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Thomas Southwell (died 1568)
Sir Thomas Southwell (1537-1568) was an English landowner and courtier. He was a son of Robert Southwell and Margaret Neville (d. 1575), daughter of Thomas Neville. His mother recorded his birth date as 24 March 1537 in her Book of hours, which now held by Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. His home was at Woodrising, Norfolk. Marriages and children He married three times. His first wife was Margaret or Mary Jerningham, daughter of Sir Henry Jerningham. The marriage seems to have taken place in January 1558, when black silver tinsel fabric for Mary Jenrningham was obtained from the royal wardrobe. His second wife was Mary Mansel, daughter of Rice Mansel of Penrice and Oxwich. Their children included: * Robert Southwell (died 1598), his heir, who married Elizabeth Howard His third wife was Nazaret or Nazareth Newton. Their children included: * Elizabeth Southwell, mistress of the Earl of Essex and mother of Walter Devereux (died 1641). She married Barentine Moleyns. In hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Howard, Countess Of Carrick
Elizabeth Howard (1564—1646) was an English aristocrat and courtier to Elizabeth I of England. She was a daughter of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham and Catherine Carey. She was a maid of honour and lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth I, as was her sister Frances Howard, Countess of Kildare. She married Sir Robert Southwell (1563—12 October 1598) of Woodrising, Norfolk, on 17 April 1583. He was the son of Sir Thomas Southwell and his second wife Mary Mansell, a daughter of Sir Rice Mansell (1487–1559). Sir Thomas Southwell had a daughter with his third wife Nazareth Newton (d. 1583), another Elizabeth Southwell, who was a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth. She was a mistress of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and mother of Walter Devereux, who married Sir Barentine Moleyns or Molyns of Clapcot. After Robert Southwell's death in October 1598 Elizabeth Howard was left "a rich widow", and there was a rumour she would marry Sir William Woodhouse of Waxham, a cous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1537 Births
__NOTOC__ Year 1537 ( MDXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January ** Bigod's Rebellion, an uprising by Roman Catholics against Henry VIII of England, is crushed. ** Battle of Ollantaytambo: Emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui is victorious against the Spanish and their Indian allies led by Hernando Pizarro. * March – Diego de Almagro successfully charges Manco Inca's siege of Cuzco, thereby saving his antagonists, the Pizarro brothers. * March 12 – Recife is founded by the Portuguese, in Brazil. * April – Spanish conquest of the Muisca: Bacatá, the main settlement of the Muisca Confederation, is conquered by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, effectively ending the Confederation in the Colombian Eastern Andes. * April 1 – The Archbishop of Norway Olav Engelbrektsson flees from Trondheim to Lier, Belgium. * June 2 – Pope Paul III publishes the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen". Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, who was executed when Elizabeth was two years old. Anne's marriage to Henry was annulled, and Elizabeth was for a time declared illegitimate. Her half-brother Edward VI ruled until his death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to Lady Jane Grey and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, the Catholic Mary and the younger Elizabeth, in spite of statute law to the contrary. Edward's will was set aside and Mary became queen, deposing Lady Jane Grey. During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels. Upon her half-sister's death in 1558, Elizabeth succeeded to the throne and set out to rule by good counsel. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Stallinge
Nicholas Stallinge or Stallenge (d. 1605) was an English courtier. He was a gentleman usher to Queen Elizabeth and King James. His lands were at Kenn and Yatton in Somerset. In 1586 he visited Mary, Queen of Scots at Chartley and Fotheringhay and reported on her custody by Amias Paulet. Paulet was grateful for his help but attributed improvements in his allowance to Francis Walsingham. He died on 10 January 1605 and was buried at Kenn. Marriage and children He married Florence Stallinge (d. 1620), widow of Christopher Kenn of Kenn (d. 1593), and daughter of John Stallinge, on 14 September 1593. She was said to have been a gentlewoman and a servant to Kenn before her marriage. They had no children. Florence had two daughters by her marriage to Christopher Kenn, who became Nicholas Stallinge's wards: * Margaret Kenn, who married William Guise of Elmore in 1608. It was said that Kenn had disposed his estate to favour his unborn child, who he presumed would be a son. Her younge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoxne
Hoxne ( ) is a village in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk, England, about five miles (8 km) east-southeast of Diss, Norfolk and south of the River Waveney. The parish is irregularly shaped, covering the villages of Hoxne, Cross Street and Heckfield Green, with a 'tongue' extending southwards to take in part of the former RAF Horham airfield. In geology, Hoxne gives its name to the Hoxnian Stage, a British regional subdivision of the Pleistocene Epoch. Overview The area around the village is of significant archaeological importance, as the find-spot of the Hoxne Hoard of Roman treasure, very early finds of handaxesFrere, John: , in ''Archaeologia,'' v. 13 (London, 1800): 204-205 and as the type site for the Hoxnian Stage ("Hoxnian Interglacial"). In 1797, John Frere (1740-1807) found flint hand tools twelve feet deep in Hoxne Brick Pit, and he was the first person to recognise ancient tools as being man-made. One of his hand axes is in the British Museum. His letter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Devereux (died 1641)
