3rd Baron Mowbray John de Mowbray

John married Joan Plantagenet about 28 Feb 1326/27. Joan (daughter of Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth) was born in 1306 in Grismond Castle, Monmouth, England; died on 7 Jul 1349 in Bur Byland Abbey, Yorks, Land, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth de Segrave, 5th Baroness Segrave in 1349. Elizabeth (daughter of John de Seagrave, 4th Baron Segrave and Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Norfolk) was born on 25 Oct 1338; died before 1368. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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On 10 February 1382, he succeeded his brother John as 6th Baron Mowbray and 7th Baron Segrave, and soon afterwards was created Earl of Nottingham, a title that had also been created for his elder brother. Three years later he was appointed Earl Marshal of England, and in that capacity he fought against the Scots and then against the French.

Lord Nottingham was one of the Lords Appellant to King Richard II who deposed some of King Richard's court favorites in 1387. The King's uncle, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, was imprisoned at Calais, where Nottingham was Captain. When Gloucester was killed in 1397, it was probably at the King's orders and probably with Nottingham's involvement. A few weeks later he was created Duke of Norfolk, though his aged grandmother, the Duchess of Norfolk, was still alive. When she died the next year he also became 3rd Earl of Norfolk.

Later, in 1398, Norfolk quarrelled with Henry of Bolingbroke, 1st Duke of Hereford (later King Henry IV), apparently due to mutual suspicions stemming from their roles in the conspiracy against the Duke of Gloucester. The King banished them both. After Hereford returned and usurped the throne, Norfolk was stripped of the Dukedom of Norfolk, though he retained his other titles. He died of the plague in Venice, on 22 September 1399.

The matter of Norfolk's quarrel and subsequent banishment is depicted at the beginning of Shakespeare's Richard II.

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Family/Spouse: Elizabeth FitzAlan. Elizabeth (daughter of 11th Earl of Arundel Richard FitzAlan and Elizabeth de Bohun) was born about 1366 in Derbyshire, England; died on 8 Jul 1425 in Venice, Venezia, Veneto, Italy; was buried in Heveringham, York, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Robert (Roger) de la Warr in 1354/1405. Robert was born in 1329/1368; died in 1371/1449. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: of Essex Robert Howard. Robert (son of Baron of Wiggenhall John Howard and Alice Tendring) was born about 1383 in Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England; died on 1 Apr 1437 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Katherine Neville on 12 Jan 1411 in Raby, Durham, England. Katherine (daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort) was born in 1398 in Raby Castle, Durham, England; died after 1483 in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Upon the death of his father in Venice, he was allowed to succeed him as Earl of Norfolk and Nottingham, but not as Duke of Norfolk. He also received his father's title of Earl Marshal, but on a strictly honorary basis, the military rank being held by Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland as the Marshal of England. He was betrothed to Constance Holland, daughter of John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, then a child, but the marriage was never consummated.

A quarrel over precedence with Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick supposedly led to his estrangement from the court of Henry IV. Disaffected, he became involved with the latest rebellion of the Percies in the north, and raised an army with Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York. Deserted by the Earl of Northumberland, Norfolk and Scrope were brought to book on Shipton Moor by a large royal army under John of Lancaster and the Earl of Westmorland. Seeking a parley, they were arrested as soon as they disbanded their followers. When Chief Justice Sir William Gascoigne refused to pass sentence upon them before they were tried by their peers, Henry had both summarily beheaded, without color of law, in York on June 8, 1405.

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Joan married 1st Baron West Thomas West, 1st Baron West of Oakhanger in 1390. Thomas (son of Thomas West and Alice FitzHerbert, Baroness West) was born in Apr 1365 in Oakhanger, Hampshire, England; died on 17 Aug 1405 in Roughcombe, Tisbury, Wiltshire, England; was buried in Christchurch, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny on 15 Oct 1448 in Raby Castle, Durham, England. Edward (son of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort) was born before 1414 in Raby Castle, Durham, England; died on 18 Oct 1476 in Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Catherine de Moleyns. Catherine was born in 1424 in Berkshire, England; died on 3 Nov 1465 in Stoke Neyland, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Baron of Rathwire Thomas Danyell. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

At the beginning of the War of the Roses in 1450 he supported Richard, Duke of York, the leader of the Yorkist faction. However, in 1459, he swore allegiance to the Lancastrian Henry VI. He then quickly changed sides back to the Yorkists. This sort of treachery was by no means unusual during the Wars of the Roses.

In February 1461 he fought for the defeated Yorkists in the Second Battle of St Albans. In March 1461 (Richard, Duke of York now being dead) he was one of those who asked the Duke’s son the Earl of March to become Edward IV and later that month his intervention at the Battle of Towton was decisive. The battle took place in a snow storm between 80,000 men. Neither side could get an advantage until about midday Norfolk entered the battle on the Yorkist’s right flank. The Lancastrians then began to slowly fall back. As Earl Marshal Mowbray then officiated at Edward IV’s coronation.

