Roger Bertram

Family/Spouse: Agnes. Agnes died after 7 May 1256. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 15 Jun 1280

Family/Spouse: Philip Darcy. Philip (son of Norman Darcy and Agnes) was born in of Nocton, Lincolnshire, England; died before 28 May 1264. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas fitz William. Thomas (son of William fitz William and Ela de Warenne) was born between 1195 and 1200 in of Sprotborough, Yorkshire, England; died before 17 Oct 1264. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Simon de Vere. Simon was born in of Goxhill, Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Oldcotes, Nottinghamshire, England

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Aton. Isabel (daughter of William de Aton and Isabel de Vere) was born in West Ayton, Yorkshire, England; died after 1316. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Juliane. Juliane died on 15 Jun 1281. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Agnes de Grey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William de Aton. William (son of William de Aton) was born in of West Ayton, Yorkshire, England; died about 1315. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was outlawed for unspecified felonies around 1306, and lost some of his lands, but he was pardoned 19 May 1307 at the request of Aymer de Valance, earl of Pembroke, in whose retinue he was in 1313, 1320, and 1321. This early brush with the law appears to have had little or no effect on his career, as demonstrated by the offices he subsequently held: Constable of Norham Castle, 1317; Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1319-22; knight of the shire for Nottinghamshire, 1320; Sheriff of Lancashire, 1323; Justiciar of Ireland, 1323-27, 1328-31, 1332-37, 1340-44; Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1327-28; Steward of the King's Household, 1337-40; Chamberlain to the King, 1341-46 or later; Constable of Nottingham Castle, 1344-47; and Constable of the Tower of London, 1346-47.

In addition to serving in Parliament as a "knight of the shire", he was also later summoned to Parliament by writ, thus serving in the 14th-century equivalents of the houses of Commons and Lords, respectively. The latter service was from 27 Jan 1332 to 2 Jan 1334, and the writs were directed Johanni Darcy le cosyn.

He fought at Crécy, and was one of those sent from Calais, 8 Sep 1346, to announce the victory to Parliament.

John married Emmeline Heron before 1317. Emmeline (daughter of Walter Heron and Alice de Hastings) was born about 1290; died before 1329. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Joan de Burgh on 3 Jul 1329 in Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland. Joan (daughter of Richard de Burgh and Margaret) died on 23 Apr 1359. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Constable of Durham Castle 1301. Summoned to Parliament by writs dated 29 Dec 1299 to 1 Dec 1332.

Along with his son Norman, he fought against the forces of Edward II at Boroughbridge; he and Norman were both taken prisoner and later pardoned.

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

Notes:

Royal Ancestry identifies her merely as an unnamed daughter of Norman Darcy, wife of _____ Swynford.

Family/Spouse: Thomas Swynford. Thomas (son of John Swynford) was born about 1272; died in 1312. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Emley, Yorkshire, England

Notes:

Fought at the battle of Falkirk, 22 Jul 1298. He was an adherent of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. In 1321 he was pardoned for actions against Hugh le Despenser, senior and junior, of testimony of his cousin Richard de Grey, 2nd Lord Grey of Codnor.

Family/Spouse: Isabel Deincourt. Isabel (daughter of Edmund Deincourt) died after 26 Jul 1348; was buried in Sprotborough, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to The Cartulary of St. Leonard's Hospital, York (citation details below), Isabel, the second wife of Robert II de Plumpton, "is often said to be daughter of Serlo of Westwick, but this is the result of confusion with the wife of Robert I de Plumpton. Isabel wife of Robert II de Plumpton was apparently a daughter of Sir William de Aton, of West Ayton, co. York. She married firstly Roger Darcy (d. November 1281 x August 1282); secondly Robert de Plumpton; thirdly Simon Ward (d. 1306) to whom she was married by Michaelmas 1298; and lastly Henry of Keighley."

Family/Spouse: Roger Darcy. Roger (son of Philip Darcy and Isabel Bertram) was born in of Blyth, Nottinghamshire, England; died before 12 May 1284. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert II de Plumpton. Robert (son of Nigel de Plumpton and Juetta) was born about 1238 in of Plompton, Yorkshire, England; died between 29 Sep 1295 and 29 Sep 1296. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Present, with his father, at Crécy.

John married Elizabeth de Meinell after 7 Jan 1345. Elizabeth (daughter of Nicholas de Meinell and Alice de Ros) was born on 15 Oct 1331 in Whorlton, Yorkshire, England; died on 9 Jul 1368. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 25 Mar 1390

Elizabeth married James le Boteler on 15 May 1346. James (son of James le Boteler and Eleanor de Bohun) was born on 4 Oct 1331 in Kilkenny, Ireland; died on 18 Oct 1382 in Knocktopher, Kilkenny, Ireland; was buried in Gowran, Kilkenney, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Limbury. John was born in of Limbury's in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, England; died after 1335. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1362

Notes:

Between the mid-1340s and 1356, sheriff of Bedfordshire, of Buckinghamshire, and of Rutland. Bedfordshire commissioner of the peace, 1344. Escheator for Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1345-47. Lincolnshire commissioner for the peace, 1357.

Family/Spouse: Nicolaa Druel. Nicolaa (daughter of John Druel and Amice) was born in of Newton Blossomville, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died of the plague.

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

Family/Spouse: Adam de Newmarch. Adam (son of Robert de Newmarch and Maud) was born in of Womersley, Yorkshire, England; died between 1344 and 1352. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was outlawed for unspecified felonies around 1306, and lost some of his lands, but he was pardoned 19 May 1307 at the request of Aymer de Valance, earl of Pembroke, in whose retinue he was in 1313, 1320, and 1321. This early brush with the law appears to have had little or no effect on his career, as demonstrated by the offices he subsequently held: Constable of Norham Castle, 1317; Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1319-22; knight of the shire for Nottinghamshire, 1320; Sheriff of Lancashire, 1323; Justiciar of Ireland, 1323-27, 1328-31, 1332-37, 1340-44; Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1327-28; Steward of the King's Household, 1337-40; Chamberlain to the King, 1341-46 or later; Constable of Nottingham Castle, 1344-47; and Constable of the Tower of London, 1346-47.

