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James Stumpe
Sir James Stumpe (by 1519 – 29 April 1563), of Malmesbury and Bromham, Wiltshire, was an English clothier and Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of wealthy clothier and MP, William Stumpe. He was knighted in 1549 or later and succeeded his father in 1552. He took over as High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1552 on the death in office of his father. He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Wiltshire in March 1553 and for Malmesbury in 1555. He served again as High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1560–61. Among other lands, Stumpe owned the manors of Charlton and Hankerton, the latter purchased in 1553. He married twice: firstly Bridget, the daughter of Sir Edward Bayntun (or Baynton) of Bromham, with whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth (who married Henry Knyvet); secondly, in 1545, he married Isabel Isabel is a female name of Iberian origin. Isabelle is a name that is similar, but it is of French origin. It originates as the medieval Spanish form of ''Elizab ...
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Malmesbury
Malmesbury () is a town and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, which lies approximately west of Swindon, northeast of Bristol, and north of Chippenham. The older part of the town is on a hilltop which is almost surrounded by the upper waters of the Bristol Avon and one of its tributaries. Once the site of an Iron Age fort, in the early medieval period Malmesbury became the site of Malmesbury Abbey, a monastery famed for its learning. It was later home to one of Alfred the Great's fortified burhs for defence against the Vikings. Æthelstan, the first king of all England, was buried in the abbey when he died in 939. As a market town, it became prominent in the Middle Ages as a centre for learning, focused on and around the abbey. In modern times, Malmesbury is best known for its abbey, the bulk of which forms a rare survival of the dissolution of the monasteries. The economy benefits mostly from agriculture, as well as tourism to the Cotswolds; Dyson (company), Dyson ...
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Henry Knyvet
Sir Henry Knyvet (c. 1537–1598) of Charlton Park, Wiltshire, was an English landowner who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wootton Bassett in 1571 and 1572, for Malmesbury in 1584 and 1586, Wootton Bassett again in 1589 and Malmesbury again in 1593 and 1597. He began the building of Charlton House in Charlton Park. Early life and family Knyvet was the eldest son of Henry Knyvet and his wife Anne, daughter and heiress of Christopher Pickering of Killington, Cumbria, and widow of Francis Weston. The younger Knyvet was born around 1537. Knyvet was the grandson of Thomas Knyvett (d. 1512) and the brother of Thomas Knyvet, 1st Baron Knyvet. He succeeded his father in 1546. Career Knyvet held a number of public offices and was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire (1578–79) and a deputy-lieutenant of Wiltshire. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Wootton Bassett in 1571 and 1572, for Malmesbury in 1584 and 1586, Wootton Bassett again in 1589 and finally Malmesbury aga ...
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Year Of Birth Uncertain
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are g ...
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English MPs 1555
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High Sheriffs Of Wiltshire
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1563 Deaths
Year 1563 ( MDLXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 2 (January 2, 1562 O.S., January 11, 1563 N.S.) – The convocation of bishops and clerics of the Church of England is opened at St Paul's Cathedral in London by the Dean of the Arches, Robert Weston to agree upon the wording of what will become the Thirty-nine Articles, with the assembly adopting all but three of the Forty-two Articles promulgated during the reign of King Edward VI in 1553. The conference lasts for three months before agreeing upon the Articles to be submitted for further modification. * January 25 – In Italy, Instituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino, a constituent of the major financial group Sanpaolo IMI, is founded. * February 1 – Sarsa Dengel succeeds his father Menas as Emperor of Ethiopia at age 14. * February 18 – Francis, Duke of Guise, is assassinated while besieging Orléans by Jean de Poltrot. * Marc ...
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Catherine Howard
Catherine Howard ( – 13 February 1542) was Queen of England from July 1540 until November 1541 as the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, a first cousin to Anne Boleyn (the second wife of Henry VIII), and the niece of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. Thomas Howard was a prominent politician at Henry's court. He secured her a place in the household of Henry's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, where Howard caught the King's interest. She married him on 28 July 1540 at Oatlands Palace in Surrey, just 19 days after the annulment of his marriage to Anne. Henry was 49, and it is widely accepted that Catherine was about 17 at the time of her marriage to Henry VIII. Catherine was stripped of her title as queen in November 1541 and beheaded three months later on the grounds of treason for committing adultery with her distant cousin, Thomas Culpeper. Ancestry Catherine was a granddaughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Nor ...
