Sir John Mundy (died 1537) was a member of the

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and was

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in 1522.

Career

John Mundy was born in

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, Buckinghamshire, the son of Sir John Mundy and Isabel Ripes. In 1515 Mundy served as a

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. In 1522 he became

. He was knighted by

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in 1529 (some say 1523). In 1516 he purchased from

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the manors of

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, Mackworth and Allestree, all now part of the city of

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. He built a Tudor House and his descendants replaced the old manor house with a new mansion in about 1750

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. Sir John Mundy was buried in the church of St Peter, Westcheap in the City of London.

Marriages and children

Mundy married twice, firstly to a lady named Margaret Cermiechell. His second marriage was to Juliana Browne (died 1537), the daughter of his mayoral predecessor, Sir William Browne (died 1514), and the granddaughter of two mayors, Sir John Browne and Sir

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. By Juliana, Mundy had five sons and four daughters.

Sons

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, his heir. *George Mundy of Markeaton, who died childless. *Christopher Mundy of Markeaton, who died childless. *Thomas Mundy of Markeaton ''alias'' Wandsworth, the last Prior of Bodmin Priory. Before the

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of Bodmin in 1539 Prior Thomas granted favourable long leases on most of the priory's possessions to his friends and relatives, including Rialton to his brother John Mundy and Padstow to his niece Joanna Prideaux. *John Mundy of Markeaton and Rialton, Cornwall. He was admitted to the

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and married Joan Way, by whom he had children including: **Katherine Mundy, who married Lawrence Kendall, esquire, of

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, Cornwall. **Joanna Mundy, wife of William Prideaux (died 1564) of Trevose, St Merryn, Cornwall, who on 20 October 1537 received a 99-year lease of the manor of

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from Thomas Munday, the last Prior of Bodmin.Acorn Archive
/ref> William's nephew Sir Nicholas Prideaux (1550–1627), MP, built

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in 1592 within the manor of Padstow.

Daughters

*Margaret Mundy of Markeaton, who married firstly Nicholas Jennings, a member of the

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and a

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and Alderman of the

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; secondly, as his third wife,

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, younger son of the Duke of Norfolk and therefore became stepmother to Queen Katherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII by whom she had no children; and thirdly Henry Mannox. Although Steinman conjectured that Margaret Mundy's third husband was the Henry Mannox, executed in 1541, who had been music master to

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in her youth, and had been involved in sexual indiscretions with her which later contributed to her downfall, Bindoff established that Margaret Mundy's third husband, Henry Mannox, made his will on 18 March 1564, in which he disinherited both Margaret and his son. Margaret (née Mundy) was buried at

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, Surrey, on 22 January 1565. *Mildred Mundy of Markeaton, who married, by dispensation dated 27 June 1538, Sir John Harleston (18 May 1511 – 28 February 1569) of

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, Essex. *Elizabeth Mundy of Markeaton, who married Sir John Tyrrell (died 1574) son of

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, Suffolk. She is best known for allegedly confessing to the murders of the Princes in the Tower under

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's orders. *Anne Mundy of Markeaton, who married Thomas Darcy (c. 1511 – 1557) of Tolleshunt Darcy, Essex.

Notes

References

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External links

Will of Sir John Mundy, goldsmith and alderman of London, proved 26 September 1537, PROB 11/27/118, National Archives
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Will of Dame Julian Mundy, widow, proved 26 September 1537, PROB 11/27/117, National Archives
Retrieved 7 July 2013
Will of Vincent Mundy of Islington, Middlesex , proved 23 October 1573, PROB 11/55/413, National Archives
Retrieved 7 July 2013
Will of Sir John Tyrrell of Gipping, Suffolk, proved 22 June 1574, PROB 11/56/322, National Archives
Retrieved 7 July 2013
Mannock, Henry (by 1526–64), of London; Haddenham, Cambridgeshire; and Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, History of Parliament
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