Paternal Family Tree: Stanhope
Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Belnap
Michael Stanhope and Elizabeth Read were married.
In or before 1540 [his father] Michael Stanhope [aged 33] and [his mother] Anne Rawson [aged 24] were married.
Around 1549 Michael Stanhope was born to Michael Stanhope [aged 42] and Anne Rawson [aged 34].
On 26th February 1552 Miles Partridge and Ralph Fane were hanged. Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle [aged 50] and [his father] Michael Stanhope [aged 45] were beheaded at Tower Hill [Map] for plotting to assassinate John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland [aged 48].
Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle was buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map].
Around 1564 Michael Stanhope [aged 15] educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University [Map].
After 1564 [his brother-in-law] Roger Townshend [aged 20] and [his sister] Jane Stanhope Baroness Berkeley [aged 17] were married.
In 1568 Michael Stanhope [aged 19] admitted at Gray's Inn.
In 1584 Michael Stanhope [aged 35] was elected MP Castle Rising.
On 20th February 1588 [his mother] Anne Rawson [aged 73] died.
On 6th May 1589 [his brother] John Stanhope 1st Baron Stanhope [aged 40] and [his sister-in-law] Margaret Macwilliams Baroness Stanhope were married.
In 1597 Michael Stanhope [aged 48] was elected MP Ipswich.
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.
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On 9th March 1598 [his brother-in-law] Henry Berkeley 7th Baron Berkeley [aged 63] and [his sister] Jane Stanhope Baroness Berkeley [aged 51] were married at St Giles without Cripplegate Church [Map]. She by marriage Baroness Berkeley.
In 1601 Michael Stanhope [aged 52] was elected MP Ipswich.
Before 1603 Michael Stanhope [aged 53] was appointed Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 69].
On 7th May 1603 during his journey south King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 36] stayed at Theobalds House, Hertfordshire as a guest of William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley.
King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland knighted:
Gervase Helwys [aged 41]
John Leventhorpe 1st Baronet [aged 43]
Michael Stanhope [aged 54].
Thomas Bishopp 1st Baronet [aged 50].
In 1604 Michael Stanhope [aged 55] was elected MP Orford.
On 21st December 1604 [his daughter] Elizabeth Stanhope Baroness Berkeley was born to Michael Stanhope [aged 55] and Elizabeth Read. She married 13th April 1614 George Berkeley 8th Baron Berkeley and had issue.
On 13th April 1614 [his son-in-law] George Berkeley 8th Baron Berkeley [aged 12] and [his daughter] Elizabeth Stanhope Baroness Berkeley [aged 9] were married. She by marriage Baroness Berkeley.
Around 1615 [his daughter] Bridget Stanhope Countess Desmond was born to Michael Stanhope [aged 66] and Elizabeth Read at Great Shelford [Map]. She married before 29th December 1640 George Feilding 1st Earl Desmond, son of William Feilding 1st Earl Denbigh and Susan Villiers Countess Denbigh, and had issue.
In 1618 [his sister] Jane Stanhope Baroness Berkeley [aged 71] died.
In 1621 Michael Stanhope [aged 72] died.
[his daughter] Jane Stanhope was born to Michael Stanhope and Elizabeth Read. She married before 11th August 1645 her fourth cousin once removed William Withipoll and had issue.
Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 14 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 19 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 15 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 5 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 12 Grand Son of King William I of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 7 Grand Son of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 19 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 11 Grand Son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Stanhope 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Stanhope
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Stanhope
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Stanhope
Grandfather: Edward Stanhope
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Jerningham 
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret or Mary Jerningham
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gervase Clifton 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gervase Clifton
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Francis
Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabel Clifton
Great x 4 Grandfather: Vincent Finch aka Herbert of Netherfield Sussex 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Finch
father: Michael Stanhope 4 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bourchier 
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Bourchier 1st Count of Eu
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Louvaine
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Bourchier Baron Fitzwarin Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas of Woodstock 1st Duke of Gloucester 
son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne of Gloucester Plantagenet Countess Eu and Stafford Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Bohun Duchess Gloucester 
2 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Fulk Bourchier 10th Baron Fitzwarin 2 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Hankford
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Hankford
Great x 2 Grandmother: Thomasine Hankford 9th Baroness Fitzwarin 11 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Fulk Fitzwarin 6th Baron Fitzwarin 9 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Fitzwarin 8th Baroness Fitzwarin 10 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Grandmother: Elizabeth Bourchier 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Dynham
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Dynham 8 x Great Grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Muriel Courtenay 7 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Dynham 7 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Lovell 6th Baron Lovel 
5 x Great Grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Philippa Lovell 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Dynham Baroness Fitzwarin 8 x Great Granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Arches of Eythrop
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Arches
Michael Stanhope 5 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Grandfather: Nicholas Rawson of Aveley in Essex
mother: Anne Rawson
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Cooke of Lavenham in Suffolk
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Cooke
Great x 1 Grandfather: Philip Cooke
Grandmother: Beatrix Cooke
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Belnap