George Catesby

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George CATESBY

Born: ABT 1473, Ashby St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire, England

Died: 20 May 1507

Father: William CATESBY (Sir)

Mother: Margaret ZOUCHE

Married: Elizabeth EMPSON 1496, Towchester, Northamptonshire, England

Children:

1. Elizabeth CATESBY

2. Jane CATESBY

3. Audrey CATESBY

4. William CATESBY

5. Richard CATESBY (Sir)

6. Dau. CATESBY

• George Catesby, Esq.1,2,3
• M, #90670, b. circa 1473, d. 20 May 1507
• Father Sir William Catesby4 b. c 1440, d. 25 Aug 1485
• Mother Margaret Zouche4 b. c 1451, d. 8 Oct 1494
• George Catesby, Esq. was born circa 1473 at of Ashby St. Leger, Northamptonshire, England.1 He married Elizabeth Empson, daughter of Sir Richard Empson, Speaker of the House of Commons and Jane, circa 1498.1,2,3 George Catesby, Esq. died on 20 May 1507 at of Ashby St. Leger, Northamptonshire, England.1
• Family Elizabeth Empson b. c 1475
• Child
  • Sir Richard Catesby, Sheriff of Warwickshire, Leicestershire, & Northlamptonshire+1,2,3 b. c 1500, d. 8 Mar 1553
• Citations
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 739.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 278.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 278.
• [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3018.htm#... __________________
• George Catseby1
• M, #321413
• Last Edited=29 Nov 2008
• George Catseby married Elizabeth Empson, daughter of Sir Richard Empson.1
• He lived at Ashby St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire, England.1
• Citations
• [S50] John Burke, History of the Commoners of Great Britain (London, U.K.: n.pub., 1846), volume III, page 98. Hereinafter cited as Commoners of Great Britain.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p32142.htm#i321413 ____________
• George CATESBY
• Born: ABT 1473, Ashby St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire, England
• Died: 20 May 1507
• Father: William CATESBY (Sir)
• Mother: Margaret ZOUCHE
• Married: Elizabeth EMPSON 1496, Towchester, Northamptonshire, England
• Children:
  • 1. Elizabeth CATESBY
  • 2. Jane CATESBY
  • 3. Audrey CATESBY
  • 4. William CATESBY
  • 5. Richard CATESBY (Sir)
  • 6. Dau. CATESBY
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CATESBY.htm#George CATESBY1 _______________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 09
• Catesby, William by James Gairdner
• CATESBY, WILLIAM (d. 1485), councillor of Richard III, was the son of Sir William Catesby of Ashby St. Legers, Northamptonshire, by Philippa, daughter and heiress of Sir William Bishopston. His father died in 1470, but nothing seems to be known of Catesby till after the death of Edward IV, twelve or thirteen years later. Certain it is that he possessed great influence with Richard III before he became king. More speaks of him as a man well versed in the law, who, by the favour of Lord Hastings, possessed great authority in the counties of Leicester and Northampton; and it seems to have been owing to his presence in the Protector's councils that Hastings, relying on his fidelity to him, was lulled into a state of false security. For Richard, we are told, endeavoured through Catesby to ascertain if Hastings would acquiesce in his intended usurpation of the crown, and Catesby went so far as to broach the subject to him; but Hastings answered with such ‘terrible words’ that Catesby not only saw it was hopeless, but feared a diminution of his own credit with Hastings for having spoken of it. He therefore, if More has not maligned him, stirred up the Protector to get rid of his patron. There is no doubt that he profited by his fall, for immediately after Richard's accession he obtained an office which Hastings had previously held, that of one of the chamberlains of the receipt of exchequer. On the same day (30 June 1483) Richard appointed him chancellor of the exchequer, and also chancellor of the earldom of March for life. Next year he was chosen speaker in Richard's only parliament. His influence with the usurper was pointed at in the satirical rhyme made by Colyngbourne, who suffered, though not, as commonly supposed, for that cause only, the extreme penalties of treason—
  • The cat, the rat, and Lovel our dog
  • Rule all England under a hog—
