John Stourton, 9th Baron Stourton

John Stourton, 9th Baron Stourton

John Stourton, 9th Baron Stourton (1553–1588) was the elder son of Charles Stourton and Lady Anne Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby. His father was executed for murder when he was a small child, but his property passed to his son.

The ninth Baron was one of the peers who tried Mary, Queen of Scots.

He was succeeded by his brother Edward in 1588.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stourton,_9th_Baron_Stourton

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• John Stourton, 9th Baron Stourton
• M, #17365, b. between January 1552 and 1553, d. 13 October 1588
• Last Edited=22 May 2004
• John Stourton, 9th Baron Stourton was born between January 1552 and 1553. He was the son of Charles Stourton, 8th Baron Stourton and Lady Anne Stanley. He married Hon. Frances Brooke, daughter of Sir William Brooke, 10th Lord Cobham (of Kent) and Frances Newton, circa 1580. He died on 13 October 1588.
• He gained the title of 9th Baron Stourton.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p1737.htm#i17365
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• John STOURTON (9º B. Stourton of Stourton)
• Born: ABT Jan 1552
• Died: 13 Oct 1588, in d.s.p.
• Father: Charles STOURTON (8º B. Stourton of Stourton)
• Mother: Anne STANLEY (B. Stourton of Stourton)
• Married: Frances BROOKE (B. Stourton of Stourton) ABT 1580
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STOURTON.htm#John STOURTON (9º B. Stourton of Stourton)
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• Charles Stourton, 8th Baron Stourton (c. 1520-1557) was an English peer, executed for murder.
• He was the son of William Stourton and Elizabeth Dudley, daughter of Edmund Dudley, adviser to Henry VII. His parents' marriage is said to have been unhappy, due to his father's liaison with Agnes ap Rhys, or Rice, daughter of Rhys ap Gruffydd and grand-daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk; in later years his parents lived largely apart. To the understandable chagrin of his children, William left almost the whole of the Stourton inheritance to Agnes, resulting in years of litigation between his children and Agnes. Charles was on very bad terms with his father, callling him a "false hypocrite" for whom prison would be too good.
• Stourton succeeded his father as baron in 1548. He was a nephew of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, as well as a Catholic. A Wiltshire resident, he was asked for help by Mary Tudor in the succession crisis of 1553, but hesitated in supporting her until her victory was clear.[1] In August 1553 he was described as an "archpapist" by a London pamphleteer.[2] He had a reputation for being quarrelsome and violent, and was clearly regarded as a public nuisance even before he was charged with murder. The legal difficulties, and family quarrels, caused by his father's affair with Agnes Rice, may to some extent explain his violent temper, although lawsuits over property were then an everyday part of life among the English landed classes.
• He was executed, as were four of his servants, on March 16, 1557 at Salisbury for murdering two men, William Hartgill and his son John Hartgill, following a trial at Westminster on 28 February previous. Stourton had been most reluctant to plead, until he was reminded by the judges that he faced the penalty of peine forte et dure if he did not.
• William Hartgill, described as a "surly and cross old man", was a neighbour and family connection with whom Stourton had long been on bad terms. Stourton had quarreled with his widowed mother, who wished to remarry, and Hartgill had taken Lady Stourton's part in the quarrel. As not infrequently happened in that age, the feud degenerated into a private war, eventually requiring the intervention of Star Chamber. Stourton was fined and ordered to pay damages to the Hartgills: this seems to have been the immediate cause of the crime. On the pretext of arranging a meeting to pay them the money, Stourton ambushed the Hartgills at Kilmington church, kidnapped them and had them brought to his house, where after being imprisoned for a time they had their throats cut. Stourton did not, it seems, actually commit the murders but was found guilty of ordering them.[3]
• Before his execution he is said to have expressed true repentance for this and his other crimes.[4]
• Stourton married Lady Anne Stanley, daughter of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby and Lady Dorothy Howard.
• They had three sons:
  • John, who became Baron in 1557.
  • Edward, who became Baron in 1588.
  • Charles;
• and three daughters:
  • Mary, who married Thomas Treglan
  • Anne, who married Edward Rogers
  • Katherine, who married Richard Sherborne.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stourton,_8th_Baron_Stourton
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• William [Stourton], 7th Baron Stourton
• born in or bef. 1505
• mar. Elizabeth Dudley (mar. (2) bef. 4 Jul 1550 Edward Ludlow; d. bef. 19 Aug 1560), half-sister of John [Dudley], 1st Duke of Northumberland, and dau. of Edmund Dudley, Minister of King Henry VIII (by his first wife Anne Windsor, sister of Andrews [Windsor], 1st Baron Windsor, and dau. of Thomas Windsor, of Stanwell, co. Middlesex), son of John Sutton later Dudley (by his wife Elizabeth Bramshot, dau. and hrss. of John Bramshot, of Bramshot), 2nd son of John [Sutton], 1st Baron Dudley
• children
  • 1. Hon Charles Stourton, later 8th Baron Stourton
  • 2. Hon Andrew Stourton (dsp.)
