A courtier is a person who is often in attendance at the noble court court of a Monarchy king or other royal personage . ref Courtier , http dictionary.reference.com browse courtier ref Historically the court was the centre of government as well as the Official residence residence of the monarch, and social and political life were often completely mixed together. Monarchs very often expected the more important nobles to spend much of the year in attendance on them at court. Courtiers were not all Nobility noble , as they included clergy , soldier s, clerk position clerk s, secretary secretaries , and agents and middlemen of all sorts with regular business at court. Promotion to important positions could be very rapid at court, and for the ambitious there was no better place to be. As social divisions became more rigid, a divide, barely present in Antiquity or the Middle Ages, opened between menial servants and other classes at court, although Alexandre Bontemps , the head valet de chambre of Louis XIV was a late example of a menial who managed to establish his family in the nobility. The key commodities for a courtier were access and information, and a large court operated at many levels many successful careers at court involved no direct contact with the monarch himself. A woman courtier was called a courtesan , although today this name has come to include sex sexual connotation . The largest and most famous European court was that of the Palace of Versailles in its heyday, although the Forbidden City of Beijing was even larger and more isolated from national life. Very similar features marked the courts of all very large monarchies, whether in Delhi , Topkap Palace in Istanbul , Ancient Rome , Byzantium , or the Caliph s of Baghdad or Cairo . However the European nobility ... Pompadour Sir Walter Raleigh See also Wiktionary The Book of the Courtier , by Baldassare Castiglione ... browse courtier references ... more details
Image Book of the Courtier small.png 220px thumb right Early Modern English cover of the Book of the Courtier. The Book of the Courtier lang it Il Cortegiano is a courtesy book . It was written by Baldassare Castiglione over the course of many years, beginning in 1508, and published in 1528 by the Aldine Press just before his death. It addresses the constitution of a perfect courtier, and in its last installment, a perfect lady. The Book of the Courtier remains the definitive account of Renaissance court life. Because of this, it is considered one of the most important Renaissance works. Principles The book is organized as a series of fictional conversations that occur between the courtier s of the Duke of Urbino in 1507 when Baldassare was in fact part of the Duke s Court . In the book, the courtier is described as having a cool mind, a good voice with beautiful, elegant and brave words along with proper bearing and gestures. At the same time though, the courtier is expected to have a warrior spirit, to be athletic, and have good knowledge of the humanities, Classics and fine arts. Over the course of four evenings, members of the court try to describe the perfect gentleman of the court. In the process they debate the nature of nobility, humor, women, and love. Reception The Book of the Courtier was one of the most widely distributed books of the 16th century, with editions printed ... html&sig qYAoL lByuhLiEFmRywnvg7Uz6w ref See also Sprezzatura Sources The Book of the Courtier 1959 ... 2002 . http books.google.com books?vid 0YduOy 9DFbWbVwnb8JJPul&id 0g3rL6lyWsYC The Book of the Courtier ... . http darkwing.uoregon.edu rbear courtier courtier.html The Book of the Courtier 1561 , English translation ... of the Courtier 1561 , Hoby s translation, from Google Books . Further reading cite book last Burke first Peter authorlink Peter Burke title The Fortunes of the Courtier the European Reception ... References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Book Of The Courtier, The Category 1528 books Category Italian ... more details
Courtier Islands coor dm 67 52 S 68 44 W is a group of about 24 small islands and rocks in Marguerite Bay , the highest 30 m, lying close southwest of Emperor Island in the Dion Islands . The Dion Islands were first sighted and roughly mapped in 1909 by the FrAE. The Courtier Islands were visited and surveyed in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey FIDS and so named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place Names Committee UK APC because of their association with Emperor Island. See also List of antarctic and sub antarctic islands usgs gazetteer Category Islands of Antarctica WAntarctica geo stub ... more details
