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Source for: Juliana Stanhope, 1545 - 1583
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Name source: S958Page: Juliana Stanhope, 1534-1583, unhapilly married to her mother's ward, John Hotham of Scarborough. The ancestor of the Hotham family was Sir John de Trehouse, who obtained the Manor of Hotham, in Yorkshire, from William the Conqueror. John Hotham was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1584. He and Juliana Stanhope had issue: Elizabeth Hotham, Jane Hotham, and Juliana Hotham.
Death source: S958Page: Juliana Stanhope, 1534-1583, unhapilly married to her mother's ward, John Hotham of Scarborough. The ancestor of the Hotham family was Sir John de Trehouse, who obtained the Manor of Hotham, in Yorkshire, from William the Conqueror. John Hotham was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1584. He and Juliana Stanhope had issue: Elizabeth Hotham, Jane Hotham, and Juliana Hotham.
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Source for: Margaret Port, 14 OCT 1542 - ABT 1632
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Birth source: S958Page: Sir Thomas Stanhope & family
Text: Sir Thomas Stanhope, 1532-3/8/1596, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in 4 Eliz., and Nottingham alone in 16 Eliz.; who died at Stoke, and from whom the later peers of the Stanhope family are descended. Sir Thomas Stanhope was the eldest of eight surviving children. He was determined that his family would regain and then maintain their status. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in one of her stately progresses at Kenilworth Castle in 1575. A peerage from James I. ranked no higher, for she was 'Queen Elizabeth of famous memorie, that ever carried a sparing hand in the bestowing of honour.' [Extract from the monument to Sir George Hart, in the Church at Lullingstone, in Kent.] Sir Thomas Stanhope increased his wealth by purchasing the manors of Whatton, Bingham, and Toveton, and, significantly, by marrying the heiress Margaret Porte, 14/10/1542-1597, daughter of Sir John Porte of Etwall and Cubely, one of the Justices of the King's Bench, and Dorothy Montgomery, second of three daughters and coheirs of Sir John Montgomery, obit 7/4/1513, of Cubely in Derbyshire. By this way, the Earls of Chesterfield became Lord of the Manor and patron of the Rectory of Cubley, the ancient seat of the Montgomery family. It was for a time the seat of the Stanhopes. Margaret Porte's sisters, Elizabeth and Dorothy, were married respectively to Sir Thomas Gerard of Kingsley and Bryn, 1552-1601, Sheriff of Lancashire, and George Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, see anon. [Derbyshire, Rev. Daniel Lysons, being vol. v. of Magna Britannia, London, 1817.]
Sir Thomas Stanhope and Margaret Porte had issue: Sir John Stanhope of Shelford. An Oxford University entry, Col. Magd., dated 20/6/1574, states 'John Stanhopp arm. fil. in com. Not. nat. an. 15.' Edward Stanhope, 1562-1630. An Oxford University entry, Col. Magd., dated 20/6/1574, states 'Edwardus Stanhopp arm. fil. in com. Not. nat. an. 12.' Thomas Stanhope, 1564-1618. Anne Stanhope, 18/2/1576-18/11/1651, married to John Holles, 1st.Earl of Clare, 5/1564-4/10/1637. John Holles was the son of Danzell Holles and Anne Sheffield. He was raised to the peerage in 1616, as Baron Houghton, and, in 1624, paid £10,000 for the Earlship of Clare. He married Anne Stanhope, 'beautiful in her fardingales and antiquarian headgear', much to the ire of the Shrewsburys of Worksop. He had been bespoken to one of their daughters. The ensuing hostilities are well worth reading about According to the inquis. post mortem taken on the decease of her father, Margaret Porte was 14 years of age, in 1556, when she married Sir Thomas Stanhope. This was not an exceptionally young age at which to marry.
His most hated enemy was Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury. The earl's wife claimed that Sir Thomas's wickedness had caused him to become 'more ugly in shape than the ugliest toad in the world.' She hoped that all 'plagues and miseries' would befall him and that he would 'be damned perpetually in hell fire.' He did have a tender side, though, naturally not mentioned by his enemies, which is shown in a letter to Lord Burghley, addressed as his cousin, High Treasurer of England, dated 15th. July, 1590. He says of his daughter Anne: 'I love her very well, and have given her education accordingly.' Sir Thomas was interred in Shelford Church on the 26th September, 1596.
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Source for: Edward Stanhope, 26 FEB 1547 - 16 MAR 1608
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Birth 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.