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Source for: John Stanhope, 1545 - 27 JUL 1623
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Property source: S958Page: Sir John Stanhope c1545 & family
Text: Sir John Stanhope, 1545-9/3/1621, 1st. Baron Stanhope of Harrington, in the county of Northampton. He fulfilled various offices for Queen Elizabeth, who conferred the honour of knighthood on him, and of whom he was a great favourite: 'During Raleigh's absence, Elizabeth turned the beams of her favour on Sir John Stanhope, who could not remain two days from court without being enquired for.' [James Augustus St. John, Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, 2005.] He was raised to the peerage by King James I. in 1605. He was brought up at Shelford, and, on entering public life, was thrice returned to Parliament, for Marlborough, Truro, and Rochester respectively. As Treasurer of the Chamber, he was instructed to pay a certain William Shakespeare and company the sum of 21s. for their services. He married [1] Joan Knollys, daughter of Wm. Knollys, by whom he had no issue; [2] Margaret MacWilliams, 1566-1611, daughter of Henry MacWilliams of Stanborne, by whom he had one surviving son - Harleian MSS. 15891, f. 119 - Charles Stanhope, 1595-1675, inheritor of Edward the younger's estate at Caldecott, who succeeded as second baron, but died without issue, when the title became extinct. He had also two daughters: Catherine Stanhope, 1586-15/6/1657, who married Robert Cholmondeley, 26/6/1584-1659, Viscount Cholmondeley, afterwards Earl of Leinster. Elizabeth Stanhope, 1593-1643, who married Sir Lionel Talmash, 1/8/1591-6/9/1640, ancestor of the Earls of Dysart. Sir John Stanhope, temp. Elizabeth I., leased, from Gilbert of Gaunt, the Manor and Rectory of Bridlington, on condition of paying a salary of £8 a year to a priest. He was also a signatory to the Proclamation of the Succession of King James I.
Death source: S958Page: Sir John Stanhope c1545 & family
Text: Sir John Stanhope, 1545-9/3/1621, 1st. Baron Stanhope of Harrington, in the county of Northampton. He fulfilled various offices for Queen Elizabeth, who conferred the honour of knighthood on him, and of whom he was a great favourite: 'During Raleigh's absence, Elizabeth turned the beams of her favour on Sir John Stanhope, who could not remain two days from court without being enquired for.' [James Augustus St. John, Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, 2005.] He was raised to the peerage by King James I. in 1605. He was brought up at Shelford, and, on entering public life, was thrice returned to Parliament, for Marlborough, Truro, and Rochester respectively. As Treasurer of the Chamber, he was instructed to pay a certain William Shakespeare and company the sum of 21s. for their services. He married [1] Joan Knollys, daughter of Wm. Knollys, by whom he had no issue; [2] Margaret MacWilliams, 1566-1611, daughter of Henry MacWilliams of Stanborne, by whom he had one surviving son - Harleian MSS. 15891, f. 119 - Charles Stanhope, 1595-1675, inheritor of Edward the younger's estate at Caldecott, who succeeded as second baron, but died without issue, when the title became extinct. He had also two daughters: Catherine Stanhope, 1586-15/6/1657, who married Robert Cholmondeley, 26/6/1584-1659, Viscount Cholmondeley, afterwards Earl of Leinster. Elizabeth Stanhope, 1593-1643, who married Sir Lionel Talmash, 1/8/1591-6/9/1640, ancestor of the Earls of Dysart. Sir John Stanhope, temp. Elizabeth I., leased, from Gilbert of Gaunt, the Manor and Rectory of Bridlington, on condition of paying a salary of £8 a year to a priest. He was also a signatory to the Proclamation of the Succession of King James I.
