Person Page - 1695

     John Beauchamp of Hache, co. Somerset lived at Hache, co. Somerset, England.²

     Juliana Foulhurst married Sir John Blount MP, Lord of Sodington & Mamble, son of Sir John le Blount of Sodington, Worcestershire and Isolda Mountjoy,
;
His 1st wife.^1,3,4,2
     Reference: Genealogics cites: Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 1999. 297.²

     John Blount of Kinlet/Sodington died; dvp.¹
      ; "John Blount of Sodington, ancestor of the Blounts, Baronets of Sodington."²

     Helen (?) married Sir John Blount MP, Lord of Sodington & Mamble, son of Sir John le Blount of Sodington, Worcestershire and Isolda Mountjoy,
;
His 3rd wife.^1,3,2
Helen (?) died after 1423.¹
     Reference: Genealogics cites: Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 1999. 297.²

     Katherine Boughton married William Howard KG, 1st Lord Howard of Effingham, of Lambeth, Surrey, son of Sir Thomas Howard Knt., KB, KG, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey and Agnes Tilney, before 18 June 1531
; his 1st wife.^1,4,2
Katherine Boughton died on 23 April 1535 at died testate s.p.m.^1,2
     Katherine Boughton was also known as Katherine Broughton.⁴

     John Boughton Esq., of Toddington, Bedfordshire married Anne Sapcote, daughter of Sir Guy Sapcote Knt.,
; her 1st husband.^1,3,2
     John Boughton Esq., of Toddington, Bedfordshire lived at Toddington, Bedfordshire, England.¹

     Anne Sapcote married John Boughton Esq., of Toddington, Bedfordshire
; her 1st husband.^1,2,3 Anne Sapcote married Sir Richard Jerningham
; her 2nd husband.^4,2 Anne Sapcote married John Russell KG, 1st Earl of Bedford in 1526.^5,2

      ; van de Pas cites: 1. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, London, Reference: 266
2. The Complete Peerage, 1936 , Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Howard de Walden, Reference: II 75.²

     Margaret Gamage married William Howard KG, 1st Lord Howard of Effingham, of Lambeth, Surrey, son of Sir Thomas Howard Knt., KB, KG, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey and Agnes Tilney, before 1536
; his 2nd wife.^1,2,3
Margaret Gamage died on 18 May 1581.^1,2

     Sir Thomas Gamage Knt., of Coity, Glamorganshire, Wales married Margaret St. John, daughter of Sir John St. John KB, of Bletsoe and Sybil (Sibyl) ferch Morgan ap Jenkins,
; his 1st wife.^2,3,7,4,8 Sir Thomas Gamage Knt., of Coity, Glamorganshire, Wales married Joyce Croft, daughter of Sir Richard Croft Knt., of Croft Castle,
; his 2nd wife.³ Sir Thomas Gamage Knt., of Coity, Glamorganshire, Wales was born circa 1490.³
Sir Thomas Gamage Knt., of Coity, Glamorganshire, Wales died in 1543; died testate.³
      ; van de Pas cites: 1. The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977, Paget, Gerald, Reference: P49407
2. The Complete Peerage, 1936 , Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Howard de Walden, Reference: V 9.⁴

Sir Thomas Gamage Knt., of Coity, Glamorganshire, Wales lived at Coity, Glamorganshire, Wales.¹

     Sir Robert Dudley Knt., KG, 1st Earl of Leicester married Amy Robsart, daughter of Sir John Robessart and Elizabeth Scott, on 4 June 1549.^1,5
Sir Robert Dudley Knt., KG, 1st Earl of Leicester married Douglas Howard, daughter of William Howard KG, 1st Lord Howard of Effingham, of Lambeth, Surrey and Margaret Gamage, in 1573
; Faris [1999, p. 327]: "According to her own allegation, and to many witnesses, [Douglas Howard] was married for the second time in the winter of 1573 to Robert Dudley, Knt., Earl of Leicester, widower of Amy Robsart (died 1560). This marriage was ignored or annulled and the Earl was married publickly (arousing thereby the fury of Queen Elizabeth) in 1578 to Lettice Knollys."
Richardson: "in the winter of 1573"; her 2nd husband; his 2nd wife.^1,3 Sir Robert Dudley Knt., KG, 1st Earl of Leicester married Lettice Knollys, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys Knt., KG, of Rotherfield Greys, co. Oxford and Katherine Carey, on 21 September 1578 at Wanstead, co. Essex, England.^1,6,7

