Walter Fauconberge

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1375, of Flixborough, Lincolnshire, England

Notes:

Complete Peerage (5:279) says that he died without issue, but in 2023 Terry Booth (citation details below) showed that at least four clearly-documented children survived him.

Walter married Maud Greystoke about 1408. Maud (daughter of Ralph de Greystoke and Katherine Clifford) was born about 1380; died after 1437. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Whitton, Lincolnshire, England

Notes:

"Thomas Faucomberge of Skelton who died in 1407 had a younger brother, Sir Roger Faucomberge, who predeceased his brother. Sir Roger's heir was his son Sir Walter Faucomberge, who is mentioned in the ipm of Thomas Faucomberge (CIPM, vol. 19, no. 386). Sir Walter Faucomberge died on 1 September 1415 (CIPM, vol. 20, no. 298-9). Unfortunately the ipm of Walter does not mention his heirs, and neither does his will (Early Lincoln Wills, 120) so the trail breaks at this point, but it seems likely to me that this Sir Walter Faucomberge was the father of Sir Roger Faucomberge (d. Jun 1455), Isabel, wife of Gerard Sothill and Constance wife of Anthony Nuthill. " [John Watson, citation details below.]

Isabel married Edmund Percehay before 1437. Edmund was born about 1380 in of Lincolnshire, England; died before 1447. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Gerard Sothill before 1447. Gerard (son of Gerard Sothill and Joan) was born on 14 Sep 1398 in of Redbourne, Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire, England; died on 29 Oct 1462. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Fulnetby. John (son of John Fulnetby and Joan) was born about 1425. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Agnes. Agnes died after 27 Jul 1525. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Regarding his date of death, Kirk and Hollick say in a footnote that "[o]n 30 August 1523, John Fulveby [sic] was granted a commission to collect royal subsidy
in Lincolnshire, but on 3 November 1528 he was noted as deceased in the will
of Thomas Bryge of Sausthorpe.."

John married Jane Dymoke about 1485. Jane (daughter of Thomas Dymoke and Margaret Welles) was born about 1467. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1544

Isabel married Oliver Wentworth before 1520. Oliver (son of Thomas Wentworth and Jane Mirfield) was born about 1490 in of Goxhill, Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire, England; died between 7 Dec 1558 and 28 Jan 1559. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married William Dynewell about 1510. William was born about 1485; died before 6 Jan 1544; was buried on 6 Jan 1544 in Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[H]e had, when he died, another wife, named Anne, with whom, from various evidences, he does not appear to have been on the best of terms. He was living at Waltham, and she at Kirton, in a distant part of Lincolnshire, and the only bequest he makes to her in his Will is of 'such goods and implements as she hath in my house at Kirton.'" [The Wentworth Genealogy, citation details below]

William married Ellen Gilby between 1548 and 1552. Ellen (daughter of John Gilby and Agnes Brough) was born between 1515 and 1520 in of West Ravendale, Lincolnshire, England; died after 23 Jan 1560. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Anne Ayscough before 1565. Anne (daughter of Edward Ayscough) died after 22 May 1574. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marshall K. Kirk's posthumously-published "A Probable Royal Descent for Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury, Massachusetts", edited for publication by Martin E. Hollick and published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 161, page 27, January 2007, lays out an involved, circumstantial, and yet reasonably convincing case for a descent from Edward I for Anne Dynewell and by extension her great-grandson the seventeenth-century immigrant Thomas Bradbury (1611-1695). Much of it is founded upon genuine statements made about the family of John Whitgift (d. 1604), Archbishop of Canterbury, by Francis Thynne, Lancaster Herald from 1602 until his death in 1608, and thus a contemporary of the archbishop. Archbishop Whitgift was a son of this Anne Dynewell and her husband Henry Whitgift.

The propositions for which Kirk argues are:

(1) That this Anne Dynewell was a daughter of William Dynewell and Katherine Fulnetby, and

(2) The aforementioned Katherine Fulnetby was a daughter of John Fulnetby and Jane Dymoke, who is known to have been a daughter of Thomas Dymoke and Margaret Welles.

