Henry Heydon

- 1504

• 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

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• 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.