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Earl of Rutland Earl () is a rank of the nobility in the United Kingdom. The title originates in the Old English word ''eorl'', meaning "a man of noble birth or rank". The word is cognate with the Scandinavian form ''jarl'', and meant "chieftain", particular ...

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, near to his seat of

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Arms of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland

Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland, 12th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KG (c. 1497{{snd20 September 1543), of

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(adjacent to the small county of

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), was created

by King

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in 1525.

Origins

Thomas was the son of Sir

(c. 1470{{snd1513) by his wife Anne St Leger (1476–1526). His maternal grandparents were Sir

Thomas St Leger Thomas St Leger, Archdeacon of Kells, was the son of Ralph St. Leger, of a long established Anglo-Norman family; his mother belonged to the de Malemains family. He was elected Bishop of Meath before 5 November 1282, but was not successful in hold ...

(c. 1440–1483) and Anne of York (1439–1476), a daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and

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. She was thus an elder sister of Kings

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(1461–1483) and of his brother and eventual successor,

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(1483–1485). Her other brothers were Edmund, Earl of Rutland and

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. Her sisters included

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and

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. Anne St Leger's first cousin,

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, married Henry Tudor and was the mother of

and grandmother of

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. Thomas Manners was thus a second cousin to Henry VIII.

Career

On 22 June 1513, Thomas landed at

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on the French expedition. In 1513 he became Baron Ros, probably aged 16 or 17, on his father's death and was summoned in 1515 to Parliament. He was at the

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in 1520 and at King

's meeting with

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afterwards. In December 1521 he became cupbearer to the king. In January 1522 he was made steward of Pickering, Yorkshire, and from April to October of the same year he held the appointment of Lord Warden of the East Marches, in which he was succeeded by

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. He received the wardenship of

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on 12 July 1524, an office which afterwards became practically hereditary in his family. He was appointed a

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on 24 April 1525 and on 18 June 1525 he was made

, a title previously held by members of the house of York.{{Cite EB1911, wstitle=Rutland, Earls and Dukes of, volume=23, page=943 He was a great favourite of King Henry VIII and received many grants, including the keepership of

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on 12 July 1526, and

, which remains the chief seat of his family. On 11 October 1532 he landed with the king in France. He was at the coronation of Queen

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in 1533 and later took part in her trial. Rutland was actively engaged in meeting the

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. He held a joint command with the Earls of

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and

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and marched to

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and thence to Newark, Southwell, and Doncaster against the northern rebels.{{sfn, Archbold, 1893 He was steward of many monasteries, and from his various ancestors had claims through their having founded certain of the houses. Hence at the Dissolution of the Monasteries, he received numerous grants of monastic property. In

he obtained Charley, Garradon, and by exchange, Croxton; in Yorkshire he received Beverley, Warter, and Rievaulx by exchange. Jointly with

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, he obtained Belvoir, Eagle, and Kyme in Lincolnshire, and in Yorkshire Nun Burnham. When

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came to England to marry the king, Rutland was appointed her

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and met her at

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on her approach to

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, after her unfortunate interview with the king at

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. In 1542 he became constable of

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. He went to the border again on 7 August 1542 as Warden of the Marches, but was recalled, in consequence of illness, in November of the same year. From

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he wrote on 7 November to the

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: ''"As Gode best knows, I ame in a poyur and febvll estat"''. He died on 20 September 1543.{{sfn, Archbold, 1893

Knight of the Garter

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Manners, about two months before receipt of his earldom, was nominated by Henry VIII as a

in 1525. His

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of brass inlaid with coloured enamel, survives in