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Name source: S958Page: Jane Stanhope, 1536-3/1/1617, who married Sir Roger Townshend of Raynham in Norfolk; from them descended the Viscounts Townshend. Their son was John Townshend of Raynham. In 1596, he accompanied the Earl of Essex on his expedition against Spain, and was at the taking of Cadiz, where he was knighted by the earl. He and Sir Matthew Browne, who had also been Knighted at Cadiz, fought a duel on Hounslow Heath. They both died, Sir Matthew on the spot, Sir John Townshend a liitle later, on 2/8/1603. He had married Anne Bacon, obit. 20/5/1630, daughter and heiress of Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey. They had issue: Sir Roger Townshend, created a Baronet in 1617, Stanhope Townshend, who died in London of a wound received in a duel in the Low-countries, and Anne Townshend, wife of John Spelman, Esq. [George John Gray, Athenae Cantab., p. 355, 1861.] Sir Michael Stanhope and Anne Rawson also had five sons, 'besides Margaret, Wytten, and Edward, who died in their infancy.' Inscription as above.
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Death source: S958Page: Sir Michael Stanhope, 1548-1625, of Sudbourne & family
Text: Sir Michael Stanhope, 1548-1625, of Sudbourne, near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, [nb.] not Sudbury, as Collins and others make it. He was knighted in the first year of King James 1. He married Anne Read, daughter of Sir William Read of Osterley, Middlesex, and by her had three daughters, his co-heirs: Bridget Stanhope, married to George Fielding.* Jane Stanhope, who married Viscount Henry F. Fitzwater, son and heir of the Earl of Sussex. Elizabeth Stanhope, who married Lord George Berkley Mowbray Seagrave and Bruce, of Berkley Castle, in the county of Gloucester; this George being the xxi. Baron by descent.
* George Fielding was created, 22/11/1622, Lord Fielding of Lecaghe and Viscount Callan, in the peerage of Ireland, and also Earl of Desmond, after the death of Sir Richard Preston, knt., then enjoying the latter dignity : which Richard, Earl of Desmond, was drowned on his passage from Dublin to England in 1628, and leaving only a daughter. Fielding, Lord Callan, succeeded to the earldom. His lordship married Bridget Stanhope, daughter and coheir of Sir Michael Stanhope, knt., by whom he had: William Fielding, second Earl of Desmond, who inherited as third Earl of Denbigh. George Fielding, of St. Edmundsbury, who married a daughter of Sir John Lee. Sir Charles Fielding, an officer of rank in the army, and a privy councillor in Ireland. John Fielding, in holy orders, D.D., Canon of Salisbury and Chaplain to King William III., who married Bridget Cockayne, daughter of Scipio Cockayne, esq., of the county of Somerset, and had three sons and three daughters, of whom the youngest son, Lieutenant-General Edmund Fielding, married [firstly] Sarah Gould, daughter of Sir Henry Gould, knt., and had, with other issue, Henry Fielding, the celebrated author of Tom Jones. His second son was George Fielding, c. 1674 -28/8/1738, buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor. He was Lt. Col. of the Royal Regiment of Blues, and Groom of the Bedchamber to Queen Anne and George I.. He married Ann Sherman, 28/1/1682-c.1755, daughter of Bazaleel Sherman of Mitcham, Surrey, who dealt in coffee and other such luxury items, and Anne Norton. Their only child was Sarah Fielding, obit. 1795, who married, 1733, John Willis, the third son of the Right Reverend Richard Willis, Bishop of Gloucester,1714, Salisbury, 1722, and Winchester, 1723-24, and his wife Isabella Goddard?. Their second son was Richard Willis,1739 - 2/12/1802, of Churchford Hall, Capel St Mary, Suffolk, who married Anne Barnham. Their eldest son was Richard Willis 3/9/1766 - 15/12/1842, who married Anne Apperley, obit. 19/11/1853, daughter of Thomas Apperley and Esther Partridge. Their daughter was Sarah Anne Willis, b. 2/1/1801, in Monmouth, Wales. She married John Joseph Kane, 31/5/1796-1/10/1876, of Lincolnshire, captain of the 4th. Regiment of Foot and the Monmouthshire Militia, eldest son of John Daniel Kane, Lt. Col., 4th. Regiment of Foot, of Dublin, and Louisa Phillips. He served in the American war, of 1812, at the battle of New Orleans. His son was Edward Kane, who married Mora Bellini, their daughter being Blanche Irene Kane, who had a daughter Blanche Elmo Kane, by unknown father; Blanche Elmo Kane married Francis Joseph Ryan. Their son was Francis Albert Ryan, who married Patricia Aikens; their son being John Francis Ryan, who married Anne Young. Their daughter is Kate Ryan, married to Jason Wingrove, to whom I am indebted for the above lineage.