• showing that of three leading councillors he was believed to be the first. His name appears on commissions for the counties of Warwick, Northampton, Leicester, Gloucester, and Berks, and on 15 Feb. 1485 he obtained a grant from the crown of the hundred of Guilsborough in tail male. That he must have been unpopular as the minister of a tyrant we may well believe; yet it is remarkable that Earl Rivers, one of the victims of Richard's tyranny, names Catesby among his executors in a will made just before his execution (Excerpta Historica, 248). On 22 Aug. 1485, when the usurper fell at Bosworth, Catesby was taken prisoner fighting on his side. Three days afterwards he was beheaded at Leicester. Just before his execution he made his will, dated 25 Aug. 1 Henry VII, leaving its fulfilment entirely to his wife, ‘to whom,’ as he says in the document, ‘I have ever been true of my body.’ Evidently this instrument of tyranny had some virtue in him, of a kind not too common among courtiers. He desired to be buried in the church of St. Leger in Ashby, and wished his wife to restore all the land he had wrongfully purchased, and to divide the rest of his property among their children. ‘I doubt not,’ he added, ‘the king will be good and gracious lord to them; for he is called a full gracious prince, and I never offended him by my good and free will, for God I take to my judge I have ever loved him.’ At the end are these remarkable passages: ‘My lords Stanley, Strange, and all that blood, help and pray for my soul, for ye have not for my body as I trusted in you. And if my issue rejoice (enjoy) my land, I pray you let Mr. John Elton have the best benefice. And (if) my Lord Lovel (another of Richard's adherents) come to grace, then that ye show to him that he pray for me. And, uncle John, remember my soul as ye have done my body, and better.’ Uncle John is Sir John Catesby, the justice [q. v.]
• This William Catesby is often erroneously called Sir William, and spoken of as a knight. He was only an esquire of the royal body. The wife whom he left as his executrix was Margaret, a daughter of William Lord Zouche. His attainder was reversed by Henry VII in favour of his son George, and the family continued to flourish until the days of James I, when Robert Catesby [q. v.], fifth in descent from the subject of this notice, was attainted as the projector of the Gunpowder plot.
• [Dugdale's Warwickshire, 788; Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 241, 245; Sir T. More's History of Richard III (in Cayley's More, ii. 199, 200); Fabyan's Chronicle (ed. 1811), 672; Rolls of Parliament, vi. 238, 276.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catesby,_William_(DNB00)
• https://archive.org/stream/dictionarynatio50stepgoog#page/n299/mode... to https://archive.org/stream/dictionarynatio50stepgoog#page/n300/mode... ______________
• Sir William Catesby (1450[1] – August 25, 1485) was one of Richard III of England's principal councillors. He also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Commons during Richard's reign.
• The son of Sir William Catesby of Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire (died 1478) and Philippa, daughter and heiress of Sir William Bishopston, he was trained for the law in the Inner Temple.[2] As an aspiring lawyer Catesby initially progressed in the service of William, 1st Lord Hastings. He married Margaret, daughter of William La Zouche, 6th Baron Zouche of Harringworth; the couple had three sons. Upon the death of his father he inherited a large number of estates in the English Midlands and was land-agent for many others. He was a member of the Council that ruled during the reign of Edward V. After Richard was enthroned, Catesby was one of King Richard's closest advisors. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and as Speaker of the English House of Commons during the Parliament of 1484, in which he sat as knight of the shire for Northamptonshire. He also received a substantial grant of land from the king, enough to make him richer than most knights.[3]
• In July 1484, William Collingbourne, a Tudor agent, tacked up a lampooning poem to St. Paul's Cathedral, which mentions Catesby among the three aides to King Richard, whose emblem was a white boar:
  • " The Catte, the Ratte and Lovell our dogge rulyth all Englande under a hogge. "
• (The dog here refers to a Lovell family heraldic symbol.)[4][5] The poem was interpolated into Laurence Olivier's film Richard III, a screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. Collingbourne was hanged, drawn and quartered for this and other alleged treasonable activities.[citation needed]
• William Catesby was one of the two councillors (the other was Richard Ratcliffe) who are reputed to have told the king that marrying Elizabeth of York would cause rebellions in the north.[6] He fought alongside Richard at the Battle of Bosworth and was captured. Alone of those of importance he was executed three days later at Leicester. The suggestion that he might have made a deal with the Stanleys before the battle comes from his will when he asked them "to pray for my soul as ye have not for my body, as I trusted in you."[7]
• After his death his estates were largely confiscated by Henry VII. Catesby was succeeded by his eldest son, George, to whom the family seat of Ashby St Legers was later restored. Robert Catesby, leader of the Gunpowder Plot, was a descendant.[citation needed]
