Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Henry Heydon

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Name Henry Heydon Birth of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England [1, 2]
Gender Male Death Between 20 Feb and 22 May 1504 Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England [2, 3]
Person ID I21126 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 3 Sep 2018
Father John Heydon, b. of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England d. 1479
Mother Eleanor Winter Family ID F10278 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Anne Boleyn d. Abt 1510 Children 1. Anne Heydon d. Bef 8 May 1521 + 2. John Heydon, b. Abt 1468, of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England d. 16 Aug 1550 (Age ~ 82 years)
+ 3. Bridget Heydon, b. Abt 1480 d. Bef 17 Jan 1554 (Age ~ 74 years) Family ID F13042 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Apr 2021
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Notes - From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:
Henry Heydon, also a common lawyer, was knighted at Henry VII's coronation in 1485 and married Anne (d. 1510), daughter of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn of Blickling, Norfolk. He was survived by three sons, the eldest of whom, John Heydon (1468–1550), inherited the Norfolk and Kent estates, and five daughters, for whom he arranged good marriages.
Many prominent sixteenth-century East Anglian families (such as the Townshends, Pastons, and Jenneys) owed their rise to a successful fifteenth-century lawyer of humble origins, but even by these standards the rapid ascent of the Heydons is remarkable and owed much to the opportunities and tenacity of the first John Heydon. In the pedigree devised by Clarenceux king of arms for Sir Christopher Heydon in 1563, the family tree before the first John Heydon is fictitious: and the arms of Sir Christopher himself were derived from those of the Hertfordshire Heydons, who were unrelated to the Norfolk family.
- From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:
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Sources - [S2164] The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling ed. Norman Davis. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
- [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.
- [S2166] Brad Verity, Edward I Descents for Erasmus Paston. 11 Nov 2015., year only.
- [S2164] The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling ed. Norman Davis. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.