Earl Stanhope, see 'Notices', remarked of Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudbourne: 'There was once a magnificent monument to him in Sudbourne church, the more magnificent, perhaps, because it was erected in his own lifetime by himself.' [It did not mention his daughter Bridget. He had disinherited and disowned her as a result of a dispute over land she had inherited from her mother.] Here is its text:
'Here resteth, in assured hope to rise in Christ, Sir Michael
Stanhope, Knight, who served at the feet of Queen Elizabeth
of most happy and famous memory, in her privy chamber
xx. years, and of our sovereign King James, in the same
place, the rest of his days, who married Anne, daughter to
Sir William Read, of Osterley in the county of Mddlesex,
Knight, by whom he had 2 daughters, Jane married to
Henry Viscount F. Fitzwater, sonn and heire-apparent to
the Earle of Sussex; and Elizabeth, married to Lord George
Berkley Mowbray Seagrave and Bruce, of Berkley Castle,
in the county of Gloucester, this George being the xxi
Baron by descent. All honor, glory, praise, and thanks
be unto thee , O glorious Trinitie. Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. 1 Tim. i. 15.
Thou has redeemed me , O Lord God of Truth. Psalm
xxxi. 5. I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ. Phil.
i. 23. Death is to me advantage. Phil i. 21. I will take
the cup of salvation, and call upon yje name ofthe Lord.
Psalm cxvi. 13. He that glorieth, let him glory in the
Lord. 1 Cor. i. 31.
Name source: S958Page: Sir Michael Stanhope, 1548-1625, of Sudbourne & family
Text: Sir Michael Stanhope, 1548-1625, of Sudbourne, near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, [nb.] not Sudbury, as Collins and others make it. He was knighted in the first year of King James 1. He married Anne Read, daughter of Sir William Read of Osterley, Middlesex, and by her had three daughters, his co-heirs: Bridget Stanhope, married to George Fielding.* Jane Stanhope, who married Viscount Henry F. Fitzwater, son and heir of the Earl of Sussex. Elizabeth Stanhope, who married Lord George Berkley Mowbray Seagrave and Bruce, of Berkley Castle, in the county of Gloucester; this George being the xxi. Baron by descent.
* George Fielding was created, 22/11/1622, Lord Fielding of Lecaghe and Viscount Callan, in the peerage of Ireland, and also Earl of Desmond, after the death of Sir Richard Preston, knt., then enjoying the latter dignity : which Richard, Earl of Desmond, was drowned on his passage from Dublin to England in 1628, and leaving only a daughter. Fielding, Lord Callan, succeeded to the earldom. His lordship married Bridget Stanhope, daughter and coheir of Sir Michael Stanhope, knt., by whom he had: William Fielding, second Earl of Desmond, who inherited as third Earl of Denbigh. George Fielding, of St. Edmundsbury, who married a daughter of Sir John Lee. Sir Charles Fielding, an officer of rank in the army, and a privy councillor in Ireland. John Fielding, in holy orders, D.D., Canon of Salisbury and Chaplain to King William III., who married Bridget Cockayne, daughter of Scipio Cockayne, esq., of the county of Somerset, and had three sons and three daughters, of whom the youngest son, Lieutenant-General Edmund Fielding, married [firstly] Sarah Gould, daughter of Sir Henry Gould, knt., and had, with other issue, Henry Fielding, the celebrated author of Tom Jones. His second son was George Fielding, c. 1674 -28/8/1738, buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor. He was Lt. Col. of the Royal Regiment of Blues, and Groom of the Bedchamber to Queen Anne and George I.. He married Ann Sherman, 