Griselda Butler

• Lady Grizel Roche Boteler
• Birth: 1513 Herefordshire, England
• Death: Feb. 26, 1581 Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire, England
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• John Boteler (____ - 1576)
• Burial: Watton-at-Stone, Ss Mary and Andrew, Watton-at-Stone, East Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 150523880
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=150523880 ____________________
• BUTLER, Sir John (1511/14-76), of Watton at Stone, Herts.
• b. 1511/14, 1st s. of (Sir) Philip Butler. educ. ?G. Inn, adm. 1533. m. settlement 10 May 1528, Griselda, da. and h. of Brian Roche of Wickersley, Yorks., 6s. 7da. suc. fa. 6 June 1545. Kntd. ?22 Feb. 1547.1
• Offices Held
  • ?Page of hall to Princess Mary by 1533; commr. goods of churches and fraternities, Herts. 1550, 1553, relief 1550; other commissions 1551-68; J.p. Herts. 1554-d., q. by 1562, St. Alban’s liberty by 1568; sheriff, Essex and Herts. 1556-7.2
• John Butler had livery of his inheritance in July 1546. Little is known of his early life. There was a page of the hall in Princess Mary’s household in 1533 named John Butler; when Sir John Butler was appointed master of the hunt in Bennington Park in 1553 he was described as ‘the Queen’s servant’. In October 1540 a John Butler of Kimpton, Hertfordshire, was one of a number of persons who on the order of the Privy Council entered into a bond not to take pheasants or partridges; Kimpton is at no great distance from Watton, so that Butler of Watton may well have been the offender. His only other appearance during Henry VIII’s reign is as a plaintiff in Chancery when Sir Thomas Audley was lord keeper, that is in late 1532. Butler asked for an injunction to prevent Sir Gruffydd Done from wasting the Hertfordshire manors of Bridehall, Butlers and Lamer, which would come to Butler in his wife’s right after the death of Done, who had a life interest in them as the widower of Griselda Butler’s mother. The result of the case is not known.3
• ' etc.
• Nothing is known of Butler’s religious views. His Membership of Mary’s first Parliament implies that he was a reliable servant of the new regime, but he served continuously on the Hertfordshire bench under Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth. When, in August 1557 his under sheriff unlawfully reprieved a heretic who was to be burnt in Colchester, Butler was fined £10 by the Privy Council ‘for this disorder ... considering that the said sheriff is answerable for his deputy’s doings’. He sued out a pardon on Queen Elizabeth’s accession, and took an active part in county affairs till his death. He also continued to add to the family lands around Watton, purchasing Crowborough manor in 1562 for £280, and the manor of Woodhall in 1564; Woodhall he settled a year later for the benefit of his son, having earlier provided for his wife by a settlement of Aston manor. He was assessed at £60 for the subsidy in 1571, and at his death his lands were valued at about £160 a year.5
• Butler died on 23 Feb. 1576 at Lamer, and was buried at Wheathampstead on 6 Mar. He had made his will on the previous 12 Feb., providing annuities from his extensive lands for his younger sons and £300 for a daughter, and making bequests to brothers, sisters, grandchildren and servants. His debts and the legacies left by his will were charged on the manors of Streatley, Bedfordshire, and Coddington, Cheshire. His widow received half Butler’s plate and jewels and certain lands for life and the residue went to Butler’s eldest son and heir Philip, the only one of three named executors to prove the will. Butler sought to prevent the dispersal of the family lands by directing that any relative who attempted to bar the entail on any land should lose his interest in the land affected.6
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/bu... _________________________________
• Grizel Roche1
• F, #35608, d. 1581
• Father Sir William Roche
• Grizel Roche married Sir John Boteler, son of Sir Philip Boteler and Elizabeth Drury. Grizel Roche was born at of Lamer, Hertfordshire, England. She died in 1581.
• Family Sir John Boteler b. 26 Aug 1514
• Children
  • Sir Henry Boteler, Sheriff of Hertfordshire+2 d. 20 Jan 1609
  • Sir Philip Boteler+3
  • Margaret Boteler+ b. 1546, d. 22 Jan 1598
• Citations
• [S10968] Unknown author, Wallop Family, p. 118.
• [S11583] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, by Vernon James Watney, p., 118.
• [S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1186.htm#... _______________
• John BUTLER (Sir Knight)
• Born: 26 Aug 1514, Watton, Norfolk, England
• Buried: 6 Mar 1571 , Watton on Stone, Hertford, England
• Father: Phillip BUTLER (Sir)
• Mother: Elizabeth DRURY
• Married: Grizel ROCHE (b. 1516 - d. 26 Feb 1581/2) (dau. of Sir William Roche) ABT 1534
• Children:
  • 1. Phillip BUTLER (Sir Knight)
  • 2. Charles BUTLER (b. 1536)
  • 3. Henry BUTLER of Hatfield (Sir)
  • 4. Nicholas BUTLER (b. 1540)
  • 5. Richard BUTLER (b. 1542)
  • 6. Thomas BUTLER (b. 1542)
  • 7. Martha BUTLER (b. 1544)
  • 8. Margaret BUTLER
  • 9. Sarah BUTLER (b. 1548)
  • 10. Elizabeth BUTLER (b. 1550)
  • 11. Balthazar BUTLER
  • 12. Cecily BUTLER (b. 1553)
  • 13. William BUTLER
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BUTLER2.htm#John BUTLER (Sir Knight)1 _______________

Name: Grizel Roche Given Name: Grizel Surname: Roche Sex: F _UID: 7D112AFA5118D811BE490080C8C142CC22CC Change Date: 16 Nov 2003 Death: Y

Marriage 1 John Boteler b: 26 AUG 1514 Married: Children

Henry Boteler b: ABT 1538

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She was also known as Grissel Roche Children: 1. Sir Phillip Boteler, Knight, of Watton Woodhall; sold Pulverbatch b: 11 Dec 1534 2. Sir Henry Boteler, Knight, b: c1538-1603; of Hatfield Woodhall, England 3. Elizabeth Boteler b: 1532/1560 eldest daughter of her mother 4. Cecily Boteler b: 1533/1563 5. Mary Boteler b: 1533/1563 6. Margaret Boteler b: 1533/1551 7. Richard Boteler b: 8. Thomas Boteler b: 9. Nicholas Boteler b: 10. William Boteler b: 11. Martha Boteler b: in Not yet married in 1575/6

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Notes: Source: https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/grizel-roche_27326739