The Humorous Courtier, also called The Duke, is a Literature in English Caroline and Cromwellian literature Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by James Shirley , first published in 1640 in literature 1640 . The Humorous Courtier was licensed for performance by Sir Henry Herbert Master of the Revels Henry Herbert , the Master of the Revels , on 17 May 1631 in literature 1631 , under the title The Duke. ref Arthur Huntington Nason, James Shirley, Dramatist A Biographical and Critical Study, New York, 1915 reprinted New York, Benjamin Blom, 1967 p. 102. Robert Stanley Forsythe, The Relations of Shirley s Plays to the Elizabethan Drama, New York, Columbia University Press, 1914 p. 279. Both Nason and Forsythe sensibly reject Frederick Gard Fleay F. G. Fleay s argument that another title, The Conceited Duke, is the same play, since the Duke in Shirley s play isn t conceited. ref Like most of Shirley s plays, it was acted by Queen Henrietta s Men at the Cockpit Theatre . As The Humorous Courtier, the play was entered into the Stationers Register on 29 July 1639 in literature 1639 . The 1640 book size quarto , printed by Thomas Cotes for the bookseller Andrew Crooke and William Cooke William Cooke , contains an interesting bibliogaphic feature in its prefatory material a catalogue of 20 plays by Shirley published to that date. ref David Moore Bergeron, Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570&ndash 1640, London, Ashgate, 2006 p. 207. ref Such catalogues were only then coming into existence. Since Cooke had already published a number of Shirley s plays, this promotional catalogue served his own interest. As its title indicates, the play is a four humours humors comedy. That sub genre was initiated by George Chapman with his An Humorous Day s Mirth 1597 in literature 1597 , but is most strongly associated with Ben Jonson , whose plays Every Man in His Humour and Every Man ... Reflist DEFAULTSORT Humorous Courtier, The Category English Renaissance plays Category 1631 plays ... more details
Unreferenced date June 2010 Sir Thomas Bryan was an English courtier during the reign of Henry VIII of England Henry VIII . His wife, Margaret Bryan was governess to the King s four acknowledged children, Mary I of England Mary , Elizabeth I Elizabeth , Edward VI of England Edward and his illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset . She impressed the King so much, he made her Baroness Bryan in her own right. They had three children, Margaret, Francis Bryan Francis and Elizabeth Carew Elizabeth . Francis was a close friend of the King s and of his brother in law, Nicholas Carew courtier Nicholas Carew . As Baroness Bryan was the half sister of Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and the mother of the King s mistress Mary Boleyn and his second wife Anne Boleyn , fortunes imroved for the Bryan family during the 1520s and early 1530s. But it was not only Thomas Bryan s nieces by marriage who attracted the King, but his daughter, Elizabeth Carew , also. Elizabeth was linked to Henry from 1514 and was said to have been given jewels by Henry VIII that technically belonged to the queen, Katherine of Aragon . References reflist DEFAULTSORT Bryan, Thomas Category People of the Tudor period Category 16th century English people ... more details
Other uses John Shelton disambiguation John Shelton Sir John Shelton was the son of Sir John Shelton and Anne Shelton courtier Anne Boleyn , the aunt of Queen Anne Boleyn . John s sister, Mary Shelton was a mistress of Henry VIII of England Henry VIII of England during 1535. He was born c.1503 and died in 1558. He inherited the family seat at Shelton, Norfolk and was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1523 and 1554. He married Margaret Parker, daughter of Henry Parker, 10th Baron Morley . Their children were Sir Ralph Shelton Anne Shelton Alice Shelton Mary Shelton Thomas Shelton ref http www.tudorplace.com.ar Bios JohnShelton2.htm ref References reflist DEFAULTSORT Shelton, John Category 1500s births Category 1558 deaths Category High Sheriffs of Norfolk and Suffolk Category People of the Tudor period UK noble stub ... more details
For other courtiers of this name Charles Howard disambiguation Charles Howard Charles Howard was a gentleman at the court of Henry VIII of England . He was the second son of Lord Edmund Howard and the elder brother of Sir George Howard courtier Sir George Howard . As a scion of the mighty Howard family, his uncle, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk was able to find him a position at court. Charles fortunes improved in 1540, when his sister, Catherine Howard became the King s Wives of Henry VIII fifth wife . Charles went on to create a mesalliance with the King s niece, Margaret Douglas , the daughter of Henry s sister, Margaret Tudor , queen dowager of Scotland. ref http www.tudorplace.com.ar Bios MargaretDouglas.htm ref References reflist Category People of the Tudor period Howard, Charles ... more details