In addition to serving in Parliament as a "knight of the shire", he was also later summoned to Parliament by writ, thus serving in the 14th-century equivalents of the houses of Commons and Lords, respectively. The latter service was from 27 Jan 1332 to 2 Jan 1334, and the writs were directed Johanni Darcy le cosyn.

He fought at Crécy, and was one of those sent from Calais, 8 Sep 1346, to announce the victory to Parliament.

John married Emmeline Heron before 1317. Emmeline (daughter of Walter Heron and Alice de Hastings) was born about 1290; died before 1329. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Joan de Burgh on 3 Jul 1329 in Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland. Joan (daughter of Richard de Burgh and Margaret) died on 23 Apr 1359. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament from 4 Aug 1377 to 5 Nov 1397 by writs directed Philippo Darcy or de Darcy.

He accompanied John of Gaunt in his 1369 raid into Picardy and Caux, and also served under the Earl of Buckingham in his raid into Brittany, 1380-81. He was in the expeditions to Scotland under Gaunt in 1384, and under the king in 1385. He did homage to Richard II at his coronation in 1377.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Gray. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas II Gray and Margaret de Presfen) died on 11 Aug 1412. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Colville. John (son of William de Colville and Joan Faucomberge) died on 20 Aug 1405 in Durham, Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 4 Sep 1405, Gowran, Kilkenney, Ireland
• Alternate death: 6 Sep 1405, Gowran, Kilkenney, Ireland
• Alternate death: 7 Sep 1405, Gowran, Kilkenney, Ireland

Notes:

3rd Earl of Ormond. Several times Chief Governor of Ireland.

James married Anne Welles before 17 Jun 1386. Anne (daughter of John de Welle and Maud de Ros) died before 3 Dec 1399. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Nicholas de Bernake. Nicholas was born in of Flintham, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eleanor. Eleanor was born about 1326. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1341, Kettlethorpe, Lincolnshire, England

Hugh married Catherine de Roet after 1365. Catherine (daughter of Payne de Roet) was born about 1350; died on 10 May 1403 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; was buried in Angel Choir, Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth de Clinton. Elizabeth (daughter of William de Clinton and (Unknown wife or mistress of William de Clinton)) died after 1399. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Present, with his father, at Crécy.

John married Elizabeth de Meinell after 7 Jan 1345. Elizabeth (daughter of Nicholas de Meinell and Alice de Ros) was born on 15 Oct 1331 in Whorlton, Yorkshire, England; died on 9 Jul 1368. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 25 Mar 1390

Elizabeth married James le Boteler on 15 May 1346. James (son of James le Boteler and Eleanor de Bohun) was born on 4 Oct 1331 in Kilkenny, Ireland; died on 18 Oct 1382 in Knocktopher, Kilkenny, Ireland; was buried in Gowran, Kilkenney, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1377

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament from 19 Aug 1399 to 21 Sep 1411 by writs directed Johanni Darcy.

John married Margaret Grey after 9 Jul 1397. Margaret (daughter of Henry de Grey and Elizabeth Talbot) died on 1 Jun 1454. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Mauleverer. William (son of Robert Mauleverer and Elizabeth) was born in of Wothersome, Yorkshire, England; died between 1458 and 1463. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Wandesford. John (son of John Wandesford and Elizabeth Musters) was born in of Kirklington, Nottinghamshire, England; died about 1400. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 28 May 1393

Notes:

4th Earl of Ormond. Lieutenant of Ireland. Very strongly Gaelicized, he spoke Irish and was the first Anglo-Irish lord to appoint a brehon. A learned man, he was the patron of the Book of the White Earl, an Irish literary and religious miscellany.

His political career was marked by a lengthy feud with the Talbot family. Twice, in 1422 and 1447, leading Talbots accused him of treason; he was exonerated on both occasions, although in the second instance both sides were rebuked for "disrupting the good governance of Ireland." Eventually the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to a Talbot established better relations.

James married Joan Beauchamp before 29 Aug 1413. Joan (daughter of William Beauchamp and Joan Arundel) died on 3 Aug 1430; was buried in Mercer's Chapel, Cheapside, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Margaret Barnard, Margaret Bernard, Margaret Bernack.

Margaret married James Bellers before 1381. James (son of Ralph Bellers and Agatha Dynham) was born in of Ab Kettleby, Leicestershire, England; died after 1411. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Belesby. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Maud Cromwell before 1377. Maud (daughter of Ralph de Cromwell and Maud de Bernake) died after 1414. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Slain at the battle of Shrewsbury.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Newmarch. Elizabeth (daughter of Hugh de Newmarch and Aline) died after Aug 1403; was buried in Womersley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament from 4 Aug 1377 to 5 Nov 1397 by writs directed Philippo Darcy or de Darcy.

He accompanied John of Gaunt in his 1369 raid into Picardy and Caux, and also served under the Earl of Buckingham in his raid into Brittany, 1380-81. He was in the expeditions to Scotland under Gaunt in 1384, and under the king in 1385. He did homage to Richard II at his coronation in 1377.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Gray. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas II Gray and Margaret de Presfen) died on 11 Aug 1412. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Colville. John (son of William de Colville and Joan Faucomberge) died on 20 Aug 1405 in Durham, Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 4 Sep 1405, Gowran, Kilkenney, Ireland
• Alternate death: 6 Sep 1405, Gowran, Kilkenney, Ireland
• Alternate death: 7 Sep 1405, Gowran, Kilkenney, Ireland

Notes:

3rd Earl of Ormond. Several times Chief Governor of Ireland.