Anne married Henry Whitgift about 1530. Henry (son of John Whitgift) was born about 1505 in of Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England; died between 9 Jun 1550 and 7 Oct 1552. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Waltham and Barrow, Lincolnshire, England
• Buried: 22 Mar 1633, Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, England
• Alternate death: 22 Mar 1633

Christopher married Katherine Marbury on 19 Oct 1583 in St. Peter at Gowts, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Katherine (daughter of William Marbury and Agnes Lenton) was born in of Girsby in Burgh-upon-Bain, Lincolnshire, England; died before 16 Dec 1634; was buried on 16 Dec 1634. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1530 and 1532
• Alternate death: 28 Feb 1604

Notes:

From Wikipedia (accessed 19 May 2021):

John Whitgift [...] was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583 to his death. Noted for his hospitality, he was somewhat ostentatious in his habits, sometimes visiting Canterbury and other towns attended by a retinue of 800 horses. Whitgift's theological views were often controversial.

He was the eldest son of Henry Whitgift, a merchant, of Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, where he was born, probably between 1530 and 1533. The Whitgift family is thought to have originated in the relatively close Yorkshire village of Whitgift, adjoining the River Ouse.

Whitgift's early education was entrusted to his uncle, Robert Whitgift, abbot of the neighbouring Wellow Abbey, on whose advice he was sent to St Anthony's School, London. In 1549 he matriculated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and in May 1550 he moved to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where the martyr John Bradford was his tutor. In May 1555 he was elected a fellow of Peterhouse.

Whitgift taught Francis Bacon and his older brother Anthony Bacon at Cambridge University in the 1570s. As their tutor, Whitgift bought the brothers their early classical text books, including works by Plato, Cicero and others.

Having taken holy orders in 1560, he became chaplain to Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely, who collated (that is, appointed) him to the rectory of Teversham, just to the east of Cambridge. In 1563 he was appointed Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, and his lectures gave such satisfaction to the authorities that on 5 July 1566 they considerably augmented his stipend. The following year he was appointed Regius Professor of Divinity, and became master first of Pembroke Hall (1567) and then of Trinity in 1570. He had a principal share in compiling the statutes of the university, which passed the great seal on 25 September 1570, and in the November following he was chosen as vice-chancellor.

While at Cambridge he formed a close relationship with Andrew Perne, sometime vice-chancellor. Perne went on to live with Whitgift in his old age. Puritan satirists would later mock Whitgift as "Perne's boy" who was willing to carry his cloak-bag – thus suggesting that the two had enjoyed a homosexual relationship.

Whitgift's theological views were controversial. An aunt with whom he once lodged wrote that "though she thought at first she had received a saint into her house, she now perceived he was a devil". Thomas Macaulay's description of Whitgift as "a narrow, mean, tyrannical priest, who gained power by servility and adulation..." is, according to the author of his 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica entry, "tinged with rhetorical exaggeration; but undoubtedly Whitgift's extreme High Church notions led him to treat the Puritans with exceptional intolerance". In a pulpit controversy with Thomas Cartwright regarding the constitutions and customs of the Church of England, his oratorical effectiveness proved inferior, but was able to exercise arbitrary authority: together with other heads of the university, he deprived Cartwright of his professorship, and in September 1571 Whitgift exercised his prerogative as master of Trinity to deprive him of his fellowship. In June of the same year Whitgift was nominated Dean of Lincoln. In the following year he published [The Admonition to the Parliament], which led to further controversy between the two churchmen. On 24 March 1577, Whitgift was appointed Bishop of Worcester, and during the absence of Sir Henry Sidney in Ireland in 1577 he acted as vice-president of Wales.

In August 1583 he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury to replace Edmund Grindal, who had been placed under house arrest after his disagreement with Queen Elizabeth over "prophesyings" and died in office. Whitgift placed his stamp on the church of the Reformation, and shared Elizabeth's hatred of Puritans. Although he wrote to Elizabeth remonstrating against the alienation of church property, Whitgift always retained her special confidence. In his policy against the Puritans and in his vigorous enforcement of the subscription test he thoroughly carried out her policy of religious uniformity.