Sir Walter Devereux (1591–26 July 1641) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1641. Walter was a close companion of his half-brother, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and played a significant role in Essex's actions on behalf of Parliament. Childhood and Ancestry Devereux was the son of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of EssexJosiah Wedgwood, ''Collections for a History of Staffordshire: Staffordshire Parliamentary History'', 2:1 (London, 1920), p. 52. and his mistress, Elizabeth Southwell.Johanna Rickman, ''Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England. Illicit Sex and the Nobility'' (Aldershot, 2008), p. 31. Elizabeth Southwell was the daughter of Thomas Southwell of Woodrising and his third wife, Nazareth Newton, and the half-sister of Vice Admiral Sir Robert Southwell. The Earl acknowledged his son and made financial arrangements on his behalf with an addendum to his will in July 1595, "Walter Devereux the base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl Of Essex
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, KG, PC (; 10 November 1565 – 25 February 1601) was an English nobleman and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years' War in 1599. In 1601, he led an abortive ''coup d'état'' against the government of Elizabeth I and was executed for treason. Early life Devereux was born on 10 November 1565 at Netherwood near Bromyard, in Herefordshire, the son of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, and Lettice Knollys. His maternal great-grandmother Mary Boleyn was a sister of Anne Boleyn, the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, making him a first-cousin-twice-removed of the Queen. He was brought up on his father's estates at Chartley Castle, Staffordshire, and at Lamphey, Pembrokeshire, in Wales. His father died in 1576, and the new Earl of Essex became a ward of Lord William Cecil of Burghley House. In 1577, he was admitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Moleyns
Elizabeth Moleyns (born 1563) was an English courtier. She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Southwell (d. 1568) of Woodrising, Norfolk and his third wife Nazareth Newton. She was a half-sister of Vice Admiral Robert Southwell. Elizabeth Southwell was a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth. There may be some confusion among ladies in waiting to Elizabeth and Anne of Denmark called "Mistress Southwell", including her niece Elizabeth Southwell who ran away from court and married Robert Dudley. This Mistress Southwell came to court in January 1600, as a replacement for Margaret Radclyffe, and Rowland Whyte noted she would be sworn in as a maid of honour, "My Lady Newton having sought it for her daughter". (Nazareth Newton was her aunt, not her mother). Elizabeth Dudley's mother was another "Mistress Southwell" at court, Elizabeth Howard, Countess of Carrick, the widow of Elizabeth Moleyns' brother Sir Robert Southwell. Southwell was a mistress of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazareth Newton
Nazareth or Nazaret Newton (died 1583) was a courtier and lady-in-waiting. Nazareth Newton was the youngest daughter of Sir John Newton (d. 1568) of East Harptree, Somerset, and Barrs Court, Gloucestershire, and Margaret, daughter of Sir Anthony Poyntz of Iron Acton and Elizabeth Huddesfield. At Harptree, the Newton family lived at Eastwood, a house built from the demolished stone of Richmont Castle. Her sister Frances Newton, who married William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, was a lady of the bedchamber. She was a chamberer to Queen Elizabeth in the 1560s. Lady Southwell Nazareth Newton was the third wife of Sir Thomas Southwell (d. 1568) of Woodrising, Norfolk. Their daughter, Elizabeth Southwell, was a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth. She was a mistress of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and mother of Walter Devereux. She married Sir Barentine Moleyns or Molyns of Clapcot. Their son was Michael Molyns. Thomas Southwell had married Margaret Jernegan, and secondl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Southwell (died 1598)
Sir Robert Southwell (1563–1598), of Woodrising, Norfolk, was an English politician. Robert was the son of Sir Thomas Southwell and his second wife Mary, daughter of Sir Rice Mansel. Thomas's third wife was Nazaret or Nazareth Newton. He was High Sheriff of Norfolk for 1589–90 and Vice-Admiral of Norfolk from 1585 to 1598. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Guildford in 1597. Robert was an admiral in 1588 in the battle with the Spanish Armada, in command of the '' Elizabeth Jonas''. His portrait was included in the Armada Tapestries. In 1591 the Privy Council asked him, as Vice-Admiral, to adjudicate in the case of a Scottish ship belonging to an Edinburgh merchant Archibald Johnston wrecked on the coast of Norfolk. He died on 12 October 1598 at Woodrising, and was buried on 16 November at Woodrising church. The chief mourner was his cousin Robert Mansell. Family On 27 April 1583 he married Elizabeth Howard, eldest daughter of Charles Howard, 1st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Nevill
Sir Thomas Neville or Nevill (by 1484 – 29 May 1542) was a younger son of George Neville, 4th Baron Bergavenny. He was a prominent lawyer and a trusted councillor of King Henry VIII, and was elected Speaker of the House of Commons in 1515. Family Neville was the fifth son of George Neville, 4th Baron Bergavenny (1436–1492), by his first wife, Margaret Fenn (d. 28 September 1485), the daughter and heir of Hugh Fenne. Career Although there is no formal record of his legal education, Neville was a member of Gray's Inn, and by 1514 had begun to oversee the legal process by which tenants in chief of the Crown sued out their liveries to obtain possession of their estates. In 1529 he was appointed to supervise the suing out of all liveries involving lands in England, Wales and Calais. Between the years 1516 and 1527 he was also in frequent attendance at meetings of King Henry VIII's council, and was active in both Star Chamber and the Court of Requests. It is said that by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