Sir John Carey, of Plashey ca. 1491 1552 was a courtier to Henry VIII of England King Henry VIII . He served the king as a Groom of the Privy Chamber , and, being a descendant of Edmund Beaufort , Duke of Somerset , John Carey was a third cousin to Henry VIII. Carey was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Carey of Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire and his wife Margaret Spencer . By July of 1522 he was serving in the royal navy as the captain of the King s ship, The Katherine Galley which was in the Channel between Cinque Ports and Jersey during Henry VIII s first war with Francis I. By 1526 John, probably through the influence of his younger brother William Carey courtier William Carey was at Henry VIII s court as a Groom of the Privy Chamber. Several historians credit John Carey with convincing Anne Boleyn his sister in law as John s brother William was married to Anne s sister Mary to support his sister Eleanor as a candidate for abess of Wilton Abbey where she was a nun in the spring of 1528. Eleanor did not get the appointment, however, due to questionable conduct on her part. Later that year John Carey fell ill with the sweating sickness. Although he recovered, his brother William who had also fallen ill was not so fortunate and died in June of 1528. John Carey married Joyce Denny, the daughter of Sir Edmund Denny of Chestnut and his wife Mary Coke probably in late 1538. Joyce was also the widow of William Walsingham, by whom she had had seven children. Together John and Joyce Carey had two sons, Sir Edward Carey of Aldenham a member of Parliament in the late 16th century and Wymond Carey. On July 21, 1538 John Carey was granted the priory of Thremhall in Essex where he often lived. By September of 1542 he had returned to sea as a vice admiral commanding the transports of the East Coast in support of the Duke of Norfolk s expedition against Scotland. John Carey was knighted by Edward ..., John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Courtier DATE OF BIRTH ca. 1491 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH ... more details
Colonel Sir Henry Charles Legge Royal Victorian Order GCVO 1852&ndash 20 June 1924 was a United Kingdom British soldier and courtier . Legge was the second son of the 5th Earl of Dartmouth and was therefore entitled to the style The Honourable . He was educated at Eton College and commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1872. He retired from the Army in 1899. He served as an equerry in the Royal Household from 1893 to 1915, when he became Paymaster to the George V of the United Kingdom King s Household and an extra equerry to the king. He retired in 1920. He was appointed Royal Victorian Order Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order KCVO in 1910 and was promoted to Knight Grand Cross GCVO in the 1920 Birthday Honours. References Obituary, The Times , 21 June 1924 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Legge, Henry ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1852 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1924 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Legge, Henry Category 1852 births Category 1924 deaths Category Old Etonians Category Coldstream Guards officers Category Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Category Members of the London County Council Category Equerries Category Younger sons of earls ... more details
William Coffin was a courtier at the court of Henry VIII of England . Born about 1495 to an old aristocratic Devon family, he was the younger brother of Sir Richard Coffin, who was Lord of the Manor of Alwington and High Sheriff of Devon in the late 15th century. Sir William Coffin, lived during the reign of Henry VIII., and was much about his court. He joined Henry VIII s household about 1515, as courtier and gentleman of the privy chamber. He was Master of the Horse at the coronation of Anne Boleyn 1533, at which time the king knighted him. Sir William held a post of great confidence and trust, being one of the gentlemen of the Privy chamber , of whom there were forty, whose office it was to wait on the king in public and private they were all knights or esquires of distinction, and according to the custom of those days the attendance of two was required at each meal, to help and serve their royal master they had also to sleep within call of the king at night. He was Master of the Horse at the coronation of Anne Boleyn , at which time the king knighted him. In 1519, Sir William Coffin joined King Henry in the tournament of Guesnes, Field of the Cloth of Gold , as Master of the Horse . After Anne Boleyn s beheading, Sir William continued his service as part of the king s Privy chamber and attendant to His Majesty serving the King s third wife, Queen Jane Seymour just as he served Queen Anne under previous appointment. Eric Ives ref p.265, Eric Ives , Anne Boleyn ref In 1529 he became a Member of Parliament for Derbyshire, having acquired a connection with that county through his marriage to Margaret Dymoke, the daughter of the Hereditary Royal Champion, Sir Robert Dymoke of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire sister of Sir Edward Dymoke and the widow since 1517 of Sir Richard Vernon ... included Anne Shelton courtier Anne Shelton , the sister of Thomas Boleyn. Lady Shelton had ..., d. 1538 , courtier by Catharine Davies. reflist DEFAULTSORT Coffin, William Category 1495 births ... more details