James married Anne Welles before 17 Jun 1386. Anne (daughter of John de Welle and Maud de Ros) died before 3 Dec 1399. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Eleanor Fitz Hugh before 28 Oct 1412. Eleanor (daughter of Henry Fitz Hugh and Elizabeth Grey) died on 30 Sep 1457 in Newington, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1400
• Alternate death: 1458

Family/Spouse: Joan de Greystock. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Merchant; sheriff of London; alderman of London.

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

Notes:

7th Earl of Ormond. Also called Thomas Ormond. Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, 1486-1502. Chief Butler of Ireland. Privy councillor, 1504. He fought at the battle of Tewksbury in 1471.

From Wikipedia (accessed 30 Dec 2021):

Thomas Butler, as an Irish peer, should only have sat in the Irish Parliament. However, as a personal friend of Henry VII he was summoned to the English Parliament in November 1488 as "Thomas Ormond de Rochford chevaler". At this time he was already 8th Earl of Carrick and 7th Earl of Ormond, having succeeded his elder brothers James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond and John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, neither of whom left legitimate issue.

He was afterwards sworn [into] the Privy Council of England.

He was known as the Wool Earl, due to his enormous wealth. Besides being in the possession of major lands in the Irish counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, he owned 72 manors in England, making him one of the richest subjects in the realm.

In 1509, he was appointed Lord Chamberlain to Catherine of Aragon. He held this post until 1512.

Thomas married Anne Hankford before 11 Jul 1445. Anne (daughter of Richard Hankford and Anne de Montagu) was born about 1431; died on 13 Nov 1485. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Sep 1473

Elizabeth married John Talbot before Mar 1445. John (son of John Talbot and Maud Neville) was born in 1413; died on 10 Jul 1460 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England; was buried in Worksop Priory, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Jane; also called Belers, Bellairs, etc.

Several sources, including Royal Ancestry (vol. 1, p. 351), have Joan/Jane, daughter of James Beler and Margaret de Bernake, as having been married to Simon Digby and Thomas Seyton. But:

"Everard Seyton was the son of Sir John Seyton by his second wife a daughter of Digby. He died in 16 Edward IV [1477] leaving two infant daughters Joan and Anne. Everard Seyton received the estate of Maidwell, Northamptonshire as his inheritance. He is not mentioned in Vincent's pedigree of the family but his daughter Joan married Francis Metcalfe and upon her husband's demise conveyed the manors of Maydewell to John Seyton, esq. Her uncle had received the estate of Seyton in Rutlandshire upon his father's death in 1396. In 6 Henry VIII [1515] a fine was levied between Joan Metcalfe, widow, daughter to Everard Seyton, Esq. and John Seyton, Esq. This John Seyton was the second son of Thomas Seyton, Esq.; eldest son to John Seyton, Esq. by Jane Bellers his first wife." [The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, Compiled from the Manuscript Collections of the Late Learned Antiquary John Bridges, Esq. by Peter Whalley. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1791]

"Though the pedigree of the Seytons given in the visitation of Northamptonshire shows that John Seyton had a son Thomas and three grandsons, Martinsthorpe is said to have passed to William Feilding by his marriage with Agnes, daughter and heir of John de St. Liz or de Seyton." [VCH Rutland 2:84-85]

"John de Seyton [...] died at Jerusalem in 1396 and was succeeded by his son John. The latter held the manor until his death, which took place about 1436-7. His son Thomas de Seyton assigned it at that date in dower to his father's widow Joan." [VCH Buckinghamshire 2:334-35]

Just as a side note, the late Leo van de Pas's Genealogics site shows Joan/Jane Beler as having married Simon Digby and John Seyton (alias St. Liz).

Family/Spouse: Simon Digby. Simon (son of Richard Digby and Katherine de Pakeman) was born in of Tilton, Leicestershire, England; died before 1422. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Seyton alias St. Liz. John (son of John de Seyton and Joan Longueville) was born in of Martinsthorpe, Rutland, England; died between 1436 and 1437. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Eye Kettleby, Leicestershire, England
• Alternate death: Bef 1421

Notes:

"He served in the retinue of Henry Beaufort, bishop of London, on the bishop's voyage to Brittany in 1402 to escort King Henry IV's consort, Joan of Navarre, to England. [...] In 1406 he and his half-brother, James Bellers, abducted the aged Roger Walron from Snibston, severely maltreating his prisoner on their ride to Sysonby, Leicestershire; the failure of the Bellers brothers to appear before the King's Council in Parliament to answer Walron's charges resulted in a fine of £100 each." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below]

John married Elizabeth Sutton before 1404. Elizabeth (daughter of Anthony Sutton) was born about 1392; died on 18 Aug 1427. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

John married Eleanor Greene before 1397. Eleanor (daughter of Henry Greene and Maud Mauduit) died between 1 May 1421 and 21 Dec 1422. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1377

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament from 19 Aug 1399 to 21 Sep 1411 by writs directed Johanni Darcy.

John married Margaret Grey after 9 Jul 1397. Margaret (daughter of Henry de Grey and Elizabeth Talbot) died on 1 Jun 1454. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Mauleverer. William (son of Robert Mauleverer and Elizabeth) was born in of Wothersome, Yorkshire, England; died between 1458 and 1463. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Wandesford. John (son of John Wandesford and Elizabeth Musters) was born in of Kirklington, Nottinghamshire, England; died about 1400. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 28 May 1393

Notes:

4th Earl of Ormond. Lieutenant of Ireland. Very strongly Gaelicized, he spoke Irish and was the first Anglo-Irish lord to appoint a brehon. A learned man, he was the patron of the Book of the White Earl, an Irish literary and religious miscellany.

His political career was marked by a lengthy feud with the Talbot family. Twice, in 1422 and 1447, leading Talbots accused him of treason; he was exonerated on both occasions, although in the second instance both sides were rebuked for "disrupting the good governance of Ireland." Eventually the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to a Talbot established better relations.