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Catesby ______________
• WILLIAM CATESBY (d. 1485), councillor of Richard III, was the son of Sir William Catesby of Ashby St. Legers, Northamptonshire, by Philippa, daughter and heiress of Sir William Bishopston. His father died in 1470, but nothing seems to be known of Catesby till after the death of Edward IV, twelve or thirteen years later. Certain it is that he possessed great influence with Richard III before he became king.
• More speaks of him as a man well versed in the law, who, by the favour of Lord Hastings, possessed great authority in the counties of Leicester and Northampton; and it seems to have been owing to his presence in the Protector's councils that Hastings, relying on his fidelity to him, was lulled into a state of false security. For Richard, we are told, endeavoured through Catesby to ascertain if Hastings would acquiesce in his intended usurpation of the crown, and Catesby went so far as to broach the subject to him; but Hastings answered with such 'terrible words' that Catesby not only saw it was hopeless, but feared a diminution of his own credit with Hastings for having spoken of it. He therefore, if More has not maligned him, stirred up the Protector to get rid of his patron. There is no doubt that he profited by his fall, for immediately after Richard's accession he obtained an office which Hastings had previously held, that of one of the chamberlains of the receipt of Exchequer. On the same day (30 June 1483) Richard appointed him Chancellor of the Exchequer, and also Chancellor of the earldom of March for life. Next year he was chosen Speaker in Richard's only parliament.
• His influence with the usurper was pointed at in the satirical rhyme made by Colyngbourne, who suffered, though not, as commonly supposed, for that cause only, the extreme penalties of treason—
  • The cat, the rat, and Lovel our dog
  • Rule all England under a hog—
• showing that of three leading councillors he was believed to be the first. His name appears on commissions for the counties of Warwick, Northampton, Leicester, Gloucester, and Berks, and on 15 Feb. 1485 he obtained a grant from the crown of the hundred of Guilsborough in tail male. That he must have been unpopular as the minister of a tyrant we may well believe; yet it is remarkable that Earl Rivers, one of the victims of Richard's tyranny, names Catesby among his executors in a will made just before his execution.1
• On 22 Aug. 1485, when the usurper fell at Bosworth, Catesby was taken prisoner fighting on his side. Three days afterwards he was beheaded at Leicester. Just before his execution be made his will, dated 25 Aug. 1 Henry VII, leaving its fulfilment entirely to his wife, 'to whom,' as he says in the document, 'I have ever been true of my body.' Evidently this instrument of tyranny had some virtue in him, of a kind not too common among courtiers. He desired to be buried in the church of St. Leger in Ashby, and wished his wife to restore all the land he had wrongfully purchased, and to divide the rest of his property among their children. 'I doubt not,' he added, 'the king will be good and gracious lord to them; for he is called a full gracious prince, and I never offended him by my good and free will, for God I take to my judge I have ever loved him.' At the end are these remarkable passages: 'My lords Stanley, Strange, and all that blood, help and pray for my soul, for ye have not for my body as I trusted in you. And if my issue rejoice (enjoy) my land, I pray you let Mr. John Elton have the best benefice. And (if) my Lord Lovel (another of Richard's adherents) come to grace, then that ye show to him that he pray for me. And, uncle John, remember my soul as ye have done my body, and better.' Uncle John is Sir John Catesby, the justice.
• This William Catesby is often erroneously called Sir William, and spoken of as a knight. He was only an Esquire of the Royal Body. The wife whom he left as his executrix was Margaret, first daughter of William Lord Zouche. His attainder was reversed by Henry VII in favour of his son George, and the family continued to flourish until the days of James I, when Robert Catesby, fifth in descent from the subject of this notice, was attainted as the projector of the Gunpowder Plot.
• 1. Excerpta Historica, p. 248.
• From: http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/catesby.htm _____________
• CATESBY, Richard (?1505-53), of Ashby St. Ledgers, Northants. and Lapworth, Warws.
• b. ?1505, 2nd s. of George Catesby (d. 27 Nov. 1505) of Ashby St. Ledgers by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Richard Empson of Easton Neston, Northants. m. (1) Dorothy, da. of Sir John Spencer of Hodnell, Warws., 4s. 2da.; (2) Elizabeth, da. of William Astell of Nuneaton, Warws., wid. of Sir Ralph Verney (d.1525) of Pendley in Tring, Herts., 4s. suc. bro. 1517. Kntd. 1542.3