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Family/Spouse: Eleanor Bourchier. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Reginald married Margaret Thorley about 1424. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Ida St. Amand in 1394/1414. Ida was born in 1384/1404; died in 1396/1495. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
1665964, Hampshire, England

Family/Spouse: 7th Baron Cobham John Brooke. John (son of 6th Baron Cobham Edward Brooke and Elizabeth Tuchet) was born on 10 Dec 1447 in Cowling, Kent, England; died on 9 Mar 1512 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Thomas Howard

Family/Spouse: Agnes Tilney. Agnes was born about 1477; died in May 1545. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Elizabeth Tilney on 30 Apr 1472 in Norfolk, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Frederick Tilney and Elizabeth Cheney) was born before 1445 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died on 4 Apr 1497 in Baynards Castle, London, England; was buried in Aldgate, City of London, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford on 31 Aug 1425 in Colone, Essex, England. John (son of Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford and Alice Sergeaux) was born on 23 Apr 1408 in Castle Hedingham, Essex, England; died on 26 Feb 1462 in Tower Hill, London, England; was buried in London, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Talbot. Elizabeth (daughter of 1st Earl of Shrewsbury John Talbot and Margaret Beauchamp) died before 1453. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Catherine Hungerford about 1451 in England. Catherine (daughter of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford and Katherine Peverell) was born in England; died on 12 May 1493 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eleanor Neville. Eleanor (daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and Alice Montacute) was born in 1447; died in 1482. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dorothy Hayden. Dorothy (daughter of Henry Hayden and Ann Elizabeth Boleyn) was born about 1465 in Baconthorpe, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Gamage. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joyce Culpeper. Joyce was born about 1481 in Oxenhoath, Kent, England; died about 1531 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Elizabeth Boleyn
• Birth: Abt 1480
• Death: 3 Apr 1538, Hever, Kent, England
• Burial: 7 Apr 1538, Howard Aisle, Lambeth Church

Elizabeth married 1st Earl of Wiltshire and 1st Earl of Ormonde Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire in 1498. Thomas (son of William Boleyn and Margaret Butler) was born about 1477 in Blickling, Norfolk, England; died on 13 Mar 1539 in Hever, Kent, England; was buried in Hever, Sevenoaks District, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Anne "of York" Plantagenet on 4 Feb 1494/95. Anne (daughter of Edward Plantagenet, King of England IV and Elizabeth Woodville) was born on 2 Nov 1475 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England; died on 23 Nov 1511; was buried in St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham, Suffolk, ENgland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Elizabeth Stafford about 1516. Elizabeth (daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Alianore (Eleanor) Percy) was born in 1497 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 30 Nov 1558 in Lambeth, Greater London, England; was buried in Lambeth, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margaret Neville on 28 Nov 1508 in Rowley, Yorkshire, England. Margaret (daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and Alice Montacute) was born about 1460; died in 1506. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Margery Percy about 1463 in Northumbeland, England. Margery (daughter of Henry Percy and Elizabeth Bardolf) was born about 1414 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland; died on 28 Sep 1464. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married 1st Duke of York and 1st Duke of Norfolk Richard "of Shrewsbury" Plantagenet on 15 Jan 1478 in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster Cathedral, London, England. Richard (son of Edward Plantagenet, King of England IV and Elizabeth Woodville) was born on 17 Aug 1473 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; died in 1483 in Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Elizabeth Mortimer about 1478. Elizabeth (daughter of Hugh Mortimer) was born in 1453; died on 29 Jun 1502. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Eleanor Copley in 1488 in Lancaster, Cheshire, England. Eleanor (daughter of Roger Copley, Earl of Batley and Anne De Hoo) was born about 1476 in Gatton, Surrey, England; died in 1536 in Broadwater, Sussex, England; was buried in Broadwater, Worthing, West Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Eleanor Percy about 1475. Eleanor (daughter of 3rd Earl of Northumberland Henry Percy and Eleanor Poynings) was born in 1455. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married "The Poet" Thomas Wyatt about 1521. Thomas (son of Henry Wyatt and Anne Skinner) was born about 1503; died on 11 Oct 1542 in Sherbourne, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Bray. Anne died on 1 Nov 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Katherine Carey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Douglas married 1st Earl of Leicester Robert Dudley in 1574. Robert (son of 1st Duke of Northumberland John Dudley and Jane Guildford) was born on 7 Sep 1533 in Atherton, Sussex, England; died on 4 Sep 1588 in Cornbury, Oxfordshire, England; was buried in Beauchamp Chapel in St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Douglas married 2nd Baron Sheffield John Sheffield about 1562. John was born about 1538; died on 10 Dec 1568. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Douglas married Edward Stafford on 29 Nov 1579. Edward died in 1604. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Henry Tudor, King of England VIII on 28 Jul 1540 in Richmond upon Thames, London, England. Henry (son of King of England Henry VII Tudor and Elizabeth "of York" Plantagenet) was born on 28 Jun 1491 in Greenwich, Kent, England; was christened in Observant Friars, Greenwich, Kent, England; died on 28 Jan 1547 in Whitehall Castle, Berkshire, England; was buried on 16 Feb 1547 in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
beheaded

