Sir Henry Cheney, Lord of Toddington

Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne

Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne (31 May 1540 – 3 September 1587) was an English politician.

Henry Cheyne was the son of Sir Thomas Cheyne of Shurland in the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, by his second wife, Anne Broughton (d. 16 May 1562), daughter of John Broughton (d. 24 January 1518)[1][2] of Toddington, Bedfordshire, and Anne Sapcote (d. 14 March 1559), and granddaughter of Sir Robert Broughton by his first wife, Katherine de Vere, said to have been the illegitimate daughter of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford.[3][4][5][6]

Cheyne was trained in the law at Gray's Inn. He inherited his father's estates in Kent in 1558, and his mother's estates in Bedfordshire in 1562. He was knighted in 1563.[5]

He was elected knight of the shire (MP) for Kent from 1562 to 1567 and for Bedfordshire from 1572 until made Baron Cheyne in May 1572. He was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire for 1565.[5]

He held the title Baron Cheyne from 1572 until his death in 1587, after which the title became extinct.[7] He had married Jane, the daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, with whom he had a daughter. He was buried at Toddington.[5]

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cheyne,_1st_Baron_Cheyne

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• CHEYNEY (CHEYNE), Henry (1540-87), of Toddington, Beds. and Shurland, Kent.
• b. 31 May 1540, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of Sir Thomas Cheyne(y)† by his 2nd w. Ann, da. and coh. of Sir John Broughton of Toddington. educ. G. Inn 1563. m. Jane (d.1614), da. of Thomas Wentworth†, 1st Lord Wentworth, 1da. d.v.p. suc. fa. to Kent estates 1558, mother to Beds. estates 1562. Kntd. 1563; cr. Lord Cheyney 8 May 1572.
• Offices Held
  • J.p.q. Kent 1562-c.74, j.p. Beds. 1564, q. by 1574; sheriff, Beds. and Bucks. 1565-6; commr. Kent subsidy assessment 1565, musters, Beds. 1570, for trial of Mary Stuart 1586, to raise 200 men from Beds. and Bucks. for service in the Netherlands 1586.
• Biography
• Cheyney was elected knight of the shire for his late father’s county in 1563, and for his late mother’s county in 1572. He was appointed to the succession committee on 31 Oct. 1566, the only time his name appears in the extant records of the Commons before his elevation to the peerage his father had been promised yet never achieved. Cheyney much preferred his mother’s Bedfordshire estate to those of his father in Kent, and he spent vast sums in building at Toddington the mansion where he entertained the Queen in 1563 and 1576. After her first visit he was knighted, and no doubt his lavish hospitality was still in Elizabeth’s mind when the question of his peerage arose some years later. A seventeenth-century inventory at Toddington commemorates her visits in the names of some of the rooms. To finance his extravagance Cheyney sold one Kent estate after another between 1564 and 1567 until in 1574 a note on the Kent commission of the peace described him as ‘not resident’. The Shurland estate and his Minster property on the Isle of Sheppey were so badly decayed that the Privy Council became alarmed at the depopulation of a strategically important coastal district. Negotiations began for the Crown to take over Shurland, and grant Cheyney lands elsewhere in exchange. Typically, Elizabeth haggled over terms, and the arrangement was still not made by October 1578, when Cheyney asked Burghley to expedite matters. A crown lease of Shurland, granted in 1580, contained a clause binding the new tenant to accommodate men-at-arms. The last recorded sale of Cheyney’s estates was in 1581, when he sold the chapel where his ancestors were buried at Minster, together with neighbouring estates, to Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Thenceforth, except for his participation in the trial of Mary Stuart, his activities were for the most part, or perhaps entirely, confined to Bedfordshire. It is not even clear whether, having obtained his peerage, he visited the court; if he did it was seldom. Of his religious views little is known. He was the ward for a few years of his puritan uncle the 2nd Earl of Bedford, and his wife was a well known patron of puritan preachers, but Cheyney’s own classification among those Bedfordshire j.p.s who were ‘earnest’ in religion in 1564 must be taken as reflecting no more than his approval of the Elizabethan church settlement.