Richard Page died 1548 was a gentleman of the Privy Chamber at the court of Henry VIII of England . Page was a close associate of Henry s Wives of Henry VIII second wife , Anne Boleyn . He was appointed to the Privy Chamber in 1527, after publicly taking Anne s side against Cardinal Wolsey , then the King s chief minister. ref p.127, Eric Ives , Anne Boleyn ref On 8 May 1536, Page was arrested for treason and adultery with the Queen. ref Lisle Letters , iii.684, 694 ref Seven men were arrested and taken to the Tower of London , including Page. The others were Thomas Wyatt poet Thomas Wyatt , Henry Norris courtier Henry Norris , William Brereton groom William Brereton , Francis Weston , Mark Smeaton and George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford . ref p.373, Ives, Anne Boleyn ref All except Page and Wyatt were found guilty and executed. References reflist Further reading Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , article by Catharine Davies DEFAULTSORT Page, Richard Category 1548 deaths Category People of the Tudor period Category Gentleman of the Privy Chamber Category Year of birth missing Category 16th century English people Category Prisoners in the Tower of London ... more details
Other persons Adrian Stokes Adrian Stokes 1533 &ndash 30 November 1586 ref name Rogers was an English courtier and politician. Stokes was Master of the Horse to Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk Lady Frances Brandon , daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk , and married her on 1 March 1555, a year after the executions of Frances first husband, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk and her daughter Lady Jane Grey . ref name Rogers cite book last Rogers first W. H. Hamilton title Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West publisher Kessinger Publishing ISBN 0 7661 3662 0 year 2003 pages 77 78 ref Frances died in 1559 and Stokes remarried in 1572 Anne Carew, daughter of Nicholas Carew courtier Sir Nicholas Carew , ref cite book last Daybell first James title Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450 1700 ISBN 0 7546 0988 X publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd year 2004 pages 111 ref having been returned to the English House of Commons for Leicestershire UK Parliament constituency Leicestershire the previous year. ref cite book last Curtis first John title A Topographical History of The County of Leicester publisher W. Hextall location Ashby de laZouch year 1831 pages XXIV ref Anne was the widow of Nicholas Throckmorton Sir Nicholas Throckmorton , an eminent diplomat and politician, and had by this marriage already ten sons and three daughters. ref name Maids One of these, Elizabeth, became the wife of Walter Raleigh Sir Walter Raleigh . ref name Maids cite book editors Susan Frye, Karen Robertson publisher Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 511735 2 title Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens Women s Alliances in Early Modern England year 1999 pages 154 ref References reflist 2 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Stokes, Adrian ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1533 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 30 November 1586 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Stokes, Adrian Category 1533 births Category 1586 deaths Category Members of the ... more details
Mary Arundell died 20 October 1577 , was a courtier and was previously reputed to be a translator. Arundell was the daughter of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne , knight banneret of Therouenne , and his second wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Grenville of Stow . She was reputed to be one of the learned ladies of her time, and is included in George Ballard s Celebrated British Ladies ed. 1775, p. 85 . It was previously said that She is chiefly known by her translations from the Latin, especially of the Sayings and Doings of the Emperor Severus , dedicated to her father, and the Select Sentences of the Seven Wise Men of Greece . Some of her MSS. are preserved in the royal collections at Windsor Castle Windsor . ref Cite DNB wstitle Arundell, Mary ref More recent historians assert that The claims once made for her literary attainments have proved to be unfounded the translations of classical texts surviving among the royal manuscripts in the British Library, once attributed to her, are children s exercises written by her stepdaughter Mary, later duchess of Norfolk. ref name odnb robert cite web first David last Grummitt title Radcliffe, Robert, first earl of Sussex 1482 3 1542 work Oxford Dictionary of National Biography publisher Oxford University Press date 2004 online edn, Jan 2008 url http www.oxforddnb.com view article 22991 accessdate 29 November 2010 available in print, and online for subscribers ref She married, first, Robert Radcliffe, 1st Earl of Sussex , ref name odnb cite web first Pamela Y. last Stanton title Arundell, Mary married names Mary Radcliffe, countess of Sussex Mary Fitzalan, countess of Arundel d. 1557 work Oxford Dictionary of National Biography publisher Oxford University Press date 2004 online edn, May 2009 url http www.oxforddnb.com view article 723 accessdate 29 November 2010 Available in print, and online for subscribers ref and, secondly, Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel . ref name odnb She was a courtier at the court of Henry VIII ... more details
