Dr. Anthony Bellasis, LL.D.

Ordained a priest, June 7, 1533
Chaplain to Henry VIII

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Dr Anthony BELASIS L.L.D. D.C.L. died in 1552 in Newburgh Priory, Coxwold, Yorkshire.

Dr Anthony Belasis was educated at Cambridge, became a lawyer and was ordained priest in 1533. He was in the service of Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, after whose fall from grace, he then became chaplain to the king. He was appointed a master in Chancery in 1544 and became a member of The Council of the North in 1550 and, like his elder brother, was one of the Commissioners of Henry VIII for visiting monasteries. After his brother's death, he was granted the buildings and land of Newburgh Priory, Coxwold, West Riding of Yorkshire. Described by Surtees as a prudent, wary man who laid the foundations of the fortunes of his family.

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Anthony, LL.D., educated at Cambridge, Rector of Whickham, co. Durham, 1533, Vicar of Brancepeth 1539, Prebend of Auckland and Canon of Westminster 1540, Prebend of Ripon and Westminster, Master in Chancery 1544, and of Sherburn Hospital 1545 ; a commissioner for visiting the monasteries ; had a grant of Newburgh Priory at its dissolution circ. 1545 ; will 10 Aug., 1552 ; proved London, 5 Sept., 1552 (Surtees Society, cxvi, 220), leaving his estates to his nephew William (see Diet. Nat. Biog.).

From “Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society.” page 4. < Archive.Org >

A sister of Humphrey, Richard, and Roland, named Margaret, became the wife of Thomas Bellasis of Hen- knoll, Durham, who, it appears, (Mis. 17.) died in 1499, leaving several children, the eldest son being about eleven years old. She afterwards married one Simpson, whom I suppose to have been the Robert Simpson named in a pedigree of Hutton of Hunswicke (Mis. 18.) as of Hen- knoll ; which, if it were he who married the widow, he very likely might be during the minority of the heir. I am much inclined to think after a careful study of the Will of Richard Bellasis, dated Sept. 25th, 1539, and proved July nth, 1540, and that of his brother Anthony dated Aug. 10, 1552, and proved Sept. 5, of the same year, that Margaret had children by both husbands. The sons, of course, were issue of the first marriage, but I am unable to fix the parentage of the daughters. I would have liked to give the two Wills I mention for they are, especially Anthony's, of great interest and have never been published, but I cannot ask for space for them in a Threlkeld paper. The children I embody in the Pedigree Sheet.

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Origins

The extinct and dormant peerages of the northern counties of England [microform] by Clay, J. W. (John William), 1838-1918 (1913). Page 7. < Archive.Org >

BELASYSE OR BELLASSIS, LORDS AND EARLS FAUCONBERG.
(First Line.) Arms : — Argent, a chevron gules between three fleurs-de-lis azure.

THOMAS BELASYSE, of Henknowle, co. Durham ; mar. 2ly, Margaret dau. of Sir Lancelot Thirkeld, Knt., of Melmerby. They had issue —

• Richard (II)
• Anthony, LL.D., educated at Cambridge, Rector of Whick- ham, co. Durham, 1533, Vicar of Brancepeth 1539, Prebend of Auckland and Canon of Westminster 1540, Prebend of Ripon and Westminster, Master in Chancery 1544, and of Sherburn Hospital 1545 ; a commissioner for visiting the monasteries ; had a grant of Newburgh Priory at its dissolution circ. 1545 ; will 10 Aug., 1552 ; proved London, 5 Sept., 1552 (Surtees Society, cxvi, 220), leaving his estates to his nephew William (see Diet. Nat. Biog.).
• Isabel or Elizabeth, mar. William Clervaux, of Croft Bridge (Glover 413).
• Margaret, mar. Anthony Smith, of Kelton.

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References

• Wikipedia; DNB