  • 3. Hon Arthur Stourton, of Over Moigne, co. Dorset, Member of Parliament for Westminster 1555, Master of the King's Jewels and Keeper of Westminster Palace, mar. Anne Macwilliams, dau. of Henry Macwilliams, and had issue
  • 4. Hon William Stourton, of Warminster, co. Somerset, and Fauntleroy's Marsh, co. Dorset, Steward of Maiden Bradley Castle (dsp.)
  • 5. Hon John Stourton
  • 6. Hon George Stourton
  • 7. Hon Giles Stourton
  • 1. Hon Ursula Stourton (d. 4 Sep 1551), mar. bef. 15 Jun 1541 as his second wife Edward [Clinton], 1st Earl of Lincoln, and had issue
  • 2. Hon Dorothy Stourton, mar. Sir Richard Brent
• died 16 Sep 1548
• suc. by son
• note
• took part in the Duke of Suffolk's campaign in France 1523, where he was knighted by the Duke; Member of Parliament for Somerset 1529-35; personal attendant to the King during the Northern rebellion of 1536; accompanied King Henry VIII to meet Anne of Cleves at Blackheath 1539/40; served in the Earl of Hertford's Scottish campaign 1544 and 1545, being left in command at Leith in 1544 and at Berwick in 1545; Commissioner of Musters for Wiltshire 1545/6; Deputy Governor of Ambleteuse (Newhaven) 1546-48
• Charles [Stourton], 8th Baron Stourton
• born betw. 1518 and 1524
• mar. after 10 Feb 1548/9 Lady Anne Stanley (b. c. 1531; mar. (2) c. 1560 Sir John Arundell, of Lanherne, co. Cornwall (d. 17 Nov 1590) ; died 22 Sep 1602; bur. at Columb Major, co. Cornwall), 1st dau. of Edward [Stanley], 3rd Earl of Derby, by his first wife Lady Dorothy Howard, 4th dau. by his second wife of Thomas [Howard], 2nd Duke of Norfolk
• children
  • 1. Hon John Stourton, later 9th Baron Stourton
  • 2. Hon Edward Stourton, later 10th Baron Stourton
  • 3. Hon Charles Stourton
  • 1. Hon Mary Stourton, mar. Thomas Tregian
  • 2. Hon Anne Stourton, mar. Edward Rogers
  • 3. Hon Katherine Stourton, mar. 1578 Richard Sherborne, of Stonyhurst, co. Lancaster (b. 1546/7; d. bef. 2 Apr 1628), 1st son and heir of Richard Sherborne, of Stonyhurst, co. Lancaster, and had issue
• died 6 Mar 1556/7 (bur. in Salisbury Cathedral)
• suc. by son
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• entered the service of the Duke of Somerset 1547; fought at the Battle of Pinkie 1547; knighted by the Duke of Somerset at Roxburgh 1547; Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset 1553; charged with others of the murder of William Hartgill, of Kilmington, co. Surrey, formerly land steward to his father, he was found guilty at a trial in Westminster Hall and hanged a few days later in the market place at Salisbury
• John [Stourton], 9th Baron Stourton
• born Jan 1552/3
• mar. after 5 Nov 1580 Hon Frances Brooke (b. 12 Jan 1561/2; mar. (2) after 1591 as his second wife Sir Edward Moore, of Odiham, co. Hampshire, and Worth, co. Sussex (d. 1623); d. bef. 24 Apr 1623; bur. at Odiham, co. Hampshire), 2nd dau. of William [Brooke], 10th Lord Cobham of Kent, by his second wife Frances Newton, dau. of Sir John Newton, of Barr's Court, co. Gloucester
• died s.p. 13 Oct 1588 (bur. at Stourton, co. Wiltshire)
• suc. by brother
• note he took his seat 11 Feb 1575/6 even though a Bill to restore him, his brothers and sisters in blood was read for the third time on 7 Mar 1575/6 never became an Act of Parliament; a Commissioner for the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringhay 6 Oct 1586; ordered to come to Court with as many lances and light horse as he could raise 1588 in view of the impending arrival of the Spanish armada
• From: http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/stourton1448.htm
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• History of the noble house of Stourton, of Stourton, in the county of Wilts; (1899)
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• Sir William Stourton, Lord of the Manor of Stourton, Co. Wilts., son and heir of Sir John Stourton, of Preston, Co. Somerset, and of Stourton, Co. Wilts., by Catherine, his wife, daughter of Henry, Lord Beaumont, confirmed by Hoare's copy of the College of Arms pedigree and by Edmondson. Collins placed him as eldest son of Sir John Stourton, by his second wife, Jane, daughter of Ralph, Lord Basset. Harleian MS. 1074 shewed him as eldest son of John Stourton without giving his mother's name. John Stourton, of Preston, senior, described himself in his will as brother of William Stourton, son and heir of John Stourton, sometime Lord of Stourton. In the inscription to Edith Stourton's memory she is called "Editha Soror' Will'i Storton." He appears to have been one of her trustees of the Manor of Ashmore, Co. Dorset. Sir William Dugdale started his pedigree of the Stourton family with this Sir William Stourton, stating that the family was of great antiquity in Wiltshire, taking its denomination from the town of Stourton, and it from the river Stoure, on the bank whereof it was situated.