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. It is inscribed: {{lang, enm, Thom(a)s lord roosse, Erle of rotteland. Above the escutcheon, circumscribed by the Garter, is the crest of Manners: ''A peacock in pride''. The arms displayed are: ''quarterly'':
1 and 4, or, two bars azure a chief quarterly of the last and gules, on the 1st and 4th, two fleurs-de-lis or, on the 2nd and 3rd, a lion passant guardant or (Manners, with augmentation for the 1st Earl);
2, a grand quarter consisting of
: 1, gules, three water bougets argent (Ros) : 2, azure, a Catherine wheel or (Belvoir) : 3, gules, three Catherine wheels argent (Espec) : 4, argent, a fess between two bars gemels gules (Badlesmere) 3, a grand quarter consisting of
: 1, gules, three lions pasant guardant or, within a bordure argent (Holland, Earls of Kent) : 2 and 3, argent, a saltire engrailed gules (Tiptoft) : 4, or, a lion rampant gules (Edward Charleton, 5th Baron Charleton of Powys (1370–1421))

Marriages and children

He married twice: *Firstly in about 1512 to Elizabeth Lovell. The marriage ended in 1513. *Secondly in about 1523 he married Eleanor Paston, daughter of Sir William Paston of Norfolk. They had the following children:

Sons

Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, 13th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KG (23 September 152617 September 1563) was an English nobleman. Origins He was the son and heir of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland and his wife Eleanor Paston. Career Li ...

(1526–1563) *

Sir John Manners ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(c. 1534–1611), of

Haddon Hall Haddon Hall is an English country house on the River Wye near Bakewell, Derbyshire, a former seat of the Dukes of Rutland. It is the home of Lord Edward Manners (brother of the incumbent Duke) and his family. In form a medieval manor house, it ...

, Derbyshire, husband of

Dorothy Vernon Dorothy Vernon (1544 – 24 June 1584), the younger daughter of Sir George Vernon and Margaret ''nee'' Talbois (or Tailboys), was the heiress of Haddon Hall, an English country house in Derbyshire with its origins in the 12th century. She marr ...

, grandfather of

John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland (10 June 160429 September 1679), was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641 when he inherited the title Earl of Rutland on the death of his second cousin George Manners, 7t ...

and great-grandfather of

John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland and 9th Earl of Rutland (29 May 163810 January 1711) was a British MP, and Whig politician. His divorce from his first wife caused much comment, partly because it was thought to have political implications. Lif ...

and

Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, 11th Earl of Waterford (1623 – 16 March 1668), was an English peer who was a Royalist officer in the English Civil War. He survived the war only to be mortally wounded in a duel with the Duke of Buckingh ...

. * Sir Thomas Manners, grandfather of Thomas Vavasour, 1st Baronet. * Roger Manners (died 1607) of

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, a squire of the body to

,Edmund Lodge, ''Illustrations of British History'', vol. 3 (London, 1791), p. 66. died unmarried *Oliver Manners, Esq.

Daughters

* Gertrude Manners, who married

George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, 6th Earl of Waterford, 12th Baron Talbot, KG, Earl Marshal (c. 1522/1528 – 18 November 1590) was an English magnate and military commander. He also held the subsidiary titles of 15th Baron Strange of ...

and was the mother of

Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, 7th Earl of Waterford, 13th Baron Talbot, KG (20 November 1552 – 8 May 1616), styled Lord Talbot from 1582 to 1590, was a peer in the peerage of England. He also held the subsidiary titles of 16th Baron ...

and Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury. *Anne Manners, who married

Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland (1525–Aug 1563) was an English peer, member of the House of Lords and Knight of the Garter. Life He was born in 1525, the eldest son of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland and his wife, Katherine Staf ...

and was the mother of Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland. * Frances Manners, who married

Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny Henry Nevill, 6th and ''de jure'' 4th Baron Abergavenny KB (between 1527 and 153510 February 1587) was an English peer. He was the son of Sir George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny, and Mary Stafford (daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Bucki ...

and was grandmother of

Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1 February 158023 March 1629), (styled Sir Francis Fane between 1603 and 1624) of Mereworth in Kent and of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Comm ...

. *Katherine Manners, who married Sir Henry Capell,

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. *Elizabeth Manners (c. 1530{{snd8 August 1570), who married Sir John Savage of

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, whose mother was Elizabeth Somerset, daughter of

Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, KG (c. 146015 March 1526) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the legitimised bastard son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset by his mistress Joan Hill. Origins He was born in about ...

by his wife

Elizabeth Herbert, 3rd Baroness Herbert Elizabeth Herbert, 3rd Baroness Herbert (c. 1476 – 27 August 1507) was the sole heir and daughter of William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, and his first wife, Mary Woodville. Her father died on 16 July 1491, and she inherited extensive ...