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Joyce Culpeper
Jocasta "Joyce" Culpeper, of Oxon Hoath ( – ) was the mother of Katherine Howard, the fifth wife and Queen consort of King Henry VIII. Family Joyce Culpeper, born before 1480, was the daughter of Sir Richard Culpeper (d. 4 October 1484) and his second wife, Lady Isabel Worsley (born – 18 April 1527), the daughter of Otewell Worsley of Southwark, Surrey, by Rose Trevor. Also called Jocasta or Jocosa. Joyce Culpeper had a brother, Thomas Culpeper (not to be confused with the Thomas Culpeper allegedly involved with her daughter Katherine Howard) (1484 – 7 October 1492), and a younger sister, Margaret. Joyce and Margaret were co-heiresses to their brother, Thomas Culpeper, in 1492. It has been erroneously stated that Joyce Culpeper had another sister, Elizabeth, who married Joyce's eldest son, Sir John Leigh (1520–1564). However, only Joyce and Margaret are named as co-heiresses to their brother, Thomas, in the inquisition post mortem taken after his death, and it seems ...
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Isabel Leigh
Isabel Leigh, Lady Stumpe ( 1496 – 16 February 1573) was a lady-in-waiting during the reign of her younger half-sister, Katherine Howard, fifth wife and Queen Consort to Henry VIII. Early life Isabel was the first child of Joyce Culpeper and Sir Ralph Leigh. She had two younger sisters and two younger brothers: *Margaret Leigh (born 1500); married a man surnamed Rice. *Joyce Leigh (born 1504); married John Stanney. May have had issue. *John Leigh (born 1502); married Elizabeth, surname unknown. Had issue. *Ralph Leigh (born 1498; died 1561); married Margaret Ireland. Had issue. Her father Sir Ralph Leigh died c. 1509/1510 and Isabel's mother remarried to Lord Edmund Howard c. 1513/1515. They had six children. *Margaret Howard ( 1515 – 10 October 1572); married Sir Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle, son of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne by his wife Lady Eleanor Grey, the daughter of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset. * Mary Howard (born after 1515); married Edmund Tr ...
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Edward Bayntun
Sir Edward Bayntun (c.148027 November? 1544), of Bromham, Wiltshire, was a gentleman at the court of Henry VIII of England. He was vice-chamberlain to Anne Boleyn, the King's second wife, and was the brother-in-law of Queen Katherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife. Early life Edward Bayntun was born around 1480, a son of Sir John Bayntun of Bromham. Some medieval and Tudor accounts record the name as "Baynton", though the spelling around the Tudor period was often "Bayntun". In 1516, Bayntun inherited the manors of Bromham and Faulston ( Bishopstone, near Salisbury) after the death of his father. Faulstone manor had been owned from 1328 by an ancestor named Thomas Benton, but lost in 1475 after Sir Robert Bayntun supported Henry VI at the Battle of Tewkesbury, then regained by his son John (Sir Edward's father) in 1503. Career at court Edward was a soldier and a courtier, and would be a favourite of Henry VIII, as well as a champion of religious reform. Though it is unc ...
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Bromham, Wiltshire
Bromham is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Wiltshire, England.OS Explorer Map 156, Chippenham and Bradford-on-Avon Scale: 1:25 000.Publisher: Ordnance Survey A2 edition (2007). The village is northwest of Devizes and the same distance east of Melksham. Besides the main village of Bromham, the parish includes six other settlements: St Edith's Marsh, Westbrook, Hawkstreet, Netherstreet, Roughmoor and Chittoe. These are sub-villages and hamlets all within of the main village centre, thus 'greater Bromham' is geographically extensive for a village of its size. It stands 1½ miles north of the Kennet and Avon Canal and 1¾ of a mile south of the Roman road leading to Bath, Somerset, Bath, Somerset. History In Anglo-Saxon times the Manorialism, manor was held, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, by Earl Harold Godwinson. Under the Normans there were two manors covering Bromham. Bromham Hall, later called Bromham House, the manor house of Bromham Roches, ...
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