Biography of Charles Danvers 1568-1601

Paternal Family Tree: Danvers

Maternal Family Tree: Aoife NI Diarmait Macmurrough Countess Pembroke and Buckingham 1145-1188

In or before 1568 [his father] John Danvers (age 27) and [his mother] Elizabeth Neville (age 17) were married. They were half fourth cousin once removed.

Around 1568 Charles Danvers was born to John Danvers (age 28) and Elizabeth Neville (age 18).

On 19th December 1594 [his father] John Danvers (age 54) died said to have been of a broken heart following the disgrace of his sons Charles Danvers (age 26) and [his brother] Henry Danvers 1st Earl Danby (age 21).

In 1598 [his step-father] Edmund Carey (age 40) and [his mother] Elizabeth Neville (age 48) were married. The marriage was, perhaps, a means of procuring a pardon for her two sons who had previously shot and killed a neighbour, and fled abroad. A payment was made to the bereaved family and the sons were allowed to return. They were fourth cousins.

Essex Rebellion

On 8th February 1601 Thomas Egerton 1st Viscount Brackley (age 61) and three others were held hostage by Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex (age 35) at Essex House. Thomas Egerton 1st Viscount Brackley attempted to rouse London but his support never materialised. When he returned to Essex House he found the hostages gone. Essex House was besieged by the Queen's men under Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 65). Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex and Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton (age 27) surrendered. Charles Danvers (age 33) and Christopher Blount (age 36) took part. Roger Manners 5th Earl of Rutland (age 24) was implicated and was imprisoned for several months. He was fined £30000; a staggering amount three times more than any other conspirator.

On 18th March 1601 Charles Danvers (age 33) and Christopher Blount (age 36) was beheaded for their part in the Essex Rebellion.

Brief Lives: Charles Danvers 1568 1601. ^[711]Sir Charles Danvers (age 33) was beheaded on Tower-hill [Map] with Robert, earle of Essex (age 35), February the 6th, 1600^[712]. I find in the register of the Tower chapell [Map] only the sepulture of Robert, earl of Essex, that yeare; wherfore I am induced to beleeve that his body was carryed to Dantesey^[CX] in Wilts to lye with his ancestors. Vide Stowe's Chronicle, where is a full account of his and the earle's deportment at their death on the scaffold.

With all their faylings, Wilts cannot shew two such^[713] brothers.

His familiar acquaintance were...^[714], earl of Oxon (age 50); Sir Francis (age 40) and Sir Horace Vere (age 36); Sir Walter Ralegh (age 47), etc.-the heroes of those times.

Quaere my lady viscountesse Purbec and also the lord Norris for an account of the behaviour and advice of Sir Charles Danvers in the businesse of the earl of Essex, which advice had the earle followed he had saved his life.

^[715]Of Sir Charles Danvers, from my lady viscountesse Purbec:-Sir Charles Danvers advised the earle of Essex, either to treat with the queen-hostages..., whom Sir Ferdinando Gorges (age 36) did let goe; or to make his way through the gate at Essex house, and then to hast away to Highgate, and so to Northumberland (the earl of Northumberland maried his [his mother] mother's (age 51) [his aunt] sister), and from thence to the king of Scots, and there they might make their peace; if not, the queen was old and could not live long. But the earle followed not his advice, and so they both lost their heads on Tower-hill.

Note.

Note 711. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25v.

Note 712. i.e. 1600/1.

Note 713. Dupl. with 'shew the like two brothers,' scil. as Sir Charles Danvers and his brother Henry, earl of Danby.

Note 714. Edward Vere, seventeenth earl of Oxford.

[CX] In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46, Aubrey writes, in reference to burials at Dantesey, 'quaere, if Sir Charles Danvers that was beheaded?-He was buryed in the Tower chapell.' Aubrey's description of the burial-place of the Danvers family (MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46), with the inscriptions, is printed in J. E. Jackson's Aubrey's Wiltshire Collections, pp. 223-225; the pedigree of Danvers is there given at p. 216.