28/1/1682-c.1755, daughter of Bazaleel Sherman of Mitcham, Surrey, who dealt in coffee and other such luxury items, and Anne Norton. Their only child was Sarah Fielding, obit. 1795, who married, 1733, John Willis, the third son of the Right Reverend Richard Willis, Bishop of Gloucester,1714, Salisbury, 1722, and Winchester, 1723-24, and his wife Isabella Goddard?. Their second son was Richard Willis,1739 - 2/12/1802, of Churchford Hall, Capel St Mary, Suffolk, who married Anne Barnham. Their eldest son was Richard Willis 3/9/1766 - 15/12/1842, who married Anne Apperley, obit. 19/11/1853, daughter of Thomas Apperley and Esther Partridge. Their daughter was Sarah Anne Willis, b. 2/1/1801, in Monmouth, Wales. She married John Joseph Kane, 31/5/1796-1/10/1876, of Lincolnshire, captain of the 4th. Regiment of Foot and the Monmouthshire Militia, eldest son of John Daniel Kane, Lt. Col., 4th. Regiment of Foot, of Dublin, and Louisa Phillips. He served in the American war, of 1812, at the battle of New Orleans. His son was Edward Kane, who married Mora Bellini, their daughter being Blanche Irene Kane, who had a daughter Blanche Elmo Kane, by unknown father; Blanche Elmo Kane married Francis Joseph Ryan. Their son was Francis Albert Ryan, who married Patricia Aikens; their son being John Francis Ryan, who married Anne Young. Their daughter is Kate Ryan, married to Jason Wingrove, to whom I am indebted for the above lineage.
Earl Stanhope, see 'Notices', remarked of Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudbourne: 'There was once a magnificent monument to him in Sudbourne church, the more magnificent, perhaps, because it was erected in his own lifetime by himself.' [It did not mention his daughter Bridget. He had disinherited and disowned her as a result of a dispute over land she had inherited from her mother.] Here is its text:
'Here resteth, in assured hope to rise in Christ, Sir Michael
Stanhope, Knight, who served at the feet of Queen Elizabeth
of most happy and famous memory, in her privy chamber
xx. years, and of our sovereign King James, in the same
place, the rest of his days, who married Anne, daughter to
Sir William Read, of Osterley in the county of Mddlesex,
Knight, by whom he had 2 daughters, Jane married to
Henry Viscount F. Fitzwater, sonn and heire-apparent to
the Earle of Sussex; and Elizabeth, married to Lord George
Berkley Mowbray Seagrave and Bruce, of Berkley Castle,
in the county of Gloucester, this George being the xxi
Baron by descent. All honor, glory, praise, and thanks
be unto thee , O glorious Trinitie. Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. 1 Tim. i. 15.
Thou has redeemed me , O Lord God of Truth. Psalm
xxxi. 5. I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ. Phil.
i. 23. Death is to me advantage. Phil i. 21. I will take
the cup of salvation, and call upon yje name ofthe Lord.
Psalm cxvi. 13. He that glorieth, let him glory in the
Lord. 1 Cor. i. 31.
Birth source: S958Page: Sir Michael Stanhope, 1548-1625, of Sudbourne & family
Text: Sir Michael Stanhope, 1548-1625, of Sudbourne, near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, [nb.] not Sudbury, as Collins and others make it. He was knighted in the first year of King James 1. He married Anne Read, daughter of Sir William Read of Osterley, Middlesex, and by her had three daughters, his co-heirs: Bridget Stanhope, married to George Fielding.* Jane Stanhope, who married Viscount Henry F. Fitzwater, son and heir of the Earl of Sussex. Elizabeth Stanhope, who married Lord George Berkley Mowbray Seagrave and Bruce, of Berkley Castle, in the county of Gloucester; this George being the xxi. Baron by descent.
