Francis Rodes, of Staveley Woodthorpe, Esq.

During his years as an Elizabethan judge, Francis Rodes acquired property in Derby, Nottingham and Yorkshire and built impressive manors at Barlborough, Derby and Great Houghton and Hickleton in Yorkshire. These manors were eventually willed to his sons. Francis Rodes was married twice and had children from both marriages.

Family

“The Rodes Family.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 6, no. 4 (1899): 418–20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4242206.

THE RODES FAMILY.

The English portion of the following genealogy is compiled from Fami/iae MinorlLm Gentiumn, by Joseph Hunter, Vol. II, pages 583-87, Harleian Society Publications.

John1 Rodes, of Stav'eley Woodthorpe, Yorkshire, married Attelina, daughter of Thomas Hewet, of Wales, Yorkshire, and had a son, Francis2 Rodes, of Staveley Woodthorpe, Esq., made Sergeant at Law 21St August, i582; Justice of the Common Pleas 29th June, 1585; purchased Barlborough, Houghton and other considerable estates. Will dated 7th June, 29th [year] Elizabeth; proved 28th April, 1591.

Francis2 Rodes married

• (I) Elizabeth, daughter of Brian Sandford, of Thorpe- Solwin, Esq.; buried at Staveley;
• (II) Mary, daughter of Francis Charlton, of Apley, Shropshire, sister to Elizabeth, wife of John, Earl of Rutland.

By this second marriage Judge Rodes had,

• besides several daughters,
• a son, Sir Godfrey3 Rodes, of Great Haughton, knighted July I3, i6i5, and died i633-34, who was the father of Godfrey' Rodes, D. D., Dean of Londonderry, and of Sir Edward4 Rodes, of Great Haughton; commissioned colonel of horse March 13, 1654, by Oliver Cromwell, and a Privy Councellor and M. P. for the Shire of Perth in i556. Godfrey3 Rodes, of Great Haughton, was also M. P. for Scotch boroughs in i656, during the ascendancy of the Parliamentary army, and his great nephew, William Rodes, of Great Haughton, who died in 1740, was the last male of this branch of the family.

Francis2 Rodes had by his first marriage, with Elizabeth Sandford,

• a son, Sir John3 Rodes, of Barlborough, Knt., aged 7, in 1569; Sheriff of Derby 36th Elizabeth; knighted at the T6wer i5th March, i6o3, died September i6, I639.

References

• http://rhodesfamily.org/godfrey_rhodes.html