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Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts. The 5th of March [1601], Sir Christopher Blunt (age 36), Sir Charles Davers (age 33), Sir John Davys (age 39), Sir Gelly Merick, and Henry Cuff (age 38) were ail arraigned at Westminster and condemned, they confessing the plot as is afore set down, with many other circumstances to it, absolutely submitting themselves to her Majesty's mercy, which is like to appear in some of them.

Annales of England by John Stow. The 18 of March [1601], sir Charles Dawvers (age 33), and sir Christopher Blunt (age 36) knights, were upon a new Scaffold set up for that purpose, on the Tower hill, beheaded.

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts. The 19th of February [1601] the Earl [of Essex] was arraigned (together with Southampton) in Westminster Hall before 25 peers, the Lord Treasurer (age 66) [Buckhurst] sitting as Lord Steward. At the bar the Earl laboured to extenuate his ftiult, by denying that ever he meant any harm to her Majesty's person, and by pretending that he took arms principally to save himself from my Lord Cobham (age 37) and Sir Walter Ralegh (age 48), who (he gave out) should have murdered him in his house on Saturday night. He pretended also an intention he had to have removed me with some others from the Queen, as one who would sell the kingdom of England to the Infant of Spain, with such other hyperbolical inventions. But before he went out of the Hall, when he saw himself condemned, and found that Sir John Davys (age 40), Sir Ferdinando Gorges (age 37), Sir Charles Davers, and Sir Christopher Blunt had confessed all the conferences that were held at Drury House, by his directions, for the surprising of the Queen and the Tower, which argued a premeditated treason (which he laboured to have had it prove only a sudden putting himself into strength, and flying into the city for fear of being committed over night when the Lords sent for him, which upon my faith to you, to whom I will not lie, was only to have reproved him for his unlawful assemblies, and to have wislied him to leave the city and retire into the country), he then break out to divers gentlemen in these words, that his confederates wlio now had accused him had been principal inciters of him, and not he of them, even ever since August last, to work his access to the Queen with force.

Ancestors of Charles Danvers 1568-1601

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Danvers

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Danvers

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Danvers

Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Danvers

GrandFather: Sylvester Danvers

Father: John Danvers

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Mordaunt

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Mordaunt

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Peake

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Peake

Great x 1 Grandfather: John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Latimer

Great x 3 Grandfather: Nicholas Latimer

Great x 2 Grandmother: Edith Latimer

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Hody

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Hody

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Jewel

GrandMother: Elizabeth Mordaunt

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Vere

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt

Charles Danvers 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: George Neville 1st Baron Latimer of Snape Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Neville 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Beauchamp Baroness Latimer 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Neville 2nd Baron Latimer of Snape 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Bourchier 1st Baron Berners Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Bourchier 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margery Berners Baroness Berners

Great x 1 Grandfather: John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Aylesbury

Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Stafford Baroness Latimer 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Fray

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Fray

Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Danvers Baroness Wenlock

GrandFather: John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard de Vere 11th Earl of Oxford 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John de Vere 12th Earl of Oxford 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Sergeaux Countess Oxford

Great x 2 Grandfather: George de Vere 6 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Howard 4 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Howard Countess of Oxford 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Walton

Great x 1 Grandmother: Dorothy de Vere 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Stafford 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Stafford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Chideock 6th Baron Fitzpayn 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Chideocke 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Lumley 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Mother: Elizabeth Neville 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund Beaufort 1st or 2nd Duke of Somerset Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Beaufort 2nd or 3rd Duke of Somerset 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Beauchamp Duchess Somerset 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Somerset 1st Earl of Worcester 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Hill of Shilston

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Hill

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Champernoun

Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Herbert 2nd Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Huntingdon 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Devereux 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Herbert 3rd Baroness Herbert Raglan 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Woodville Countess Pembroke and Huntingdon 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

GrandMother: Lucy Somerset Baroness Latimer Snape 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Browne

Great x 2 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Fitzalan 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Fitzalan 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Moyns

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Neville Earl Salisbury Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Montagu 5th Countess of Salisbury 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Lucy Neville 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund Ingaldsthorpe

Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Ingaldsthorpe 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Tiptoft 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Biography of Charles Danvers 1568-1601

Royal Ancestors of Charles Danvers 1568-1601

Ancestors of Charles Danvers 1568-1601