Anne married Henry Tudor, King of England VIII on 25 Jan 1533 in London, Middlesex, England. Henry (son of King of England Henry VII Tudor and Elizabeth "of York" Plantagenet) was born on 28 Jun 1491 in Greenwich, Kent, England; was christened in Observant Friars, Greenwich, Kent, England; died on 28 Jan 1547 in Whitehall Castle, Berkshire, England; was buried on 16 Feb 1547 in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 6th Earl of Northumberland Henry Percy. Henry (son of 5th Earl of Northumberland Henry Algernon Percy and Catherine Spencer) was born in 1502; died in 1537. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Jane Parker about 1524. Jane was born about 1505; died on 13 Feb 1542 in Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married William Carey in 1520. William (son of Thomas Carey and Margaret Spencer) was born in 1495 in Chilton Foliat, Wiltishire, England; died on 22 Jun 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Stafford. William was born in 1500; died on 5 May 1565. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Frances de Vere about 1535. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Edward Guldeford in 1501 in Oxfordshire, England. Edward (son of Richard Guildford and Anne de Pympe) was born in 1474 in Offington, Sussex, England; died in 1533 in Leeds Castle, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester. Charles (son of 3rd Duke of Somerset Henry Beaufort and Joan Hill) was born about 1460; died on 15 Mar 1526; was buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Thomas West
• Birth: Abt 1479
• Death: 1554

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Jun 1803, Snitterfield, Warwickshire, England

George married Elizabeth Morton in 1497/1531. Elizabeth was born in 1512 in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England; died in May 1592 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England; was buried in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(1) David Michael Loades (University of Durham), Encyclopaedia Britannica (1972), vol. 23, p. 827

Introduction

Wyat, Sir Thomas, the Younger (c. 1521-1554), English soldier and conspirator who led one of the most serious rebellions of Tudor times, was the son of Sir Thomas Wyat (q.v.) the elder. On his father's death in 1542 he inherited extensive Kentish estates, including his principal seat, Allington Castle. At that stage he had a reputation for recklessness, and was briefly imprisoned in 1543 for taking part with Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, in a London street riot. Thereafter he served abroad, and traveled extensively in Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland, acquiring an extensive knowledge of military matters and recognition as a skilful and daring captain.

Beginnings of Wyat's Rebellion

The date of his return is uncertain, but in the autumn of 1549 he submitted to Protector Somerset's council a timely project for a selective militia to provide a safeguard against civil disturbances. Somerset's fall soon afterward caused this plan to be abandoned, but Wyat seems to have used his position in Kent (he was sheriff in 1551) to create a rudimentary organization on his own initiative. On Edward VI's death (July 1553) he supported Mary I, and proclaimed her at Rochester, but by the end of the year rumours of the proposed marriage between mary and the future king Philip II of Spain had drawn Wyat into an extensive conspiracy. It was originally planned that Henry Grey, duke of suffolk, should raise his friends and dependents in Leicestershire, Sir James Crofts on the Welsh Marches, Wyat in Kent, and Edward Courtenay, earl of Devon, and Sir Peter Carew in the Southwest. The plot was detected and forced into premature action at the end of January 1554, with the result that Crofts did not stir, Devon turned informer, and suffolk and Carew could make only feeble gestures. Only Wyat succeeded, through his local organization and powers of leadership, in raising a force, and the whole burden of the action therfore fell upon him. The sheriff of Kent, Sir Robert Southwell, and Henry Neville, Lord Abergavenny, tried unsuccessfully to raise a force against him while the London trainbands, sent down under the command of the aged Thomas Howard, 3rd duke of Norfolk, deserted to him.

Uprising Collapses

Lack of confidence, and conflict within the council, resulted first in an offer to negotiate, and only belatedly in a resolute attempt to oppose him. On Feb. 3, at the head of about 3,000 men, he entered southwark unchallenged, but was unable to cross London Bridge. Success therafter depended upon a sympathetic rising in London, for which he had good reason to hope if he could take the city authorities by surprise. For this purpose he attempted a rapid night march by way of Kingston-upon-Thames, but found the royal forces under William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, awaiting him. The morale of both sides was extremely low, but that of the rebels disintegrated first, and they surrendered after a nominal engagement.

