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About Thomas Constable, of Great Grimsby, MP
- Thomas CONSTABLE of Great Grimsby
- Born: ABT 1506, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England
- Died: 1558 or later
- Notes: See his Biography.
- Father: Robert CONSTABLE of Nuneaton (Sir Knight)
- Mother: Jane INGLEBY
- Married 1: Barbara CATHERALL ABT 1536
- Children:
- 1. Robert CONSTABLE
- 2. Ursula CONSTABLE
- Married 2: Dau. HOLDENBY ABT 1539
- Children:
- 3. Thomas CONSTABLE
- 4. Anne CONSTABLE
- From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CONSTABLE.htm#Thomas CONSTABLE of Great Grimsby1
- The details in this biography come from the History of Parliament, a biographical dictionary of Members of the House of Commons.
- http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/ThomasConstableofGreatGrimsby.htm _______________
- CONSTABLE, Thomas (by 1500-58 or later), of Flamborough, Yorks.
- b. by 1500, 2nd s. of Sir Robert Constable, and bro. of Sir Marmaduke II. m. (1) Barbara, da. and h. of one Catherall of Great Grimsby, Lincs., 1s. 1da; (2) a da. of Robert Haldenby of Haldenby, Yorks., 1s. 1da.1
- Offices Held
- Alderman, Grimsby by 1554.2
- Thomas Constable is first heard of in 1534, when he was wounded in an affray at York assizes arising from the long-standing feud between his father and his uncle Sir William Percy. Two years later Sir Robert Constable’s part in the Pilgrimage of Grace led to his attainder and execution. Like his elder brother Marmaduke, Constable came through unscathed but without his share in the forfeited patrimony, although in 1540 inquiries were made into his father’s gift of a manor to him and his younger brother William and in 1546 their title to lands in Lincolnshire was again under review. By that time, however, his fortunes had probably been revived by his marriage to a Grimsby heiress: in August 1544 he was one of a 32-man consortium which paid £2,136 for monastic lands in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. When in 1549 there was a threat of rebellion in Yorkshire, Constable manifested his loyalty by pursuing and capturing the ringleader.3
- Constable was associated with Grimsby from at least 1545, when he was appointed an arbitrator to settle a local dispute in the mayor’s court. It was doubtless his municipal standing which secured his election for the borough to two of Mary’s Parliments, but this was probably reinforced by his relationship with the 5th Earl of Westmorland, who married Constable’s niece Jane in or after 1549. He was also related to the earls of Rutland, who had considerable Lincolnshire property, and in 1542 he had witnessed the will of the 1st Earl. As a Member of the Parliament of November 1554 Constable was one of those informed against in the King’s bench in Easter term 1555 for withdrawing without leave before the dissolution. He failed to appear, even though he attended the next Parliament towards the close of that year, and was distrained 12 times, to a total amount of £2 0s.8d., before the case lapsed with the death of the Queen. He did not join the opposition to one of the government’s bills in the Parliament of 1555.4
- The final distraint of Michaelmas 1558 is the last reference which has been found to Constable, who may thus have died at about that time, perhaps of the epidemic disease then abroad.
- Ref Volumes: 1509-1558
- Author: T. M. Hofmann
- Notes
- 1. Date of birth estimated from elder brother’s. Foster, Yorks. Peds. ii. unpaginated.
- 2. C219/23/79.
- 3. M. H. and R. Dodds, Pilgrimage of Grace, i. 47; DNB (Constable, Sir Robert); LP Hen. VIII, xv, xix, xxi; Foxe, Acts and Mons. v. 740.
- 4. Great Grimsby AO, ct. bk. 1539-48, f. 82 et passim; PCC 28 Pynnyng; KB27/1176-88
- From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/co... __________________________
- Sir Robert Constable (c. 1478 – 6 July 1537) was a member of the English Tudor gentry. He helped Henry VII to defeat the Cornish rebels at the Battle of Blackheath in 1497. In 1536, when the rising known as the Pilgrimage of Grace broke out in the north of England, Constable was one of the insurgent leaders, but towards the close of the year he submitted at Doncaster and was pardoned. He did not share in the renewal of the rising which took place in January 1537; but he refused the king's invitation to proceed to London, and was arrested, tried for treason, and hanged at Hull in the following June.[1]
- Born at Flamborough in Yorkshire, Robert Constable was the eldest son of Sir Marmaduke Constable (1456/7 – 20 November 1518) and his second wife, Joyce Stafford. His paternal grandparents were Sir Robert Constable of Flamborough, Yorkshire, and Agnes Wentworth, daughter of Sir Roger Wentworth, esquire, of Nettlestead, Suffolk, and Margery le Despencer. Constable's maternal uncle, Sir Humphrey Stafford (c.1426/7 – 8 July 1486), was executed at Tyburn for his part in an insurrection against King Henry VII.[2]
- .... etc.
- Sir Robert was married to Jane Ingleby of Ripley (b. 1472) in 1492, probably in Yorkshire, England. Jane's parents were Sir William Ingleby of Ripley, son of John Ingleby of Ripley and Margaret Strangeways, Baroness Willoughby, and his wife Catherine Stillington, daughter of Thomas Stillington of Nether Acaster and Agnes Bigod.[citation needed]
- Sir Robert and Jane had the following issue:[citation needed]
- Sir Marmaduke Constable of Nuneaton (1498/1502-20 April 1560), married Elizabeth Darcy, daughter of Lord Darcy. Had issue.
- Catherine Constable (c. 1498–1585), married Sir Roger Cholmley. Had issue.
- Thomas Constable of Great Grimsby (c. 1504-aft 1558), married 1st Barbara Catherall, 2nd Lady Holdenby. Had issue by both wives.
- Joyce Constable (b. circa 1500), married Rowland Pudsey. No issue.
- Anne Constable (b. circa 1504), who married George Hussey (d. 10 August 1537) of Harswell and North Duffield, Yorkshire, son and heir of Sir William Hussey (d.1531) by Anne Salvaine, and had issue three sons, John, Robert and William, and one daughter, Frances.[4]
- Jane Constable, married Thomas Rokeby of Mortham, and had issue, including the judge Ralph Rokeby.
- He is a major character in The Man on a Donkey by H F M Prescott.
- From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Constable ___________
- CONSTABLE, Sir Marmaduke II (by 1498-1560), of London and Nuneaton, Warws.
- b. by 1498, 1st s. of Sir Robert Constable of Flamborough, Yorks. by Jane, da. of Sir William Ingleby of Ripley, Yorks.; bro. of Thomas. educ. ?M. or I. Temple. m. (1) by Apr. 1521, Elizabeth, da. of Thomas, Lord Darcy, 2s. 8da., (2) Margaret, da. of William Booth, s.p. Kntd. 25 Sept. 1523; suc. fa. June 1537.2
- .... etc.
- From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/co... _________
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Thomas Constable, of Great Grimsby, MP's Timeline
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