* George Fielding was created, 22/11/1622, Lord Fielding of Lecaghe and Viscount Callan, in the peerage of Ireland, and also Earl of Desmond, after the death of Sir Richard Preston, knt., then enjoying the latter dignity : which Richard, Earl of Desmond, was drowned on his passage from Dublin to England in 1628, and leaving only a daughter. Fielding, Lord Callan, succeeded to the earldom. His lordship married Bridget Stanhope, daughter and coheir of Sir Michael Stanhope, knt., by whom he had: William Fielding, second Earl of Desmond, who inherited as third Earl of Denbigh. George Fielding, of St. Edmundsbury, who married a daughter of Sir John Lee. Sir Charles Fielding, an officer of rank in the army, and a privy councillor in Ireland. John Fielding, in holy orders, D.D., Canon of Salisbury and Chaplain to King William III., who married Bridget Cockayne, daughter of Scipio Cockayne, esq., of the county of Somerset, and had three sons and three daughters, of whom the youngest son, Lieutenant-General Edmund Fielding, married [firstly] Sarah Gould, daughter of Sir Henry Gould, knt., and had, with other issue, Henry Fielding, the celebrated author of Tom Jones. His second son was George Fielding, c. 1674 -28/8/1738, buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor. He was Lt. Col. of the Royal Regiment of Blues, and Groom of the Bedchamber to Queen Anne and George I.. He married Ann Sherman, 28/1/1682-c.1755, daughter of Bazaleel Sherman of Mitcham, Surrey, who dealt in coffee and other such luxury items, and Anne Norton. Their only child was Sarah Fielding, obit. 1795, who married, 1733, John Willis, the third son of the Right Reverend Richard Willis, Bishop of Gloucester,1714, Salisbury, 1722, and Winchester, 1723-24, and his wife Isabella Goddard?. Their second son was Richard Willis,1739 - 2/12/1802, of Churchford Hall, Capel St Mary, Suffolk, who married Anne Barnham. Their eldest son was Richard Willis 3/9/1766 - 15/12/1842, who married Anne Apperley, obit. 19/11/1853, daughter of Thomas Apperley and Esther Partridge. Their daughter was Sarah Anne Willis, b. 2/1/1801, in Monmouth, Wales. She married John Joseph Kane, 31/5/1796-1/10/1876, of Lincolnshire, captain of the 4th. Regiment of Foot and the Monmouthshire Militia, eldest son of John Daniel Kane, Lt. Col., 4th. Regiment of Foot, of Dublin, and Louisa Phillips. He served in the American war, of 1812, at the battle of New Orleans. His son was Edward Kane, who married Mora Bellini, their daughter being Blanche Irene Kane, who had a daughter Blanche Elmo Kane, by unknown father; Blanche Elmo Kane married Francis Joseph Ryan. Their son was Francis Albert Ryan, who married Patricia Aikens; their son being John Francis Ryan, who married Anne Young. Their daughter is Kate Ryan, married to Jason Wingrove, to whom I am indebted for the above lineage.
Earl Stanhope, see 'Notices', remarked of Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudbourne: 'There was once a magnificent monument to him in Sudbourne church, the more magnificent, perhaps, because it was erected in his own lifetime by himself.' [It did not mention his daughter Bridget. He had disinherited and disowned her as a result of a dispute over land she had inherited from her mother.] Here is its text:
'Here resteth, in assured hope to rise in Christ, Sir Michael
Stanhope, Knight, who served at the feet of Queen Elizabeth
of most happy and famous memory, in her privy chamber
xx. years, and of our sovereign King James, in the same
place, the rest of his days, who married Anne, daughter to
Sir William Read, of Osterley in the county of Mddlesex,
Knight, by whom he had 2 daughters, Jane married to
Henry Viscount F. Fitzwater, sonn and heire-apparent to
the Earle of Sussex; and Elizabeth, married to Lord George
Berkley Mowbray Seagrave and Bruce, of Berkley Castle,
in the county of Gloucester, this George being the xxi
Baron by descent. All honor, glory, praise, and thanks
be unto thee , O glorious Trinitie. Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. 1 Tim. i. 15.
Thou has redeemed me , O Lord God of Truth. Psalm
xxxi. 5. I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ. Phil.
i. 23. Death is to me advantage. Phil i. 21. I will take
the cup of salvation, and call upon yje name ofthe Lord.
Psalm cxvi. 13. He that glorieth, let him glory in the
Lord. 1 Cor. i. 31.