• He had a remainder in his father's Preston Pluckenet property in tail, contingent on failure of issue of his father by Alice, his wife.
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• Sir William Stourton married, 21 Richard II., Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir John Moyne, of Maddington, Co. Wilts., Buckhorn Weston, Co. Dorset, and Estaine, Co. Essex, knight(*), Lardiner at the Coronation of Henry V. Testa de Nevile stated in effect that the Manor of Owre Moyne was held by Ralph Moyne, of the Lord the King, by serjeanty of his kitchen, as his ancestors had done from the time of Henry I., and also by serjeanty of purveying that which belonged to the kitchen of the Lord the King(t). Sir John Moigne claimed to hold the Manors of Ogres or Owres, Co. Dorset, Maddington, Co. Wilts., and Eyston, Co. Essex, per .... etc.
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• It was found by the Inquisition taken after the death of Sir William Stourton, in 1 Henry V., at Dunmow, Co. Essex, that Sir John Moigne, knight, had been seised of the Manor of Estanes ad Montem, Co. Essex, with the advowson of the church there, in his demesne as of fee, as being settled to him and his heirs for ever, and being so seised, he had granted that Lordship, Manor and Advowson to Elizabeth, his daughter, then wife of Sir William Stourton, to hold of the said Elizabeth and the heirs of her body lawfully issuing by her husband, William Stourton, and that on the 20th May, 21 Richard II., a license had been obtained from the King confirming the said grant, and the Inquisition proved that John Stourton was son and next heir of the said Elizabeth by Sir William Stourton. .... etc.
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• .... that his son, John Stourton, called "Junior" (afterwards Lord Stourton), presented on the 5th of January, 1427. The fact that in this entry John Stourton is called "Junior," supports our contention that John Stourton, of Preston and Brimpton, his uncle, described himself as "Senior" to distinguish himself from his nephew, John, 1st Lord Stourton.(*) .... etc. William, 2nd Lord Stourton, presented on the 29th of March, 1477, but his son, John, 3rd Lord Stourton (called by Newcourt a knight only), never presented. Of him, Newcourt stated that he, "dying about 1484, leaving Katherine, his widow, who, afterwards, marrying with John Brereton, Esq., together, with him, presented to the same in 1486," which was on the 21st July, 1486, when "John Brereton, Ar', and Dom' Katherina Sturton. uxor sua ratione custodise Franc', Dom' Sturton," by "virtue of the guardianship of Francis, (4th) Lord Stourton, his (Sir John, 3rd Lord Stourton's) son and heir (by the said Katherine, Lady Stourton), who dying in his minority, or, at least, without issue, Sir William, afterwards (5th) L[ord] Stourton, his (Sir John, 3rd Lord Stourton's) brother, became his heir," who, "whilst a kt. granted the advowson hereof, for two Turns, to the Abby of Titley near adjoyning, by virtue whereof, John Fan, and others, presented two of the Abbots thereof successively thereto, A. 1504(23rd Dec.) and 1520 (5th Dec.)," when, after a lapse, whereupon the Bishop of London presented 18th July, 1531, we find William, 7th Lord Stourton, presented, as the last of his family, 1st August, 1536, for he disposed of the Manor and Advowson by sale to Sir Ralph Warren, Alderman and Lord Mayor of London in 1536 and 1543.(+)
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• Sir William Stourton had issue by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and coheir (or sole heir) of Sir John Moigne, knight, two children only, as confirmed by every historian and evidenced by his will, in which he mentioned them, viz., one son and heir, who was created a Baron in the peerage oi England, and one daughter, as follows : — .... etc.
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• The Right Honourable Sir John Stourton, knight, P.C., Treasurer of the Royal Household, created Baron and Lord Stourton, of Stourton, Co. Wilts., in the Peerage of England, only son and heir of Sir William Stourton, knight, Speaker of the House of Commons, knight in Parliament for the shires of Somerset, Wilts., and Dorset, and Lord of Stourton, Co. Wilts., Great Easton, Co. Essex, Sopley, Co. Hants and of several other Manors, by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and coheir (or sole heir) of Sir John Moigne, knight, by Catherine (Belvale,) his wife. He was born in 1399 and was aged 14 years on the death of his father in 1413. .... etc.
