Paternal Family Tree: Wharton
In 1495 Thomas Wharton 1st Baron Wharton was born to Thomas Wharton at Wharton Kirkby Stephen.
Before 4th July 1518 Thomas Wharton 1st Baron Wharton [aged 23] and Eleanor Stapleton Baroness Wharton were married.
In 1520 [his son] Thomas Wharton 2nd Baron Wharton was born to Thomas Wharton 1st Baron Wharton [aged 25] and [his wife] Eleanor Stapleton Baroness Wharton. He married May 1547 Anne Radclyffe, daughter of Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex and Margaret Stanley Countess Sussex, and had issue.
In 1520 [his father] Thomas Wharton died.
Around 1521 [his son] Henry Wharton was born to Thomas Wharton 1st Baron Wharton [aged 26] and [his wife] Eleanor Stapleton Baroness Wharton. He married before 1550 Joan Maulever Baroness Ogle.
On 20th June 1527 Thomas Wharton 1st Baron Wharton [aged 32] was knighted at Windsor, Berkshire [Map].
On 18th October 1539 Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye [aged 55] died. His son John succeeded 2nd Baron Braye. As a minor he was placed under the wardship of Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 39]. He would later marry Talbot's daughter [his future wife] Anne Talbot Baroness Braye and Wharton [aged 15].
On 24th November 1542 Thomas Wharton 1st Baron Wharton [aged 47] commanded the English forces at Battle of Solway Moss at Solway Moss, Cumberland [Map]. John Thynne [aged 27] fought. Of the Scottish army Malcolm Fleming 3rd Lord Fleming [aged 48], Gilbert Kennedy 3rd Earl Cassilis [aged 27] and Laurence Oliphant 3rd Lord Oliphant fought.
William Graham 3rd Earl Menteith [aged 42] was captured. He was ransomed in 1453.
William Cunningham 4th Earl Glencairn [aged 49] was captured and committed to the custody of Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk [aged 69]. He was released on payment of a ransom of a thousand pounds and subscribing by his own hand to support Henry VIII's [aged 51] project of a marriage between the young King Edward VI of England and Ireland [aged 5] and the Mary Queen of Scots.
Malcolm Fleming 3rd Lord Fleming was captured.
In 1544 Thomas Wharton 1st Baron Wharton [aged 49] was created 1st Baron Wharton for his success at the Battle of Solway Moss. [his wife] Eleanor Stapleton Baroness Wharton by marriage Baroness Wharton.
In May 1547 [his son] Thomas Wharton 2nd Baron Wharton [aged 27] and [his daughter-in-law] Anne Radclyffe were married. She the daughter of Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex and Margaret Stanley Countess Sussex.
Before 1550 [his son] Henry Wharton [aged 28] and [his daughter-in-law] Joan Maulever Baroness Ogle [aged 10] were married.
Around 1550 [his son] Henry Wharton [aged 29] died.
Before 19th November 1557 John Braye 2nd Baron Braye and [his future wife] Anne Talbot Baroness Braye and Wharton [aged 33] were married. She by marriage Baroness Braye. She being the daughter of Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 57] who ward John had been. She the daughter of Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury and Mary Dacre.
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Henry Machyn's Diary. 14th June 1561. The xiiij day of June was bered in Essex my [his former daughter-in-law] lade Wartun, the wyff of ser Thomas Wartun [aged 66], behyng presoner in the towre of London [Map] at here deth and berehyng, and master Somersett the harold of armes, a gret baner of armes, and iiij dosen of skochyons of armes, the wyche the good lade ded of a thowgh [cough], and she was as fayre a lade as be, and mony mornars in blake, and grett mone mad for her in the contrey.
Note. P. 259. Funeral of lady Wharton. "Lady Anne Ratclyff, daughter to Robert erl of Sussex and lady Margaret his wyff daughter of Thomas erl of Darby, late wyff to sir Thomas Wharton knight, son and heyr to Thomas lord Wharton, dyed the 7. of June, 1561, at the honner of Bewlew, otherwysse called Newhall, in Essex, and was beryed in the parishe churche of Boreham the xiiijth of the mounthe aforesaid: leaving issue Phelyp Wharton son and heyre, Thomas Wharton 2 son, Mary Wharton, Anne." (MS. Harl. 897, f. 18.)
Before 18th November 1561 [his wife] Eleanor Stapleton Baroness Wharton died at the Tower of London [Map].
On 18th November 1561 Thomas Wharton 1st Baron Wharton [aged 66] and Anne Talbot Baroness Braye and Wharton [aged 37] were married. She by marriage Baroness Wharton. The difference in their ages was 29 years. She the daughter of Francis Talbot 5th Earl of Shrewsbury and Mary Dacre.
On 9th February 1568 Henry Cavendish [aged 17] and Grace Talbot [aged 18] were married. The marriage, unhappy, produced no issue. She being the daughter of his step-father [his brother-in-law] George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury [aged 40]. She the daughter of George Talbot 6th Earl of Shrewsbury and Gertrude Manners Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford. He the son of William Cavendish and Bess of Hardwick Countess Shrewsbury and Waterford [aged 41]. They were sixth cousins.
On 23rd August 1568 Thomas Wharton 1st Baron Wharton [aged 73] died. His son Thomas [aged 48] succeeded 2nd Baron Wharton.
On 3rd February 1585 [his former wife] Anne Talbot Baroness Braye and Wharton [aged 61] died.
George Wharton [1]