unreferenced date February 2008 Lord William Cecil Royal Victorian Order CVO 2 November 1854&ndash 16 April 1943 a United Kingdom British royal courtier and a younger son of the William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter 3rd Marquess of Exeter . In 1892, he became a Groom in Waiting to Victoria of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria and remained as such until her death in 1901. He was then an Extra Gentleman Usher from 1924 under George V of the United Kingdom King George V until his retirement in 1937. On 2 September 1885, he had married Mary Cecil, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney Hon. Mary Tyssen Amherst , who succeeded her father as Baron Amherst of Hackney Baroness Amherst of Hackney in 1909. He and his wife had four children before her death in 1919 and Cecil was remarried in 1924, to Violet Collyer. Captain William Amherst Cecil 30 June 1886 &ndash 16 September 1914 Captain Thomas James Amherst Cecil 9 November 1887 &ndash 4 October 1955 John Francis Amherst Cecil 30 June 1890 &ndash 22 October 1954 m. Cornelia Vanderbilt, daughter of George Washington Vanderbilt II , and had issue Commander Henry Mitford Amherst Cecil 9 March 1893 &ndash 6 January 1963 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Cecil, Lord William ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1854 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1943 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Cecil, Lord William Category 1854 births Category 1943 deaths Category Bailiffs Grand Cross of the Order of St John Category Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order Category Younger sons of marquesses Category Cecil family William Cecil, Lord Category Gentlemen Ushers UK noble stub ... more details
Otherpersons John Scudamore Sir John Scudamore , 1 February 1542 14 April 1623 as the eldest son of William Scudamore, but due to his father s early death was a ward of Sir James Croft of Croft Castle , Herefordshire , whose daughter Eleanor he married in 1563. When James Croft became a Comptroller of the Household in 1570, Scudamore though by then widowed became a courtier. He became Custos Rotulorum of Herefordshire custos rotulorum in 1574, deputy lieutenant in 1575, High Sheriff of Herefordshire high sheriff in 1581, and Herefordshire UK Parliament constituency knight of the shire in the 1570s and 1580s. His second wife, Mary Scudamore , daughter of Sir John Shelton of Norfolk and a member of Elizabeth I of England the queen s privy chamber, was more important than he was because she had the queen s ear. Following Croft s death in 1590, his influence waned. His heir was his son by his first marriage Sir James Scudamore , and his son was ennobled as John Scudamore, 1st Viscount Scudamore . References Ian Atherton, Scudamore family per. 1500 1820 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 online edn, Jan 2008 http www.oxforddnb.com view article 71878, accessed 24 March 2008 start box s off succession box before James Croft Sir James Croft title Custos Rotulorum of Herefordshire years 1574 1616 after Sir James Scudamore end box DEFAULTSORT Scudamore, John Category 1542 births Category 1623 deaths Category Members of the pre 1707 Parliament of England Category Scudamore family Category 16th century English people Category 17th century English people Category People of the Tudor period ... more details
No footnotes date June 2010 Sir Richard Long c. 1494 1546 was an England English politician and courtier, for many years a member of the privy chamber of Henry VIII . Long was the third son of Sir Thomas Long of Draycot c.1449 1508 , Wiltshire landowner, and his wife, Margery d. in or after 1508 , daughter of Sir George Darrell of Littlecote House in Wiltshire. Career Long was among the retinue of Sir Gilbert Talbot in 1512, who went as deputy to Calais , and by 1515 he was one of the spears of Calais, a post that he seems to have held for the rest of his life. How he came to be appointed to the court is not clear, but Long was listed by the Treasurer of the Chamber as working in the stables in December 1528, and certainly by 1533 he was an esquire of the stable. He had come to the attention of Cromwell by this time, who, with the exception in times of war, arranged for him to be non resident in Calais. In 1532 Cromwell received a letter from Long s brother, Sir Henry Long c.1489 .1556 Henry , to thank him for his favour to Richard. In 1535 Long was appointed to the privy chamber as Gentleman Usher , possibly through the influence of Cromwell. He quickly rose in prominence, gaining the favour of the King. In 1537 he was knighted, on 15 October in the celebrations following the baptism of Edward VI Prince Edward , in which he was one of the bearers of the canopy held over the infant in the baptismal procession, and the same day that his kinsman Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset was created earl of Hertford. In 1538 Long was appointed Master of the Buckhounds and Master of the Hawks. By 1539, he was a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and was present at the reception of Anne of Cleves , also in 1539. He was Member of Parliament MP for Southwark the same year. Surviving the fall of his patron Cromwell, Long became a prominent servant of the government throughout the 1540s ... Long family of Wiltshire Richard Long courtier Category Members of the pre 1707 Parliament of England ... more details