James married Joan Beauchamp before 29 Aug 1413. Joan (daughter of William Beauchamp and Joan Arundel) died on 3 Aug 1430; was buried in Mercer's Chapel, Cheapside, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married James Strangeways, Speaker of the House of Commons before 27 Sep 1431. James (son of James Strangeways and Joan Orrell) was born in 1415 in of West Harsley in Osmotherley, Yorkshire, England; died before 20 Aug 1480. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Conyers before 20 Nov 1431. John (son of Christopher Conyers and Eleanor Rolleston) was born in of Hornby, Yorkshire, England; died on 14 Mar 1490; was buried in Hornby, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1458

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Scrope. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Eleanor Strangeways about 1454. Eleanor (daughter of James Strangeways, Speaker of the House of Commons and Elizabeth Darcy) died after Jan 1494. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Louthe. Thomas was born in of Sawtry, Huntingdonshire, England; died in 1533. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Margaret Ormond. According to Walter Rye (citation details below), she died insane.

Margaret married William Boleyn before 16 Nov 1469. William (son of Geoffrey Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London and Anne Hoo) was born about 1451 in of Blickling, Norfolk, England; died on 5 Oct 1505; was buried in Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Shropshire 1485-86; Privy Councillor; Knight of the Body to Henry VII; Chamberlain of North Wales; Lieutenant of Calais 1508-15. He had command of the right wing at the battle of Bosworth. In 1504 he served as an ambassador to Pope Julius II.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Greystoke. Elizabeth (daughter of Ralph Greystoke and Elizabeth Fitz Hugh) died after 20 Dec 1483; was buried in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

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

Family/Spouse: William Fielding. William (son of John Fielding and Margaret Purefoy) was born in of Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England; died on 4 May 1471 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Mary, or Belers.

Family/Spouse: Nicholas Griffin. Nicholas (son of Nicholas Griffin and Margaret Pilkington) was born on 5 Jun 1426 in Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England; died on 6 Jun 1482. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marine married Thomas Greene before 7 Dec 1434 in Fawsley, Northamptonshire, England. Thomas (son of Thomas Greene and Mary Talbot) was born on 10 Feb 1400 in Greene's Norton, Northamptonshire, England
; died on 18 Jan 1462; was buried in Greene's Norton, Northamptonshire, England
. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1388
• Alternate death: 1416

Family/Spouse: Hawise Luttrell. Hawise (daughter of Andrew Luttrell and Joan Tailboys) was born about 1393; died on 24 Mar 1422 in Irnham, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

John married Margaret Clarell after 19 Jan 1410. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Clarell and Maud Montgomery) died after 1465. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Neville. John (son of Ralph Neville and Mary Ferrers) was born about 1418 in of Oversley, Alcester, Warwickshire, England; died on 17 Mar 1482. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Eleanor Fitz Hugh before 28 Oct 1412. Eleanor (daughter of Henry Fitz Hugh and Elizabeth Grey) died on 30 Sep 1457 in Newington, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1400
• Alternate death: 1458

Family/Spouse: Joan de Greystock. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Merchant; sheriff of London; alderman of London.

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

Notes:

7th Earl of Ormond. Also called Thomas Ormond. Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, 1486-1502. Chief Butler of Ireland. Privy councillor, 1504. He fought at the battle of Tewksbury in 1471.

From Wikipedia (accessed 30 Dec 2021):

Thomas Butler, as an Irish peer, should only have sat in the Irish Parliament. However, as a personal friend of Henry VII he was summoned to the English Parliament in November 1488 as "Thomas Ormond de Rochford chevaler". At this time he was already 8th Earl of Carrick and 7th Earl of Ormond, having succeeded his elder brothers James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond and John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, neither of whom left legitimate issue.

He was afterwards sworn [into] the Privy Council of England.

He was known as the Wool Earl, due to his enormous wealth. Besides being in the possession of major lands in the Irish counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, he owned 72 manors in England, making him one of the richest subjects in the realm.

In 1509, he was appointed Lord Chamberlain to Catherine of Aragon. He held this post until 1512.

Thomas married Anne Hankford before 11 Jul 1445. Anne (daughter of Richard Hankford and Anne de Montagu) was born about 1431; died on 13 Nov 1485. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Sep 1473

Elizabeth married John Talbot before Mar 1445. John (son of John Talbot and Maud Neville) was born in 1413; died on 10 Jul 1460 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England; was buried in Worksop Priory, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Edmund Mauleverer about 1454. Edmund (son of Robert Mauleverer and Joan) was born in of Wothersome, Yorkshire, England; died before 7 Oct 1488 and 29 Jan 1494. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Thomas Markenfield. Thomas (son of John Markenfield and Margaret Hopton) was born in of Markenfield, Yorkshire, England; died between 8 Apr 1497 and 20 Jun 1497; was buried in Ripon Cathedral, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1443

William married Eupheme Langton after 23 Jan 1461 in Farnley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Vavasour. Joan (daughter of Henry Vavasour and Joan Gascoigne) died after Mar 1496. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edith Stukeley. [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]

Notes:

1st Earl of Wiltshire. 1st Earl of Ormond. 1st Viscount Rochford.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Howard. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Howard and Elizabeth Tilney) was born about 1480; died on 3 Apr 1538. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Norfolk, 1529. Chancellor of the household of his neice, Anne Boleyn, 1533-36. Knight of the body to Henry VIII by 1533.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Wood. [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:

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

Family/Spouse: Jacquetta Ellis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Humphrey Grey. Humphrey (son of Robert Grey and Eleanor Lowe) was born about 1448 in of Enville, Staffordshire, England; died on 11 Dec 1499. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ralph Hill. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Pinchbeck. Thomas (son of Richard Pinchbeck and Margaret Tailboys) was born in of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England; died before 4 Nov 1492; was buried in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Thimbleby. Richard (son of Richard Thimbleby) was born in of Holton in le More, Lincolnshire, England; died about 1465. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Or Jane.