He drew up articles aimed at nonconforming ministers, and obtained increased powers for the Court of High Commission. In 1586, he became a privy councillor. His actions gave rise to the Martin Marprelate tracts, in which the bishops and clergy were strongly opposed. By his vigilance the printers of the tracts were discovered and punished, though the main writer Job Throkmorton evaded him. Whitgift had nine leading presbyterians including Thomas Cartwright arrested in 1589–90, and though their trial in the Star Chamber for sedition did not result in convictions they did agree to abandon their movement in return for freedom.

Whitgift took a strong line against the Brownist movement and their Underground Church in London led by Henry Barrow and John Greenwood. Their services were repeatedly raided and members held in prison. Whitgift repeatedly interrogated them through the High Commission, and at the Privy Council. When Burghley asked Barrow his opinion of the Archbishop, he responded: "He is a monster, a miserable compound, I know not what to make him. He is neither ecclesiastical nor civil, even that second beast spoken of in revelation." Whitgift was the prime mover behind the Act against Seditious Sectaries which was passed in 1593, making Separatist Puritanism a felony, and he had Barrow and Greenwood executed the following morning.

In the controversy between Walter Travers and Richard Hooker, he prohibited the former from preaching, and he presented the latter with the rectory of Boscombe in Wiltshire, to help him complete his Ecclesiastical Polity, a work that in the end did not represent Whitgift's theological or ecclesiastical standpoints. In 1587, he had Welsh preacher John Penry brought before the High Commission, and imprisoned; Whitgift signed Penry's death warrant six years later.

In 1595, in conjunction with the Bishop of London and other prelates, he drew up the Calvinist instrument known as the Lambeth Articles. Although the articles were signed and agreed by several bishops they were recalled by order of Elizabeth, claiming that the bishops had acted without her explicit consent. Whitgift maintained that she had given her approval.

Whitgift attended Elizabeth on her deathbed, and crowned James I. He was present at the Hampton Court Conference in January 1604, at which he represented eight bishops.

He died at Lambeth at the end of the following month. He was buried in Croydon at the Parish Church of St John Baptist (now Croydon Minster): his monument there with his recumbent effigy was practically destroyed when the church burnt down in 1867.

Whitgift is described by his biographer, Sir George Paule, as of "middle stature, strong and well shaped, of a grave countenance and brown complexion, black hair and eyes, his beard neither long nor thick." He left several unpublished works, included in the Manuscripts Angliae. Many of his letters, articles and injunctions are calendared in the published volumes of the State Papers series of the reign of Elizabeth. His Collected Works, edited for the Parker Society by John Ayre (3 vols., Cambridge, 1851–1853), include the controversial tracts mentioned above, two sermons published during his lifetime, a selection from his letters to Cecil and others, and some portions of his previously unpublished manuscripts.

In his later years he concerned himself with various administrative reforms, including fostering learning among the clergy, abolishing non-resident clergy, and reforming the ecclesiastical courts.

Whitgift set up charitable foundations (almshouses), now The Whitgift Foundation, in Croydon, the site of a palace, a summer retreat of Archbishops of Canterbury. It supports homes for the elderly and infirm, and runs three independent schools – Whitgift School, founded in 1596, Trinity School of John Whitgift and, more recently, Old Palace School for girls, which is housed in the former Croydon Palace.

Whitgift Street near Lambeth Palace (the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury) is named after him.

A comprehensive school in his home town of Grimsby, John Whitgift Academy, is named after him.

The Whitgift Centre, a major shopping centre in Croydon, is named after him. It is built on land still owned by the Whitgift Foundation.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Buried: 2 Aug 1615, Clavering, Essex, England

Notes:

He and his son John were trustees of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Croydon, founded by Archbishop John Whitgift for the benefit of the poor.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Barley. Margaret (daughter of John Barley and Philippa Bradbury) died before 5 Jan 1605; was buried on 5 Jan 1605 in Clavering, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown first wife of William Whitgift). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1628

Notes:

Churchwarden of Muckton, Lincolnshire in 1641, in which capacity he, his wife, and his son Edward (later a surgeon of Boston, Lincolnshire) signed the Protestation Returns in that year.