Other people2 William Compton disambiguation William Compton Sir William Compton c. 1482 1528 was one of the most prominent courtiers during the reign of Henry VIII of England . Born around 1482, Compton was about nine years older than his king, but the two became close friends. Compton was the eldest son of Edmund Compton of Warwickshire and became an attendant on young Henry. ref Oxford Dictionary of National Biography William Compton. Oxford University Press , 2004. ref On Henry s accession, he was given the position of Groom of the Stool , the man who was in closest contact to the young king. One of his duties, according to the courtier Elizabeth Amadas , was to procure women for his monarch and arrange trysts with them at his London home, in Thames Street. ref Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII. Vol. VI, No. 923. ref Though not a politician, Compton ultimately acquired significant influence over Henry when it came to granting land and favours to the aristocracy , and made a fortune himself. In 1510, Compton was involved in a public row with Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham over Henry s affair with the Duke s married sister, Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon . ref cite book title The Mistresses of Henry VIII first Kelly last Hart year 2009 edition First date June 1, 2009 page 27 publisher The History Press isbn 0752448358 url http books.google.com books?id r6HGPAAACAAJ ref Around 1519, Compton became involved with Anne himself, and in 1521 Henry sent Compton to arrest Anne s brother the Duke of Buckingham, who was later executed for treason. Compton made provisions for Anne in his will in 1522. He died in 1528 of the Sweating sickness which killed several courtiers including Anne Boleyn s brother in law, Sir William Carey . Fictional portrayals A fictionalized William Compton The Tudors William Compton was portrayed by Kristen Holden Ried in 2007 on the Showtime television series The Tudors , loosely based upon the re ... more details
John Harris c. 1690 5 October 1767 ref name rayment Rayment hc A 3 ref was a British courtier and politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Ashburton UK Parliament constituency Ashburton from 1741 to 1767. ref name rayment From 1741 he also held the post of Master of the Household to George II of Great Britain George II and George III of the United Kingdom III . ref cite web title Master of the Household 1660 1837 work British History Online url http www.british history.ac.uk report.aspx?compid 43847 accessdate 2010 08 09 ref ref cite book url http books.google.co.uk books?id 69CAAAAYAAJ&pg PA73&dq 22John Harris 22 22master of the household 22 ashburton&hl en&ei ALNfTOr GuOT4gbaotDXBw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 3&ved 0CDcQ6AEwAg v onepage&q 22John 20Harris 22 20 22master 20of 20the 20household 22 20ashburton&f false title A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain, Volume 2 publisher Colburn first Sir Bernard last Burke year 1853 page 73 accessdate 2010 08 09 ref His brother, Christopher Harris MP Christopher Harris , was MP for Okehampton UK Parliament constituency Okehampton . ref cite book title Burke s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, Volume 1 last Burke first John year 1847 publisher H. Colburn page 540 url http books.google.co.uk books?id YdIKAAAAYAAJ&pg PA540&dq 22John Harris 22 22master of the household 22&hl en&ei bbNfTJPMMYaY4AbU59noBw&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 2&ved 0CDgQ6AEwAQ v onepage&q 22John 20Harris 22 20 22master 20of 20the 20household 22&f false accessdate 2010 08 09 ref References Reflist start box s par gb s bef before Thomas Bladen before2 Joseph Taylor d. 1746 Joseph Taylor s ttl title Member of Parliament for Ashburton UK Parliament constituency Ashburton years British general election, 1741 1741 1767 with John Arscott 1741 1754 with2 George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton Viscount Midleton 1754 1761 with3 Thomas Walpole from 1761 s aft after Robert Palk after2 ... more details
courtier Sir John Shelton b. in or before 1503, d. 1558 , married Margaret, the daughter of Henry ... 1539 , courtier and nobleman last Hughes first Jonathan publisher Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ... Shelton Courtier Category Women of the Tudor period Shelton, Anne Category 1475 births Category 1555 ... more details
