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Baron Dacre Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, every time by writ. History The first creation came in 1321 when Ralph Dacre was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dacre. He married Margaret, 2nd Baroness Mult ...

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Thomas Fiennes, 8th Baron Dacre Thomas Fiennes, 8th Baron Dacre (1472 – 9 September 1534) was an English peer and soldier, the son of Sir John Fiennes. Career He was born in 1472, the son of Sir John Fiennes (born c.1447, son of Richard Fiennes, 7th Baron Dacre born 1415) ...

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Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre {{Infobox noble , name = Gregory Fiennes , title = Baron Dacre , image = Gregory Fiennes Baron Dacre.jpg , caption = ''Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre, detail of a portrait by Hans Eworth, 1559'' ...

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notable for his conviction and execution for murder. He was the son of Sir Thomas Fiennes (d. 1528) and Jane, daughter of

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Early life

He was born in or before 1516, the son and heir of Sir Thomas Fiennes and Jane (d. 1539), daughter of Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley. When his father died in 1528 he became heir apparent to his grandfather's title and the family seat at

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in Sussex, and he succeeded to the title at the age of approximately 19 in 1533.{{sfn, MacMahon, 2004

Marriage

In 1536 he married

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, daughter of

George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny KG, PC (c.1469 – 1535), the family name often written Neville, was an English nobleman and courtier who held the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Origins He was the son of George Nevill, 4th Bar ...

and his third wife, Mary, daughter of

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, by whom he had three children: *Thomas Fiennes, who died at the age of fifteen in 1553{{sfn, MacMahon, 2004 *

, who may have been named after

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's son, Gregory.{{sfn, MacCulloch, 2018, p=326 * Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre

Career

He was a member of the jury at the trial of

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in 1536, and of Thomas, Lord Darcy, and John, Lord Hussey in May 1537 (for their part in the

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), and of

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and the

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in 1538 for the

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.{{sfn, MacMahon, 2004 In October 1537, he attended the baptism of Prince Edward and bore the canopy at Queen Jane's funeral the following month. He was also among those lords who greeted Anne of Cleves at Rainham Down on

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in 1539.{{sfn, MacMahon, 2004

Downfall and death

On 30 April 1541 Dacre led a party of gentlemen including his brother-in-law John Mantell, John Frowds, George Roidon, Thomas Isleie, and two yeomen Richard Middleton and John Goldwell, to poach on the lands of Sir Nicholas Pelham of Laughton. During the escapade, they encountered John Busbrig (or Busbridge), James Busbrig, and Richard Summer who were servants of Pelham. The encounter turned into an affray during which John Busbrig was fatally wounded. Dacre and several others were charged with murder and arraigned before the

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, Lord Audley of Walden on 27 June. Dacre originally entered a plea of not guilty but was later persuaded to change it to guilty and throw himself upon the King's mercy in the hope of a reprieve. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he was not executed by beheading but was hanged at Tyburn on 29 June 1541.{{sfn, Barrett-Lennard, 1908, pp=196-206 An account of the execution in

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says: :''he was led on foot, between the two sheriffs of London, from the Tower through the city to Tyburn, where he was strangled as common murderers are, and his body buried in the church of

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.'' His only sister Anne's husband, John Mantell, was hanged along with his brother-in-law.{{sfn, MacMahon, 2004 Frowds and Roidon were also executed for the crime.

Gallery

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Hans Eworth Hans Eworth (or Ewouts; ) was a Flemish painter active in England in the mid-16th century. Along with other exiled Flemings, he made a career in Tudor London, painting allegorical images as well as portraits of the gentry and nobility.''Concise ...

's portrait of Mary Neville, with a posthumous image of her husband in the background File:HERSTMONCEUX CASTLE AND BRIDGE.JPG, Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex Dacre's family were stripped of their lands and title, but the title was restored to his second son Gregory in 1558 (the elder son Thomas died before the restitution, aged 15).{{sfn, MacMahon, 2004

In popular culture

Fiennes's case was briefly mentioned in the

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''.

Notes

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References

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, isbn=9780141967660 , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qLBwDQAAQBAJ *{{cite ODNB , last1=MacMahon , first1=Luke , title=Fiennes, Thomas, Ninth Baron Dacre (b. in or before 1516, d. 1541) , date=23 September 2004 , doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9414

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