Biography of Edward Chamberlayne 1484-1543

Before 1478 [his father] Richard Chamberlayne of Shirburn (age 39) and [his mother] Sybilla Fowler (age 29) were married.

Around 1484 Edward Chamberlayne was born to Richard Chamberlayne of Shirburn (age 46) and Sybilla Fowler (age 35).

On 28th August 1496 [his father] Richard Chamberlayne of Shirburn (age 58) died.

Before 1504 Edward Chamberlayne (age 19) and Cecily Verney (age 18) were married.

Before 1504 [his son] Leonard Chamberlain was born to Edward Chamberlayne (age 19).

All About History Books

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.

In 1509 Edward Chamberlayne (age 25) was appointed Esquire to the Body.

In July 1517 Edward Chamberlayne (age 33) served at a Royal Banquet at Greenwich, Kent [Map].

Field of the Cloth of Gold

                    In June 1520 Henry VIII (age 28) hosted Field of the Cloth of Gold at Balinghem [Map].
                
                    Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset (age 42) carried the Sword of State.
                
                    Bishop John Stokesley (age 45) attended as Henry VIII's chaplain.
                
                    Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye (age 36), Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth (age 42), Anthony Poyntz (age 40), William Coffin (age 25), William "Great" Courtenay (age 43), Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex (age 37), William Paston (age 41), William Denys (age 50), Richard Cecil (age 25), William Parr 1st Baron Parr of Horton (age 37), Ralph Neville 4th Earl of Westmoreland (age 22), John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 40), Henry Guildford (age 31), Marmaduke Constable (age 40), William Compton (age 38), William Blount 4th Baron Mountjoy (age 42), Thomas Cheney (age 35), Henry Willoughby (age 69), John Rodney (age 59), John Marney 2nd Baron Marney (age 36), William Sidney (age 38), John de Vere 14th Earl of Oxford (age 20), John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford (age 49), Edmund Walsingham (age 40), William Skeffington (age 55) and Thomas West 8th Baron De La Warr 5th Baron West (age 63) attended.
                
                    William Carey (age 20) jousted.
                
                    William Sandys 1st Baron Sandys Vyne (age 50) organised.
                
                    Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford (age 15) attended.
                
                    Thomas Brooke 8th Baron Cobham (age 50), Robert Willoughby 2nd Baron Willoughby 10th Baron Latimer (age 48), Anthony Wingfield (age 33), William Scott (age 61), Thomas Wriothesley (age 32), Bishop Thomas Ruthall (age 48), Margaret Dymoke aka Mistress Coffin (age 20) and Edward Chamberlayne (age 36) were present.

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In 1525 [his mother] Sybilla Fowler (age 76) died.

In 1529 Edward Chamberlayne (age 45) was elected MP Wallingford.

Before 1533 [his son] Leonard Chamberlain (age 29) and [his daughter-in-law] Dorothy Newdigate (age 27) were married.

Death of Catherine of Aragon

Letters and Papers. 7th January 1536. R. O. St. P. I. 452. 37. Sir Edward Chamberleyn (age 52) and Sir Edm. Bedyngfeld (age 57) to Cromwell (age 51).

This 7th Jan., about 10 a.m., the Lady Dowager (age 50) was annealed with the Holy ointment, Chamberleyn and Bedyngfeld being summoned, and before 2 p.m. she died. Wishes¹ to know the King's (age 44) pleasure concerning the house, servants, and other things. The groom of the Chamber here can cere her. Will send for a plumber to close the body in lead.

Note 1. The letter, though signed by two, is written throughout in the first person singular,— apparently by Bedingfield, who was steward of Catharine's household, though he signs second.