• He died 3 Sept. 1587, and was buried at Toddington, where his widow erected a monument.
  • Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xix), 15; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 74; Misc. Gen. et Her. n.s. iv. 340; C142/121/102, 222/19, 235/108; Nichols, Progresses Eliz iii. 660; CSP Dom. Add. 1566-79, p. 395; 1580-1625, p. 527; CPR, 1558-60, p. 27; 1560-3, p. 149; 1563-6, 1566-9 passim; Cam. Misc. ix(3), p. 29; Hasted, Kent, vi. 7, 9, 222, 249, 509; E150/53/3; Arch. Cant. xxiv. 125; Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. Pubs. xi. 132-3; SP12/87 (vol. Sheppey surveys); SP12/93/16; CSP Dom. 1547-80, pp. 268, 487, 529, 627; HMC Hatfield, ii. 54, 108, 141, 210; APC, xiii. 223; xiv. 115, 122; D’Ewes, 127; Lansd. 8, f. 78; 62, ff. 9-10.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ch... _______________________
• Sir Henry Cheney, 1st and last Lord Cheney1
• M, #216492, d. circa September 1587
• Last Edited=14 Jan 2007
• Sir Henry Cheney, 1st and last Lord Cheney was the son of Sir Thomas Cheney and Anne Broughton.1 He married Hon. Joan Wentworth, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Lord Wentworth and Margaret Fortescue, before 1581.2 He died circa September 1587, without surviving male issue.2 He was buried on 3 September 1587 at Toddington, Bedfordshire, England.2 An inquest post mortem was held for his on 19 June 1589 at Deptford Strand, England.2
• He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Kent between 1562 and 1567.1 He was invested as a Knight in 1563 by the Queen.1 He held the office of Sheriff of Bedfordshire from 1565 to 1566.1 He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) for Bedfordshire from April 1572 to May 1572.1 He was created 1st Lord Cheney, of Toddington [England by writ] on 8 May 1572.1 He lived at Toddington, Bedfordshire, England.1 In October 1586 he was one of the peers on the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots.1
• Child of Sir Henry Cheney, 1st and last Lord Cheney and Hon. Joan Wentworth
  • Frances Cheney2
• Citations
• [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 192. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 193.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p21650.htm#i216492 ___________________
• Henry CHENEY (1° B. Cheney of Toddington)
• Born: 1540, Shurland House, Eastchurch, Kent, England
• Acceded: 1578
• Died: 1587, Toddington
• Notes: See his Biography.
• Father: Thomas CHENEY (Sir Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports)
• Mother: Anne BROUGHTON
• Married: Jane WENTWORTH (B. Cheney of Toddington) ABT 1565, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CHENEY.htm#Henry CHENEY (1° B. Cheney of Toddington)
• The details in this biography come from the History of Parliament, a biographical dictionary of Members of the House of Commons.
• Born 31 May 1540, 2nd but 1st surv. son of Sir Thomas Cheyney by his second wife Anne, dau. and coheir of Sir John Broughton of Toddington. Educ. G. Inn 1563. Married Jane, dau. of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Lord Wentworth, by whom he had one dau., d.v.p. Succeeded his father to Kent estates 1558, his mother to Beds. estates 1562. Kntd. 1563; cr. Lord Cheyney 8 May 1572. J.p.q. Kent 1562-c.74, j.p. Beds. 1564, q. by 1574; sheriff, Beds. and Bucks. 1565-6; commr. Kent subsidy assessment 1565, musters, Beds. 1570, for trial of Mary Stuart 1586, to raise 200 men from Beds. and Bucks. for service in the Netherlands 1586.
• Inherited most of his father's property, and achieved high office, but died without having children. Henry Cheney was knighted at Toddington by Queen Elizabeth in 1563. He was knight of the Shire and a Justice for Kent in 1562, and for Bedfordshire in 1572. He became Sheriff of Kent in 1574 having been knighted by Elizabeth. In 1578 he was named Lord Cheney of Toddington. He was one of the judges at the trial of Mary Queen of Scots in 1587. After his death in 1587 his widow continued to live at the Manor for twenty-seven years, after which the estate passed to her great-nephew Thomas Wentworth, later Earl of Cleveland, in 1626.
