Sir John Gage, 1st Baronet (died 3 October 1633) was an English

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and landowner, and ancestor of the

Viscounts Gage Viscount Gage, of Castle Island in the County of Kerry of the Kingdom of Ireland, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1720 for Thomas Gage, along with the subsidiary title of Baron Gage, of Castlebar in the County of Mayo ...

. Gage was the son of Thomas Gage and Elizabeth Guilford. He married Penelope Darcy, a daughter of Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers and Mary Kitson, on 28 June 1611. They had eight children. His wife had the possession of

Hengrave Hall Hengrave Hall is a Grade I listed Tudor manor house in Hengrave near Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, England and was the seat of the Kitson and Gage families 1525–1887. Both families were Roman Catholic recusants. Architecture Work on the ho ...

in Suffolk which she would leave to their third son Edward. This would become the seat of his descendants, the

Rokewode-Gage baronets The Gage, later Rokewode-Gage Baronetcy, of Hengrave in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 15 July 1662 for Edward Gage. The eighth Baronet assumed in 1843 by Royal licence the additional surname o ...

. He was made a baronet, of Firle in Sussex in the Baronetage of England, by

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on 26 March 1622. He was succeeded in his title by his eldest son,

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.John Debrett, ''The Baronetage of England'' (Volume 1, 1824), 315. His third son, Edward, was also created a baronet. John Gage's sister Elizabeth was the mother of the English

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Dame

Gertrude More Dame Gertrude More (born as Helen More; 25 March 1606 - 17 August 1633) was a nun of the English Benedictine Congregation, a writer and chief founder of the abbey at Cambrai which became Stanbrook Abbey. Life More was born in Low Leyton in Essex. ...

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Year of birth unknown Date of birth unknown 1633 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of England 17th-century English nobility

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