The Rebel's Fate

Wyat was tried on March 15, and executed on April 11, 1554, strenuous but unsuccessful efforts being made to the last to persuade him to implicate Princess Elizabeth (afterward Queen Elizabeth I) in his conspiracy. After his death he and his followers were widely regarded as martyrs to the cause of patriotism. His widow and five surviving children, rendered destitute by his attainder, were relieved by Queen Mary's generosity in 1557, but only in 1563 did his son George regain a part of his inheritance.

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(2) Sidney, Lee, in Leslie Stephan & Sidney Lee, ed., Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 1885-1901[reprint 1993]), v. 21, pp. 1102-1104

The Young Life of a Rebel

WYATT, SIR THOMAS (1521?-1554), the younger, conspirator, was the eldest and only surviving son of Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder [q.v.], by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Brooke, third lord Cobham. He was brought up as a catholic. He is described as 'twenty-one years and upwards' in the 'inquisition post mortem' of his father, which was dated 8 Jan. 1542/3. The Duke of Norfolk was one of his godfathers. In boyhood he is said to have accompanied his father on an embassy to Spain, where the elder sir Thomas Wyatt was threatened by the Inquisition. To this episode has been traced and irremovable detestation of the Spanish government, but the anecdote is probably apocryphal. All that is positively known of his relations with his father while the latter was in Spain is found in two letters which the elder Wyatt addressed from Spain to the younger, then fifteen years old. The letters give much sound moral advice. In 1537 young Wyatt married when barely sixteen. He succeeded on his father's death in 1542 to Allington Castle and Boxley Abbey in Kent, with much other property. But the estate was embarrassed, and he parted with some outlying lands on 30 Nov. 1543 to the king, receiving for them 3,669l. 8s. 2d. In 1542 he alienated, too, the estate of Tarrant in Dorset in favour of a natural son, Francis Wyatt, whose mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Darrel of Littlecote. Wyatt was of somewhat wild and impulsive temperament. At an early age he had made the acquaintance of his father's disciple, Henry Howard, earl of surrey [q.v.], and during Lent 1543 he joined Surrey and other young men in breaking at night the windows of citizens' houses and of London churches. They were arrested and brought before the privy council on 1 April, and they were charged not merely with acts of violence, but with having eaten meat during Lent. Surrey explained that his efforts were directed to awakening the citizens of London to a sense of sin. Wyatt was inclined to deny the charges. He remained in the Tower till 3 May. In the autumn of 1543 Wyatt joined a regiment of volunteers which surrey raised at his own expense to take part in the siege of Landrecies. Wyatt distinguished himself in the military operations, and was highly commended by Thomas Churchyard, who was present (cf. CHURCHYARD, Pleasant Discourse of Court and of Wars, 1596). In 1544 Wyatt took part in the siege of Boulogne and was given responsible command next year. When Surrey became governor he joined the English council there (14 June 1545), Surrey, writing to Henry VIII, highly commended Wyatt's 'hardiness, painfulness, circumspection, and natural disposition to the war.' He seems to have remained abroad till the surrender of Boulogne in 1550. In November 1550 he was named a commissioner to delimit the English frontier in France, but owing to ill-health was unable to act. Subsequently he claimed to have served Queen Mary against the Duke of Northumberland when the duke attempted to secure the throne for his daughter-in-law, Lady Jane Grey. but he took no well-defined part in public affairs at home until he learned of Queen Mary's resolve to marry Philip of Spain. He regarded the step as an outrage on the nation's honour, but, according to his own account, never thought of publicly protesting against it until he received an invitation from Edward Courtenay [q.v.], earl of Devonshire, to join in a general insurrection throughout the country for the purpose of preventing the accomplishment of the queen's plan. He cheerfully undertook to raise Kent. Help was vaguely promised him by the French ambassador.

Taking Steps

The official announcement of the marriage was published on 15 Jan. 1553/4. Seven days later Wyatt summoned his friends and neighbours to meet at Allington Castle to discuss means of resistance. He offered, if they would attempt an armed rebellion, to lead the insurgent force. Like endeavours made by Courtenay, the earl of Suffolk, Sir James Crofts, and Sir Peter Carew, to excite rebellion in other counties failed [see CAREW, SIR PETER]. The instigators elsewhere were all arrested before they had time to mature their designs. Wyatt was thus forced into the position of chief actor in the attack on the government of the queen. He straightway published a proclamation at Maidstone which was addressed 'unto the commons' of Kent. He stated that his course had been approved by 'divers of the best of the shire.' Neighbours and friends were urged to secure the advancement of 'liberty and commonwealth,' which were imperilled by 'the queen's determinate pleasure to marry with a stranger.'