• Offices Held
  • J.p. Warws. 1537-d., Northants. 1539-d., sheriff, Warws. and Leics. 1540-1, 1545-6, Northants. 1542-3, 1549-50; commr. musters, Northants. 1546, chantries, Leics., Warws., Coventry and Leicester 1546, relief, Northants. and Warws. 1550, goods of churches and fraternities, Northants. 1553; other commissions 1539-d. 4
• Richard Catesby’s grandfathers were both executed for treason and his great-grandson was to be killed in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, but he himself came to a peaceful if premature end, having devoted himself to the consolidation of the patrimony recovered by his father. A boy of 11 when his brother’s death made him the heir, he became the ward of Sir Thomas Lucy, his stepfather, and Sir John Spencer, whose daughter he married. His belated livery of his inheritance in March 1537 coincided with his appointment to the Warwickshire bench and for the remainder of his life he was an active administrator in that county and its neighbours and an occasional figure at court. In 1536 he was already taking steps to provide his eldest son with a suitable wife by selling his wardship to William Willington, whose eight daughters were heirs to a considerable estate. The marriage contract, concluded while both principals were still under 14, was twice voided by his son who in 1541 refused his consent to the match before witnesses, but the wedding finally took place in the following year after a new agreement had been reached.5
• First returned for Warwickshire to the Parliament of 1539, Catesby could have been re-elected to its successor, for which the names of the Warwickshire knights are lost, after serving his first shrievalty; in that case he would have attended the session of 1543 while sheriff of Northamptonshire. Passed over for the next two Parliaments, during each of which he was again pricked sheriff, he was re-elected to that of March 1553. The sheriff on that occasion was Sir Thomas Neville of Holt, Leicestershire, who in his previous term of office had returned Catesby in 1539, and the first elector named on the indenture was Catesby’s stepbrother, and Neville’s cousin, Thomas Lucy. Such a family affair appears to have left as little room for intervention from elsewhere as does Robert Throckmorton’s for the second seat, and if Catesby’s choice as sheriff of Northamptonshire in November 1549 implies that he was acceptable to the Duke of Northumberland his earlier suing out of a pardon for a string of offences including heresy and lollardy is no guide to his religious views, especially as his family was to be noted for its recusancy.6
• Catesby’s allegiances were not to be put to the test for he died on 8 Mar. 1553, two weeks after his election and one week after the opening of Parliament. He had certified his will on 3 Mar. before his wife and other witnesses whose presence does not indicate where he then was: among them was Thomas Denton, who presumably attended as Catesby’s lawyer, and Thomas Payne gentleman, perhaps the Gloucester Member of that name, since Catesby had an interest in the manor of ‘Willicot’ in that county and had been a feoffee for his kinsman Richard Tracy. His direction that he should be buried wherever his executors chose, and his gift to the poor of that place as well as of Ashby St. Ledgers, suggest that he was away from home, possibly on the way to or from Parliament. To his ‘dear and loving wife’ Elizabeth he gave household goods, to his daughter Elizabeth a coffer and to his wife and sons equal shares in his jewels and plate; his youngest son John was also to have the goods in the house in Warwick called the Dean’s house; and his servants were to receive a year’s wages, with Anthony Foxton also having the lease of Ashby St. Ledgers parsonage and Thomas Fitzgeoffrey £6 13s.4d. His two unmarried daughters Elizabeth and Jane were each to have 500 marks towards marriage. The surviving sons shared the issues of Lapworth, valued at £60 a year, for life and the youngest was given the house in Warwick lately bought from the King. The eldest son being dead, it was a grandson William who inherited all the remaining property: he became the ward of Robert Throckmorton and married his guardian’s daughter Anne. Catesby named as executor his nephew John Spencer, who proved the will on 26 Oct. 1553.7
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/ca... ______________
• Richard Catesby
• Birth: 1506
• Death: Mar. 8, 1553
• Sir Richard Catesby, of Legers Ashby, Northants was born in Ashby St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire, England and passed away in Eaton, Bedfordshire, England. He was the son of George Catesby and Elizabeth Empson. He married Dorothy Spencer in 1524 in Wormleighton, Warwickshire, England. She was the daughter of Sir John Spencer, Kt, of Snitterfield & Wormleighton and Isabel (Graunt). Children: Elizabeth, William CATESBY of Lapworth, George, John, Isabel, and Jane.
