Biography of Thomas Stanhope 1540-1596
Paternal Family Tree: Stanhope
Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Belnap
In or before 1540 [his father] Michael Stanhope (age 33) and [his mother] Anne Rawson (age 24) were married. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.
In 1540 Thomas Stanhope was born to Michael Stanhope (age 33) and Anne Rawson (age 25).
On 26 Feb 1552 Miles Partridge and Ralph Fane were hanged. Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle (age 50) and [his father] Michael Stanhope (age 45) were beheaded at Tower Hill [Map] for plotting to assassinate John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland (age 48).
Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle (age 50) was buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map].
In 1559 [his son] John Stanhope was born to Thomas Stanhope (age 19) and Margaret Port.
In 1576 [his daughter] Anne Stanhope Countess de Clare was born to Thomas Stanhope (age 36) and Margaret Port.
On 20 Feb 1588 [his mother] Anne Rawson (age 73) died.
On 23 May 1591 [his son-in-law] John Holles 1st Earl de Clare (age 27) and [his daughter] Anne Stanhope Countess de Clare (age 15) were married.
After 1596. St Peter's Church Shelford [Map]. Helm and gauntlets of Thomas Stanhope (age 56).
Archaeologia Volume 31 Section V. Melford, Suffolk, May 8th, 1844.
MY DEAR SIR,
In the valuable collection of Original Letters edited by Sir Henry Ellis (Vol. II. second Series), I observe two in 1569 and 1570 from [his mother] Lady Stanhope to Sir William Cecill, respecting the unhappy marriage of her [his sister] daughter with Mr. afterwards Sir John Hotham of Scorborough in Yorkshire, and also Sir John's letter to Cecill, as "Master of the Wards and Lyveries," defending himself, and in which he expatiates on the "Stanhopes eville delinge many wayes," but with less asperity than the lady, who not only reviles him, but, in fact, the whole county of York, and says "especially in Yorkshire, where he may suborne men and women to say what he listeth to serve his devilishe purpose." The lady had purchased the wardship of Hotham, and married him to her daughter, but it appears that after all it was a bad bargain, as she had not purchased his love. The Lord Treasurer Burghley found time for everything, and this lady even troubled him after her death. I shall be glad if you think the letter which I inclose worthy of notice by the Society of Antiquaries; the foolscap sheet is very neatly folded up, and endorsed in Lord Burghley's business-like manner, "6. Ap. 1588, Sr Thomas Stanhoppe, Towchinge his Mothers funeralls." Anne Lady Stanhope was the widow of Sir Michael Stanhope, who was beheaded in 1551 on a charge of conspiring with the Protector Somerset, who had married his half-sister, to assassinate the Duke of Northumberland, the Marquess of Northampton, and the Earl of Pembroke, at a banquet at the Lord Paget's, but his chief offence appears to have been that he was brother-in-law to Somerset. His widow is described by Collins as having "kept continually a worshipful house, relieved the poor daily, gave good countenance and comfort to the preachers of God's word, spent the most of her latter days in prayer, and using the church where God's word was preached." Her son, Sir Thomas, dates his letter from Shelford1 in Nottinghamshire, a dissolved monastery, which with the manor had been granted by Henry VIII. to his father. Sir Thomas was ancestor of several noble families, and his letter shows the magnificence of his ideas, but the dole to the poor at his gate was probably only a continuance or revival of the old custom in the time of his predecessors the monks.
Believe me to be
Very faithfully yours,
RICHD. ALMACK.
ALBERT WAY, Esq., M.A., Director S.A.
Note 1. Shelford House was a garrison for King Charles the First, under the care of Philip Stanhope, son of the first Earl of Chesterfield, the grandson of this Sir Thomas Stanhope. In Mrs. Hutchinson's Memoirs of Col. John Hutchinson is a very interesting and minute account of the storming of this house, the miserable death of Philip Stanhope, and the destruction of the house by fire.
[his son] John Stanhope and Cordelia Alington were married.
[his son] John Stanhope and Catherine Trentham were married.
Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 14 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 19 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 15 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 5 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 13 Grand Son of Malcolm III King Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 11 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 7 Grand Son of Philip "The Fair" IV King France
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Stanhope
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Stanhope
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Stanhope
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Stanhope
GrandFather: Edward Stanhope
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Jerningham
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret or Mary Jerningham
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gervase Clifton
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gervase Clifton
Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabel Clifton
Great x 4 Grandfather: Vincent Finch aka Herbert of Netherfield Sussex
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Finch
Father: Michael Stanhope 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bourchier
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Bourchier 1st Count Eu
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Louvaine
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Bourchier Baron Fitzwarin Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas of Woodstock 1st Duke of Gloucester Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne of Gloucester Plantagenet Countess Eu and Stafford Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Bohun Duchess Gloucester 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Fulk Bourchier 10th Baron Fitzwarin 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Hankford
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Hankford
Great x 2 Grandmother: Thomasine Hankford 9th Baroness Fitzwarin 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Fulk Fitzwarin 6th Baron Fitzwarin 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Fitzwarin 8th Baroness Fitzwarin 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
GrandMother: Elizabeth Bourchier 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Thomas Stanhope 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Nicholas Rawson of Aveley in Essex
Mother: Anne Rawson
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Cooke of Lavenham in Suffolk
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Cooke
Great x 1 Grandfather: Philip Cooke
GrandMother: Beatrix Cooke
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Belnap