Initiating the Rebellion

Wyatt showed himself worthy of his responsibilities and laid his plans with boldness. Noailles, the French ambassador, wrote that he was 'estimée par deçà homme vaillant et de bonne conduicte;' and M. d'Oysel, thehe French ambassador in Scotland, who was at the time in London, informed the French king, his master, that Wyatt was 'ung gentil chevallier et fort estimé parmy ceste nation' (Ambassades de Noailles, iii. 15, 46).. Fifteen hundred men were soon in arms under his command, while five thousand promised adherence later. He fixed his headquarters at the castle of Rochester. Some cannon and ammunition were secretly sent him up the Medway by agents in London; batteries were erected to command the passage of the bridge at Rochester and the opposite bank of the river. When the news of Wyatt's action reached the queen and government in London, a proclamation was issued offering pardon to such of his followers as should within twenty-four hours depart peaceably to their homes. Royal officers with their retainers were despatched to disperse small parties of Wyatt's associates while on their way to Rochester; Sir Robert Southwell broke up one band under an insurgent named Knevet; Lord Abergavenny defeated another reinforcement lead by a friend of Wyatt named Isley; the citizens of Canterbury rejected Wyatt's entreaties to join him, and derided his threats. Wyatt maintained the spirit of his followers by announcing that he daily expected succour from France, and circulated false reports of successful risings in other parts of the country. Some of his followers sent to the council offers to return to their duty, and at the end of January Wyatt's fortunes looked desperate. But the tide turned for a season in his favour when the government ordered the Duke of Norfolk to march form London upon Wyatt's main body, with a detachment of white-coated guards under the command of Sir Henry Jerningham. The manuvre gave Wyatt an unexpected advantage. The duke was followed immediately by five hundred Londoners, hastily collected by one Captain Bret, and was afterwards joined by the sheriff of Kent, who had called out the trained bands of the county. The force thus embodied by the government was inferior in number to Wyatt's, and it included many who were in sympathy with the rebels. As soon as they came within touch of Wyatt's forces at Rochester, the majority of them joined him, and the duke with his principal officers fled towards Gravesend.

Attacking London

Wyatt set out for London at the head of four thousand men. He found the road open. 'Through Dartford and Gravesend he marched to Blackheath, where he encamped on 29 Jan. 1553/4. The government acknowledged the seriousness of the situation, and sent Wyatt a message inviting him to formulate his demands, but his was only a means of gaining time. On 1 Feb. 1554 Mary proceeded to the Guildhall and addressed the citizens of London on the need of meeting the danger summarily. Wyatt was proclaimed a traitor. Next morning more than twenty thousand men enrolled their names for the protection of the city. Special precautions were taken for the security of the court and the Tower; many bridges over the Thames within a distance of fifteen miles were broken down; all peers in the neighbourhood of London received orders to raise their tenantry; and on 3 Feb. a reward of land of the annual value of one hundred pounds a year was offered the captor of Wyatt's person.

Captured & Tried For Treason

The same day Wyatt entered Southwark, but his followers were alarmed by the reports of the government's activity. Many deserted, and Wyatt found himself compelled by the batteries on the Tower to evacuate Southwark. Turning to the south he directed hes steps toward Kingston, where he arrived on 6 Feb. (Shrove Tuesday). The river was crossed without difficulty, and a plan was formed to surprise Ludgate. On the way Wyatt hoped to capture St. James's Palace, where Queen Mary had taken refuge. But his schemes were quickly betrayed to the government. A council of war decided to allow him to advance upon the city and then to press on him from every quarter. He proceeded on 7 Feb. through Kensington to Hyde Park, and had a sharp skirmish at Hyde Park Corner with a troop of infantry. Escaping with a diminished following, he made his way past St. James's Palace. Proceeding by Charing Cross along the Strand and Fleet Street he reached Ludgate at two o'clock in the morning of 8 feb. The gate was shut against him, and he was without the means or the spirit to carry it by assault. His numbers dwindled in the passage through London, and he retreated with very few followers to Temple Bar. There he was met by the Norroy herald, and, recognising that his cause was lost, he made a voluntary submission. After being taken to Whitehall, he was committed to the Tower, where the lieutenant, Sir John Brydges (afterwards first Lord Chandos), received him with opprobrious reproaches. On his arrest the French ambassador, De Noailles, paid a tribute to his valour and confidence. He wrote of him as 'le plus vaillant et asseuré de quoyee j'aye jamais ouy parler, qui a mis ladicte dame et seigneurs de son conseil en telle et si grande peur, qu'elle s'est veue par l'espace de huict jours en bransle de sa couronne' (Ambassades de Noailles, iii. 59). On 15 March he was arraigned at Westminster of high treason, was condemned, and sentenced to death (Fourth Rep. Deputy Keeper of Records, App. ii. pp. 244-5).