• He was an extravagant and pompous man. He was a spendthrift who dissipated all of his inherited wealth, dying a near pauper. He sold Shurland which had been the family's ancestral home for three centuries and built a magnificent mansion at Toddington. It was in 1560 that Lord Henry Cheney built the Manor of Toddington on which today’s house is based. So palatial was it that it was dubbed Cheney’s Palace. The frontage measured 210ft from north to south, there was a chapel and an indoor tennis court. Four turrets enclosed the building - only one remains today. He entertained Queen Elizabeth lavishly in 1563 and 1573. Henry was known as "the extravagant Lord Cheney"
• Cheney was elected knight of the shire for his late father's county in 1563, and for his late mother's county in 1572. He was appointed to the succession committee on 31 Oct 1566, the only time his name appears in the extant records of the Commons before his elevation to the peerage his father had been promised yet never achieved. Cheney much preferred his mother's Bedfordshire estate to those of his father in Kent, and he spent vast sums in building at Toddington the mansion where he entertained the Queen in 1563 and 1576. After her first visit he was knighted, and no doubt his lavish hospitality was still in Elizabeth's mind when the question of his peerage arose some years later. A seventeenth-century inventory at Toddington commemorates her visits in the names of some of the rooms. To finance his extravagance Cheney sold one Kent estate after another between 1564 and 1567 until in 1574 a note on the Kent commission of the peace described him as ‘not resident’. The Shurland estate and his Minster property on the Isle of Sheppey were so badly decayed that the Privy Council became alarmed at the depopulation of a strategically important coastal district. Negotiations began for the Crown to take over Shurland, and grant Cheney lands elsewhere in exchange. Typically, Elizabeth haggled over terms, and the arrangement was still not made by Oct 1578, when Cheney asked Burghley to expedite matters. A crown lease of Shurland, granted in 1580, contained a clause binding the new tenant to accommodate men-at-arms. The last recorded sale of Cheney's estates was in 1581, when he sold the chapel where his ancestors were buried at Minster, together with neighbouring estates, to Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Thenceforth, except for his participation in the trial of Mary Stuart, his activities were for the most part, or perhaps entirely, confined to Bedfordshire. It is not even clear whether, having obtained his peerage, he visited the court; if he did it was seldom. Of his religious views little is known. He was the ward for a few years of his puritan uncle the 2nd Earl of Bedford, and his wife was a well known patron of puritan preachers, but Cheney's own classification among those Bedfordshire j.p.s who were ‘earnest’ in religion in 1564 must be taken as reflecting no more than his approval of the Elizabethan church settlement.
• He died 3 Sep 1587, and was buried at Toddington, where his widow erected a monument. In the Church of St. George, a noble cruciform structure, chiefly in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, there´s an alabaster tomb, now much mutilated and partly of brick, with an effigy in rich armour of Henry Cheney; and one more tomb bears the effigy of his wife Jane Wentworth, 1614, attired in wimple and mantle. Another tomb the sides of which are adorned with shields of arms, is inscribed to Anne Broughton, d. 1561, wife of Sir Thomas Cheney and mother of Henry.
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/HenryCheney(1BToddington).htm _______________________
• The Wentworth genealogy, comprising the origin of the name, the family in England, and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth, the emigrant, and of his descendants (1870)
• http://www.archive.org/stream/wentworthgenealo01inwent#page/n176/mo...
• The line was continued by
• (18) Sir Thomas Wentworth, Kt., Lord Chamberlain of the Household; who, in 1529, was summoned to Parliament, by writ, as Baron Wentworth. He died on the 3d, and was buried on the 7 March, 1550-1, in Westminster Abbey. His wife, who survived him, was Margaret, daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue, Kt. They had issue as follows:
  • 1. Sir Thomas, 2d Baron, of whom hereafter.
  • 2. Sir Henry (not 21 in 1544), who married his first cousin, Elizabeth Glemham. (See back to number (17-7) of this note.)
  • 3. Richard (not 21 in 1544), who married Margaret Royden.
  • 4. Philip (not 21 in 1544), who married a daughter of Sir Richard Corbet, Kt.