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• Lord Stourton, by Margery, his only wife (who was under age in 1411), daughter of Sir John Wadham,(*) knight, of Merefield, Co. Somerset, one of the Puisne Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, 1388-1397, by Joan Wrottesley, his wife, had issue :(f) .... etc.
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• John, Lord Stourton, died on St. Catherine's day, the 25th day of November, 1462, and the Inquisitions taken after his death shew he died seized of considerable manors, advowsons, lands, tenements and hereditaments in the Counties of Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Gloucester, Southampton, Essex, London, Middlesex and Wilts, leaving William Stourton, his son and next heir, aged 32 years, who succeeded his father in the peerage as William, 2nd Lord Stourton.
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• The Right Honourable William, Lord Stourton, 2nd Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts, in the peerage of England, son and heir of Sir John Stourton, knight, of Stourton aforesaid, who had been created Baron of Stourton by Letters Patent on the 13th May, 1448, by Margaret, (or Margery) his only wife, daughter of Sir John Wadham, knight, of Merryfield, Co. Somerset, one of the Puisne Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.
• Lord Stourton succeeded his father in the Stourton peerage on St. Catherine's day, 25th November, 1462(*). He inherited the vast estates which his father succeeded to, some of which descended paternally, as coming from Sir William Stourton, and some through his wife, Elizabeth Moigne ; and those which John, Lord Stourton, inherited under the charter of John Hame, and by purchase, as well as by favour of Henry VI. He was born about 1432, and was aged 30 years on the 25th November, 1462, and in the same year he had livery of his fathers estates, but his homage was respited, .... etc.
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• This estate was settled as the jointure of Margaret, Lady Stourton, who after the death of her first husband, William, 2nd Lord Stourton, presented with her second husband. Sir John Cheyne or Cheyney, knight. Lord Cheyney, K.G., who died sine prole on the 30th May, 1499. .... etc.
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• He married Margaret, eldest daughter and coheir of Sir John Chidiock, knight, of Chidiock and Caundle, Co. Dorset, .... etc.
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• William, Lord Stourton, died on the 18th February, 1477-8, 17 Edward IV., and was buried in the parish church of Mere, dedicated to the honour of St. Michael the Archangel, probably in the Chantry Chapel of the blessed Virgin Mary, .... etc.
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• The Right Honourable John, Lord Stourton, eldest son and heir of William, 2nd Lord Stourton, by Margaret (Chidiock,) Lady Stourton. his only wife. He succeeded his father on the 18th February, 1477-8, as the 3rd Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts, in the peerage of England, when of the age of 24 years.
• He was born circa 1453-4, was of Stourton, Co. Wilts, and Fulham, Co. Middlesex, was as the Lord Sturtons son and heir among those who were inhanced to the honour of knighthood, as knight a of the Bath, by Edward IV., on Whit-sunday, the 18th April, after the custom of England in the time of peace, 1475, and had livery and seizen of his father's possessions the year following his father's death, but his homage was then respited.
• Lord Stourton married Katherine(*), only daughter of Sir Maurice Berkeley, (who died in 1474(t),) of Beverston, Co. Gloucester, knight of the body of Edward IV., by Ann, his wife, daughter of Reginald West, Lord de la Warr, ancestor of the Earls Delawarr.
• Lady Stourton, after Lord Stourton's death, remarried to Sir John Brereton, knight, and as sole sister .... etc.
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• The Right Honourable William, 5th Baron and Lord Stourton of Stourton, Co. Wilts, in the peerage of England, was the second son of William, second Lord Stourton, by Margaret (Chidiock) Lady Stourton, his wife. He succeeded as fifth Lord Stourton at the death (February iSth, 14S7,) of his nephew Francis, fourth Lord Stourton, whose uncle and heir he was then found to be.
• William, 5th Lord Stourton, must have been born about the year 1457, being described as "aged 30 years and upwards" in the inquisitions taken after the death of his infant nephew.
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• William, 5th Lord Stourton, married (firstly) Katherine, eldest daughter of John de la Pole(*), Duke of Suffolk, K.G., by Lady Elizabeth Plantagenet, his wife, second daughter of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and sister of Edward IV. and Richard III(f). The Duke was made Constable of Wallingford Castle 1
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• Henry VII. He died in 1491 and was buried(*), with his Duchess, under a table monument in the Collegiate Church of St. Andrew in Wingfield, Co. Suffolk, of which he was lord and owner by inheritance from his ancestor. Sir John Wingfield, of Wingfield Castle. ....