Executed on Tower Hill

On the day appointed for his execution (11 April) Wyatt requested Lord Chandos, the lieutenant of the Tower, to permit him to speak to a fellow-prisoner, Edward Courtenay 'to confess the truth of himself.' The interview lasted half an hour. It does not appear that he said anything to implicate Princess Elizabeth, but he seems to have reproached Courtenay with being the instigator of his crime (cf. FOXE, Acts and Monuments, iii. 41, and TYTLER, Hist. of Edward VI and Mary, ii. 320). Nevertheless, at the scaffold on Tower Hill he made a speech accepting full responsibility for his acts and exculpating alike Elizabeth and Courtenay (Chronicles of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 73; BAYLEY, Hist. of the Tower, p. xlix). After he was beheaded, his body was subjected to all the barbarities that formed part of punishment for treason. Next day his head was hung to a gallows on 'Hay Hill beside Hyde Park,' and subsequently his limbs were distributed among gibbets in various quarters of the town (MACHYN, Diary, p. 60). His head was stolen on 17 April.

Family

Wyatt married in 1537 Jane, daughter of Sir William Hawte of Bishopsbourne, Kent. Through her he acquired the manor of Wavering. She bore him ten children, of whom three married and left issue. Of these a daughter Anna married Roger Twysden, grandfather fo Sir Roger Twysden [q.v.], and another Charles Scott of Egerton, Kent, of the family of Scott of Scotshall. The son George was restored to his estate of Boxley, Kent, by Queen Mary, and to that of Wavering by Queen Elizabeth in 1570. He collected materials for a life of Queen Anne Boleyn, the manuscript of which passed to his sister's grandson, Sir Roger Twysden. In 1817 there was privately printed by Robert Triphook from a copy of Wyatt's manuscript 'Extracts from the Life of Queen Anne Boleigne, by George Wyat. Written at the close of the XVIth century.' The full original manuscript in George Wyatt's autograph is among the Wyatt MSS., now the property of the Earl of Romney. Twysden also based on Wyatt's recollections his 'Account of Queen Anne Bullen,' which was first issued privately in 1808; it has little likeness to Wyatt's autograph 'Life.' The Wyatt MSS. contain letters and religious poems by George Wyatt, as well as a refutation of Nicholas Sanders's attacks on the characters of the two Sir Thomas Wyatts. George Wyatt, who died in 1623, was father of Sir Francis Wyatt [q.v.]

Portrait

A portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger in profile on panel belongs to the earl of Romney, and is now in his London residence, 4 Upper Belgrave Street.

Sources

[Dr. G. F. Nott's memoir (1816) prefixed to his edition of the Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder (pp. lxxxix-xcviii) gives the main facts. An official account of Wyatt's rebellion was issued within a year of his execution, under the title of 'Historie of Wyate's rebellion, with the order and maner of resisting the same, etc., made and compyled by John Proctor [q.v.], Mense Januarii, anno 1555,' reprinted in the Antiquarian repertory, vol. iii. The account of the rebellion in Grafton's Chronicle is said to be from the pen of George Ferrers. Holinshed based his complete narrative of the rebellion in his Chronicle on Proctor's History, with a few hints from Grafton. A few particulars are added in Stowe's Annals. A full narrative with many documents form the Public Record Office is in R. P. Cruden's History of Gravesend, 1842, pp. 172 sq. See also Loseley MSS. edited by Kempe, 126-30; Diary of Henry Machyn, 1550-63 (Camden Soc.); Wriothesley's Chronicle (Camden Soc.); Lingard's Hist.; Froude's Hist.; Miscell. Genealogica et Heraldica, ii. 107 (new ser.); Bapst, Deux Gentilhommes-Poètes de la Cour de Henry VIII, pp. 2666 seq.; Cave Browne's History of Boxley Parish, Maidstone, 1892; Wyatt MSS. in the possession of the Earl of Romney; information kindly given by the Hon. R. Marsham-Townshend.]

Birth:
Allington Castle, Maidstone, Kent, England

Died:
beheaded

Thomas married of Kent de Brunne Jane Haute in 1537. Jane (daughter of William Haute and Mary Guildford) was born in 1522 in Bishopsbourne, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Dorothy Nevill in 1545. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 11th Baron Cobham Henry Brooke. Henry (son of 10th Baron Cobham William Brooke and Dorothy Nevill) was born on 22 Nov 1564; died on 24 Jan 1618. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 10th Earl of Ormonde Thomas Butler. Thomas was born about 1531; died on 22 Nov 1614. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Francis Knollys in 1539. Francis was born about 1514; died in 1596. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary FitzAlan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married 1st Duke of Northumberland John Dudley in 1530 in Holden, Kent, England. John was born in 1501 in Warwick, Sussex, England; died on 22 Aug 1553 in Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Elizabeth Strange before 1555. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Strange and Anne Vaux) was born about 1534 in Chesterton, Gloucester, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Allington Castle, Maidstone, Kent, England

George married Jane Finch on 8 Oct 1582 in Caswell, Kent, England. Jane (daughter of Thomas Finch and Katherine Moyle) was born in 1555 in of Eastwell, Kent, England; died on 27 Mar 1644. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Allington Castle, Boxley, Kent, England

