George Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre of Gilsland, 9th Baron Greystoke (c. 1561 – 17 May 1569) was an English peer and landowner in the

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. He was summoned to parliament at about the age of five.

Life

Born around 1561, he was the only surviving son of

Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre of Gilsland, 8th Baron Greystoke (''ca.'' 1527 – 1 July 1566) was an English Member of Parliament and after his father's death a peer and major landowner in the counties of Cumberland, Yorkshire and Northu ...

(c. 1527 – 1566), by his marriage to

Elizabeth Leyburne Elizabeth Leyburne, Duchess of Norfolk (1536 – 4 September 1567, Kenninghall, Norfolk), was a member of the English nobility. She first married Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre; following his death in 1566, she secretly married Thomas Howard, 4t ...

(1536–1567), the eldest daughter of Sir James Leyburne of

Westmorland Westmorland (, formerly also spelt ''Westmoreland''R. Wilkinson The British Isles, Sheet The British IslesVision of Britain/ref>) is an area of North West England which was Historic counties of England, historically a county. People of the area ...

. This was his father's second marriage.Dacre of Gilsland, Baron (E, 1473 - abeyant 1569)
at cracroftspeerage.co.uk He had a brother, Francis, who died in infancy, and three sisters –

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(21 March 1557 – 19 April 1630), Mary (4 July 1563 – 7 April 1578), and Elizabeth (born 12 December 1564) He succeeded his father as

Baron Dacre Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, each time by Hereditary peer#Writs of summons, writ. History The first creation came in 1321, when Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre, Ralph Dacre was Hereditary peer# ...

and

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on 1 July 1566, at the age of five. Soon after this, his widowed mother married

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, (10 March 1536 or 1538 2 June 1572), was an English nobleman and politician. He was a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and held many high offices during the earlier part of her reign. Norfolk was the s ...

, but she died in childbirth on 4 September 1567, thus Dacre and his three sisters were left as members of the household of their widowed step-father, Norfolk. The boy peer, aged no more than five, was summoned to parliament on 30 September 1566.George Fisher, ''A companion and key to the history of England'' (1832)
p. 532
/ref> After he died on 17 May 1569, his two

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ies, although claimed by his uncle Leonard, were found to have fallen into

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, leaving Dacre's three sisters as co-heiresses. By the age of fourteen, each of the three had been married to one of their stepbrothers, the sons of the Duke of Norfolk.

Notes

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