  • 5. John (not 21 in 1455), who perished at sea, in 1564.
  • 6. Edward (not 21 in 1544.)
  • 7. James (not 21 in 1544), who perished at sea in 1564.
  • 8. Roger (not 21 in 1544), who married, and had a daughter Katherine, who was buried at Stepney, Co. Middlesex, 14 July, 1577.
  • 9. Anne, living 1544; the wife of Sir John Poley, Kt., of Badley, Suffolk.
  • 10. Cicily (or Cecilia) married, after 1544, to Sir Robert Wingfield, Kt.
  • 11. Mary, who married, after 1544, William Cavendish, Esq., eldest son of Sir Richard Cavendish, Kt.
  • 12. Elizabeth, living 1544, unmarried.
  • 13. Margaret, who married, after 1544, 1st John Lord Williams; 2dly, Sir William Drury, Kt.; and 3dly, Sir John Crofts, Kt.
  • 14. Margery, living, 1544, unmarried.
  • 15. Jane, married, after 1544, to Sir Henry Cheyne, Kt., Lord Cheyne of Toddington, Co. Bedford, She died without issue, 16 April, 1614, and was buried at Toddington.
  • 16. Catherine, living, 1544, unmarried.
  • 17. Dorothy, married, after 1544, 1st, to Sir Wm. Widmerpoole, Kt.; 1dly, to Sir Martin Frobisher, Kt.; and 3dly, to Sir John Savile, Kt., one of the Barons of the Exchequer, who survived her and died 2 February, 1606-7.
• The line was continued by ____________________
• Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... By Douglas Richardson
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• 15. THOMAS WENTWORTH, Knt., de jure 6th Lord Despenser, of Nettlestead, Suffolk, Harston, Cambridgeshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Suffolk, Privy Councillor, Lord Chamberlain of the Household to King Edward VI, son and heir, born about 1500 (age 28 in 1528). He married about 1520 MARGARET FORTESCUE, daughter of Adrian Fortescue, K.B., of Stonor (in Pyrton) and
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• Shirburn, Oxfordshire, and St. Clement Danes, London, by his 1st wife, Anne (descendant of Kind Edward III), daughter and heiress of William Stonor, Knt. [see STONOR 14 for her ancestry]. They had eight sons, Thomas [2nd Lord Wentworth], Henry, Richard, Philip, Gent., John, Edward, James, and Roger, and nine daughters, Anne, Cecily (wife of Robert Wingfield, Knt.), Mary wife of William Cavendish), Elizabeth (wife of John Cock and Leonard Matthew), Margaret, Margery (wife of John Williams [Lord Williams of Thame], William Drury, Knt., and James Croft, Knt.), Jane (wife of Henry Cheney [Lord Cheny]), Katherine, and Dorothy (wife of Paul Withypoll, and Martin Frobisher, Knt., John Savile, Knt.). He took part in the Duke of Suffolk's expedition to France in 1523. He was created Lord Wentworth and admitted to the House of Lords, 2 Dec. 1529. In 1530 he was one of the peers who tried Queen Anne Boleyn. His wife, Margaret, was heiress in 1540 to her younger sister Frances, wife of Thomas Fitz Gerald, 10th Earl of Kildare. In 1544 he served under the Duke of Norfolk as the Siege of Montreuil, being one of his Council of War. Margaret died between 23 April 1546 and 12 May 1551, presumably before her husband. He was granted the manor of Stepney, Hackney, and Cheyney Gate (now The Deanery), Westminster, all in Middlesex, in 1550. SIR THOMAS WENTWORTH, 1st Lord Wentworth, died at the King's Palace at Westminster 3 March 1550/1, and was buried 7 March 1550/1 in Westminster Abbey. He left a will proved 27 Nov. 1551 (P.C.C. 35 Bucke).
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• Bedfordshire notes and queries
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• Mary Pever da. and heir whose first husband was Sir Richard St. Maur, jun. Kt., son and heir of Richard Lord St. Maur. (5.) Their only da., Alice, a posthumous child mar. to William Zouche, 5th Baron Zouche of Harringworth, and carried the Barony of St. Maur into that family. (3.) By her second husband John Broughton she left a son John Broughton who was grand-father of Sir Robert Broughton Kt., whose son Sir John Broughton of Toddington Kt., mar. Anne, da. and heir of Sir Guy Sapcote and left inter alia a da. Anne who became the 2nd wife of Sir Thomas Cheyney, K.G. Their son Sir Henry Cheyney of Toddington mar. Jane the seventh da. of Thomas Lord Wentworth, of Nettlested in com Suff. _________________________
• Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire (1874) Vol. 2 Pg.n258
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  • Pedigree of Wentworth, of Elmsall, Bretton and Baron Wentworth, of Nettlested.
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