Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex
Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex | |
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Born | c. 1483 |
Died | 27 November 1542 |
Father | John Radcliffe, 9th Baron FitzWalter |
Mother | Margaret Whetehill |
Robert Radcliffe, 10th Baron Fitzwalter, 1st Earl of Sussex,
Family
Robert Radcliffe, born about 1483, was the only son of John Radcliffe (1452-1496), 9th Baron FitzWalter, and Margaret Whetehill, widow of Thomas Walden, gentleman, and daughter of Robert Whetehill, esquire, by his wife, Joan.[1] Radcliffe had five sisters, Mary, the wife of Sir Edward Darrell; Bridget; Ursula; Jane, a nun; and Anne, wife of Sir Walter Hobart.[2]
Career
In October 1495 Robert Radcliffe's father was attainted of high treason for confederacy with the pretender,
In his youth Radcliffe was in the service of King Henry VII and his then elder son and heir, Arthur, Prince of Wales, and was present at Arthur's marriage to Catherine of Aragon on 14 November 1501.[4]
Radcliffe's father's attainder was reversed by letters patent dated 3 November 1505, and later by Act of Parliament in 1509, by which Radcliffe became
Radcliffe served in the
On 7 May 1524 he was installed as a Knight of the
Archbold states that Sussex was for a long period "in very confidential relations" with Henry VIII, and is of the view that it was with the King's knowledge that Sussex proposed to the Privy Council on 6 June 1536 that the King should advance his illegitimate son,
After the Pilgrimage of Grace, Sussex was commissioned, together with Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, to restore order in Lancashire, and as a reward for his services was granted the manor of Cleeve in Somerset. On 23 June 1537 he was granted the reversion of the office of Lord Steward of the Royal Household, although when the current holder, George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, died in the following year he was succeeded, not by Sussex, but by the King's brother-in-law, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk. In 1539 Sussex was one of the commissioners appointed to defend the Thames and the coast of Essex.[9]
On 3 January 1540, he attended Henry VIII at the reception of Anne of Cleves at Blackheath. On 9 March of the same year he was appointed to inquire into the situation in Calais, and after the disgrace and recall to England of Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, had charge of Calais from 17 April until July. On 3 August[10] 1540 he was granted a lifetime appointment as Lord Great Chamberlain.[11]
Robert Radcliffe died at Chelsea on 28 November 1542 and was buried at [Boreham], Essex.[12]
Marriages and issue
Sussex married three times. Firstly shortly after 23 July 1505, to a first cousin of Henry VIII's mother, Elizabeth of York,
- Queen Elizabeth I.
- Sir Humphrey Radcliffe (c. 1508/9–13 August 1566) of Elstow, Bedfordshire, who married Isabel Harvey, daughter and heir of Edmund Harvey of Elstow and Margaret Wentworth, by whom he had two sons, Thomas Radcliffe, and Edward Radcliffe, 6th Earl of Sussex, and four daughters, Mary Radcliffe, who was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I, Frances Radcliffe, Elizabeth Radcliffe, and Martha Radcliffe.[14]
- George Radcliffe, who married Katherine Marney, the daughter of John Marney, 2nd Baron Marney. After Radcliffe's death, his widow married Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings.[15]
Secondly, by 1 September 1532, Sussex married Margaret Stanley, the only daughter[16] of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby, and Anne Hastings, the daughter of Edward Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings, by whom he had two daughters:
- Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague.
- Anne Radcliffe, who married Thomas Wharton, 2nd Baron Wharton.[17]
Thirdly on 14 January 1537 Sussex married
- a son baptized 22 March 1538 who died in infancy,
- Sir John Radcliffe (bap. 31 December 1539 – 9 November 1568) of Cleeve, Somerset, younger son.
Notes
- ^ Cokayne notes that there is some uncertainty as to Margaret's identity.
- ^ Richardson I 2011, p. 373.
- ^ Richardson I 2011, p. 373; Grummitt 2004.
- ^ Cokayne 1953, p. 517.
- ^ Archbold 1896, p. 135; Cokayne 1953, pp. 517–18; Richardson I 2011, p. 374; Grummitt 2004.
- ^ Archbold 1896, p. 135; Cokayne 1953, p. 518; Richardson I 2011, p. 374; Grummitt 2004.
- ^ Archbold 1896, p. 135; Cokayne 1953, p. 518; Richardson I 2011, p. 374; Grummitt 2004.
- ^ Archbold 1896, p. 135;Cokayne 1953, p. 518; Grummitt 2004.
- ^ Cokayne 1953, pp. 518–19; Grummitt 2004.
- ^ Grummitt gives the date of Sussex's lifetime appointment as Great Chamberlain as 3 May 1540.
- ^ Archbold 1896, p. 135; Cokayne 1953, p. 519; Grummitt 2004.
- ^ Blomefield, Francis (1739). An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk. Vol. 1. p. 7.
- ^ Richardson I 2011, p. 374.
- ^ Bindoff III 1982, p. 169; Davies 2004.
- ^ Bindoff III 1982, p. 169; Grummitt 2004.
- ^ Margaret had three brothers, John, Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, and Henry.
- ^ Grummitt mentions Anne, but not Jane, and states that Sir John Radcliffe (died 1568) was the son of Robert Radcliffe's second marriage to Margaret Stanley, whereas Stanton states that Sir John Radcliffe (died 1568) was the son of Robert Radcliffe's third marriage to Mary Arundell.
- ^ Cokayne 1953, pp. 519–20; Richardson I 2011, p. 374; Richardson IV 2011, pp. 94–5; Stanton 2004; Grummitt 2004; Bindoff III 1982, p. 170; Lock 2004.
References
- Archbold, William Arthur Jobson (1896). Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 135. . In
- Bindoff, S.T. (1982). The House of Commons 1509-1558. Vol. III. London: Secker & Warburg.
- Cokayne, George Edward (1953). The Complete Peerage edited by Geoffrey H. White. Vol. XII (Part I). London: St Catherine Press.
- Davies, Catharine (2004). "Radcliffe, Sir Humphrey (1508/9–1566)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70802. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Grummitt, David (2004). "Radcliffe, Robert, first earl of Sussex (1482/3–1542)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22991. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Lock, Julian (2004). "Fitzalan, Henry, twelfth earl of Arundel (1512–1580)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9530. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 978-1449966379.)
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