Biography of John Williams 1st Baron Williams 1500-1559
Around 1500 John Williams 1st Baron Williams was born to John Williams (age 31).
On 15 Jun 1508 [his father] John Williams (age 39) died.
In 1521 [his daughter] Margery Williams Baroness Norreys Rycote was born to John Williams 1st Baron Williams (age 21) and [his future wife] Margery Wentworth.
In 1522 [his daughter] Isabel Williams was born to John Williams 1st Baron Williams (age 22) and [his future wife] Elizabeth Bledlow Baroness Williams (age 18).
Before 23 Jun 1523 Andrew Edmondes and [his future wife] Elizabeth Bledlow Baroness Williams (age 19) were married.
Around 1533 [his son-in-law] Henry Norreys 1st Baron Norreys Rycote (age 8) and [his daughter] Margery Williams Baroness Norreys Rycote (age 12) were married. They were half third cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
In 1538 John Williams 1st Baron Williams (age 38) was appointed Master of the Jewels which position he held until 1544.
In 1538 John Williams 1st Baron Williams (age 38) was appointed High Sheriff of Berkshire and High Sheriff of Oxfordshire which position he held until 1539.
In 1544 John Williams 1st Baron Williams (age 44) was appointed High Sheriff of Berkshire and High Sheriff of Oxfordshire which position he held until 1545.
On 09 Feb 1546 [his future brother-in-law] Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth (age 21) and Mary Wentworth Baroness Wentworth (age 21) were married. They were third cousin once removed.
On 03 Mar 1551 Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 50) died. He was buried at Chapel of St John the Baptist, Westminster Abbey [Map]. His son [his future brother-in-law] Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth (age 26) succeeded 2nd Baron Wentworth. Mary Wentworth Baroness Wentworth (age 26) by marriage Baroness Wentworth.
In 1553 John Williams 1st Baron Williams (age 53) was appointed High Sheriff of Berkshire and High Sheriff of Oxfordshire which position he held until 1545.
On 08 Apr 1554 John Williams 1st Baron Williams (age 54) was created 1st Baron Williams of Thame.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 08 Apr 1554. The viij day of Aprell wher creatyd lordes sir John of Brygys (age 62) creatyd lord Shandoys; sir John Wyllyams (age 54) baron of Tame, and lord chamburlayne to the prynche of Spayne; and ser Antony Browne (age 25), master of the prynsse of Spayne('s) horsses. And the sam day my lord Wylliam (age 44), admerall, and ys captayns, wherin whyt and gren velvet and saten and taffata and sarsenett, and trumpeters all in gren and whyt, and all the marenars in whyt and gren cloth for shypes. [On the same day somebody unknown hanged a cat on the gallows beside the cross in Cheap, habited in a garment like to that the priest wore that said mass; she had a shaven crown, and in her fore feet held a piece of paper made round, representing the wafer.]
Note. P. 59. Cat hung on the gallows in Cheapside. The same outrage will be found noticed in Stowe's Chronicle, p. 623, where the consecrated wafer is there termed "a singingcake," and in Foxe's Actes and Monuments, vol. iii. p. 99.
Before Jul 1554 John Williams 1st Baron Williams (age 54) and Elizabeth Bledlow Baroness Williams (age 50) were married. She by marriage Baroness Williams of Thame.
In 1556 [his future brother-in-law] Thomas Wentworth 2nd Baron Wentworth (age 31) and Anne Wentworth Baroness Wentworth were married. She by marriage Baroness Wentworth. They were third cousin once removed.
On 25 Oct 1556 [his wife] Elizabeth Bledlow Baroness Williams (age 52) died.
On 19 Apr 1557 John Williams 1st Baron Williams (age 57) and Margery Wentworth were married.
On 14 Oct 1559 John Williams 1st Baron Williams (age 59) died at Ludlow Castle [Map]. He was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Thame. [his daughter] Isabel Williams (age 37) inherited Thame, Oxfordshire. His son [his son] Francis William 2nd Baron Thame succeeded 2nd Baron Williams of Thame although he died four months later at which time the Barony became extinct. Some sources don't mention Francis William 2nd Baron Thame regarding the Barony as extinct following the death of John Williams 1st Baron Williams (age 59).
Henry Machyn's Diary. 09 Nov 1559. The ix day of November was a hers mad for my lord Wylliam of Tame (deceased), and the chyrche and the [place] hangyd with blake and armes and a x dosen penselles.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 15 Nov 1559. The xv day of November was bered at Tame my lord Wylliam of Tame (deceased), with a iij harold of armes, master Clarenshux (age 49), master Chester (age 61), and , with a standard, a grett baner of armes, and viij [8] baner-rolles of armes, and a xij [12] dosen skochyons, and a C [100] morners, and a lx [60] gownes for pore men, and grett dolle of money, and after a grett dener.
Note. P. 217. Funeral of lord Williams of Thame. Master of the jewel-house, temp. Edw. VI. He died on the 14th Oct. "within her majesties castell of Loudlowe in the conte of Sallop, wher he was late come, being lorde precydent ther appoincted of her grace's counsell in the said marches:" his body was brought to Thame, and a long account of his interment is preserved in I. 9, in Coll. Arm. f. 150b.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 15 Feb 1560. The xv day of Feybruary was cared from Flett-strett unto sant Alphes at Crepull-gatt to be bered master Francis Wyllyams, the brodur sune [Note. Not clear why he is referred to as 'brodur sune] to my lord of Tame... cheyffe ere to my lord of Tame, with .... armes and a cott armur and a harold master Rychmond, and mony morners in blake, and a xij gentyllmen .... and a xx clarkes syngyng, and master Veron dyd pryche a sermon.
Note. P. 225. Funeral of John Williams esquire. Two members of this family were buried within a few days. The second (imperfect) paragraph relates to "John Williams esquyer, son and heyr to Renold Williams of Burfyld in Barkshire, maryd Cysely doter to Henry Poole of Wylshire, and dyed sans issu in Darby howsse near Powles the 16 of February 1559, and buryed at the parish churche of E(l)syng Spyttall." (MS. Harl. 879, f. 14.)
On 10 Oct 1560 William Drury (age 33) and [his former wife] Margery Wentworth were married at St Alphege London Wall aka Cripplegate Bassishaw.
In 1580 James Croft and [his former wife] Margery Wentworth were married.
In 1587 [his former wife] Margery Wentworth died.
John Poley and Anne Wentworth were married.
Richard Wenman and [his daughter] Isabel Williams were married.
Richard Huddlestone and [his daughter] Isabel Williams were married. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
[his son] Francis William 2nd Baron Thame was born to John Williams 1st Baron Williams and Elizabeth Bledlow Baroness Williams.