Sir Robert Dudley Knt., KG, 1st Earl of Leicester died on 4 September 1588; died testate.³
     He was 1st Earl of Leicester of the 1564 cr in 1564.²

     Amy Robsart was born in 1534.² She married Sir Robert Dudley Knt., KG, 1st Earl of Leicester, son of John Dudley 1st (last) Duke of Northumberland and Jane Guilford, on 4 June 1549.^1,2

Amy Robsart died on 8 September 1560.^1,2
      ; Amy Robsart (1534-1560), the first wife of Queen Elizabeth's favorite Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, is best known for her death at the manor of Cumnor Place, Oxfordshire. On 8 September 1560 she was found dead at the bottom of the staircase with a broken neck. Dudley was accused of having her murdered so that he would be free to marry the queen. He was cleared of these charges in an enquiry headed by his brother-in-law Sir Henry Sidney.

A great article 'The Robessart Tomb in Westminster Abbey' by Cecil Humphery-Smith in 'Foundations', Volume 1 No. 3 (January 2004) indicates that Amy is descended from Edward I:
Edward I
Joan of Acre, countess of Gloucester
Margaret de Clare (1293/4-1342) m. 2), Hugh de Audley
Margaret de Audley (1318/20-1349) m. Ralph, 1st Earl of Stafford
Hugh, 2nd Earl of Stafford (1341-1386) m. Philippa Beauchamp
Katherine Stafford (c.1370-1419) m. Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of
Suffolk
Elizabeth de la Pole (c.1393-1440) m. 2) Sir Thomas Kerdeston, and had
Jane Kerdeston, married Sir John Robessart, captain of Valonges in Normandy. He died in 1447. They had an elder son:
Sir Thierry Robessart, born 1443, a ward of Alice Chaucer, duchess of Suffolk; knighted at Tewkesbury 1471, died 9 December 1496; buried
Kerdeston church; married Elizabeth Cromwell, who died 20 November
1535; buried Kerdeston church. They had a younger son:
Sir John Robsart, born about 1494, sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk 1547,
died 8 June 1554; married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Scott, of
Camberwell, Surrey. Their only child was:
Amy Robsart, born 1534, married 4 June 1549, Robert Dudley.

Cheers, -------Brad.

     Lettice Knollys was born on 6 November 1543.⁴ She married Walter Devereux KG, Lord Ferrers, 2nd Viscount Hereford, 1st Earl of Essex, son of Sir Richard Devereux 1st Viscount Hereford and Lady Dorothea Hastings, between 1560 and 1565
; her 1st husband.^6,7,4,2 Lettice Knollys married Sir Robert Dudley Knt., KG, 1st Earl of Leicester, son of John Dudley 1st (last) Duke of Northumberland and Jane Guilford, on 21 September 1578 at Wanstead, co. Essex, England.^1,4,2
Lettice Knollys married Sir Christopher Blount Knt. before August 1589
; Her 3rd husband.^6,7,4,2
Lettice Knollys died on 25 December 1634 at Drayton Basset at age 91.^6,4
      ; per van de Pas: [quote]Lettice Knollys was ten years younger than her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I; as well, she was more feminine, voluptuous and alluring. However, as a relative of the Queen she had been a Maid of Honour and, during this time, there may have been an 'understanding' with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

In the period of 1560 to 1565 she married Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, and they became the parents of two sons and two daughters. After her children were born, she started a more passionate liaison with the Earl of Leicester. Leicester's objective had been to make Queen Elizabeth jealous as well as pay her back for the favours paid by the Queen to Thomas Heneage, a gentleman of the Privy Chamber, who was presentable enough but hardly of sufficient distinction and charm to account for Elizabeth's surprise attentions. Leicester had been advised by Sir Nicholas Throckmorton 'make love to another lady, and discover how the Queen's Majesty takes it'. The liaison between Leicester and Lettice ended abruptly when the news of it reached Elizabeth. In between bouts of tears and bursts of wrath, the Queen sent Lettice from the Court and subjected Leicester to bitter scoldings and reproaches, accompanied by public warnings that 'she could lower him just as easily as she had raised him'. Meanwhile Elizabeth continued to pay attention to Thomas Heneage. Leicester then withdrew from Court but soon was restored to royal favour.