. She was the grandmother of

Thomas Savage, 1st Viscount Savage Thomas Savage, 1st Viscount Savage, 2nd Baronet ( 1586 – 20 November 1635), was an English peer and courtier in the reign of Charles I of England, Charles I. Early life Savage was the eldest son of Sir John Savage (1554 – 1615), 1st Baronet, ...

and the great-grandmother of John Savage, 1st Earl Rivers and was the great-great-grandmother of

Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton (c. 1630 – 27 February 1699), was an English nobleman, the son of John Paulet, 5th Marquess of Winchester, and his first wife, Jane Savage. Career Paulet succeeded his father as the sixth Marquess of ...

. *Isabel Manners, died young.

Death and burial

{{Unreferenced section, date=April 2012 He died on 20 September 1543 and was buried in Bottesford Church,

. His body was embalmed with spices purchased in Nottingham and a surgeon encased it in wax. A

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then encased it in a close-fitting leaden shell.

Monument

His surviving

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chest tomb Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. The term encompasses a wide variety of forms, including cenotaphs ("empty tombs"), tomb-like monuments which do not contain human remains, and comm ...

in the chancel of St Mary's Church, Bottesford, Leicestershire, was created by Richard Parker of Burton-on-Trent with John Lupton (rough mason) and his father, over a period of six days, the floor having been strengthened to the weight of the tomb. Thomas Richard Parker "the alabaster man" was paid £20 for the sculpture and the supervision of its positioning. Surviving accounts at Belvoir Castle record in considerable detail the arrangements for this work and the funeral. As well as commemorating the 1st Earl of Rutland and his wife this monument also marks the first of the future burials in the church of eight earls and four dukes over a period of almost 250 years.

Description

The Earl's effigy is dressed in

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and full plate armour with a loose military

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over which he wears the mantle of the

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while on his left leg is the Garter itself. His head wears a basic form of

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and rests on his tilt-heaume on top of which is the Manners

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of ''a peacock in pride'' on a

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. The feet rest on a

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, from which the horn is now missing. The effigy of the countess is dressed in a gown and a short cape and wears an ermine-trimmed mantle fastened by a cordon whose ends reach almost to her feet, under which is a griffon. Tasselled cushions support her head. The base of the tomb is decorated with corner pilasters, tasselled swags and "weeper" figures representing knights, ladies and others.

Ancestry

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George Manners, 11th Baron Ros George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros of Helmsley (c. 147027 October 1513) was an England, English peerage, peer. Family George Manners, born about 1470, was the son of Sir Robert Manners (d. 1495) of Etal, Northumberland, and Eleanor de Ros ...

, 3= 3. Anne St Leger , 4= 4. Sir Robert Manners , 5= 5. Eleanor Ros , 6= 6.

Sir Thomas St Leger Sir Thomas St Leger KB (c. 1440 – executed 13 November 1483) was the second son of Sir John St Leger (d.1441) of Ulcombe, Kent, and his wife, Margery Donnet. He was also the second husband of Anne of York (10 August 1439 – 1 February 147 ...

, 7= 7. Anne of York , 8= 8. Sir Robert Manners , 9= 9. Joan Ogle , 10= 10.

Thomas Ros, 9th Baron Ros Thomas Ros or Roos, 9th Baron Ros of Helmsley (9 September 1427 – 17 May 1464) was a follower of the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses. Family Thomas Ros, born 9 September 1427, was the eldest son of Thomas Ros, 8th Baron Ros ...

, 11= 11. Eleanor Tiptoft , 12= 12. Sir John St Leger , 13= 13. Margery Donnet , 14= 14. Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York , 15= 15.

References

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Attribution

*{{DNB, wstitle=Manners, Thomas , first=William Arthur Jobson, last= Archbold, volume=36

External links

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Retrieved 17 May 2009 * Burke, John, and Bernard Burke. ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland.'' Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1977
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