Sir William Shelley

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Sir William Shelley (1480?–1549) was an English judge.

Life

Born about 1480, he was the eldest son of Sir John Shelley (died 3 Jan. 1526) and his wife Elizabeth (died 31 July 1513), daughter and heir of John de Michelgrove in the parish of

Sion Monastery led to the lawsuit known as ‘Shelley's case,’ and the decision known as the Rule in Shelley's Case
.

Although the eldest son, William was sent to the

degree of the coif
.

In 1527 Shelley was raised to the bench as

Whitehall Palace. Soon afterwards he entertained Henry VIII at Michelgrove in Clapham, West Sussex
.

He was summoned to parliament on 9 August 1529, and again on 27 April 1536. He was hostile to the

Sir Geoffrey Pole, Sir Edward Neville, and Sir Nicholas Carew
(1538–9).

In 1547 he was consulted by Henry VIII's executors about the provisions of his will. He died on 4 January 1549.[1]

Family

Shelley married Alice (died 1536?), daughter of Sir Henry Belknap, grandson of Sir Robert de Bealknap of Knelle in the parish of Beckley, Sussex, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in his era.[2] By her he had four sons:

  • John (died 15 December 1550), father of William (not the same person as William Shelley of Hertford, also a prisoner in the Tower in 1580), who was attainted 15 December 1582 for complicity in Charles Paget's treasons, but not executed, and died 15 April 1597, and John (d.1592[3]), second son,[3] who was succeeded by his son John, created a baronet in 1611;
  • Sir Richard Shelley
    ;
  • the third son, Sir James, was, like Sir Richard, a distinguished and widely travelled
    Knight of St. John
    ;
  • the fourth, Sir Edward, was a master of the household of Henry VIII, treasurer of the council of the north, and captain of Berwick, and was killed at the battle of Pinkie on 10 September 1547.

Their daughter Elizabeth married Roger Copley, father of Sir Thomas Copley.[4]

References

  • "Shelley, William (1480?-1549?)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Notes

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25315. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ Sir Robert de Bealknap. Dictionary of National Biography, Vol 2, pp. 9-11. Accessed February 2019 via ancestry.com paid subscription site.
  3. ^ a b Hutchinson, Robert (2008). The Brasses and Monuments in St. Mary the Virgin Church, Clapham, West Sussex (PDF). pp. 16–18.
  4. ^ Dictionary of National Biography, Copley, Sir Thomas (1534–1584), by R. C. Christie. Published 1887.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Shelley, William (1480?-1549?)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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