Family/Spouse: William Gascoigne. William (son of William Gascoigne and Margaret Clarell) was born in of Gawthorpe, Yorkshire, England; died after 15 Jul 1461. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married James Strangeways, Speaker of the House of Commons before 27 Sep 1431. James (son of James Strangeways and Joan Orrell) was born in 1415 in of West Harsley in Osmotherley, Yorkshire, England; died before 20 Aug 1480. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married John Conyers before 20 Nov 1431. John (son of Christopher Conyers and Eleanor Rolleston) was born in of Hornby, Yorkshire, England; died on 14 Mar 1490; was buried in Hornby, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1458

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Scrope. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Eleanor Strangeways about 1454. Eleanor (daughter of James Strangeways, Speaker of the House of Commons and Elizabeth Darcy) died after Jan 1494. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Louthe. Thomas was born in of Sawtry, Huntingdonshire, England; died in 1533. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Margaret Ormond. According to Walter Rye (citation details below), she died insane.

Margaret married William Boleyn before 16 Nov 1469. William (son of Geoffrey Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London and Anne Hoo) was born about 1451 in of Blickling, Norfolk, England; died on 5 Oct 1505; was buried in Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Shropshire 1485-86; Privy Councillor; Knight of the Body to Henry VII; Chamberlain of North Wales; Lieutenant of Calais 1508-15. He had command of the right wing at the battle of Bosworth. In 1504 he served as an ambassador to Pope Julius II.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Greystoke. Elizabeth (daughter of Ralph Greystoke and Elizabeth Fitz Hugh) died after 20 Dec 1483; was buried in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Vavasour. Joan (daughter of Henry Vavasour and Joan Gascoigne) died after Mar 1496. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice Scrope. Alice was born in of Masham, Bedale, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a commander at Flodden Field and was knighted on the field, 9 Sep 1513.

Family/Spouse: Dorothy Gascoigne. Dorothy (daughter of William Gascoigne and Margaret Percy) died before 1526. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament by writ from 17 Oct 1509 to 3 Nov 1529. An opponent of Henry VIII's destruction of the religious houses, he joined the Pilgrimage of Grace and was subsequented convicted of high treason for having delivered up Pontefract Castle to the rebels. He was beheaded on Tower Hill.

Family/Spouse: Dowsabel Tempest. Dowsabel (daughter of Richard Tempest and Mabel Strickland) died before Dec 1499. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Fought at Flodden Field, where he was knighted. Sheriff of Yorkshire 1521.

Family/Spouse: Anne Conyers. Anne (daughter of William Conyers and Anne Bigod) died before 1522. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Joan Strangeways after 7 Nov 1522 in Wothersome, Yorkshire, England. Joan (daughter of James Strangeways and Alice Scrope) died on 15 Nov 1546; was buried on 26 Nov 1546 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1577

Family/Spouse: Simon Throckmorton. Simon (son of John Throckmorton and Jane Baynard) was born about 1493 in of Barsham, Suffolk, England; died on 10 Jul 1527. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of London, England
• Alternate birth: of Norwich, Norfolk, England

Notes:

Burgess for Bramber. Burgess for Thetford. Knight of the shire for Norfolk. Vice Admiral. Treasurer for the Army in France.

From the History of Parliament:

Rarely on good terms with his neighbours, above all the Pastons, Clere was not infrequently in the Star Chamber, where one complainant criticized his ‘covetous appetite and ungodly disposition’. At least in Henry VIII’s time he could treat such attacks the more lightly in that he enjoyed the patronage of the Howards: the 3rd Duke of Norfolk had been overseer of his father’s will and his younger brother Thomas, a servant of the Earl of Surrey, was to be commemorated in one of Surrey’s sonnets after dying from wounds received when he saved the earl’s life in France in 1545. It was during this phase of Clere’s career that he attended his first two Parliaments as Member for Bramber, one of the Howard boroughs in Sussex. He was one of a group around Surrey arrested during the second session of the Parliament of 1542 for eating flesh in Lent.

If it was as a courtier and a dependant of the Howards that he first came to public notice, it was as a naval captain and an administrator that Clere made his name. Early in 1548 he commanded a patrol in the North Sea and two years later he served in the Channel. His service at sea commended him to the admiral John Dudley, Viscount Lisle, whom in 1546 he accompanied to France to negotiate peace. Presumably he served under Dudley’s successor as admiral, Thomas, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, but nothing has come to light about his part in the Scottish war. Clere’s plundering of West Somerton church perhaps helped to foment Ket’s rebellion during 1548: he answered the Marquess of Northampton’s call for support from Norfolk gentlemen and after Northampton’s replacement by Dudley, then Earl of Warwick, he assisted in restoring order. Dudley rewarded him with lands said to have been promised to him by Henry VIII and with the treasurership of the army stationed in northern France until the surrender of Boulogne in 1550. His closeness to Dudley probably accounts for his Membership of the Parliament of March 1553 as much as his friendship with the leading resident at Thetford, Richard Fulmerston. During the succession crisis Clere seems to have declared for Lady Jane Grey and to have prevented a military force from Great Yarmouth from reaching Mary. When the tide turned in Mary’s favour his arms were impounded but he is not known to have been imprisoned. […]

[H]is appointment as vice-admiral at Portsmouth in the following year shows that he was regarded as politically reliable as well as professionally competent. His first mission, to escort Charles V on his voyage to retirement in Spain, brought him a gold chain from the ex-emperor, but his second was to prove fatal. In July 1557 he was given command of a fleet against Scotland which on 21 Aug. was surprised by an enemy force in the Orkneys, and in the engagement which followed he was drowned. Following his death the Council ordered an inquiry to be held into alleged disorders committed by his men in churches and religious houses in Scotland.

John married Anne Tyrrell before 19 Aug 1529. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married William Carey in 1520. William was born about 1495; died on 22 Jun 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Henry VIII, King of England in Jan 1533. 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]

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]

Family/Spouse: William Skeffington. William (son of Thomas Skeffington and Mary) was born before 1467 in Skeffington, Leicestershire, England; died on 31 Dec 1535 in Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland; was buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Rutland, 1529.

