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Biography of Adrian Fortescue 1476-1539

Paternal Family Tree: Fortescue

Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Wychingham 1410-1451

In or before 1476 [his father] John Fortescue (age 41) and [his mother] Alice Boleyn (age 37) were married.

In 1476 Adrian Fortescue was born to John Fortescue (age 42) and Alice Boleyn (age 38).

Around 1480 [his mother] Alice Boleyn (age 42) died.

On 28th July 1500 [his father] John Fortescue (age 66) died.

Around 1502 [his daughter] Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth was born to Adrian Fortescue (age 26) and [his future wife] Anne Stonor (age 18).

Around 1515 [his daughter] Frances Fortescue Countess Kildare was born to Adrian Fortescue (age 39) and [his future wife] Anne Stonor (age 31).

Before 1516 Adrian Fortescue (age 39) and Anne Stonor (age 31) were married.

On 14th June 1518 [his wife] Anne Stonor (age 34) died in Stonor, Oxfordshire.

After 8th April 1527 Giles Greville (age 61) and [his future wife] Anne Reade (age 17) were married. The difference in their ages was 44 years.

In 1530 Adrian Fortescue (age 54) and Anne Reade (age 20) were married. The difference in their ages was 34 years.

In 1530 [his daughter] Elizabeth Fortescue was born to Adrian Fortescue (age 54) and [his wife] Anne Reade (age 20) at Tamworth Castle [Map].

Around 1531 [his son] John Fortescue was born to Adrian Fortescue (age 55) and [his wife] Anne Reade (age 21).

Around 1534 [his daughter] Mary Fortescue was born to Adrian Fortescue (age 58) and [his wife] Anne Reade (age 24).

Around 1535 [his son] Anthony Fortescue was born to Adrian Fortescue (age 59) and [his wife] Anne Reade (age 25).

In or before 1538 [his son-in-law] Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 36) and [his daughter] Margaret Fortescue Baroness Wentworth (age 35) were married. They were fourth cousins. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

Chronicle of Edward Hall [1496-1548]. 28th April 1539. The eight and twentie daye of Apryll, began a Parliament at Westminster, in the which Margaret countesse of Salsbury (age 65), Gertrude (age 36) wyfe to the Marques of Excester, Reygnold Poole (age 39) a Cardinall, brother to the lorde Mountagew, Sir Adrian Foskew (age 63) and Thomas Dingley knight of saynt Jhones, and dyverse other wer attainted of hygh treason,

Chronicle of Greyfriars. 9th July 1539. Also the 9th day of July was beheaded at Tower-hill [Map] Master Fortescue (age 63) and Master [Thomas] Dingley knights; and that same day was drawn to Tyburn two of their servants and there hanged and quartered for treason.

After 9th July 1539 Thomas Parry (age 24) and [his wife] Anne Reade (age 29) were married.

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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

On 10th July 1539 Adrian Fortescue (age 63) was executed at Tower Hill [Map] for treason. He doesn't appear to have had a trial. Neither is it clear what his crime was supposed to have been. Probably dis-agreeing with Henry VIII over religion. The Order of St. John of Jerusalem has advocated devotion to Blessed Adrian as a martyr since the 17th century and Pope Leo XIII beatified him on 13th May 1895.

Chronicle of Edward Hall [1496-1548]. 10th July 1539 ... which Foskew (age 63) and Dingley wer the tenth daye of July behedded. In thys parliament was an act made whiche bare this title: An act for abholyshynge of diversitie of opinions, in certayne artycles concernynge Christen religion, this act establyshed chiefly sixe articles, wherof among the common people it was called the act of syxe artycles, and of some it was named the whyp wyth syxe strynges, and of some other and that of the moste part, it was named the bloudy statute, for of truthe it so in shorte tyme after skourged a great nomber in the citie of London, wher the first quest for the inquirie of the offenders of the sayd statute sat at a church called Beckets house, now named the Mercers Chappel, that the said quest beyng of purpose selected and picked out emong all the rest of the inhabitauntes of the citie, that none might thereof be admitted which either had red any part of the holy scripture in English, or in any wyse favoured such as either had red it, or loved the preachers of it: insomuch as this quest was so zelous and fervent in the execucion of this statute, that they among them selves thought it not only sufficient to inquire of the offenders of the saied statute, but also by ther fine wittes and wyllyng mindes, thei invented to inquire of certayn braunches of the same statute as they termed it, which was not only to inquire who spake again masses, but who thei were that seldome came unto them: and also not only who denyed the Sacramente to be Christes very naturall body, but also who helde not up their handes at sacryng tyme, and knocked not on there brestes: And thei not only inquired who offended in the sixe articles, but also who came seldome to the churche, who toke no holy bread nor holy water, who red the Bible in the churche, or in communicacion contemned priestes, or Images in the Churches, etc. with a grat nombre of suche braunches: this appoincted quest so sped them selves wyth the sixe Articles, and ther awne braunches, that in fourtene daies space there was not a preacher nor other persone in the citie of name, whiche had spoken against the supremacie of the Bishop of Rome, but he was wrapped in the sixe articles, insomuche as thei indited and presented of suspicion to the nombre of five hundred persones and above: so that yf the kynges majestic had not graunted his pardon, for that by the good lorde Awdeley lord Chauncelor his grace was truly infourmed that thei were indited of malice: a greate many of them whych all ready was in prison, had bene shortly after skourged in Smithfelde wyth firy fagottes, that would have made the best bloud in ther bodies to have sprong but most graciously at that time his grace remitted all: although in the tyme that these sixe Articles indured whiche was eight yeres and more, thei brought many an honest and simple persone to there deathes, for suche was the rigour of that lawe, that yf two witnesses false or true, had accused any and avouched that thei had spoken agaynst the sacrament, ther was then no way but death, for it boted not to confesse that hys faith was contrarie, or that he saied not as the accusers reported: for thei would beleve the witnesses, ye and sometime certain of the clergie, when thei had no witnesses would procure some, or elles thei wer slaundered.

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In 1585 [his former wife] Anne Reade (age 75) died.

Royal Ancestors of Adrian Fortescue 1476-1539

Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 10 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 16 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 11 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 9 Grand Son of King John of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 14 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 21 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks

Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 19 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Royal Descendants of Adrian Fortescue 1476-1539

Diana Spencer Princess Wales

Ancestors of Adrian Fortescue 1476-1539

Great x 1 Grandfather: John Fortescue

GrandFather: Richard Fortescue

Father: John Fortescue

Adrian Fortescue 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Boleyn

Great x 1 Grandfather: Geoffrey Boleyn

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Bracton

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Jane Bracton

GrandFather: Geoffrey Boleyn

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Bracton

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Bracton

Great x 1 Grandmother: Alice Bracton

Mother: Alice Boleyn 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Hoo

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Hoo

Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel St Leger

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Hoo

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Hoo 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Felton 2nd Baron Felton 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Felton 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Felton 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

GrandMother: Ann Hoo 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Nicholas Wychingham

Great x 2 Grandfather: Nicholas Wychingham of Norfolk 5 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John de de Braose 3 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Braose 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Eva Ufford

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Wychingham 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England