cousin and friend’ when canvassing support beforehand, describing his ‘found falsehood’, and contrasting Southwell’s ‘overt action in so great an assembly’ with his ‘former pretended opinion’.

In October 1586 he and his fellow deputy lieutenant Sir William Heydon were ordered by the Privy Council to ensure that at the new election of knights of the shire ‘fit men may be chosen, known to be well affected to religion and the present estate’, and Clere wrote to his friend, Bassingbourne Gawdy, suggesting that he stand, adding that if he himself were not incapacitated by a rupture, he ‘should be willing to be with you there’. The Norfolk gentry at this time were divided. In the north of the county Clere and Sir William Heydon, after initial quarrels over the rights of Clere’s second wife to the Heydon manor of Saxlingham, had united against Nathaniel Bacon, the Knyvet and Wyndham families and others of their neighbours. Soon after the 1586 election they apparently persuaded the lord lieutenant, Hunsdon, to replace Sir Thomas Knyvet by their friend Sir Arthur Heveningham as a deputy lieutenant, and had several of their opponents turned off the commission of the peace. During the next few years Clere can generally be found on the side of Heveningham in the latter’s quarrels with the Bacon faction over such contentious matters as the organisation of county musters.

Clere’s eldest son Edward, already in 1585 ‘in peril divers ways of imprisonment and shame’, was accused in the next reign of sheltering a seminary priest and from 1606 spent much of his life in prison. Clere therefore did his best to keep his property out of his eldest son’s hands, though he could not break the entail on the Fulmerston estate. By various settlements and by his will, made in April 1605, he divided the rest between the younger sons, Sir Francis and Robert, and his grandson Henry. Most of the land eventually reverted to Henry, who became a baronet in 1620 and died s.p. in 1622. Clere’s will contained bequests to other relatives, and arranged for the foundation of a fellowship and scholarship at St. John’s, Cambridge. Most of the personal property was left to the widow, the sole executrix, who had a life interest in Blickling. One of the two supervisors was his ‘old well tried friend’ Dru Drury. Clere died in London on 3 June 1606, and was buried at Blickling.

Edward married Frances Fulmerston about 16 Dec 1554. Frances (daughter of Richard Fulmerston and Alice Lonzam) died on 20 Mar 1580 in Blickling, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1631

Family/Spouse: Grace Reddish. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1669, London, England

Notes:

Her second husband was the Rev. Sydrach Simpson, Master of Pembroke Hall at the University of Cambridge.

Isabella married John Launce about 1619. John (son of Robert Launce and Susan Tubb) was born about 1597 in of Penair in St. Clement, Cornwall, England; died before 25 Jun 1635; was buried on 25 Jun 1635 in St. Clement, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Probably he was the Thomas Welby who was Mayor of Boston, co. Lincoln, in 1643." [The Bulkeley Genealogy]

Thomas married Elizabeth Parke after 15 Feb 1620. Elizabeth was born in of Fleet, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of Teresa's four proven "gateway ancestors", one of DK's three, and UKL's one.

Emigrated to from Lincolnshire to Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband Henry Farwell, about 1636. [Royal Ancestry]

Her descendants include Katherine Hepburn, Mitt Romney, Damon Knight, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.

Henry Farwell (1605-1670 )= Olive Welby (1604-1692)
Mary Farwell (1643- 1714) = John Bates (1642-1722)
Mary Bates = Josiah Cleveland
Joseph Cleveland = Deborah Butterfield
Bridget Cleveland = Nathaniel Cogswell
William Cogswell = Mary Brewster
William Henry Cogswell = Lucretia Anne Payne
Annie Payne Cogswell = William Lyon Pynchon
William Henry Chichele Pynchon (b. 1867 = Carrie Susan Moyses
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon IV (1909-1995) = Katherine Frances Bennett (1909-1966)
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon V (1937- )