New unreviewed article source ArticleWizard date March 2011 Sir George Howard courtier c.1519 1580 was the third son of Lord Edmund Howard by his first wife, Joyce, the daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Culpeper. He was a younger brother of Henry VIII of England King Henry VIII s fifth Queen, Katherine Howard . Howard held offices at court under four monarchs, Henry VIII of England Henry VIII , Edward VI of England Edward VI , Mary I of England Mary I , and Elizabeth I of England Elizabeth I , most notably Armory military Master of the Armoury , and undertook several diplomatic missions. Howard wrote a masque which was produced at court during the reign of Edward VI. He is one of the few courtiers mentioned by name in the Langham letter Langham Letter , which describes the Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester Earl of Leicester s entertainment of Queen Elizabeth at Kenilworth Castle in July 1575. Life Sir George Howard c.1519 1580 was the third son of Lord Edmund Howard c.1478 &ndash 19 March 1539 , the third son of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk by his first wife, Elizabeth Tilney. ref Harvnb Richardson 2004 pp 237 238 Harvnb Head 2008 Harvnb Weir 1991 p 413 . ref Lord Edmund Howard was reputed a spendthrift who wasted the lands he obtained through his first marriage to Joyce Culpeper, the daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Culpeper of Oxen Hoath , Kent , and fled abroad to avoid his creditors , leaving his children by her to be brought up by relatives. ref Harvnb Bindoff 1982 p 399 Harvnb Richardson 2004 p 238 . ref It thus seems likely that Sir George, like his sister Katherine, later Queen Katherine Howard , spent part of his early life in the household of his stepmother, the Agnes Howard, Duchess of Norfolk Dowager Duchess of Norfolk . ref Harvnb Warnicke 2008 Harvnb ... Howard a pension of 100 marks, several manors, and, together with his brother Charles Howard courtier ... harv Cite book title Ferrers, George c.1510 1579 , courtier and poet last Woudhuysen first H.R. publisher ... more details
Other persons Richard Cecil No footnotes date June 2010 Richard Cecil died 19 May 1552 was a resident and Master of Burghley Burleigh in the parish of Stamford Baron , Northamptonshire . His father David Cecil, of Welsh people Welsh ancestry, rose in favour under King Henry VIII of England , becoming High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1529 and 1530, and died in 1541. Richard too was a courtier . In 1517 he was a royal page in 1520 he was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold he rose to be Groom of the Robes and constable of Warwick Castle . He was High Sheriff of Rutland in 1539, and was one of those who received no inconsiderable share of the plunder of the monasteries. He married Jane Heckington, daughter and heiress of William Heckington of Bourne, Lincolnshire Bourne , Lincolnshire. He had one son, William Cecil, Lord Burghley 1520 1598 , and three daughters. He sent his son William to the grammar schools of Stamford School Stamford and Grantham, and in 1535 William entered St. John s College, Cambridge . Academically a success, William ran foul of his father, when his heart was lost to Mary Cheke, daughter of a local widow, with only a fortune of 40 pounds to recommend her. William was immediately removed before he could take his degree, and was entered as a student at Gray s Inn in 1541. If the motive was to prevent a marriage, it failed. Two months after he came up to London , William married Mary, probably secretly. Thomas, the future Earl of Exeter and only fruit of this union was born at Cambridge on 5 May 1542, therefore presumably at his grandmother s house. The marriage was so distateful to Richard, that he is said to have altered his will, or at any rate, to have intended to do so. But the young wife did not live long, dying on 22 February 1544. When Richard died 19 May 1552, he left an ample estate behind him in the counties of Rutland , Northamptonshire and elsewhere. He died at his house in Cannon Row and was buried at St. Margaret s, Westminst ... more details
File William Cavendish c1547.jpg thumb 250px right Sir William Cavendish c. 1547 Sir William Cavendish 1505 &ndash 25 October 1557 was an English courtier . Life He was the younger son of Thomas Cavendish d. 1524 , who was a senior financial official, the clerk of the pipe , in the Court of Exchequer, and his wife, Alice Smith of Padbrook Hall. He was the great grandson of Sir John Cavendish from whom the Dukes of Devonshire and the Dukes of Newcastle inherited the family name of Cavendish. He became one of Thomas Cromwell s Dissolution of the Monasteries visitors of the monasteries when King Henry VIII of England Henry VIII annexed the property of the Catholic Church at the end of the 1530s, in the Dissolution of the Monasteries dissolution of the monasteries . This followed from his successful career as a financial expert holding public office in the Exchequer , which led to his wealth. He was accused of accumulating extra riches unfairly during the dissolution. After Cromwell s fall, he