Edward Waldegrave
Sir Edward Waldegrave (c. 1516 – 1 September 1561) was an English courtier and Catholic recusant.
Family
Edward Waldegrave was the eldest son of John Waldegrave (died 1543) by Lora Rochester, daughter of Sir John Rochester of Essex, and sister of
Speaker of the House of Commons.[2]
Career
In 1547 Waldegrave joined the household of
rectory of West Haddon, Northamptonshire
. He also bought the manor of Borley in Essex, and made that his home.
In 1551 he was imprisoned in the
Master of the Great Wardrobe
.
Waldegrave was then elected to the
Queen Elizabeth
, for allowing mass to be celebrated in his house.
Waldegrave died in the Tower in 1561. His grandson was Sir Edward Waldegrave, 1st Baronet.
As Master of the Wardrobe, Waldegrave managed the financial account of the funeral of
Edward VI. Waldegrave had a budget of £1300 and a consignment of rich fabrics delivered from the queen's stock by Ralph Sadler.[4]
Marriage and issue
Waldegrave married Frances Neville, a daughter of the executed Sir Edward Neville, by whom he had five children.
Notes
- ^ Weikel 2004.
- ^ Carlyle 1899, p. 13.
- ^ "WALDEGRAVE, Sir Edward (1516/17-61), of Sudbury, Suff. and Borley, Essex". Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- ^ Craven Ord, 'Sir Edward Waldegrave's Account of the Burial of King Edward VI', Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 12 (London, 1809), pp. 334-396.
References
- Carlyle, Edward Irving (1899). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 13–14.
- Weikel, Anne (2004). "Waldegrave, Sir Edward (1516/17–1561)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28433. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Burke's Peerage & Gentry