Around 1500 John Williams 1st Baron Williams was born to John Williams [aged 31].
On 15th June 1508 [his father] John Williams [aged 39] died.
In 1521 [his daughter] Margery Williams Baroness Norreys Rycote was born to John Williams 1st Baron Williams [aged 21] and [his future wife] Margery Wentworth. She married 1533 her half third cousin once removed Henry Norreys 1st Baron Norreys of Rycote and had issue.
In 1522 [his daughter] Isabel Williams was born to John Williams 1st Baron Williams [aged 22] and [his future wife] Elizabeth Bledlow Baroness Williams [aged 18]. She married (1) Richard Wenman and had issue (2) Richard Huddlestone.
Before 23rd June 1523 Andrew Edmondes and [his future wife] Elizabeth Bledlow Baroness Williams [aged 19] were married.
Around 1533 [his son-in-law] Henry Norreys [aged 8] and [his daughter] Margery Williams Baroness Norreys Rycote [aged 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 [aged 38] was appointed High Sheriff of Berkshire and High Sheriff of Oxfordshire which position he held until 1539.
In 1538 John Williams 1st Baron Williams [aged 38] was appointed Master of the Jewels which position he held until 1544.
In 1544 John Williams 1st Baron Williams [aged 44] was appointed High Sheriff of Berkshire and High Sheriff of Oxfordshire which position he held until 1545.
In 1553 John Williams 1st Baron Williams [aged 53] was appointed High Sheriff of Berkshire and High Sheriff of Oxfordshire which position he held until 1545.
William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Henry Machyn's Diary. 8th April 1554. The viij day of Aprell wher creatyd lordes sir John of Brygys [aged 62] creatyd lord Shandoys; sir John Wyllyams [aged 54] baron of Tame, and lord chamburlayne to the prynche of Spayne; and ser Antony Browne [aged 25], master of the prynsse of Spayne('s) horsses. And the sam day my lord Wylliam [aged 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.
On 8th April 1554 John Williams 1st Baron Williams [aged 54] was created 1st Baron Williams of Thame.
Before July 1554 John Williams 1st Baron Williams [aged 54] and Elizabeth Bledlow Baroness Williams [aged 50] were married. She by marriage Baroness Williams of Thame.
On 25th October 1556 [his wife] Elizabeth Bledlow Baroness Williams [aged 52] died.
On 19th April 1557 John Williams 1st Baron Williams [aged 57] and Margery Wentworth were married.
On 14th October 1559 John Williams 1st Baron Williams [aged 59] died at Ludlow Castle [Map]. He was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Thame. [his daughter] Isabel Williams [aged 37] inherited Thame, Oxfordshire. His son Francis 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.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 9th November 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. 15th November 1559. The xv day of November was bered at Tame my lord Wylliam of Tame [deceased], with a iij harold of armes, master Clarenshux [aged 49], master Chester [aged 61], and Ruge-dragon, 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. 15th February 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 10th October 1560 William Drury [aged 33] and [his former wife] Margery Wentworth were married at St Alphege London Wall aka Cripplegate Bassishaw. They were fifth cousins.
Anne Boleyn. Her Life as told by Lancelot de Carle's 1536 Letter.
In 1536, two weeks after the execution of Anne Boleyn, her brother George and four others, Lancelot du Carle, wrote an extraordinary letter that described Anne's life, and her trial and execution, to which he was a witness. This book presents a new translation of that letter, with additional material from other contemporary sources such as Letters, Hall's and Wriothesley's Chronicles, the pamphlets of Wynkyn the Worde, the Memorial of George Constantyne, the Portuguese Letter and the Baga de Secrets, all of which are provided in Appendices.
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In 1580 James Croft [aged 30] and [his former wife] Margery Wentworth were married.
In 1587 [his former wife] Margery Wentworth died.
[his son] Francis William 2nd Baron Thame was born to John Williams 1st Baron Williams and Elizabeth Bledlow Baroness Williams.