Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Baronet
Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Baronet (c. 1548 – 6 July 1614) of
Member of Parliament
.
Origins
Anthony Cope was the second son of Edward Cope (d. 1557) (son of the author
Career
He was a
James I made him a baronet on 29 June 1611. Cope entertained James I at Hanwell, Oxfordshire
in 1606 and 1612.
Marriages and issue
He married twice:
- Firstly to his step-first cousin (niece of his step-father) Frances Lytton (d. 1600), a daughter of Sir Rowland Lytton[10] of Knebworth, Hertfordshire, by his second wife Anne Carleton, a daughter of John Carleton of Brightwell Baldwin, by whom he had seven sons (four of whom lived to adulthood) and three daughters:[11]
- Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet, MP for Banbury, who married his step-sister Elizabeth Chaworth, daughter of his father's second wife by her first husband (see below).[4][11]
- Anthony Cope, who settled in Ireland[11] and was the ancestor of the Cope baronets of Bramshill, Hampshire.[citation needed]
- Richard Cope, who settled in Ireland.[11]
- John Cope.[11]
- Anne Cope, who married Sir John Leigh.[11]
- Elizabeth Cope, who married Sir Richard Cecil (d.1633), second son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter.[4][11]
- Mary Cope, who married Henry Champernown of Dartington in Devon.[11]
- Secondly, on 7 April 1600, he married Anne Paston (1553–1637), a daughter of Sir William Paston, and widow successively of Sir George Chaworth and Sir Nicholas Le Strange.[12][4] There were no children from the marriage. Anne's daughter Elizabeth Chaworth, by her first husband, married her step-brother Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet.[4]
Death and burial
Cope died on 6 July 1614 and was buried at Hanwell.[4]
Notes
- ^ John Burke, Bernard Burke, General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland
- ^ Allen I 2004.
- ^ His maternal grandmother, Margaret Culpepper, was the aunt of Queen Katherine Howard; Collinson 2004
- ^ a b c d e f Allen II 2004.
- ^ Kimber 1771, p. 51.
- ^ a b Collinson 2004.
- ^ Metcalfe 1887, p. 9.
- ^ McCorkle 1931, pp. 276–81.
- ^ "Cope, Sir Anthony". Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
- ^ History of Parliament biog of his son
- ^ a b c d e f g h Kimber 1771, p. 52.
- ^ Kimber 1771, p. 53.
References
- Allen, Elizabeth (2004). "Cope, Sir Anthony (1486/7–1551)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6250. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- Allen, Elizabeth (2004). "Cope, Sir Anthony, first baronet (1548x50–1614)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6251. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Collinson, Patrick (2004). "Carleton, George (1529–1590)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37261. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- Kimber, Edward (1771). Johnson, Richard (ed.). The English Baronetage. Vol. I. London: G. Woodfall et al. pp. 50–5. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- McCorkle, Julia Norton (1931). "A Note concerning 'Mistress Crane' and the Martin Marprelate Controversy". The Library. 4th. XII (3): 276–83. .
- Metcalfe, Walter C. (1887). The Visitations of Northamptonshire. London: Harleian Society. Retrieved 9 December 2013.