Several years later she met Leicester at Kenilworth and the flame kindled in their earlier relations not only broke out afresh but with far greater ardour. However, Lettice's husband, the Earl of Essex, had been suspicious over his wife's flirtation with Leicester ten years before, and particularly over the later arrival of a son, Robert, who could have been Leicester's. In November 1575 Essex, who was in Ireland, heard about Lettice being ill and hastened to England, declaring his intention of staying there for good. This presence held Leicester's ardour in check.

However, Leicester, one of the most influential members of the Privy Council, pressed that Essex should be sent back to Ireland to complete his mission. Despite the protests of the Earl of Essex, he was ordered to go and in August set out for Dublin. Within a few days he fell ill with severe abdominal pains and died 22 September 1576, at the age of thirty-six, after vowing that he had been poisoned. A post-mortem was held and death declared due to dysentery following the drinking of impure water.

Lettice and Leicester entered into a secret betrothal and she was discreetly installed at the White House at Wanstead, the manor and estate Leicester had recently acquired, six miles to the north-east of London. Soon Lettice was with child and her father, Sir Francis Knollys, close kinsman and trusted servant of the Queen, insisted on a formal and binding ceremony of marriage.

In September 1578, at Wanstead, they were wed. There was little that was secret about this ceremony; it was merely not public. Everyone knew of it save the Queen, for none had the hardihood to tell her. Leicester had opposed plans for the Queen to marry the French Duke of Alencon. Then to London came Monsieur Jean de Simier, envoy of Alencon. When an attempt was made to kill Simier, he chiefly suspected Leicester and, in revenge, while the Court was at Greenwich, he revealed to the Queen the secret of the marriage.

Elizabeth went into a frantic rage and, in her passion, would have sent Leicester to the Tower but his magnanimous enemy, the Earl of Sussex, fearing a public scandal that would follow, persuaded her to be content with confining him in the Miraflore Tower in Greenwich Park. Then Leicester's previous marriage to the very much alive Douglas Howard was revealed to the Queen. Douglas, herself remarried and fearing Leicester, denied there had been a marriage. This disappointed Elizabeth as gladly she would have voided the marriage of Lettice and Leicester.

Then, in 1579, Lettice gave birth to a son, Robert. When this child was two years old, he was formally betrothed to Arabella Stuart, a first cousin of James VI, King of Scots, and herself in line to the English throne. This was never revealed to Queen Elizabeth but what was revealed were the attempts to marry Lettice's daughter, Dorothy, to the young King of Scots, James VI. However, Dorothy eloped with Sir Thomas Perrot.

Some years later, in 1583, the Queen appointed Douglas's husband, Edward Stafford, as her ambassador to the King of France. In due course Douglas would regain her standing with the Queen but Elizabeth remained implacable towards Lettice. As for Leicester, Elizabeth soon forgave him and allowed him to return to his former place and influence. However, on 19 July 1584, the son of Lettice and Leicester died.

In 1584 Lettice's son, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, was introduced at Court by Leicester. Within three years he became a regular attendee at Court and was spending a great deal of his time with the Queen.

In the years that followed, Leicester suspected that Lettice was unfaithful to him and, on 4 September 1588 at Cornbury, the Earl of Leicester died. Leicester had owed the Treasury some 70,000 pounds and, once the Queen was over her initial grief, ensured that she obtained 20,000 pounds raised by the sale of effects.

Rumours soon blamed Lettice for having poisoned Leicester, for she had, it was said, for some time been indulging in an affaire with his Gentleman of the Horse, the twenty-three year old Sir Christopher Blount, whom Leicester had himself knighted after the young soldier lost a hand fighting in the Netherlands war. Men of honour and sense dismissed these slanders, especially those who knew Leicester to be a sick man, until they were seemingly confirmed less than a year later when she and Blount, nearly a quarter of a century her junior, were married. Lettice's financial position was not improved by her extravagant new husband, on whom she doted, and who periodically sold fine pieces of her jewellery, as well as the leases and lordships of some of her possessions.