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

Family/Spouse: Richard Saint Barbe. Richard (son of John Saint Barbe and Jane Sydenham) was born between 1470 and 1480 in of Ashington, Somerset, England; died on 10 Dec 1530. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice Bulkeley. Alice was born in of Stanlow, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Hardwick. John (son of John Hardwick and Elizabeth Bakewell) was born about 1470 in of Hardwick in Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire, England; died on 22 Feb 1507. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to "Among the Royal Servants," this Richard Thimbleby and the individual given here as his son (d. 1522) might be the same person.

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

Family/Spouse: Richard Wentworth. Richard (son of Richard Wentworth and Cecily Tansley) was born in of West Bretton, Yorkshire, England; died about 1488. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire. Knighted by Richard, Duke of Gloucester (afterwards King Richard III) on campaign near Berwick in 1481. He was at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.

William Gascoigne (d. 1487) = Margaret Percy
Margaret Gascoigne = Ralph Ogle (d. 1513)
Anne Ogle (b. 1509) = John Delaval (1512-1572)
Robert Delaval (1542-1607) = Dorothy Grey (1554-1591)
John Delaval (1590-1652) = Elizabeth Selby
George Delaval (1613-1694) = Margaret Grey (d. 1709)
Edward Delaval (1664-1744) = Mary Blake (1664-1711)
Anne Delaval (1692-1765) = Ralph Milbanke (d. 1745)
Sir Ralph Milbanke (1725-1793) = Elizabeth Hedworth (1726-1767)
Ralph Milbanke (1748-1825) = Judith Noel (1751-1822)
Anne Isabella Milbanke (1792-1860) = George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

William Gascoigne (d. 1487) = Margaret Percy
Agnes Gascoigne = Thomas Fairfax
Nicholas Fairfax = Jane Palmes
Mary Fairfax = Henry Curwen
Agnes Curwen = James Bellingham
Mary Bellingham = Christopher Crackenthorpe
Richard Crackenthorpe = Mary Dalston
Thomas Crackenthorpe = Mary Threlkeld
Richard Crackenthorpe = Dorothy Crew
Dorothy Crackenthorpe = William Cookson
Anne Cookson = John Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

William married Margaret Percy before 1469. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Edmund Mauleverer about 1454. Edmund (son of Robert Mauleverer and Joan) was born in of Wothersome, Yorkshire, England; died before 7 Oct 1488 and 29 Jan 1494. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Thomas Markenfield. Thomas (son of John Markenfield and Margaret Hopton) was born in of Markenfield, Yorkshire, England; died between 8 Apr 1497 and 20 Jun 1497; was buried in Ripon Cathedral, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1443

William married Eupheme Langton after 23 Jan 1461 in Farnley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Edith Stukeley. [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]

Notes:

1st Earl of Wiltshire. 1st Earl of Ormond. 1st Viscount Rochford.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Howard. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Howard and Elizabeth Tilney) was born about 1480; died on 3 Apr 1538. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Norfolk, 1529. Chancellor of the household of his neice, Anne Boleyn, 1533-36. Knight of the body to Henry VIII by 1533.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Wood. [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:

Fought at Flodden Field, where he was knighted. Sheriff of Yorkshire 1521.

Family/Spouse: Anne Conyers. Anne (daughter of William Conyers and Anne Bigod) died before 1522. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Joan Strangeways after 7 Nov 1522 in Wothersome, Yorkshire, England. Joan (daughter of James Strangeways and Alice Scrope) died on 15 Nov 1546; was buried on 26 Nov 1546 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married William Mauleverer after 7 Nov 1522 in Wothersome, Yorkshire, England. William (son of Robert Mauleverer and Joan Vavasour) was born before 1471 in of Wothersome, Yorkshire, England; died on 10 Aug 1551; was buried on 13 Aug 1551 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Robert Mauleverer before 2 Feb 1525. Robert (son of William Mauleverer and Anne Conyers) was born in of Wothersome, Yorkshire, England; died before 31 Jan 1541 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 31 Jan 1541 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lieutenant of the Tower of London.

Arthur Darcy and Mary Carew were both descendants of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault, he as a 6Xgreat-grandson and she as a 5Xgreat-granddaughter. By those descents they were, to one another, sixth cousins once removed. But in fact they were slightly more closely related than that: fifth cousins once removed by shared descent from Ralph de Greystoke and Katherine Clifford, and fifth cousins twice removed by shared descent from John de Welle and Maud de Ros.

Arthur Darcy (1505-1561) = Mary Carew
Thomas Darcy (d. 1605) = Elizabeth Conyers
Conyers Darcy (1570-1654) = Dorothy Belasyse
Conyers Darcy (1599-1689) = Grace Rokeby
Conyers Darcy (1622-1692) = Frances Howard
John Darcy (1659-1689) = Bridget Sutton
Robert Darcy (1681-1721) = Frederica Schomberg
Robert Darcy (1718-1778) = Mary Doublet
Amelia Darcy (1754-1784) = John "Mad Jack" Byron (1756-1791), father of Lord Byron
Augusta Maria Bryon, known as Augusta Leigh (1783-1851)

Family/Spouse: Mary Carew. Mary (daughter of Nicholas Carew and Elizabeth Bryan) was buried in St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

They were granted, by Cardinal Wolsey, a dispensation to marry, as they were related in the fourth degree.