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• Lord Stourton married (secondly) Thomasine, daughter of Sir Walter Wrottesley, knight, who adhered to the Earl of Warwick, the King Maker, and was proclaimed a traitor in 1470, when a price was set on his head. He escaped with Warwick to Calais(*). Sir Walter Wrottesley was Lord of Perton 9 Edward IV., was buried in the Grey Friars Church, now Christ Church, London, in 1471. He came of an ancient family long seated at Wrottesley, co. Stafford, (where the present Lord Wrottesley, his descendant, now resides,) by Jane, his wife, daughter and heir of William Baron, Esquire, of Reading, Co. Berks, one of the Tellers of the Court of Exchequer temp. Henry VI. and Edward IV. This William Baron (or his father), is mentioned in Fullers Worthies as one of those bearing arms from their ancestors. ....
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• The exact date of the death of this Lord Stourton is stated to be February 17th in the various Inquisitions taken after his death. His will was proved in March, 1523. He left no issue whatever and consequently his lands and honours passed to his brother Edward, who thereupon succeeded as 6th Lord Stourton.
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• The Right Honourable Edward, sixth Baron and Lord Stourton of Stourton, Co. Wilts, third son of William, second Lord Stourton, by Margaret (Chidiock) Lady Stourton, his wife, succeeded as sixth Lord Stourton at the death of his brother William, fifth Lord Stourton. He was probably born about the year 1462. .... etc.
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• Edward, 6th Lord Stourton married Agnes, daughter of John Fauntleroy, of Marsh, near Sherborne, Co. Dorset, by Joane, his wife, daughter and co-heir of John Walsh of Purbeck in that county. On the 2nd January, 21 Henry VIII., Lord and Lady Stourton granted the Manor and Advowson of Upcerne, and lands, tenements and hereditaments there, with one moiety of Melbury-Osmund, to their son, Roger Stourton and Joan, his wife, and the heirs male of Roger Stourton, under the yearly rent of L20, payable to the grantors during their respective lives ; and Lord and Lady Stourton released the reversion in the same premises to Roger Stourton and his heirs on 1st January. 26 Henry VIII(*). ....
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• Lord Stourton died on the 13th of December, 27th of Henry VIII., and William Stourton was found to be his son and next heir, then aged 30 years and more, and he accordingly succeeded. Lord Stourton, as will be seen from the foregoing copy of his will, bequeathed his body to be buried in the north aisle of St. Peter's Church at Stourton, in which church a tomb was raised showing the sepulchral effigies of Lord and Lady Stourton, on which were impaled the respective arms of Stourton and Fauntleroy, the accompanying illustration of the figures on the tomb being reproduced from the work of Sir Richard Colt Hoare. Lord Stourton, by his wife, Agnes (Fauntleroy), Lady Stourton, had issue : .... etc.
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• The Right Honourable William, seventh Baron and Lord Stourton, of Stourton, Co. Wilts, in the Peerage of England, and of Stourton House, in Tothill Fields, Westminster,(*) was Knighted the 1st of November, 1523, and was Deputy-General of Newhaven and the Marches adjacent in France. He was by birth the second, but was the eldest surviving son and heir of Edward, 6th Lord Stourton, by Agnes (Fauntleroy), Lady Stourton, his wife. .... etc.
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• Lord Stourton married Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Dudley, Esquire, one of the Privy Council to King Henry VII.(*) Elizabeth Dudley(t) was half-sister of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.(+) The contention that Lord Stourton married a second wife in the person of Agnes Ryse, the daughter of the Countess of Bridgewater, seems untenable, and is disputed by the actual facts. Nevertheless, the marriage is said to have taken place January 6th, 1545-46. Lord Stourton, in leaving her a legacy under his Will (as will be seen later), describes her, however, as "Mrs.