Olive Welby (1604-1692) = Henry Farwell (1605-1670)
Olive Farwell (b. 1645) = Benjamin Spalding (b. 1643)
Edward Spalding (1672-1739) = Mary Adams (d. 1754)
Ephraim Spalding (b. 1700) = Abigail Bullard (b. 1708)
Oliver Spalding (1739-1796) = Mary Witter (1740-1781)
Erastus Spalding (1775-1830) = Jennet Mack (d. 1836)
Martha Ann Spalding (1818-1882) = Leman Benton Garlinghouse (1814-1872)
Caroline Garlinghouse (1856-1894) = Alfred Augustus Houghton (1851-1892)
Katharine Martha Houghton (1878-1951) = Thomas Norval Hepburn (1879-1962)
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1909-2003)

Olive married Deacon Henry Farwell on 16 Apr 1629 in St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Deacon (son of William Farwell and Joan) was born about 1605 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died on 1 Aug 1670 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of London, England

Notes:

Burgess (M.P.) for Beverley, Yorkshire. Queen's Surveyor. B.A., Peterhouse College, Cambridge, 1572-3.

He was described as a resident of London in 1582, but the 1587 pedigree attached to the grant of his father's crest called him "of Huton on Derwent", Yorkshire.

From Robert Charles Anderson, John C. Brandon, and Paul C. Reed, "The Ancestry of the Royally-Descended Mansfields of the Massachusetts Bay" (citation details below):

Cotton Mather, in his biography of the Rev. John Wilson, identifies the father of the immigrants as "Sir John Mansfield, master of the Minories, and the Queen's surveyor." This identification has always been troublesome, as it includes some inaccuracies. The immigrants' father was an "esquire," a step below the dignity of knighthood, but above gentleman. Evidence has been found, however, to confirm that John Mansfield was intimately involved with royal mining interests, and was Queen's surveyor -- at least in Yorkshire.

When Mather used the word "Minories," he must have intended the word "mineries," or mining operations. The 3rd Earl of Huntingdon held mines and lands in Dorsetshire, having purchased various mining interests from James, Lord Mountjoy. John Mansfield was the Earl's "servant, and at one stage his lessee of the Canford mines, near Poole, Dorset. Lord Mountjoy was heavily indebted to creditors, and various interrogatories were taken in May 1582 concerning his sale to Huntingdon. "John Mansfield, and W[illia]m Bird, all of London," were among men examined on behalf of the Earl on May 17, 21, 24, and 31, and June 1, 1582. "John Mansfield of London" was also examined on 14 or 15 June.

John Mansfeild, Clement Draper, and Richard Laycolte received lands, rents and liberties in Brownsea Island, Dorset, with the advowson, by permission of license dated 1 April 1581. John Mansfelde, Richard Laicolte, Clement Draper, and Edward Mead complained to the Privy Council on 4 January 1581 that Edward Lane [of Blackfriars, London, 1582], John Lane, and others had "wrongfullie dispossessed them of two their workehouses for allum and coppres, called Allam Chyne and Okemans in the countie of Dorset." The various examinations "touching matters in conroversie betwene John and Edward Lanes and John Mansfelde" were delivered to the servant of the Earl of Huntingdon on 27 May 1582. On 12 September 1592, Clement Draper wrote to the Queen, pleading that he had "been detained in prison 12 years against all right, by practice of the Earl of Huntingdon, John Mansfield, his deputy, and Richard Laycolt, who have taken away his goods, which, with other losses, amount to 10,000l; his good name, dearer to him than his life, is rooted out by their false reports." He further claimed that "Mansfield, for 4l., got a protection under the Great Seal to defraud him and others of their goods....The Earl, the better to defend his own quarrel against Lord Mountjoy, has got into his hands...the writer's [Draper's] deeds and writings concerning his estate in the mines, and detains them. The Earl, in May 1583, covenanted that the mines should be maintained and set to work." John Mansfeld/Mansfyeld, with Clement Draper, had brought suit against others in the Court of Star Chamber, but later John sued Clement Draper in Chancery.

John Mansfield's career in politics reached its pinacle in 1593, when he represented Beverley, Yorkshire, in Parliament. He is not known to have had personal connections at Beverley, so the seat was likely procured through the influence of his lord the Earl of Huntingdon or cousin Lord Eure. As one of the burgesses for Yorkshire boroughs, he was appointed to a committee on cloth 23 March and to another concerning weirs 28 March 1593. In 1597, by which time he was serving as a Justice of the Peace for the North Riding of Yorkshire, John Mansfield offered himself for election to Parliament at Scarborough, but though he was recommended to the bailiffs and burgesses by the Archbishop of York, and had the support of his prospective fellow burgess, Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby, his nomination was not accepted by the borough authorities.