Her son, Robert, became the favourite of Queen Elizabeth but paid the price for his treachery by being beheaded on 25 February 1601. Lettice's husband, Sir Christopher Blount, as he was involved in her son's plots, followed to the scaffold on 18 March 1601. Queen Elizabeth died on 24 March 1603 and Lettice, her cousin and rival, lived on for another thirty-one years to die on 25 December 1634.[end quote]⁴

; van de Pas cites: 1. The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Edinburgh, 1977, Paget, Gerald, Reference: M 7374
2. All the Queen's men, London, 1972. , Williams, Neville
3. The Complete Peerage, 1936 , Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Howard de Walden, Reference: V 140
4. The son of Leicester, London, 1964. , Lee, Arthur Gould, Reference: bio
5. Latin Dictionary, Family notes recorded, Venice, 1551, Knollys, Sir Francis, Reference: year of birth & date Tony Hoskins.⁴

     Katherine Tyrwhitt married Sir Henry Darcy Knt., of Bremham, Yorks, son of Sir Arthur Darcy Knt., of Brimham, Yorks and Mary Carew,
; his 1st wife.²
Katherine Tyrwhitt died in 1567; dsp & vp.²

     Sir William Tyrwhitt Knt., of Scotter, Lincolnshire married Isabel Girlington, daughter of William Girlington of Normanby and Frodington, Lincolnshire and Katherine Hildyard,
; her 2nd husband; four sons and three daughters.^1,2
Sir William Tyrwhitt Knt., of Scotter, Lincolnshire was buried after 19 March 1540 at Scotter, Lincolnshire, England.¹
Sir William Tyrwhitt Knt., of Scotter, Lincolnshire died between 19 March 1540 and 1541 at died testate, v. p..¹
     Sir William Tyrwhitt Knt., of Scotter, Lincolnshire lived at Scotter, Lincolnshire, England.¹ He was Sheriff of Lincolnshire at Lincolnshire, England.¹

     Isabel Girlington married Sir William Tyrwhitt Knt., of Scotter, Lincolnshire, son of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt Knt., of Kettleby, Lincolnshire and Maud Tailboys,
; her 2nd husband; four sons and three daughters.^1,3 Isabel Girlington married Christopher Kelke of Barnetby le Wold, Lincolnshire, son of Roger Kelke of Barnetby le Wold, Lincolnshire and Elizabeth de la See, circa 1516
; marriage settlement dated 1516; four sons.^5,2,3,4

Her estate was probated between 1 February 1559 and 1560
; P.C.C. 11 Mellershe.³
Isabel Girlington died between 13 December 1559 and 1 February 1560.¹
Isabel Girlington was buried between 13 December 1559 and 1 February 1560 at Scotter, Lincolnshire, England.¹
     Isabel Girlington left a will between 1559 and 1560; Dated 13 Dec 1559, Proved 1 Feb 1559/60.^1,3

     William Girlington of Normanby and Frodington, Lincolnshire married Katherine Hildyard, daughter of Sir Robert Hildyard Knt., of Winestead, East Riding, Yorkshire and Elizabeth Hastings,
; her 2nd husband; three sons and three daughters.^3,4
William Girlington of Normanby and Frodington, Lincolnshire died before 5 April 1540.^2,5,4
      ; van de Pas cites: Harleian Series Vol.16 The Visitations of Yorkshire , Reference.²

William Girlington of Normanby and Frodington, Lincolnshire lived at Normanby and Frodlington, Lincolnshire, England.¹

     Katherine Hildyard married William Girlington of Normanby and Frodington, Lincolnshire, son of Nicholas Girlington and Elizabeth Catterick,
; her 2nd husband; three sons and three daughters.^8,3 Katherine Hildyard married John Haldenby of Haldenby, West Riding, Yorkshire
; her 1st husband.^9,3
Katherine Hildyard died before 5 April 1540.⁹
     Katherine Hildyard left a will; Proved 5/4/1540.⁹