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• Agnes Ryse, dau. of the Countess of Bridgewater."(*) Lady Stourton was then (in 1548, when the will was made) living, and, in fact, survived Lord Stourton, not dying until 1560. Agnes Ryce (or Ryse) sued Lord Stourton's son in her maiden name after the death of Lord Stourton, and continued to so use it in all the proceedings. It has been stated, however, that, as "Agnes Stourton," widow, she administered to the will of William, 7th Lord Stourton, in July, 1557. It will, however, be shortly seen from the will itself that probate was granted of this same will on two occasions, viz., November 25th, 1548, immediately following upon the death of William, 7th Lord Stourton, and again on July 15th, 1557, after the execution and attainder of Charles, 8th Lord Stourton. Anne (not Agnes) Stourton, named in the later act of probate, was the widow of Charles, Lord Stourton, not of his predecessor. When Agnes Ryse married Sir Edward Baynton after Lord Stourton's death, she married him in her maiden name. The assertion in Collins's " Peerage " (taken from the Gentleman's Magazine) that she married Lord Stourton is certainly not proved by the evidence he brought forward to substantiate his contention. The allegation in the deed of 9th October, 1573, of Richard Gore, who had married Mary, daughter of Agnes Ryse, is hardly evidence admissible in law. There was nothing to prevent Richard Gore describing his wife Mary as a daughter of William, Lord Stourton, by Agnes Ryse, his wife. And although under the deed he appointed (nearly thirty years afterwards) Richard Askew as his lawful attorney, to enter on the lands of Lord Stourton and take possession for Mary Gore as the alleged daughter and sole heir of the 7th Lord, it is known that this had no effect. This Mary was the only issue of Lord Stourton and Agnes Ryse, and it is worthy of note that, in a pedigree recorded in the College of Arms (I., ix., p. 83), in which she appears as the wife of Richard Gore, no suggestion of bastardy is made, though her legitimacy is almost impossible. Charles, 8th Lord Stourton, moreover, undoubtedly succeeded his father as son and heir, inheriting the Peerage and all Lord Stourton's estates. The mere fact that the Court of Probate granted the 8th Lord Stourton Letters of Administration, with his father's will annexed, would seem to be prima facie evidence that Lord Stourton must have been the "natural and lawful son" of the testator. When Charles, Lord Stourton, sued Agnes Ryse, witnesses tried, but failed in the attempt, to prove that she was the legal wife of Lord Stourton. In the Inquisition Post Mortem of William, 7th Lord Stourton, Sir Charles Stourton, Knight (afterwards 8th Lord Stourton), was found to be the next heir. This was a complete answer in support of the validity of
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• the marriage with Elizabeth Dudley, and it also disproves completely Mary Gore's claim of heirship by blood. By Elizabeth Dudley, his wife, William, 7th Lord Stourton, had issue : .... etc.
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• Lord Stourton died on the 16th of September, 1548, and on the 15th November I'ollowing, Charles, 8th Lord Stourton, having renounced the executorship, had grant of ad. cum test. (Populwell 17). Charles, Lord Stourton, being dead before the completion of the Administration, Letters of Administration de Bonis non were granted on the 15th of July, 1557, to Anne, Lady Stourton, widow of Charles, Lord Stourton, deceased, (Wrastley 24). .... etc.
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• The Right Honourable Charles, eighth Baron and Lord Stourton, of Stourton, Co. Wilts, in the Peerage of England, was the eldest son and heir of William, 7th Lord Stourton, by his wife Elizabeth Dudley, and succeeded his father at the death of the latter 16th September, 1548. According to the inquisition taken after the death of his father he was then aged 24 years and more, but according to the Particulars of Liveries he was aged 30 years when his father died. He must consequently have been born between 1518 and 1524, .... etc.
• His father dealt with giving him in marriage when he was quite an infant, viz., 4th April (1528), 19 Henry VIII. Under an indenture quoted at length later, William Stourton, Knight (his father), son and heir apparent of Edward, Lord Stourton (his grandfather), agreed with Walter Hungerford, Esquire of the Body to the King (son and heir of Sir Edward Hungerford, deceased), for the marriage of Charles, or failing him of Andrew, (the first and second sons of the said Sir William Stourton), with one of the three daughters (Elynn, Mary or Anne) of the said Walter(*). Neither of these marriages however, ever took place or were further proceeded with, and Charles, Lord Stourton, eventually married by license (granted 10th February, 1548) Anne, daughter of Edward Stanley (t), third Earl of Derby, K.G., K.B., Viscount Kynton, Lord Stanley and Strange, Lord of Knokyn, Mohun, Bassett, Burnal and Lacy, Lord of Man and the Isles, by Dorothy his first wife, daughter of Thomas (Howard) second Duke of .... etc.
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• The following particulars are taken from the Book of Wards, and are of much interest : —
• Charles, Lord Stourton for murder by hym commytted, the 12th of Januarie 3 and 4 to Phi & M &c was thereupon atteynted, and the 6th daye of Marche in the said yere sufifred paynes of deth. By force whereof, and for that at the tyme of his deth he was seased of sundry manors, lands and hereditaments in tayll to hym and heires of his body by sundry ancient covenants thereof made, of whiche said Manors some beholden of the king and the Queen's Ma'ties by knights .... etc.
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• By his wife the Lady Anne (Stanley), daughter of the third Earl of Derby, Charles, Lord Stourton had issue : —
  • I. — The Right Honourable John, 9th Lord Stourton, of whom hereafter.
  • II. — The Right Honourable Edward, 10th Lord Stourton, of whom hereafter.
