Thomas Chaworth

Notes:

Knight of the shire for Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire; Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1403-04, 1417-18, 1423-24; Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1418-19. Joint steward of the Leicestershire and Rutland estates of Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick.

Thomas married Nichole Braybrooke before 21 Sep 1394. Nichole died in 1411. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Isabel Aylesbury before 1416. Isabel (daughter of Thomas Aylesbury and Katherine Pabenham) was born about 1401; died between 1447 and 1462; was buried in Launde Priory, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1466

Elizabeth married John le Scrope before 24 Aug 1418. John (son of Stephen le Scrope and Margery Welles) was born about 1388 in of Upsal, South Kilvington, Yorkshire, England; died on 15 Nov 1455; was buried in York Cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Fitzwilliam. William (son of John Fitzwilliam and Margaret Clarell) was born about 1416 in of Sprotborough, Yorkshire, England; died on 1 Dec 1474. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Leeke. William (son of John Leeke and Alice Grey) was born in of Langford, Nottinghamshire, England; died in 1458. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 20 Oct 1498

Elizabeth married Henry le Scrope before 1436. Henry (son of Richard le Scrope and Margaret Neville) was born on 4 Jun 1418 in Bolton, Wensley, Yorkshire, England; died on 14 Jan 1459. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Darcy. Richard (son of John Darcy and Joan de Greystock) was born about 1425; died before 1 Jun 1454. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Wentworth. Richard (son of Richard Wentworth and Cecily Tansley) was born in of West Bretton, Yorkshire, England; died about 1488. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Foxe. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Washbourne. Eleanor (daughter of Norman Washbourne and Elizabeth Kniveton) died between 11 Dec 1505 and Jan 1506. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1443

William married Eupheme Langton after 23 Jan 1461 in Farnley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 12 Nov 1505

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Woodruffe. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Woodruffe and (Unknown) Wortley) died after 20 Jul 1506. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John Hardwick in 1512. John (son of John Hardwick and Elizabeth Pinchbeck) was born about 1495 in of Hardwick in Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire, England; died on 29 Jan 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Wyndham. Thomas (son of John Wyndham and Margaret Howard) was born in of Felbrigg, Norfolk, England; died between 22 Oct 1521 and 4 Mar 1523. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was summoned to Parliament by writ from 17 Oct 1509 to 3 Nov 1529. An opponent of Henry VIII's destruction of the religious houses, he joined the Pilgrimage of Grace and was subsequented convicted of high treason for having delivered up Pontefract Castle to the rebels. He was beheaded on Tower Hill.

Family/Spouse: Dowsabel Tempest. Dowsabel (daughter of Richard Tempest and Mabel Strickland) died before Dec 1499. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatrice married Arthur Kaye after 25 May 1517. Arthur (son of George Kaye and (Unknown) Radcliffe) was born in of Woodsome, Yorkshire, England; died before 20 Oct 1574 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 20 Oct 1574 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Bess of Hardwick," later Countess of Shrewsbury.

From Wikipedia:

[A] notable figure of Elizabethan English society. By a series of well-made marriages, she rose to the highest levels of English nobility and became enormously wealthy. Bess was a shrewd business woman, increasing her assets with business interests including mines and glass making workshops.

She was married four times, firstly to Robert Barlow, who died aged about 14 or 15 on 24 December 1544; secondly to the courtier Sir William Cavendish; thirdly to Sir William St Loe; and lastly to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, sometime keeper to the captive Mary, Queen of Scots. An accomplished needlewoman, Bess joined her husband's captive charge at Chatsworth House for extended periods in 1569, 1570, and 1571, during which time they worked together on the Oxburgh Hangings.

In 1601, Bess ordered an inventory of the household furnishings including textiles at her three properties at Chatsworth, Hardwick and Chelsea, which survives, and in her will she bequeathed these items to her heirs to be preserved in perpetuity. The 400-year-old collection, now known as the Hardwick Hall textiles, is the largest collection of tapestry, embroidery, canvaswork, and other textiles to have been preserved by a single private family. Bess is also well known for her building projects, the most famous of which are: Chatsworth, now the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire (whose family name is Cavendish as they descend from the children of her second marriage), and Hardwick Hall.

Family/Spouse: George Talbot. George died in 1590. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William Cavendish on 20 Aug 1547 in Bradgate, Leicestershire, England. William (son of Thomas Cavendish and Alice Smyth) was born on 1 May 1508; died on 25 Oct 1557; was buried on 30 Oct 1557. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was knighted at the coronation of Edward VI, February 1547.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Sydenham. Elizabeth (daughter of John Sydenham and Joan) died on 1 Jan 1571; was buried in St. Decuman's, Watchet, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1596

Mary married Erasmus Paston after 22 Oct 1521. Erasmus (son of William Paston and Bridget Heydon) was born before 1508; died before 6 Nov 1540; was buried on 6 Nov 1540 in Paston, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lieutenant of the Tower of London.

