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Richard Empson, Speaker of the House of Commons

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Name Richard Empson [1, 2] Suffix Speaker of the House of Commons Birth Abt 1450 [3] Gender Male Death 17 Aug 1510 Tower Hill, London, England [3, 4]
Person ID I21115 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 14 Sep 2021
Father Peter Empson, b. of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, England d. 1473
Mother Elizabeth Joseph d. Aft 1474 Family ID F13035 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Jane d. Aft Aug 1510 Children + 1. Jane Empson d. Between 10 Nov 1587 and 14 Feb 1588 + 2. Joan Empson Family ID F13036 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 14 Sep 2021
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Notes - From Wikipedia:
Early in the reign of Henry VII he became associated with Edmund Dudley in carrying out the King’s rigorous and arbitrary system of taxation, and in consequence he became very unpopular. Retaining the royal favour, however, he was knighted at the creation of the future Henry VIII as Prince of Wales on 18 February 1504, and was soon High Steward of the University of Cambridge,and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, but his official career ended with Henry VII's death in April 1509.
Thrown into prison by order of the new King, Henry VIII, he was charged, like Dudley, with the crime of constructive treason, and was convicted at Northampton in October 1509. His attainder by Parliament followed, and he was beheaded on 17 August 1510. In 1512 his elder son, Thomas, was "restored in blood", meaning that his father's attainder was reversed so far as it affected him, by Act of Parliament.
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- [S1517] The History of Banbury, Including Copious Historical and Antiquarian Notices of the Neighborhood by Alfred Beesley. London: Nicholas and Son, 1841.