Katherine Tyrwhit

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

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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.

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]

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Lady of the Privy Chamber to Queen Jane Seymour. Author of Morning and Evening Praiers, with Divers Psalmes Himnes and Meditations (1574), which contains orders for private morning and evening prayers, with a series of "godly prayers" and hymns appended, and which appears in a unique copy held in the British Library, as part of a volume that appears to have belonged to Elizabeth I. The volume also contains an incomplete copy of The Queen's Prayers by Katherine Parr.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

From her father's first marriage Elizabeth had a half-brother, Thomas, whose daughter Elizabeth, also married to a Robert Tyrwhit, needs to be distinguished from her father's half-sister.

The elder Elizabeth Tyrwhit's early career took place at the court of Henry VIII, where she appears in household records from 1537 on as a recipient of gifts and as a gentlewoman of the privy chamber. Her relationship with Katherine Parr was especially close, possibly because Parr was cousin by marriage to Sir Robert Tyrwhit through her own first marriage to Edward, Lord Borough. Tyrwhit shared Parr's protestant sympathies and, with others of Parr's ladies-in-waiting suspected of links to the martyr Anne Askew, was arrested by Henry in 1546. When Katherine Parr died of puerperal fever in September 1548, Tyrwhit was at her bedside. For a brief period in 1549, after the scandal surrounding the relationship between Parr's last husband, Thomas Seymour, and Princess Elizabeth in 1547–8, Tyrwhit was appointed governess to the princess in lieu of the suspect Katherine Astley.

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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.

Robert married Maud Tailboys. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Richardson's Royal Ancestry (citation details below), at Tyrwhit 18, gives the date of their marriage as "before 14 May 1509". But he also gives the date of their son Robert's birth (in two places, Lancaster 12.ii and Stafford 12) as "before 1504". Unless their son Robert was born several years before their marriage, which is vanishingly unlikely, surely the date of the marriage of Robert Tyrwhit and Maud Tailboys should be anchored as "before 1504", not "before 14 May 1509".

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Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex 1506, 1512, and 1519.

Goddard married Anne Fiennes. Anne (daughter of Thomas Fiennes and Anne Urswick) died on 24 May 1531. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1481-2, 1494-5, 1500-1, 1517-18; King's esquire; Steward of the Manor of Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire.

Knighted at the Battle of Stoke, 1487; made a banneret at Blackheath, 1497.

William Tyrwhit (d. 1522) = Anne Constable (d. >1518)
Agnes Tyrwhit (d. >1522) = Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh (1487-1550)
William Burgh, 4th Baron Burgh (1522-1584) = Catherine Clinton (d. 1621)
Thomas Burgh, 5th Baron Burgh (1558-1597) = Frances Vaughan (d. 1647)
Catherine Burgh (1600-1646) = Thomas Knevet, 5th Baron Berners (1596-1658)
Elizabeth Knevet (1608-1670) = Sir John Rous, 1st Bt. (1608-1670)
Sir John Rous, 2nd Bt. (d. 1730) = Anne Wood (d. 1736)
Sir Robert Rous, 4th Bt. (d. 1735) = Lydia Smith (d. 1769)
Sir John Rous, 5th Bt. (d. 1771) = Judith Bedingfield (d. 1794)
Louisa Judith Rous (1770-~1804) = John Brereton Birch (d. 1829)
Rev. Henry William Rous Birch (1794-1854) = Lydia Mildred (b. 1798)
Selena Acton Birch (1829-1880) = Rev. Richard Henry Bicknell (1823-1869)
Constance Rosalie Bicknell (1869-1941) = George Augustus Auden (1872-1957)
Wystan Hugh (W. H.) Auden (1907-1973)

William married Anne Constable. Anne (daughter of Robert Constable and Agnes Wentworth) was born in of Flamborough, Bridlington, Yorkshire, England; died after 1518. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1451
• Alternate death: 30 Jan 1495

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MP for Lincolnshire 1472-75, 1478; Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1480-1.

The attainder of his father was reversed in 1472. He was admitted a member of Corpus Christi Guild at Boston, Lincolnshire in 1488.

Ancestor of George Washington:

Sir Robert Talboys = Elizabeth Heron
Sir George Talboys = Elizabeth Gascoigne
Anne Talboys = Sir Edward Dymoke
Frances Dymoke = Sir Thomas Windebank
Mildred Windebank = Robert Reade
Col. George Reade of VA = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Augustine Warner Jr.
Mildred Warner = Lawrence Washington
Augustine Washington = Mary Ball
George Washington = Mrs. Martha Dandridge Custis

Robert married Elizabeth Heron before 1467. Elizabeth (daughter of John Heron and Elizabeth Heron) died before 30 Jan 1495; was buried in Kyme Priory, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Anne Lyvelode. Anne died on 27 Feb 1494. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Anne Urswick before 22 Feb 1482. Anne (daughter of Thomas Urswick and Isabel Rich) was born about 1460. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]