Arthur Darcy and Mary Carew were both descendants of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault, he as a 6Xgreat-grandson and she as a 5Xgreat-granddaughter. By those descents they were, to one another, sixth cousins once removed. But in fact they were slightly more closely related than that: fifth cousins once removed by shared descent from Ralph de Greystoke and Katherine Clifford, and fifth cousins twice removed by shared descent from John de Welle and Maud de Ros.

Arthur Darcy (1505-1561) = Mary Carew
Thomas Darcy (d. 1605) = Elizabeth Conyers
Conyers Darcy (1570-1654) = Dorothy Belasyse
Conyers Darcy (1599-1689) = Grace Rokeby
Conyers Darcy (1622-1692) = Frances Howard
John Darcy (1659-1689) = Bridget Sutton
Robert Darcy (1681-1721) = Frederica Schomberg
Robert Darcy (1718-1778) = Mary Doublet
Amelia Darcy (1754-1784) = John "Mad Jack" Byron (1756-1791), father of Lord Byron
Augusta Maria Bryon, known as Augusta Leigh (1783-1851)

Family/Spouse: Mary Carew. Mary (daughter of Nicholas Carew and Elizabeth Bryan) was buried in St. Botolph's, Aldgate, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Justice of the peace in 1585.

John married Dorothy Mauleverer on 21 Jan 1543 in Bardsey, Yorkshire, England. Dorothy (daughter of Robert Mauleverer and Alice Markenfield) was born about 1528; died before 31 Mar 1590 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England; was buried on 31 Mar 1590 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Charles Stuart. Charles (son of Matthew Stewart and Margaret Douglas) died in 1576. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of Henry Cavendish). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Grace Talbot on 9 Feb 1568. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MP for Nottinghamshire, 1593 and 1601. Knighted 1582.

Charles married Catherine Ogle in 1592. Catherine (daughter of Cuthbert Ogle) was born in 1570; died in 1629. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Francis. John was born in of Combe Florey, Somerset, England; died before 25 Nov 1619; was buried on 25 Nov 1619 in Combe Florey, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1565-66.

“He played little part in national affairs but took a prominent role in the government and political life of his native county and was known as a careful administrator and a ‘just and painstaking magistrate’ [...] A supporter of Edmund Freake, bishop of Norwich (1575–84), Paston was involved in the bitter conflict between the bishop and the puritans for control of the chancellorship of the diocese in 1578. He was described by Bishop Scrambler as an ‘observer of law’ which has been taken to mean that his religious views were either conformist Church of England or impartial (Smith, 214). In 1597 he moved to the new house which his uncle, Sir Clement Paston, had built at Oxnead. Known for his liberality, hospitality and benefactions, Paston is chiefly remembered for the founding and endowment of North Walsham grammar school (the Paston School), in 1606.” [Oxford DNB, citation details below.]

As he lived through her entire reign, presumably he was aware that queen Elizabeth was his third cousin, both of them being great-great grandchildren of London mayor Geoffrey Boleyn and his wife Anne Hoo.

William married Frances Clere on 5 May 1551 in St. Margaret's, Paston, Norfolk, England. Frances (daughter of Thomas Clere and Ann Gyggs) was born in 1531; died in 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Katherine Tyrwhit. Katherine (daughter of Robert Tyrwhit and Elizabeth Oxenbridge) died in 1567. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Conyers. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Edward Darcy was Groom of the Privy Chamber to Elizabeth I, 1583-1603. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1561, and was admitted at the Inner Temple in Nov 1561. Special ambassador to Francis, Duke of Anjou and William of Orange in 1583. Burgess (M.P.) for Truro, Cornwall, in 1584; justice of the peace in Kent from 1604 to his death.

His lifelong cupidity appears to have been notable even by the standards of Elizabethan court society. From his entry in the History of Parliament: "In 1594 the attorney-general protested at the nomination of one Wiseman to the post of clerk of the outlawries, after Darcy had virtually put up the office for auction, and in 1600 the widow of Edward Denny petitioned against Darcy's attempt to obtain part of the proceeds of the sale of her late husband's office. He had little need, she wrote, 'to suck this small portion of her Majesty's favour from the hungry mouths of my children'. [...] His patent for searching and sealing leather, which he was granted in 1592 (or 1593), led him to commit 'such exactions and outrages as disquieted all England', and his privileges were first reduced (in 1595) and then (before May 1598) replaced by a new patent for the monopoly of importing and manufacturing playing cards." Sometime between then and 1602, Darcy sued Thomas Allin (also spelled Allain, Allein, Allen, etc.), haberdasher of London, for infringing on his playing-card patent. In what came to be regarded as a landmark case in English law, known to history as the "Case of Monopolies," the King's Bench ultimately ruled against Darcy, declaring his patent void because monopolies are ultimately damaging to the public good. The arguments set forth in the verdict were later much quoted in the various deliberations leading to the creation of modern antitrust and competition law.

