Robert Cheeseman or Cheseman (1485–1547) was an English politician. He was the

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(MP) for

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, 28 April 1539 – 24 July 1540.

Life

He was born in 1485, son and heir of Edward Cheeseman, Cofferer and Keeper of the Wardrobe to Henry VII, and succeeded to the family estates in 1517. He was made a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex in 1528, and served on a number of commissions for collecting tithes and subsidies, and so on. It is sometimes stated that he was Chief Falconer to

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, but there is no documentary evidence for this and the belief apparently derives from the fact that the famous portrait of him by Holbein now in the

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shows him with a falcon on his wrist. In 1530 he was one of the commissioners on an inquiry into the possessions of Thomas Wolsey after he was attainted, and was on the Grand Jury at the trials of

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and others (1538), and Thomas Culpeper and

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for treason (1541). He was one of the gentlemen selected to welcome

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when she first landed in England. In 1536 he supplied thirty men for the army against the Northern rebels of the Pilgrimage of Grace. He married Alice, daughter of Henry Dacres, of

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, a Merchant Tailor and Alderman of London. He was married a second time to Eleanor Owlett 5 May 1523 Saint Andrews Baynard Castle, London. Together they had five children John, Robert, Eleanor, Anne and Raaf all born in Bedfordshire, England. At his death he held the neighbouring manors of Southall and Norwood,

(now

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). A monument was placed in Norwood chapel.

References

Biography

External links

Tate Britain audio guideHistory of Parliament online
1485 births 1547 deaths English MPs 1539–1540 {{16thC-England-MP-stub