Henry Lee of Ditchley
Henry Lee | |
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Born | March 1533 |
Died | 12 February 1611 |
Spouse | Anne Paget |
Children | John Lee Henry Lee Mary Lee |
Parent(s) | Sir Anthony Lee Margaret Wyatt |
Sir Henry Lee
Family
Henry Lee, born in
Career
Lee became Queen Elizabeth I's champion in 1570 and was appointed
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Buckinghamshire in 1558, 1559, 1571 and 1572.[8]
Sir Henry, like most courtiers of the day, had a portrait painted by a leading artist. In Lee's picture, his sleeves are decorated with
Lee built up an estate at
He died on 12 February 1611.
Marriage and children
Lee married, on 21 May 1554, Anne Paget (d.1590), the daughter of William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, and his wife Anne Preston, by whom he had two sons, John Lee and Henry Lee, both of whom died young, and a daughter, Mary Lee, who is said to have eloped with one John Worsley in February 1579, but died without issue, likely in 1583.[11] [12][4]
Lee's wife, Anne, was buried at
He was the cousin of Captain Thomas Lee, a troublesome soldier on whose behalf he allowed himself to be bound over and who was put to death in 1601 for an involvement in the treason of the 2nd Earl of Essex.
His heir and cousin, also Sir Henry Lee, became 1st
Notes
- ^ Richardson IV 2011, p. 382.
- ^ Burrow 2004.
- ^ Chambers 1936, pp. 19, 247–8.
- ^ a b Fernie 2004.
- ^ Lee, Sir Anthony (1510/11-49), of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, History of Parliament. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
- ^ Lee, Richard (bef.1548–1608), of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire; Dane John, Canterbury and the Savoy, London, History of Parliament. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
- ISBN 9781843839811.
- ^ "LEE, Sir Henry (C.1532-1611), of Quarrendon, Bucks. | History of Parliament Online".
- ISBN 978-1-4724-3741-9.
- ^ Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, vol. 3 (London, 1838), p. 26: Sara Jayne Steen, Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart (Oxford, 1994), p. 182.
- ^ Banks 1808, p. 414.
- ^ Chambers 1936, pp. 78–9, 248.
- ^ Chambers 1936, p. 77.
- ^ Sue Simpson, Sir Henry Lee: Elizabethan Courtier (Routledge, 2016), p. 177.
- ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 2 (London, 1828), pp. 209-10.
- ^ Norman Egbert McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, vol. 1 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 263.
References
- Archbold, William Arthur Jobson (1892). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In
- Banks, T.C. (1808). The Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England. Vol. II. London: T. Bensley. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- Burrow, Colin (2004). "Wyatt, Sir Thomas (c.1503–1542)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30111. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Buler, Katherine (2015). Music in Elizabethan Court Politics. Woodrbidge: Boydell and Brewer. pp. 129–42. ISBN 9781843839811.
- Chambers, E.K. (1936). Sir Henry Lee; An Elizabethan Portrait. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Fernie, Ewan (2004). "Lee, Sir Henry (1533–1611)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16288. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Jack, Sybil M. (2004). "Paget, William, first Baron Paget (1505/6–1563)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21121. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. IV (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 978-1460992708.)
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External links
- Sir Henry Lee. Retrieved 26 July 2008
- The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers