Sir Edmund Trafford, MP

• Sir Edmond Trafford1
• M, #368956, b. 3 June 1526, d. 1590
• Last Edited=19 Jun 2009
• Sir Edmond Trafford was born on 3 June 1526.1 He was the son of Sir Edmond Trafford and Anne Radcliffe.2 He married, firstly, Mary Howard, daughter of Lord Edmund Howard.1 He married, secondly, Elizabeth Leicester, daughter of Sir Ralph Leicester.1 He died in 1590.1
• He lived at Trafford, Lancashire, England.1
• Children of Sir Edmond Trafford and Mary Howard
  • 1.Sir Edmond Trafford+2 d. May 1620
  • 2.Margaret Trafford2
  • 3.Elizabeth Trafford2
• Citations
• 1.[S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 1114. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• 2.[S37] BP2003. [S37]
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p36896.htm#i368956 ______________________
• TRAFFORD, Edmund I (1526-90), of Trafford, Lancs.
• b. 23 June 1526, 1st s. of Sir Edmund Trafford by Anne, da. of Sir Alexander Ratcliffe of Ordsall, m. (1) Mary, da. of Lord Edmund Howard, sis. of Queen Catherine Howard, s.p.; (2) Elizabeth, da. of Sir Ralph Leycester of Toft, Cheshire, wid. of Sir Randle Mainwairing of Peover, 2s. inc. Edmund II 2da. Kntd. 1578.
• Offices Held
  • J.p. Lancs. from c.1561; sheriff 1570-1, 1579-80, 1583-4; eccles. commr. province of York 1574; steward of the lands of the collegiate church of Manchester 1575.
• The Traffords were related to the Queen through the Howards, and also to many of the leading Lancashire families. Trafford himself was, in the words of Father Campion, ‘a most bitter enemy of the Catholics’, complaining in May 1580 to the Earl of Leicester that the state of Lancashire was ‘lamentable to behold’ with masses said in several places. He was commissioned by the Privy Council to question those who had lately harboured Campion, and ordered to search their houses for books and other ‘superstitious stuff’. In 1582 Trafford and Robert Worsley informed the Council that the recusants in their custody at the Fleet prison, Salford, continued obstinate for want of instruction, and requested that preachers might be appointed for them. This plea was repeated in April, May and October. That same year Trafford arrested a priest, John Baxter, and in the following year two others, Williamson and Hatton. It was also Trafford who, at the instigation of the bishop of Chester, descended upon Blainscough to arrest a Mr. Worthington. Finding him gone, he went on to Rossall, a house inhabited by Cardinal Allen’s widowed sister-in-law. There he is said to have seized £500 on the pretext that it was intended for Allen. These activities did not endear him to the Catholics, and references are found to ‘the furious hate of this inhuman wretch ... prepared for any nefarious deed’; ‘that ferocious man’; ‘that utterly barbarous man’, and ‘the unrighteous sheriff’.
• Trafford disputed with Richard Molyneux the stewardship of Blackburn, Tottington and Clitheroe. He possessed lands in a large number of parishes in Lancashire, Cheshire and Derbyshire, but his inquisition post mortem reveals a decrease in the Lancashire property. Trafford contributed £100 to the Armada fund in 1588. He is said to have maintained a retinue at Trafford, including huntsmen, a schoolmaster and musicians. He died intestate on 14 May 1590, and was buried in the collegiate church of Manchester on the 21st. The inventory of his property, made on 27 May, shows no great wealth.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/tr... _____________________
• EITHER A GENERATION WAS OMITTED OR ADDED BY OTHERS, AS OTHER REFERENCES LIST THE SON OF SIR EDMUND TRAFFORD & ELIZABETH LONGFORD AS HUSBAND OF ANNE RADCLIFFE AND PARENTS OF THIS EDMOND REFERENCED HERE.
• Sir Edmund Trafford1,2,3
• M, #48273, b. 3 June 1526, d. 1590
• Father Sir Edmund Trafford1 b. c 1485, d. 28 Jun 1533
• Mother Elizabeth Longford1 b. c 1488, d. 27 Jan 1548
• Sir Edmund Trafford was born on 3 June 1526 at of Trafford, Lancashire, England.1 He married Mary Howard, daughter of Sir Edmund Howard, Earl Marshal of England and Joyce Culpeper, circa 1545.1,4 Sir Edmund Trafford married Elizabeth Leycester, daughter of Ralph Leycester and Ellen Legh, after 6 September 1557; They had issue.5,2,3 Sir Edmund Trafford died in 1590.1
• Family 1 Mary Howard
• Family 2 Elizabeth Leycester
• Citations
• 1.[S11580] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. IV, by John Burke, Esq., p. 249.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 279.
• 3.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 283.
• 4.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 238.
• 5.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 557.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1606.htm#... _______________________
• TRAFFORD, Edmund II (c.1560-1620), of Trafford, Lancs.
• b. c.1560, 1st s. of Edmund Trafford I of Trafford by his 2nd w. m. (1) 1573, Margaret, da. of John Booth of Barton, 3s. 1da.; (2) aft. 1595, Mildred (d. 23 Dec. 1611), da. of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, wid of (Sir) Thomas Reade, 1s. 1da. suc. fa. 14 May 1590. Kntd. 1603.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/tr... _____________________
• Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Edmund_Howard
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Culpeper
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Leigh

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