  • III. — Charles Stourton, of Exeter College, where he matriculated under the date of the 3rd of December, 1575, being then aged 14 years. He took his
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  • degree as Bachelor of Arts on the 15th of December, 1576. He is called "cousin"(*) "brother of my honorable good kinsman Edward, Lord Stourton," in the will of his uncle William Stourton, of Wormister and Fauntleroy's Marsh, who bequeathed to him L20. Nothing further seems to be known of him.
  • IV. — Mary Stourton, who married Thomas Tregian, of the County of Cornwall. In the 1688 illuminated pedigree, Thomas Tregian is said to have died in Portugal in the year 1608. The Tregian arms are therein emblazoned "argent, on a chief dancette sable, three martlets or." Catherine Trudgean, called "cousin", had a legacy under the will of Francis Stourton, of Over Moigne. Edward, 10th Lord Stourton had the reversion of the estate, and sought the custody. of Mary Tregian, a Papist recusant. Francis Trowgian was sued with Edward, 10th Lord Stourton, by Francis Tresham, uncle of this Mrs. Mary Tregian. When Benjamin Tichborne was released from prison on condition that he would act as a spy on his fellow Catholics, his first letter to Lord Keeper Puckering, dated May 28th, 1594, reported "meeting with one Byrd, brother to Byrd of the Chapel. I understand Mrs. Tregian, Mrs. Charnock, and Mrs. Sybil Tregian will be here at the Court [at Greenwich] today."
  • V. — Anne Stourton, who married Edward Rogers, of Feltham, near the town of Frome, Co. Somerset. They were the parents of Father John Rogers, alias Bamfield, who it appears was born on the property of his father at Feltham aforesaid, and who, in his statement(+) records that "at length my uncle. Lord Stourton(§) asked my father what he could do for me, and proposed my entering the service of his wife, the Lady Stourton(ll)." The Rogers arms as emblazoned in the 1688 pedigree are "argent, a chevron between three bucks courant sable.
  • VI. — Catherine Stourton, who married, as his first wife, Richard Sherburne, of Stonyhurst, in Lancashire. She is called on the inscription at Mitten Magna, to the memory of her son and heir, "wife of Richard Sherburne, Esq., that died April 17th, 1629, aetat 83, and daughter of Charles, Lord Stourton, and niece to the Right Honorable Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby, &c." She was married in the 20th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Her husband was captain of the Isle of Man, a position he doubtless owed to his wife's relationship to the Stanley family. He is stated to have been the founder of, or the one who completed, the manor house at Stonyhurst. Although his death is given on the above inscription
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  • as having occurred on the 17th of April, 1629, the registers at Mitten Church record his burial on the 3rd of April, 1628. The Sherburne arms are "quarterly 1 and 4, argent, a lion rampant vert : 2 and 3, vert, an eagle displayed argent." Stonyhurst, which had been the property of the Sherburne family from the times of the early Plantagenets, eventually devolved on Maria Winifred Francisca Sherburne, who married Thomas, 8th Duke of Norfolk, and in 1794 Stonyhurst Mansion was chosen as the seat of an English Catholic College, in which many of the Stourton family have been educated.
• With the death of Charles, Lord Stourton, one epoch of the history of the House of Stourton came to a close. To that point the Stourton family had been steadily increasing in influence, in position, in wealth and in importance. The execution and attainder of Lord Stourton were the beginning of that long catalogue of misfortune, of reverse, and of persecution through which the House of Stourton was to pass in the centuries which followed. Lord Stourtons infant son succeeded to a sadly diminished inheritance.
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• The Right Honourable John, ninth Baron and Lord Stourton, of Stourton, Co. Wilts., in the Peerage of England, was the eldest son and heir of Charles, eighth Lord Stourton, by his wife, the Lady Anne (Stanley), daughter of Edward, third Earl of Derby.
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• According to a statement in the "Complete Peerage"(§) a marriage between Lord Stourton and a "Mrs. Paston" was in contemplation in Feb., 1576-7. This did not take place, however, and Lord Stourton married, in the 22nd year
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• of Elizabeth, (1580) Frances, daughter of William (Brooke), 10th Lord Cobham, K.G., Ambassador to the King of Spain and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, by Frances his second wife, daughter of Sir John Newton, Frances (Brooke), Lady Stourton, was born January the 12th, 1561-2. Of this marriage there was no issue.
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• Lord Stourton died(*) October the 13th, 1588, at Stourton. He must then have been about the age of thirty-five.
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• After the death of Lord Stourton, Lady Stourton married Sir Edward Moore of Odiham, Co. Hants., and of Worth, Co. Sussex, Knight, by whom she was mother of Frances Moore, who married William, 11th Lord Stourton.
• John, 9th Lord Stourton, having died without issue, the Peerage and estates devolved upon his next brother Edward.