William married Susanna Carter on 28 Nov 1614 in Alford, Lincolnshire, England. Susanna (daughter of Edward Carter) died after 1641. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the church at Croydon was once a marble tomb inscribed:

HERE LIETH ELIZABETH BRADBURY
WYFE UNTO WYMOND BRADBURY OF
NEWPORT-POND IN ESSEX GENT. DAUGTHER
TO WILLIAM WHITGIFTE OF CLAVERINGE IN
THE COUNTY AFORESAID GENT. AND SECOND
BROTHER TO DOCTOR JOHN WHITGIFTE ARCH-
BISHOPPE OF CANTERBURY; AND WHO HAD
ISSUE BY HER ABOVE NAMED HUSBAND JANE,
WILLIAM, ANNE AND THOMAS, AND DECEASED
THE 26 DAY OF JUNE AN. DÑI 1612, BEING
OF THE AGE OF 38 YEARES AND THREE
MONTHS

Family/Spouse: Robert Coles. Robert was born in of Leigh, Worcestershire, England; died in Nov 1600. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Francis Gill. Francis was born in of London, England; died in 1605. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Wymond Bradbury about 1605. Wymond (son of William Bradbury and Anne Edon) was born before 16 May 1574; was christened on 16 May 1574 in Newport Pond, Essex, England; died about 1649 in Whitechapel, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He arrived in New England sometime in the 1630s. He is one of TNH's four "gateway ancestors," albeit one about whom the scholarly consensus has been very much in flux. That the William Wentworth of New England was the man baptized in Alford seems almost certain. That the man baptized in Alford had many gentry and aristocratic ancestors seems indisputable. That he had a provable "royal ancestry" was long at issue, but several recent articles in The American Genealogist would appear to have finally sorted matters:

Terry J. Booth, Paul C. Reed, and Nathaniel Lane Taylor, "The English Ancestry of William Wentworth of New Hampshire: Male-Line Ancestry for Five Generations." The American Genealogist 90:161, Jul 2018, and 90:263, Oct 2018.

Terry J. Booth, Paul C. Reed, and Nathaniel Lane Taylor, "Margaret de Brewse, First Wife of Sir Thomas Hawley (d. 1419-20) of Girsby, Lincolnshire." The American Genealogist 91:195, Jan/Apr 2020, published March 2021; 91:286, Jul/Oct 2020, published December 2022.

Terry J. Booth, "The Sothill, Fauconberge, and Greystoke Ancestry of William¹ Wentworth of New Hampshire." The American Genealogist 92:81, Jul/Oct 2021, published December 2022; 92:217, Jan/Apr 2022, published June 2023.

Cumulatively, these articles establish that the immigrant Wentworth's extensive medieval ancestry includes such crowned heads as King John of England; Alfonso IX of León and Galicia; Jeane de Briene, the Crusader "king" of Jerusalem; and (despite previous descents having been disproved) William "The Lion" of Scotland.

"William Wentworth (1616-1697) was a follower of John Wheelwright, and an early settler of New Hampshire. Coming from Alford in Lincolnshire, he likely came to New England with Wheelwright in 1636, but no records are found of him in Boston. When Wheelwright was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his role in the Antinomian Controversy, he established the settlement of Exeter, New Hampshire, and Wentworth followed him there and then to Wells, Maine. After Wheelwright left Wells for Hampton, New Hampshire, Wentworth went to Dover, New Hampshire, and this is where he lived the remainder of his life. He was the proprietor of a sawmill, and held several town offices, but is most noted for being an elder in his Dover church for nearly 40 years. He had 11 children with two wives, and has numerous descendants, including many of great prominence." [Wikipedia]

He was a signer of the Exeter Combination.

His near descendants included his grandson John Wentworth, Lieutenant Governor of New Hampshire 1717-1730, and New Hampshire governors Benning Wentworth (governor 1741-1767) and Sir John Wentworth (governor 1767-1775); also John Wentworth, Speaker of the New Hampshire House 1771-1778.

A book-length biographical study of him is William Wentworth, Puritan Preacher by Susan Ostberg; Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse, 2006.

William married Elizabeth Knight about 1644. Elizabeth (daughter of Ezekiel Knight and Ann) was born about 1626; died after 1678. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]