Paternal Family Tree: Pope
On 15th October 1573 William Pope 1st Earl Downe was born to John Pope [aged 53].
On 24th June 1583 [his father] John Pope [aged 63] died.
In 1585 Henry Wentworth 3rd Baron Wentworth [aged 26] and [his future wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth [aged 24] were married. She by marriage Baroness Wentworth. They were fourth cousins.
In 1595 William Pope 1st Earl Downe [aged 21] and Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth [aged 34] were married.
In 1595 [his son] William Pope was born to William Pope 1st Earl Downe [aged 21] and [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth [aged 34]. He married 1615 Elizabeth Watson Lady Penyston and had issue.
In 1598 [his son] Thomas Pope 3rd Earl Downe was born to William Pope 1st Earl Downe [aged 24] and [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth [aged 37]. He married 20th April 1636 Beatrix Poole and had issue.
After 1603 [his son] Colonel Nathaniel Pope was born to William Pope 1st Earl Downe [aged 29] and [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth [aged 42] at Gloucestershire.
On 23rd July 1603 King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 37] created a number Knights at the Royal Gardens Whitehall Palace:
Henry Savile 1st Baronet [aged 24], William Morgan [aged 43], George Carew, Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden [aged 46], Richard Musgrave 1st Baronet [aged 18], James Calthorpe [aged 44], Thomas Gresham [aged 56], George Fane of Burston [aged 22], Francis Fane 1st Earl of Westmoreland [aged 23], Robert Chichester [aged 25], William Pope 1st Earl Downe [aged 29], Gervase Clifton 1st Baronet [aged 15], Thomas Berkeley [aged 28], Edward Montagu 1st Baron Montagu [aged 40], William Herbert 1st Baron Powis [aged 30], Anthony Irby [aged 26], Drue Drury of Eccles and Rollesby in Norfolk and Arnold Lygon [aged 45].
24th July 1603 Richard Browne [aged 64].
Before 1612 [his step-son] Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Cleveland [aged 20] and Anne Crofts Countess Cleveland were married. She by marriage Baroness Wentworth. They were second cousin once removed.
In 1615 William Pope [aged 20] and Elizabeth Watson Lady Penyston [aged 15] were married. He the son of William Pope 1st Earl Downe [aged 41] and Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth [aged 54].
Before 1619 Robert "The Elder" Peake [aged 67]. Portrait of William Pope 1st Earl Downe [aged 45].
On 10th May 1625 [his wife] Anne Hopton Baroness Wentworth [aged 64] died.
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On 16th October 1628 William Pope 1st Earl Downe [aged 55] was created 1st Earl Downe.
Before 2nd June 1631 [his son] William Pope [aged 36] died.
On 2nd June 1631 William Pope 1st Earl Downe [aged 57] died. His grandson Thomas [aged 8] succeeded 2nd Earl Downe.