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• John Stourton, Baron Stourton
• Born Jan 1552-1553 of, Stourton, Wiltshire, England
• Died 13 Oct 1588 Stourton, Wiltshire, England
• Buried 25 Nov 1588 Stourton, Wiltshire, England
• Father Charles Stourton, Lord Stourton, b. Between 1518 and 1524, of, Stourton, Wiltshire, England , d. 6 Mar 1556-1557, Salisbury
• Mother Anne Stanley, b. Cal 1531, d. 22 Sep 1602
• Family Frances Brooke, b. 12 Jan 1561-1562, Cobham, Kent, England , d. Bef 24 Apr 1623
• Married 5 Nov 1580 Settlement> 5 Nov 1580.
• From: https://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I66485&tree...
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• The registers of Stourton, County Wilts, from 1570 to 1800 (1887)
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• The river Stour has its source in the six springs within the parish, which are represented on the coat of arms borne by the Stourton family.
• This ancient family undoubtedly resided here in very early times, but there are no records to shew that they were landholders in Wilts till the reign of Edward I., when a Nicholas Stourton was holding one knight's fee here under the Lovells of Castle Cary, co. Somerset.(*)
• In the fourteenth century the manor was held under that of Castle Cary by the Fitz Payn family. Early in the fifteenth century the Stourtons must have become owners of the manor, for in 1427 John de Stourton was granted a licence to enclose a park of 1000 acres, in 1428 he presented to the Rectory, and in 1448 he was created Baron Stourton. The property, largely increased by marriages with the heiresses of Moigne and Chidiock, remained in possession of the Stourton family till about the year 1720, when Edward the twelfth Baron sold the manor of Stourton and other lands to Henry Hoare, Esq. Old Stourton House, a large and curious building retaining all the internal arrangements of old baronial days, was then pulled down and the present mansion of Stourhead was built.(f) .... etc.
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• The parish church (dedicated to St. Peter) formerly contained many memorials of the Stourtons. Aubrey mentions many escutcheons in stone and glass, all of which, with one exception, are now gone. There is, however, a fine monument with recumbent figures of Edward the fifth Baron, who died in 1536, and his wife Agnes Fauntleroy. These figures are engraved in Hoare's 'Modern Wilts,' vol. i., page 45. There are also some inscriptions on black marble slabs covering the Stourton vault, and as Sir R. C. Hoare's transcripts in 'Modern Wilts' are not quite accurate, I print them again here.
• 1. Hic jacet sepultus d'nus Johannes Stourton Baro' de Stourton,
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• qui diem extremum clausit anuo d'ni 1587, et regni Elizabethae Reginae Angliae anno 28.(*)
• 2. Item hic jacet sepultus d'nus Edwardus Stourton Baro' de Stourton, frater praedicti Johannis, qui obiit septimo die Maii, anno Caroli Primi Regis Angliae nono, annoque Domini 1633. .... etc.
• All these four inscriptions are on one large slab.
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• It may be well to state that Sir R. C. Hoare has not printed all the entries in these Registers which relate to the Stourton family. The list he gives in 'Modern Wilts,' vol. i., page 64, is far from complete. .... etc.
  • BURIALS
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• 1588.
• Nov. 25 The Right Honorable Lord John Stourton(*)
  • (*) This was the eighth Baron and the eldest son of Charles, Lord Stourton, executed at Salisbury in 1557 for the murder of the Hargills. He was restored in title and estates by Act of Parliament in 1575.
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• 1633.
• May 25 The right Honourble Edward, Lord Stourton of Stourton(*)
  • (*) The ninth Baron.
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• 'Stourton02'
• Families covered: Stourton of Over Moigne, Stourton of Stourton
• William Stourton, 7th Lord (b c1505, d 16.09.1548)
• m. Elizabeth Dudley (dau of Edmund Dudley, Councillor to King Henry VII)
  • 1. Charles Stourton, 8th Lord (b c1520, d 16.03.1556-7)
  • m. (1548) Anne Stanley (dau of Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby)
    • A. John Stourton, 9th Lord (b 01.1552-3, dsp 13.10.1588)
    • m. (1580) Frances Brooke (dau of William Brooke, 10th Lord Cobham)
    • B. Edward Stourton, 10th Lord (b c1556, d 07.05.1633)
    • m. (before 1598) Frances Tresham (dau of Sir Thomas Tresham of Rushton)
      • i. .... etc.
    • C. Charles Stourton
    • D. Mary Stourton
    • m. Thomas Tregian
    • E. Anne Stourton
    • m. Edward Rogers
    • F. Catherine Stourton
    • m. (1578) Richard Sherborne of Stonihurst (b 1546-7, d before 02.04.1628)
  • 2. .... etc.
• Main sources: BP1934 (Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ss4tz/stourton02.php#top
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• Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Stourton
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