John Stourton, 9th Baron Stourton (1553–1588) was the elder son of

Charles Stourton, 8th Baron Stourton Charles Stourton, 8th Baron Stourton (c. 1520 – 1557) was an English peer who was executed for murder. Life He was the eldest son of William Stourton, 7th Baron Stourton and Elizabeth Dudley, daughter of Edmund Dudley, a key adviser to Henr ...

by his wife Anne Stanley, a daughter of

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. His father was executed for

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when he was a small child, but the property passed to the son.

Life

He was one of the peers who tried

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. He married ca. 1580 Frances Brooke (b. 12 January 1562), daughter of Sir

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, by his second wife Frances Newton. He was succeeded by his brother

Edward Stourton, 10th Baron Stourton Edward Stourton, 10th Baron Stourton (c. 1555 – 7 May 1633) was a younger son of Charles Stourton, 8th Baron Stourton and Lady Anne Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby. His father was executed for murder in 1557. He succeeded ...

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References

* Kidd, Charles and Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1995 edition). London: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 1588 deaths *09 1553 births 16th-century English nobility {{England-baron-stub