Henry Scrope, 7th Baron Scrope of Bolton, KB, (c. 1480-1533) was son and heir of

Henry Scrope, 6th Baron Scrope of Bolton Henry Scrope, 6th Baron Scrope of Bolton (''c''. 1468–1506) was the only son and heir of John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton. He inherited his father's lands and title at the age of about thirty, but, unlike his father, was never summoned to ...

Early life and marriage

His father died at some point in 1506; in November that year, Henry Scrope received

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of his inheritance on 15 November that year.

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was crowned King of England on 23 June 1509, and at which occasion Henry Scrope was made a

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.Cokayne, G.E., The Complete Peerage of England and Wales (Vol. XI, London, 1949),

Career

He was present at the

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in 1513, and was subsequently summoned to parliament between 1514 and 29. He continued to serve on the border in the early 1520s, being at

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in the company of the

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in 1523. He attended to various aspects of royal administration in Yorkshire, including a

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in 1512, assessing the taxable population ahead of the 1527

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, and was in attendance on the Scottish Queen,

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. He supported King Henry's attempt to divorce

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, being a signatory to a 13 July 1530 letter from the Lords Spiritual and Temporal to

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, pleading the king's case. In the early 1530s, Scrope was under pressure from King Henry to sell his 'Pisho' estate in Hertfordshire to the king, who desired to augment his royal

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lordship. This manor had been held by the Scrope family since 1393, and Henry Scrope wanted to swap it for other lands rather than sell it for cash, and it seems likely that he bribed Cromwell to reach this end, though Cromwell did not accept the bribe. Scrope had died, however, before negotiations were complete.

Marriages

Henry Scrope appears to have married, at the age of fourteen, his cousin Alice Scrope (who was aged approximately 12). She was,

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, Baroness Scrope of Masham, her father being

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and her mother, Elizabeth, who was a daughter of John Neville, Marquess Montagu. Alice was dead by 1510, and at some point, Henry Scrope married a second time. This was to another member of the Yorkshire

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, Mabel, daughter of Thomas, Lord Dacre of Gisland, herself Baroness Greystoke in own right.

Death

He died, between October and December 1533, and was buried alongside his ancestors, in

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. His second wife outlived him. He had had no children by his first marriage, but had three sons by Mabel, the eldest of whom,

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, succeeded him to the barony, and who the year after his father died, concluded the Pisho estate negotiations, being 'eventually forced to settle for money rather than land' from the crown. Letters between his father-in-law and Lady Maud Parr for the marriage of his son (and heir), Henry le Scrope, to her daughter,

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survive. The marriage never happened as Scrope wasn’t sold on it, but she would go on to become queen consort to King

. The younger Henry would die young, never fulfilling his father’s titles.

Ancestry

References

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