Family/Spouse: Frances Howard. Frances (daughter of Charles Howard and Katherine Carey) was buried on 11 Jul 1628. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lettice married 1st Earl of Leicester Robert Dudley in 1576. Robert (son of 1st Duke of Northumberland John Dudley and Jane Guildford) was born on 7 Sep 1533 in Atherton, Sussex, England; died on 4 Sep 1588 in Cornbury, Oxfordshire, England; was buried in Beauchamp Chapel in St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lettice married 1st Earl of Essex Walter Devereux about 1562. Walter was born in 1541; died on 22 Sep 1576 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lettice married Christopher Blount in 1589. Christopher was born about 1565 in Newport, Devonshire, England; died on 18 Mar 1601 in Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Dacre. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Lettice Knollys in 1576. Lettice (daughter of Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey) was born in 1540 in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, England; died on 25 Dec 1634 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England; was buried in Beauchamp Chapel in St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Amy Robsart in 1559. Amy was born on 7 Jun 1532 in Norfolk, East Anglia, England; died on 8 Sep 1560 in Cumnor Place, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Douglas Howard in 1574. Douglas (daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham and Margaret Gamage) was born about 1545; died in 1608; was buried on 11 Dec 1608. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guilford married Jane Grey on 15 May 1553 in Durham House, London, Middlesex, England. Jane (daughter of 2nd Duke of Suffolk Henry Grey and Frances Brandon) was born in Oct 1537 in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, England; died on 12 Feb 1554 in Tower Green, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Anne Knollys on 19 Nov 1571. Anne was born in 1536/1560; died in 1594/1650. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francis married Margaret Sandys in 1618. Margaret was born in 1592; died on 24 Aug 1644 in Virginia, USA; was buried on 27 Mar 1644/1645 in Boxley, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE Southern States of America WYATTS OF VIRGINIA, page 542

REV. HAUTE WYATT, (10--6), of England and Virginia, b. 1594, at Ailington Castle, Kent Co., England; d. Aug. 1, 1638, in Boxley Parish, Kent Co., England; is the ancestor of the Virginia Wyatts. The monumental inscription in Boxley Church to the Wyatt family states that "Sir George's son, Rev. Haute, died vicar of Boxley Parish, Kent Co., England, and had issue living in Virginia." He came to the Colony with his brother, Sir Francis, arriving on the Georgia, Nov. 18, 1621; he served as Minister of Jamestown, James City Co., Va., from 1621 to 1625, when he returned to England, became vicar of Boxley Parish, and so served until his death; he m. (first) about 1617, Elizabeth Mitford, d. 10-31-1626; (second) Anne ----, d. 1632.
---Sir Stanley Wyatt's research: "By his first wife, Haute had two sons who survived him, George who was baptized at St. Helen's, Worcester, in 1619, and Edward who was born about 1621. By his second wife, he had a son John born about 1630 and a daughter Anne in 1631.

Notes:

See "Americans of Gentle Birth" Vol. 1 P. 249 for Wyatt Genealogy

Sir Frances Wyatt, a brother of Isabel, was Gov. of the Colony of Va., A brother, Rev. Hawte Wyatt, b. 1591 was minister at Jamestown. Later was vicar at Boxley, Kent, England.

Family/Spouse: John Francis Page. John (son of Richard Page and Frances Mudge) was born on 13 Oct 1594 in Uxendon, Middlesex, England; died on 13 Oct 1678 in Bedfont Parish, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lord Fordwick John Finch. John was born on 17 Sep 1584; died on 25 Nov 1660; was buried in St. Martins Church, near Canterbury, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Frances Walsingham in 1590. Frances (daughter of Francis Walsingham and Ursula St. Barbe) was born in 1569; died on 13 Feb 1631. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married 9th Earl of Northumberland Henry Percy in 1595. Henry (son of Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland and Catherine Neville) was born on 27 Apr 1564 in Tynemouth Castle, Tyne and Wear, England; died on 5 Nov 1632. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 13th Baroness Furnivall Alethea Talbot. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[Broderbund WFT Vol. 11, Ed. 1, Tree #0089

Gov John West was a lineal descendant of 14 of the original 25 Baron
Sureties for the Magna Charta - only 17 have descendants.
William D'Albini, Lord of Belvoir Castle, d. 1236
Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfold, d. 1220
Hugh Bigod, son & heir of Roger, d. 1225
Henry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, d. 1220
Richard de Claire, Earl of Hertford, d. 1217
Gilbert de Claire, son & heir of Richard, d. 1230
Robert FitzWalter, leader of the Barons, d. 1240
John de Lacie, Lord of Halton Castle, d. 1240
William de Lanvallei, Lord of Stanway Castle, d. 1217
William Malet, Lord of Curry-Malet, d. 1217
William de Mowbray, Lord of Axholne Castle, d. 1223
Saire de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, d. 1219
Robert de Ros (Roos), Lord of Hamlake Castle, d. 1226
Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, d. 1221