• Sir Richard married 2nd Elizabeth ASTALL ABT 1536, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England Children: Jane, Elizabeth, Richard, Edmund, and Edward.
• Sir Richard married 3rd Elizabeth BRAY AFT 1536 / ABT 1548, Eaton, Bedfordshire, England. Child: Anne.
• Burial: Ashby St Ledgers Churchyard, Ashby St Ledgers, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 13870036
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=catesby&GSbyr... ______________
• HERBERT, Thomas (by 1514-88), of Wonastow, Mon.
• b. by 1514, 3rd s. of Sir William Herbert of Troy by Blanche, da. and coh. of Simon Milborne of Tillington, Herefs.; bro. of Charles. m. (1) prob. da. of George Catesby of Lapworth, Warws., s.p.; (2) Anne, da. of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, Warws., 5s. inc. Henry† 4da. Kntd. 1573.1
• Offices Held
  • Serviator of Grace Dieu abbey, coroner of Tintern abbey and steward of Chepstow priory, Mon. in 1535; j.p. Mon. 1543, 1555-d.; commr. subsidy, Mon. 1546; relief 1550, goods of churches and fraternities 1553, piracy 1577; sheriff 1559-60, 1571-2.2
• Before the Dissolution Thomas Herbert held office in three monasteries in the Welsh marches. In 1545 he and William Breton bought the site and various possessions of one of these, Grace Dieu, for £517, as well as ex-monastic property in the Fenlands, Herefordshire and London. Although Herbert’s public career was confined to Monmouthshire, his two marriages gave him some standing in Warwickshire. After 1550 his position in his own shire was strengthened first by the financial troubles which overtook his eldest brother Charles, on whose death in 1557 he bought the manor of Wonastow, one of two set aside for the payment of debts, and then by the death of the next brother without male issue. It was Charles Herbert whom he succeeded as knight of the shire in Mary’s second Parliament. He was to win a contested election in 1559 but thereafter his only contribution to the Commons was the son Henry whom he returned as sheriff in 1572. He died on 8 Oct. 1588.3
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/he... ______________
• HERBERT, Thomas (by 1514-88), of Wonastow, Mon.
• b. by 1514, 3rd s. of Sir William Herbert (d.1524) of Troy by Blanche, da. and coh. of Simon Milborne of Tillington, Herefs. m. (1) prob. da. of George Catesby of Lapworth, Warws. s.p.; (2) Anne, da. of Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, Warws., 5s. inc. Henry 4da. Kntd. 1573.1
• Offices Held
  • J.p. Mon. 1543, from 1555; commr. relief, 1550, church goods 1553, piracy 1577, sheriff 1559-60, 1571-2.2
• Herbert held office under three religious houses, including Grace Dieu, which he bought in 1545. After the death of his brother he virtually succeeded to the commanding position in Monmouthshire enjoyed by his father, serving on most of the local commissions appointed by the Privy Council and the council in the marches. His name appears in the pardon roll of 1559.3
• Herbert was the principal participant in both the contested elections known to have occurred in Monmouthshire during this period. In 1559 he was one of three candidates to stand for the two county seats. In an Exchequer action that followed the election, it was claimed that most votes had gone to the rival candidates, William Morgan I of Tredegar and George Kemeys of Troy, but that the sheriff—a relative of Morgan—had substituted Herbert for Kemeys. Herbert’s election evidently stood. In 1572 he appeared before the Star Chamber at the instance of William Morgan II of Llantarnam on charges arising out of the election of that year, at which he was accused of procuring the return of his son, Henry, and the defeat of Morgan by the abuse of his position as sheriff.4
• On Herbert’s death, 8 Oct. 1588, most of his estate was inherited by Henry. The charities in his will included gifts to Hereford and Llandaff cathedrals, £5 towards the maintenance of the highway in Wonastow parish, and 1 2d. to every deacon and minister who should attend his burial. He wished to be buried in the chapel in Monmouth parish church where his father and brother lay, and left £100 for his funeral expenses.5
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/he... _____________
• NEWENHAM, William (by 1502-46), of Everdon, Northants. and Kirklington, Notts.
• b. by 1502, 1st s. of Edmund Newenham of Everdon by Elizabeth, da. of William Harpur of Rushall, Staffs. m. (1) settlement 19 May 1520, Audrey, da. of George Catesby of Ashby St. Ledgers, Northants, prob. 3s. 3da.; (2) Benedicta, da. of Sir Godfrey Foljambe, wid, of Sir John Dunham (d.1535) of Kirklington, prob. 2 da. suc. fa. 28 May 1527. Kntd. 1 Nov. 1532.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/ne... ________________