Queen Elizabeth I on 8 February 1597/8 granted John Mansfield "the office of collector of the rents and revenues of the dissolved monastery of St. Mary's, York," and more importantly, "the surveyorship of the Queen's lands in the North Riding of Yorkshire." The Crown had extensive honours and holdings in Yorkshire. John Mansfield set about to prove his proficiency by making an unusually thorough and careful survey of the manor of Settington, Yorkshire, compiled between 17 and 21 March 1599/1600. Mansfield obviously took great pains in producing this detailed document, probably an attempt to demonstrate abilities superior to those of a rival who had received many benefits for little effort. John alluded to this in his plea to the Lord Treasurer in his introductory remarks to one copy of the survey:

It is my hard fortune whilest other men receyue great rewardes for small deserts I must hold my selfe happy not to be disgraced after good seruyce done. Good my Lord excuse me for thus writyng. I haue chosen to depend on your lordship onelye. When your lordship shall please to gyue me over I wilbegone as forsaken by all. I will equall my selfe to all in this[,] never any did nor shall performe more honest dutyes to your Lordship then I will.

The manor of Settrington had been granted to Matthew, Earl of Lenox, and his wife Margaret, in 1544, but was later returned to the Crown. John Mansfield, "Crown Surveyor," was ordered to make a survey of the manors of the late Margaret, Countess of Lennox. These documents are dated February 1600/1 to July 1601, when Mansfield died. He made the surveys as part of a northern tour, likely drawing up the results after his return to London.

Family/Spouse: Mary Hobson. Mary (daughter of William Hobson and Mary) died between 1587 and 3 Feb 1592. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth before 3 Feb 1592. Elizabeth died before 10 Feb 1634; was buried on 10 Feb 1634 in St. Michael Cornhill, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married John Peyton on 25 Nov 1602 in Isleham, Cambridgeshire, England. John (son of John Peyton and Dorothy Beaupré) was born about 1579 in of Doddington, Cambridgeshire, England; died between 24 Feb 1635 and 22 Apr 1635. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married George Brent after 1635. George (son of Richard Brent and Elizabeth Reade) was born in 1602 in of Defford, Worcestershire, England; died in 1671. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1640 and 1650

Notes:

Emigrated to New England in 1639. One of AP's two proven gateway ancestors.

He was admitted a pensioner at Sidney College, Cambridge, 8 Jul 1612. He matriculated 1614, B.A., 1617-18. He was Rector of Thorpe by Wainfleete (Thorpe-in-the-Marsh) in 1630, a parish next to Wainfleet All Saints where his elder sister Mary had married the rector in 1622. He left Thorpe-in-the-Marsh sometime before Dec 1638, when John Watts is recorded as the vicar there, and is next seen in Boston, Lincolnshire, where he married his second wife Sarah Fisher. The exact date of his emigration to New England is unknown but it appears to have taken place in 1639. He did not subsequently live long there, but he is recorded there as having arranged for certain monies to be provided to his four older children.

His descendants include Calvin Coolidge, Roy Rogers (the actor and singer, not the guitarist), Tuesday Weld, and John Kerry.

Rev. William Skepper = Jane (first wife)
Jane Skepper = Abraham Browne
Jane Browne = Henry Lunt
Jane Lunt = Nathaniel Drake
Abraham Drake = Martha Eaton
Martha Drake = John Smith
John Smith = Mary "Polly" Mudgett
Mary Hussey Smith = Jacob Lee Merrill
George David Merrill = Mary Bird
Gertrude May Merrill = Frederick George Sanders
Doris May Sanders = Gordon Arnold Markle
Thomas Wayne Markle = Doria L. Ragland
Rachel Megan Markle (1981- ) = Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

William married Sarah Fisher on 17 Jan 1639 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Dodington on 6 Apr 1600 in Combe Florey, Somerset, England. John (son of George Dodington and Catherine Walsh) was born before 28 Dec 1573; was christened on 28 Dec 1573 in Dodington, Somerset, England; died before 16 Feb 1618; was buried on 16 Feb 1618 in Dodington, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]