Robert married Alice Markenfield before 2 Feb 1525. Alice (daughter of Ninian Markenfield and Dorothy Gascoigne) died between 4 Mar 1553 and 7 Mar 1553. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lionel married Elizabeth Blennerhasset on 29 Jun 1561 in Barsham, Suffolk, England. Elizabeth (daughter of John Blennerhasset and Elizabeth Cornwallis) died between 30 Jun 1608 and 7 Nov 1608. [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]

Katherine married Francis Knolles on 26 Apr 1540. Francis was born about 1512; died on 19 Jul 1596; was buried in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, 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]

Family/Spouse: Anthony Colley. Anthony (son of John Colley and Isabell Palmer) was born about 1503 in of Glaston, Rutland, England; died on 27 Nov 1574. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

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

Notes:

Third son of Richard Saint Barbe and Margery Grey. He was a member of Henry VIII's privy council, and one of the witnesses who signed that king's will.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1510, of Homington, Wiltshire, England

Notes:

Second son of Richard Saint Barbe and Margery Grey. He was a merchant based in Salisbury. In 1547 he purchased the manor of Homington, Wiltshire and the vicarage of Compton Chamberlaine from his brother William Saint Barbe, who was a member of Henry VIII's privy council.

Thomas St. Barbe (d. 1563) = Joan (d. 1573)
George St. Barbe = Mary Warburton
Ursula St. Barbe = William Ussher (d. 1671)
Adam Ussher, Archdeacon of Clonfert (1650-1713) = Rebecca Wye (d. 1694)
William Ussher, Archdeacon of Clonfert (1680-1744) = Mary Jenney
Mary Jenney Ussher = Richard Molesworth (d. 1758)
Henrietta Molesworth = John Staples (1736-1820)
Elizabeth Staples = Rev. Hugh Hamilton
Rev. Thomas Hamilton (1826-1905) = Mary Warren (1826-1916)
Florence Augusta Hamilton (1862-1908) = Albert James Lewis (1863-1929)
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963)

Making TWK a ninth cousin twice removed to C. S. Lewis.

Family/Spouse: Joan. Joan died after 17 Jan 1573. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Dysher. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1487

John married Elizabeth Leeke in 1512. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Leeke and Margaret Foxe) died about 1570. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to "Among the Royal Servants," this Richard Thimbleby and the Richard Thimbleby given as his father (b. abt. 1445) might be the same person. The same source notes that he died holding Holton in le More plus Irnham, Belesby, and Horsington.

"In 1489 he was made exempt for life from being put on assizes and from being made assessor 'on trustworthy testimony that he suffers from internal ulcers caused by his horse running with him against an oak.'" [Royal Ancestry]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Hilton. Elizabeth (daughter of Godfrey Hilton and Margery Willoughby) was born about 1454-1455; died between 1496 and 1522. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 12 Nov 1505

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Woodruffe. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Woodruffe and (Unknown) Wortley) died after 20 Jul 1506. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ninian Markenfield. Ninian (son of Thomas Markenfield and Eleanor Conyers) was born in of Markenfield, Yorkshire, England; died on 25 Mar 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married George Tailboys before Apr 1493. George (son of Robert Tailboys and Elizabeth Heron) was born about 1467; died on 21 Sep 1538; was buried in Bullington, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Vavasour. Joan (daughter of Henry Vavasour and Joan Gascoigne) died after Mar 1496. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice Scrope. Alice was born in of Masham, Bedale, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a commander at Flodden Field and was knighted on the field, 9 Sep 1513.

Family/Spouse: Dorothy Gascoigne. Dorothy (daughter of William Gascoigne and Margaret Percy) died before 1526. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament by writ from 17 Oct 1509 to 3 Nov 1529. An opponent of Henry VIII's destruction of the religious houses, he joined the Pilgrimage of Grace and was subsequented convicted of high treason for having delivered up Pontefract Castle to the rebels. He was beheaded on Tower Hill.

Family/Spouse: Dowsabel Tempest. Dowsabel (daughter of Richard Tempest and Mabel Strickland) died before Dec 1499. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1577

Family/Spouse: Simon Throckmorton. Simon (son of John Throckmorton and Jane Baynard) was born about 1493 in of Barsham, Suffolk, England; died on 10 Jul 1527. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of London, England
• Alternate birth: of Norwich, Norfolk, England

Notes:

Burgess for Bramber. Burgess for Thetford. Knight of the shire for Norfolk. Vice Admiral. Treasurer for the Army in France.

From the History of Parliament:

Rarely on good terms with his neighbours, above all the Pastons, Clere was not infrequently in the Star Chamber, where one complainant criticized his ‘covetous appetite and ungodly disposition’. At least in Henry VIII’s time he could treat such attacks the more lightly in that he enjoyed the patronage of the Howards: the 3rd Duke of Norfolk had been overseer of his father’s will and his younger brother Thomas, a servant of the Earl of Surrey, was to be commemorated in one of Surrey’s sonnets after dying from wounds received when he saved the earl’s life in France in 1545. It was during this phase of Clere’s career that he attended his first two Parliaments as Member for Bramber, one of the Howard boroughs in Sussex. He was one of a group around Surrey arrested during the second session of the Parliament of 1542 for eating flesh in Lent.

If it was as a courtier and a dependant of the Howards that he first came to public notice, it was as a naval captain and an administrator that Clere made his name. Early in 1548 he commanded a patrol in the North Sea and two years later he served in the Channel. His service at sea commended him to the admiral John Dudley, Viscount Lisle, whom in 1546 he accompanied to France to negotiate peace. Presumably he served under Dudley’s successor as admiral, Thomas, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, but nothing has come to light about his part in the Scottish war. Clere’s plundering of West Somerton church perhaps helped to foment Ket’s rebellion during 1548: he answered the Marquess of Northampton’s call for support from Norfolk gentlemen and after Northampton’s replacement by Dudley, then Earl of Warwick, he assisted in restoring order. Dudley rewarded him with lands said to have been promised to him by Henry VIII and with the treasurership of the army stationed in northern France until the surrender of Boulogne in 1550. His closeness to Dudley probably accounts for his Membership of the Parliament of March 1553 as much as his friendship with the leading resident at Thetford, Richard Fulmerston. During the succession crisis Clere seems to have declared for Lady Jane Grey and to have prevented a military force from Great Yarmouth from reaching Mary. When the tide turned in Mary’s favour his arms were impounded but he is not known to have been imprisoned. […]

[H]is appointment as vice-admiral at Portsmouth in the following year shows that he was regarded as politically reliable as well as professionally competent. His first mission, to escort Charles V on his voyage to retirement in Spain, brought him a gold chain from the ex-emperor, but his second was to prove fatal. In July 1557 he was given command of a fleet against Scotland which on 21 Aug. was surprised by an enemy force in the Orkneys, and in the engagement which followed he was drowned. Following his death the Council ordered an inquiry to be held into alleged disorders committed by his men in churches and religious houses in Scotland.

