Jane Cholmeley, Countess Of Westmorland

• Jane Cholmley1
• F, #938, d. before December 1558
• Last Edited=3 Jun 2008
• Jane Cholmley was the daughter of Sir Roger Cholmley and Katherine Constable.1 She married Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland, son of Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland and Lady Catherine Stafford, after 1549.1 She died before December 1558.1 She was buried at Staindrop, County Durham, England.1
• As a result of her marriage, Jane Cholmley was styled as Countess of Westmorland after 1549. From after 1549, her married name became Neville.1
• 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 XII/2, page 557. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p94.htm#i938 _______________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 40
• Neville, Ralph (1499-1550) by William Arthur Jobson Archbold
• NEVILLE, RALPH, fourth Earl of Westmorland (1499–1550), was born 21 Feb. 1499. His grandfather, Ralph, third earl (1456–1523), who was nephew of Ralph, second earl (d. 1484) [see under Neville, Ralph, first earl], was captain in the army which invaded Scotland in 1497 to oppose the alliance between James IV and Perkin Warbeck; by his wife Margaret or Matilda, daughter of Sir Roger Booth of Barton in Lancashire, he was father of Ralph, called Lord Neville (d. 1498), who married, first, a daughter of William Paston (she died in 1489), and, secondly, Editha, daughter of Sir William Sandys of the Vine, sister of Sir William Sandys, K.G., afterwards Lord Sandys [q. v.] Ralph, lord Neville, was father of the fourth earl by his second wife. After Lord Neville's death his widow married Thomas (afterwards Lord) Darcy [q. v.]; she died at Stepney on 22 Aug. 1529, and was buried at the church of the Friars Minors at Greenwich in Kent. Her daughter by Lord D'Arcy married Sir Marmaduke Constable of Flamborough, Yorkshire.
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• .... Westmorland married Lady Catherine, second daughter of Edward Stafford, third duke of Buckingham; she died on 14 May 1555, and was buried at Shoreditch Church (Machyn, Diary, Camd. Soc. pp. 88, 343). By her he had seven sons (of whom Christopher and Cuthbert are separately noticed) and eleven daughters. A letter from the countess to the Earl of Shrewsbury is printed in Mrs. Green's ‘Letters of Illustrious Ladies’ (iii. 182).
• The eldest son, Henry Neville, fifth Earl of Westmorland (1525?–1563), was born in 1525 (cf. Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, iv. ii. 4891). He was knighted in 1544, succeeded to the title in 1550, held a commission to divide the debatable land between England and Scotland in 1551, was a privy councillor probably in 1552, and ambassador to Scotland in the same year. He became K.G. and lord-lieutenant of Durham on 7 May 1552. He supported Mary on Edward VI's death, and bore the second sword and the cap of maintenance at her coronation. He again had a commission to treat with Scotland in 1557, was general of horse in the northern army the same year, and from 22 Jan. 1558 to 25 Dec. 1559 was lieutenant-general of the north, probably in succession to the more usual appointment of warden of the west marches. He strangely appears as an ecclesiastical commissioner in 1560. He died in August 1563. He married, first, according to Doyle, 3 July 1536, when he was only eleven years old, Lady Jane Manners, second daughter of Thomas, first earl of Rutland; secondly, Jane, daughter of Sir Roger Cholmeley; and, thirdly, her sister Margaret, widow of Sir Henry Gascoigne. Charles Neville, sixth earl, the eldest son by the first wife, is separately noticed.
• [Doyle's Official Baronage; Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, passim; State Papers, i. 598, and vols. iv. and v. passim, ix. 671; Plumpton Correspondence, passim; Chronicle of Calais, p. 20; Rutland Papers, pp. 30, 45, 73; Bapst's Deux Gentilshommes poètes de la Cour de Henry VIII, p. 150, &c.; Wriothesley's Chronicle, i. 50; Chron. of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, pp. 82, 99, all in the Camd. Soc.; Metcalfe's Knights, pp. 78, 99; Parker's Correspondence (Parker Soc.), p. 105.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Neville,_Ralph_(1499-1550)_(DNB00)
• https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati40stepuoft#page/278/mode... to https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati40stepuoft#page/279/mode... ___________________
• OTHER REFERENCES SAY JANE & MARGARET'S PARENTS WERE CATHERINE (CONSTABLE) & ROGER CHOLMELEY
• Henry NEVILLE (5º E. Westmoreland)
• Born: ABT 1524/5
• Died: 10 Feb 1562/63/64, Kelvedon, Essex, England
• Buried: Staindrop
• Notes: See his Biography. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/HenryNeville(5EWestmoreland).htm
• Father: Ralph NEVILLE (4º E. Westmoreland)
• Mother: Catherine STAFFORD (C. Westmoreland)
• Married: Anne MANNERS 3 Jul 1536, Holywell, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England
• Children:
  • 1. Charles NEVILLE (6° E. Westmoreland)
  • 2. Eleanor NEVILLE
  • 3. Ralph NEVILLE
  • 4. Mary NEVILLE
  • 5. Catherine NEVILLE
  • 6. Adeline NEVILLE
• Married 2: Jane CONSTABLE 1549
• Married 2: Jane CHOLMLEY (C. Wesmoreland) (dau. of Richard Cholmley and Catherine Constable) ABT 1550, Roxby, Yorkshire, England
• Married 3: Margaret CHOLMLEY (C. Wesmoreland) (dau. of Richard Cholmley and Catherine Constable) (w. of Henry Gascoine) ABT 1559, Roxby, Yorkshire, England
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/NEVILLE2.htm#Henry NEVILLE (5º E. Westmoreland) ______________

Margaret Cholmeley was the daughter of Sir Roger Cholmeley of Kinthorpe and Roxby, Yorkshire (d. April 28, 1538) and Catherine Constable (c.1498-c.1585). Her first husband was Sir Henry Gascoigne of Sedbury, Yorkshire and Ravensworth, Durham (d. October 28, 1558), by whom she had several children, including Richard (d.1605), Margaret (d.1567), Henry, and Thomas, the youngest, (b.1558). Her sister Jane (d. before December 1558) was at that time married to Henry Neville, 5th earl of Westmorland (1525-February 10, 1564), as his second wife. After the deaths of both Jane and Sir Henry, Margaret first lived with and then married her brother-in-law. The wedding took place before June 21, 1560 and thus was before the publication of the Table of Kindred included in the Book of Common Prayer (1563), which might have prevented the earl from marrying two sisters. Margaret survived her second husband, by whom she had two daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth, both living in 1563. She is not one of the two wives shown in effigy with him in a wooden memorial at Staindrop, Durham. She was buried instead, on April 2, 1570, in St. Dunstan’s-in-the-West, London. Westmorland’s will, dated August 18, 1563, left Margaret a yearly income of £100, all the plate she’d owned at the time of their marriage, and a gelding named Gray Wycliffe. http://www.kateemersonhistoricals.com/TudorWomenC-Ch.htm

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