His loss in court can't have broken his stride too badly; he was knighted the next year, on 23 Apr 1603, and retired to live the comfortable life of a wealthy man.

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Edward Darcy (1543-1612) = Elizabeth Astley
Robert Darcy = Grace Reddish
Edward Darcy = Elizabeth Stanhope [1]
Katherine Darcy (d. 1713) = Erasmus Phillips (d. 1697) [2] [3]
Elizabeth Phillips (b. abt 1664) = John Shorter [4]
Catherine Shorter (1682-1737) = Robert Walpole (1676-1745) [5]
Horace Walpole (1717-1797)

[1] Daughter of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield.

[2] Erasmus Phillips and Katherine Darcy were parents of Sir John Phillips of Pembrokeshire, a leading Welsh social and religious reformer.

[3] Through his mother, Elizabeth Dryden, Erasmus Phillips was a first cousin of the poet John Dryden, a second cousin once removed to Jonathan Swift, and a first cousin once removed to Mrs. Ann Marbury Hutchinson, the antinomian religious reformer who was famously cast out of the early Massachusetts Bay colony.

[4] John Shorter was a son of John Shorter (1625-1688), Lord Mayor of London.

[5] Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been the first Prime Minister of England in the modern sense.

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Edward Darcy (1543-1612) = Elizabeth Astley
Catherine Darcy (1581-1646) = William West (b. 1575)
Elizabeth West (1606-1669) = Francis Vane (1617-1680)
Francis Vane (1643-1691) = Hannah Rushworth (1646-1705)
Henry Vane (1669-1726) = Anne Scrope (1673-1721)
Thomas Fane (1701-1871) = Elizabeth Swymmer (1708-1782)
Mary Fane (1739-1809)= Charles Blair (b. 1735)
Charles Blair (1776-1820)
Thomas Richard Arthur Blair (1802-1867) = Frances Catherine Hare (1823-1867)
Richard Walmesley Blair (1857-1939) = Ida Mabel Limouzin (1875-1943)
Eric Blair (George Orwell) (1903-1950)

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Astley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Robert Keaye. Justice of the Peace, and Treasurer for Lame Soldiers under Elizabeth I.

Family/Spouse: Anne Flower. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Vincent Lowe before 1614. Vincent (son of Patrick Lowe and Jane Harpur) was born before 1 Nov 1592; was christened on 1 Nov 1592 in Derby, Derbyshire, England; died after 1638. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Duke (also styled Marquess in some sources) of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Knight of the shire for East Retford, 1614. Member of the Guiana Company, 1619. Succeeded his mother as 9th Lord Ogle. He was a courtier and a patron of the arts, and the author of several little-remembered plays. He is also remembered as one of the royalist commanders at Marston Moor, where his side lost to Parliament.

William married Margaret Lucas about Dec 1645. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Lucas and Elizabeth Leighton) was born about 1623 in St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex, England; died on 15 Dec 1673 in Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried on 7 Jan 1674 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Christopher Anketell on 9 Aug 1573 in Combe Florey, Somerset, England. Christopher (son of Christopher Anketell and Elizabeth Phillips) was born in of Stow Provest, Dorset, England; died before 1 Aug 1628. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Anthony Cope on 7 Apr 1600. Anthony (son of Edward Cope and Elizabeth Mohun) was born between 1548 and 1550; died on 6 Jul 1614. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1631

Family/Spouse: Grace Reddish. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1669, London, England

Notes:

Her second husband was the Rev. Sydrach Simpson, Master of Pembroke Hall at the University of Cambridge.

Isabella married John Launce about 1619. John (son of Robert Launce and Susan Tubb) was born about 1597 in of Penair in St. Clement, Cornwall, England; died before 25 Jun 1635; was buried on 25 Jun 1635 in St. Clement, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 8 Aug 1579, All Hallows', Almondbury, Yorkshire, England´

Grace married Richard Saltonstall on 28 Nov 1609 in Almondbury, Yorkshire, England. Richard (son of Samuel Saltonstall and Anne Ramsden) was born before 4 Apr 1586; was christened on 4 Apr 1586 in Rookes Hall, Highcliffe in Hipperholme, Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died before 25 Oct 1661 in Crayford, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Sewall. Henry (son of Richard Sewall and Mary Dugdale) was born in of Charles County, Maryland; died between 25 Apr 1664 and 17 Apr 1665 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Charles Calvert, Governor of Maryland about 1666. Charles (son of Cecilius Calvert and Anne Arundell) was born on 27 Aug 1637; died on 21 Feb 1715; was buried in St. Pancras, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]