Peter Vanlore
Sir Peter Vanlore | |
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| Born | Pieter van Loor c. 1547 Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Died | 6 September 1627 (aged 80) |
| Resting place | Lady Chapel, Church of St Michael, Tilehurst |
| Occupation(s) | Merchant, jeweller and moneylender |
| Spouse | Jacoba Teighbott or Thibault |
| Children | Peter Vanlore Jacoba Vanlore Elizabeth Vanlore Anne Vanlore Mary Vanlore Catherine Vanlore |
| Parent(s) | Maurits van Loor and Stephania |
Sir Peter Vanlore (c. 1547 – 6 September 1627) was a
Biography
He was born circa 1547 in
Jewellery career
In August 1601 he supplied a jewel with three fine pearls and fine stones from the East to
He sold a large diamond and a dozen diamond buttons to the Earl of Hertford for his embassy to Brussels in 1605, costing £3,450.[8] After the death of Anne of Denmark in 1619 Vanlore advanced £18,000 on some of her jewels to pay the costs of the king's summer progress.[9]
Vanlore was considered an authority on international finance. In 1610 he told the lawyer and newsletter writer Walter Pye that the annual income of Frederick V of the Palatinate, the new husband of Princess Elizabeth, was £200,000.[10]
He died in 1627.
Family
He married Jacoba Teighbott or Thibault on or before 19 July 1585, by whom he had 11 children including:
- Sir Peter Vanlore, 1st Baronet, bapt 1586, who married Susanna Becke of Antwerp, by whom he had a son and three daughters; Jacoba who married Henry Zinzan (son of Sir Sigismund Zinzan) and Susanna, who married Robert Croke, MP, and Mary, who married Henry Alexander, 3rd Earl of Stirling.[11]
- Jacoba Vanlore, bapt 1587, who married Johannes de Laeda
- Elizabeth Vanlore, who married Hans van den Bernden
- Anne Vanlore, who married Sir Charles Caesar
- Mary Vanlore, who married Sir Edward Powell, 1st Baronet, and was a direct ancestor of Margaret Thatcher
- Catherine Vanlore, who married Sir Thomas Glemham
References
- ^ V. Larminie, 'Vanlore, Sir Peter [formerly Pieter van Loor](c. 1547–1627)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
- ^ ISBN 9781905191024.
- ^ 'Parishes: Tilehurst', in P.H. Ditchfield & W. Page, A History of the County of Berkshire, Vol. 3 (V.C.H., London 1923), pp. 329-336 (British History Online, accessed 21 September 2018).
- ^ HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 11 (Dublin, 1906), p. 338.
- ^ Martin Wiggins, Drama and the Transfer of Power in Renaissance England (Oxford, 2012), p. 55: Frederick Devon, Issue of the Exchequer (London, 1836), p. 19.
- ^ Thomas Rymer, Foedera, vol. 16 (London, 1715), pp. 564-5
- ^ Maurice Lee, Dudley Carleton to John Chamberlain, 1603-1624 (Rutgers UP, 1972), pp. 53-4: Martin Wiggins, Drama and the Transfer of Power in Renaissance England (Oxford, 2012), p. 55.
- ^ HMC Manuscripts of the Marquis of Bath: Seymour Papers, vol. 4 (London, 1968), p. 202.
- ^ Norman Egbert McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1939), p. 251.
- ^ Henry Ellis, Original Letters, 3rd series, vol. 4 (London, 1846), p. 171.
- ^ Thomas Raymond, Reports of Divers Special Cases (Dublin, 1793), p. 403.
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