John married Anne Tyrrell before 19 Aug 1529. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married William Carey in 1520. William was born about 1495; died on 22 Jun 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Henry VIII, King of England in Jan 1533. 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]

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]

Notes:

They were granted, by Cardinal Wolsey, a dispensation to marry, as they were related in the fourth degree.

Robert married Alice Markenfield before 2 Feb 1525. Alice (daughter of Ninian Markenfield and Dorothy Gascoigne) died between 4 Mar 1553 and 7 Mar 1553. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married John Kaye on 21 Jan 1543 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. John (son of Arthur Kaye and Beatrice Wentworth) was born about 1528 in of Woodsome, Yorkshire, England; died before 28 Jul 1594 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 28 Jul 1594 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Katherine Tyrwhit. Katherine (daughter of Robert Tyrwhit and Elizabeth Oxenbridge) died in 1567. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Edward Darcy was Groom of the Privy Chamber to Elizabeth I, 1583-1603. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1561, and was admitted at the Inner Temple in Nov 1561. Special ambassador to Francis, Duke of Anjou and William of Orange in 1583. Burgess (M.P.) for Truro, Cornwall, in 1584; justice of the peace in Kent from 1604 to his death.

His lifelong cupidity appears to have been notable even by the standards of Elizabethan court society. From his entry in the History of Parliament: "In 1594 the attorney-general protested at the nomination of one Wiseman to the post of clerk of the outlawries, after Darcy had virtually put up the office for auction, and in 1600 the widow of Edward Denny petitioned against Darcy's attempt to obtain part of the proceeds of the sale of her late husband's office. He had little need, she wrote, 'to suck this small portion of her Majesty's favour from the hungry mouths of my children'. [...] His patent for searching and sealing leather, which he was granted in 1592 (or 1593), led him to commit 'such exactions and outrages as disquieted all England', and his privileges were first reduced (in 1595) and then (before May 1598) replaced by a new patent for the monopoly of importing and manufacturing playing cards." Sometime between then and 1602, Darcy sued Thomas Allin (also spelled Allain, Allein, Allen, etc.), haberdasher of London, for infringing on his playing-card patent. In what came to be regarded as a landmark case in English law, known to history as the "Case of Monopolies," the King's Bench ultimately ruled against Darcy, declaring his patent void because monopolies are ultimately damaging to the public good. The arguments set forth in the verdict were later much quoted in the various deliberations leading to the creation of modern antitrust and competition law.

His loss in court can't have broken his stride too badly; he was knighted the next year, on 23 Apr 1603, and retired to live the comfortable life of a wealthy man.

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Edward Darcy (1543-1612) = Elizabeth Astley
Robert Darcy = Grace Reddish
Edward Darcy = Elizabeth Stanhope [1]
Katherine Darcy (d. 1713) = Erasmus Phillips (d. 1697) [2] [3]
Elizabeth Phillips (b. abt 1664) = John Shorter [4]
Catherine Shorter (1682-1737) = Robert Walpole (1676-1745) [5]
Horace Walpole (1717-1797)

[1] Daughter of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield.

[2] Erasmus Phillips and Katherine Darcy were parents of Sir John Phillips of Pembrokeshire, a leading Welsh social and religious reformer.

[3] Through his mother, Elizabeth Dryden, Erasmus Phillips was a first cousin of the poet John Dryden, a second cousin once removed to Jonathan Swift, and a first cousin once removed to Mrs. Ann Marbury Hutchinson, the antinomian religious reformer who was famously cast out of the early Massachusetts Bay colony.

[4] John Shorter was a son of John Shorter (1625-1688), Lord Mayor of London.

[5] Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been the first Prime Minister of England in the modern sense.

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Edward Darcy (1543-1612) = Elizabeth Astley
Catherine Darcy (1581-1646) = William West (b. 1575)
Elizabeth West (1606-1669) = Francis Vane (1617-1680)
Francis Vane (1643-1691) = Hannah Rushworth (1646-1705)
Henry Vane (1669-1726) = Anne Scrope (1673-1721)
Thomas Fane (1701-1871) = Elizabeth Swymmer (1708-1782)
Mary Fane (1739-1809)= Charles Blair (b. 1735)
Charles Blair (1776-1820)
Thomas Richard Arthur Blair (1802-1867) = Frances Catherine Hare (1823-1867)
Richard Walmesley Blair (1857-1939) = Ida Mabel Limouzin (1875-1943)
Eric Blair (George Orwell) (1903-1950)

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

Notes:

Grocer, citizen, and alderman of Norwich.

Bassingbourne married Mary Hill after 7 Dec 1591. Mary (daughter of William Hill and Joan Annabel) was born in of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England; died in 1615. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married William Gilbert on 23 Apr 1578 in Blickling, Norfolk, England. William died before 21 Feb 1608; was buried on 21 Feb 1608 in Mickleover, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Okeover Crompton about 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter Devereux. Walter (son of Richard Devereux and Dorothy Hastings) died in 1576. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Thomas West on 19 Nov 1571. Thomas (son of William West and Elizabeth Strange) was born about 1556 in of Wherwell, Hampshire, England; died on 24 Mar 1602. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Chetwode. Richard (son of Richard Chetwode and Agnes Wodhull) was born about 1560 in of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England; died before 21 May 1635; was buried on 21 May 1635 in Temple Church, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Flower. John (son of Richard Flower and Alice Harington) was born in 1535 in of Whitwell, Rutland, England; died on 30 Apr 1620. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]