Maternal Family Tree: Alice Squier Baroness North -1560
Alice Squier Baroness North was born to Oliver Squier of Southby in Hampshire.
Around 1527 Edward North 1st Baron North [aged 31] and Alice Squier Baroness North were married.
Before 1528 Edward Maurfyn and Alice Squier Baroness North were married.
In 1528 [her husband] Edward Maurfyn died.
In 1530 [her son] Roger North 2nd Baron North was born to [her husband] Edward North 1st Baron North [aged 34] and Alice Squier Baroness North.
Before 1550 [her son-in-law] William Somerset 3rd Earl of Worcester [aged 23] and [her daughter] Christina North Countess of Worcester were married. She by marriage Countess Worcester. He the son of Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 47].
In 1554 [her husband] Edward North 1st Baron North [aged 58] was created 1st Baron North. Alice Squier Baroness North by marriage Baroness North.
Before 1558 [her son-in-law] Henry Scrope 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton [aged 23] and [her daughter] Christina North Countess of Worcester were married. She by marriage Baroness Scrope of Bolton.
Around 1558 [her daughter] Christina North Countess of Worcester died.
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Before 19th August 1560 Alice Squier Baroness North died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 19th August 1560. The xix day of August my lade Northe [was carried] from Charter howse toward Cambregshyre ... with a C [100] men in blake rydyng, and master Clarenshus [aged 50] sett them in ordur, and a grett denur with venesun, wyne, and stronge bere.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 22nd August 1560. The xxij day of August was bered in Cambregshyre my lade North, the wyff of my lord North [aged 64], with ij haroldes of armes, master Clarenshus [aged 50] and master Somersett, and mony mornars in blake gownes; then cam a grett baner of armes borne; and then cam the corse kevered [covered] with a pall of blake welvett and armes, and banars borne abowtt the corse; and then cam mony women mornars in blake; and the plase and the chyrche hangyd with blake and armes, and after to the plase to dener, for ther was myche a-doo; and thys was at Cateleg my lord('s) place; and (blank) dyd pryche at the bereall, and was mony pore men and women that had gownes and met [meat] and drynke.
Note. P. 242. Funeral of lady North. Alice, daughter of Oliver Squyer, of Southby, near Portsmouth, widow of Edward Mirfyn of London (son of sir John Mirfyn, lord mayor in 1519,) and also widow of John Brigadine, of Northampton. After this, lord North married another lady who had had three husbands, and died himself before the end of 1565. The present lady was the mother of his children.
Around 1564 [her former husband] Edward North 1st Baron North [aged 68] died.
[her daughter] Mary North was born to Edward North 1st Baron North and Alice Squier Baroness North.
[her daughter] Christina North Countess of Worcester was born to Edward North 1st Baron North and Alice Squier Baroness North. She married (1) before 1550 William Somerset 3rd Earl of Worcester, son of Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester, and had issue (2) before 1558 Henry Scrope 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton, son of John Scrope 8th Baron Scrope of Bolton and Catherine Clifford Baroness Scrope Bolton, and had issue.