was sent to Ireland to survey and value lands which had fallen to the English during the Fitzgerald Rebellion ref cite book title Bess of Hardwick, First Lady of Chatsworth last Lovell first Mary S. authorlink Mary S. Lovell page 43 year 2005 publisher Little, Brown ref . His marriage to Bess of Hardwick brought him closer to the powerful family of Jane Grey , but he also took care to send tokens of goodwill to Mary I of England The Lady Mary . During the reign of Mary I, a favourable biography of Thomas Wolsey Thomas Cardinal Wolsey was first published, written from the perspective of one of his closest aides, the one who had taken King Henry news of Wolsey s death. Although for centuries Sir William was said to be its author, historians now attribute it to his older brother George Cavendish writer George Cavendish 1494 1562 instead. Family William Cavendish had a total of 16 children by three wives. His first wife was Margaret Bostock, she had five children, but only two daughte ... more details
Sir Robert Knollys or Knolles died 1521 was an English people English courtier in the service and favour of Henry VII of England Henry VII and Henry VIII of England Henry VIII . ref name dnb cite web last Boase first G. C. authorlink coauthors title Knollys, Sir Francis 1511 12 1596 , politician work Dictionary of National Biography Vol. XXXI publisher Smith, Elder & Co. year 1892 url http www.oxforddnb.com templates olddnb.jsp?articleid 23633 accessdate 2007 12 31 DNBfirst wstitle Knollys, Francis ref Biography Sir Robert was the son of Robert Knollys and Elizabeth Troutbeck, and grandson of Sir Richard Knollys and Margaret D Oyley, and Sir John Troutbeck and Margaret Hulse. In 1488 Knollys was one of Henry VII s henchmen, and late in that year was appointed to wait on the king s dearest son the prince Arthur, Prince of Wales Arthur . He received 5 by way of reward for each of the three years 1488 to 1490, and when Henry VII met Philip I of Castile Archduke Philip in 1500 Knollys accompanied the English king as one of the ushers of the chamber. He continued in the same office under Henry VIII, and received an Life annuity annuity of 20, on 15 November 1509, and a grant of Upclatford, called Rookes Manor, in Hampshire part of the confiscated property of Sir Richard Empson on 10 February 1510 11. On 9 July 1514 the usher and his wife were jointly granted the manor of Rotherfield Greys, near Henley on Thames , Oxfordshire , in survivorship, at an annual rental of a red rose at midsummer. The grant was confirmed on 5 January 1517 18 by letters patent for their own lives and that of one successor. Other royal gifts followed. ref name dnb Robert Knollys died in 1521, and was buried in the church of St Helen s Bishopsgate . His will, dated 13 November 1520, was proved 19 June 1521. His widow, Letitia or Lettice, was daughter of Sir Thomas Penyston or Penystone, of Hawridge and Marshall, Buckinghamshire , and Alice Bulstrode, and granddaughter of Sir Richard Penystone and Margaret ... more details
John Astley or Ashley ca. 1507 &ndash 1595 was an English courtier, Marian exile, and Master of the Jewel House . He was a Member of Parliament on many occasions. File John Astley.jpg thumb right John Astley in a portrait from 1553 4. Life He was connected to the Boleyn family through his mother Anne Wood, sister of Elizabeth Boleyn, Lady Boleyn who was married to James Boleyn . His father was Thomas Astley of Hilmorton, Anne being his second wife. He married in 1545 Katherine Champernowne, later known as Kat Ashley . At this point Katherine was governess to Elizabeth I of England Princess Elizabeth . Astley in Elizabeth s household met Roger Ascham , who became a friend he prompted Ascham s work A Report of Germany on the Emperor Charles V , and is mentioned as a dinner party guest in the introductory section of The Scholemaster 1570 . ref Lawrence V. Ryan, Roger Ascham 1963 , p. 103, p. 156, p. 252. ref In 1554 he was in Padua . ref Christina Hallowell Garrett, The Marian Exiles 1938 , p. 73. ref On the accession of Elizabeth he returned to England, and in December 1558 was appointed Master of the Jewel House and Treasurer of Her Majesty s jewels and plate. His wife Kat was appointed chief gentlewoman of the privy chamber she died in 1565 , and he was also one of the grooms of the chamber. He obtained from the crown a grant of the mastership of the game in Enfield Chase and park, with the office of steward and ranger of the manor of London Borough of Enfield Enfield . Accompanying Elizabeth on her visit to the University of Cambridge in 1564, he was created M.A. In or about 1568 the queen granted him a lease in reversion of the Allington Castle castle and manor of Allington, Kent , and he also had an estate at Otterden . He bought Archbishop s Palace, Maidstone Maidstone Palace and had work done to the front of the building. ref http www.infobritain.co.uk Archbishop 27s Palace Maidstone.htm ref His death appears to have occurred about July 1595. In Parliament He represented ... more details
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