     Christopher Kelke of Barnetby le Wold, Lincolnshire married Isabel Girlington, daughter of William Girlington of Normanby and Frodington, Lincolnshire and Katherine Hildyard, circa 1516
; marriage settlement dated 1516; four sons.^1,2,3,7
Christopher Kelke of Barnetby le Wold, Lincolnshire died between 2 February 1523 and 1524; murdered testate.^8,3
     Christopher Kelke of Barnetby le Wold, Lincolnshire lived at Great Kelk, Foston on the Wolds, East Riding, Yorkshire, England.⁸

Christopher Kelke of Barnetby le Wold, Lincolnshire lived at Barnetby le Wold, Lincolnshire, England.⁸

     Sir Robert Tyrwhitt Knt., of Kettleby, Lincolnshire was born say 1510.¹ He married Elizabeth Oxenbridge, daughter of Sir Thomas Oxenbridge Knt., of Etchingham, Sussex and Elizabeth Puttenham, before 1546.^1,2

Sir Robert Tyrwhitt Knt., of Kettleby, Lincolnshire died on 16 November 1581 at died testate.¹
Sir Robert Tyrwhitt Knt., of Kettleby, Lincolnshire was buried after 16 November 1581 at Rigby, Lincolnshire, England; buried in a white alabaster tomb with his wife.¹
     He was Knight of the Shire for Lincolnshire at Lincolnshire, England.¹

     Elizabeth Oxenbridge was born circa 1529.¹ She married Sir Robert Tyrwhitt Knt., of Kettleby, Lincolnshire, son of Sir William Tyrwhitt Knt., of Scotter, Lincolnshire and Isabel Girlington, before 1546.^1,2

Elizabeth Oxenbridge died in 1589.¹

     Sir Thomas Oxenbridge Knt., of Etchingham, Sussex married Elizabeth Puttenham, daughter of Sir George Puttenham Knt.^6,3,2
Sir Thomas Oxenbridge Knt., of Etchingham, Sussex married Faith Devenish, daughter of Sir Richard Devenish Knt., after 1529
; his 2nd wife.³
Sir Thomas Oxenbridge Knt., of Etchingham, Sussex died on 28 March 1540.³
      ; descendant of King Henry III.⁶

     Elizabeth Puttenham married Sir Thomas Oxenbridge Knt., of Etchingham, Sussex, son of Sir Goddard Oxenbridge Knt., of Forde Place Brede, Sussex and Elizabeth Echingham.^1,2,5

     Ursula Tyrwhitt married Edmund Sheffield KG, 3rd Lord Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, son of John Sheffield KB, 2nd Lord Sheffield, of Butterwick, Lincolnshire and Douglas Howard, before 13 November 1581
; six sons and seven daughters.^3,2
Ursula Tyrwhitt died before 4 August 1618.^1,2
     She was living in May 1617.²

     Edmund Sheffield KG, 3rd Lord Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave was born on 7 December 1565 at only son and heir.^1,2 He married Ursula Tyrwhitt, daughter of Sir Robert Tyrwhitt Knt., of Kettleby, Lincolnshire and Elizabeth Oxenbridge, before 13 November 1581
; six sons and seven daughters.^1,2 Edmund Sheffield KG, 3rd Lord Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave married Mariana Irwin, daughter of Sir William Irwin Knt., on 4 March 1619
; his 2nd wife; three sons and two daughters.^1,2
Edmund Sheffield KG, 3rd Lord Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave died on 6 October 1646 at age 80.^1,2
     He was 1st Earl of Mulgrave between 5 February 1625 and 1626.^1,2

     Mariana Irwin married Edmund Sheffield KG, 3rd Lord Sheffield, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, son of John Sheffield KB, 2nd Lord Sheffield, of Butterwick, Lincolnshire and Douglas Howard, on 4 March 1619
; his 2nd wife; three sons and two daughters.^1,2

     Lady Frances Sheffield married Sir Philip Fairfax Knt., of Streeton, Yorkshire.³

Lady Frances Sheffield died before 9 June 1615.²
Lady Frances Sheffield was buried on 9 June 1615 at Bolton Percy, England.²
      ; van de pas cites: 1. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies of the United, States; Baltimore, 2004, Roberts, Gary Boyd, Reference: 186
2. A Genealogical History of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited and extinct peerages of the British Empire, London, 1866, Burke, Sir Bernard, Reference: 491.²