John married Anne Claiborne about 1639. Anne was born in 1594/1620; died in 1644/1708. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nathaniel married Francis Hinton in 1608/1622. Francis was born in 1588/1605; died in 1612/1691. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Cecilie Sherley on 25 Nov 1596. Cecilie was born in 1559/1582; died in 1601/1672. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lettice married Henry Ludlow in 1593/1626. Henry was born in 1562/1582; died in 1596/1668 in Tedley, Southhampton, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Penelope married Jr. Herbert Pelham in 1596/1629. Herbert was born in 1565/1582; died in 1599/1671. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Helena married William Savage in 1601/1634. William (son of John Savage and Mary Allington) was born in 1571 in Taunton, Somersetshire, England; died in 1605 in Winchester, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[Broderbund WFT Vol. 11, Ed. 1, Tree #0089

Arrived in VA w/Cpt Christopher Newport in 1608, and named a grantee of
the 2nd charter of the London Co. in 1609. As President of the colony's
Council, assumed the role of Chief Executive after the overthrow of Cpt
John Smith in September 1609, but was soon replaced by George Percy.
Between voyages to England and elsewhere, continued to serve as a member
of the VA Council; also appointed to other offices in Va. including
Commander at Jamestown in 1612 and Master of the Ordnance in 1617.
Commissioned Admiral of New England in November 1622, but quickly
returned to Va. after encountering resistance from the fishermen in the
area. As President of the Council, became Acting Governor of Va. in
November 1627 following the death of Gov. George Yeardley, and served in
that capacity until March 1629.

West's first period as Chief Executive lasted only about 2 weeks, but his
second term was both longer and more significant. By the late 1620's, Va.
has passed through its earliest growing pains and, despite a
persistently high death rate, the colony's population was beginning to
increase dramatically. In Feb 1628, for example, it was reported that
1,000 immigrants to Va. had been "lately received." West's tenure was
also marked by an increasing awareness of the importance of tobacco to
Va.'s economy, and in March 1628 a colonial assembly, meeting on an ad
hoc basis and at the Crown's suggestion, considered the question of a
royal proclamation which forbade the importation of tobacco into England
w/o the king's license.

Although he sailed for England in 1629, West returned to Va. by 1631. He
appears to have resumed his seat on the colony's Council, since in Feb
1633 he is noted as being present at one of that body's sessions. He died
in Va. probably in early 1634. (Bio Directory of Amer Colonial and Rev.
Governors, John Raimo)

Francis married Temperance Flowerdew on 31 Mar 1628 in Virginia, USA. Temperance (daughter of Anthony Flowerdew and Martha) was born about 1587; died in 1629 in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francis married Jane Davye about 1615, and was divorced. Jane was born in 1577/1587; died in 1620/1687. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francis married Margaret about 1606, and was divorced. Margaret was born in 1569/1582; died in 1611/1682. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Herbert Pelham on 12 Feb 1593, and was divorced. Herbert was born in 1548/1575; died in 1599/1662. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Elizabeth Coks in 1591/1624. Elizabeth was born in 1570/1582; died in 1591/1674. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Edward Digges in 1650 in Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA. Edward (son of Dudley Digges and Mary Kempe) was born on 29 Mar 1621 in Fordwich, Canterbury, Kent, England; was christened on 29 Mar 1620; died on 15 Mar 1675 in Bellfield Plantation, Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA; was buried in Bellfield Plantation, Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Alice Luckin in 1655 in Middle Plantation, Virginia. Alice was born in 1625 in Bedfont, Middlesex, England; died on 28 Jun 1698 in Williamsburg, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frances married 2nd Duke of Somerset William Seymour on 3 Mar 1616 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England. William (son of Lord Beauchamp of Hache Edward Seymour and Honora Rogers) was born in 1588; died on 24 Oct 1660. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Howard. Elizabeth died on 11 Mar 1705. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married 2nd Earl of Leicester Robert Sidney in 1615. Robert was born on 1 Dec 1595; died on 2 Nov 1677. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
"Chiskack-Bellfield" on the York River, VA

John married Unity (Ursula) Croshaw about 1654 in West Point, King William County, VA. Unity (daughter of Joseph Croshaw and Mary Broomfield) was born in 1636 in West Point, King William County, VA; was christened in 1636; died on 20 Apr 1669 in New Kent County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cecilie married Francis Bindlose in 1614/1655. Francis was born in 1587/1617; died in 1614/1699. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cecilie married John Byron in 1614/1655. John was born in 1587/1617; died in 1614/1699. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucy married Robert Byron in 1614/1655. Robert was born in 1587/1617; died in 1614/1699. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Barnes. William was born in 1596 in Kingsnorth, Kent, England; died on 3 Aug 1659 in Hartford, Connecticut, Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]