Sir Giles Allington, MP

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75140. Giles Allington, born Abt. 1509 in Bottisham, Chambridgeshire, England227; died 22 August 1586 in England227. He was the son of 150280. Giles Allington and 150281. Mary Gardiner. He married 75141. Alice Middleton Bef. 1532 in England.

75141. Alice Middleton, born Abt. 1511 in Bottisham, Chambridgeshire, England227. She was the daughter of 150282. John Middleton.

Children of Giles Allington and Alice Middleton are:

• i. Joane Allington, born Abt. 1532 in Bottisham, Chambridgeshire, England.
• ii. Elizabeth Allington, born Abt. 1534 in Bottisham, Chambridgeshire, England.
• 37570 iii. Richard Allington, born Abt. 1535 in Bottisham, Chambridgeshire, England; married Joan Cordell Bef. 1548 in Long Melford, Suffolk, England.

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Family and Education

b. June 1499, 1st s. of Sir Giles Alington by Mary, da. and h. of Richard Gardiner of London. m. (1) 1515, Ursula (d.1522), da. of Sir Robert Drury I of Hawstead, Suff., 1s. d.v.p. 1da., (2) 1524, Alice (d.1563), da. and coh. of John Middleton of London, wid. of Thomas Elrington (d.1523) of Willesden, Mdx., 4s. 6da., (3) c. June 1564, Margaret, da. of John Tolkarne of Cornw., wid. of Thomas Argall, s.p. suc. fa. 3 Apr. 1520. Kntd. 1530.2

Offices Held

Commr. subsidy, Cambs. 1523, 1524, tenths of spiritualities, Cambridge and Cambs. 1535, benevolence, Cambs. 1544/45, musters 1546, relief, Cambs., Suff. and Cambridge 1550, goods of churches and fraternities, Cambridge 1553, other commissions, Cambs. etc. 1530-d.; j.p. Cambs. 1524-44, 1554, q. 1558/59-d.; sheriff, Cambs. and Hunts. 1530-1, 1545-6, 1552-3.3

Biography

The Alingtons had been Cambridgeshire landowners since the early 15th century, when the family probably moved from Devon. They also held Great Wymondley manor, Hertfordshire, by the serjeanty of offering the first cup at coronations. Giles Alington’s father performed this service at the coronations of Henry VIII and of Catherine of Aragon and he himself is known to have officiated at those of Anne Boleyn and Edward VI and presumably did so at those of Mary and Elizabeth. Two of the family were Speakers of the House of Commons during the 15th century. Alington also had a former Speaker for his first father-in-law, while his second wife was stepdaughter and pupil of another Speaker, Sir Thomas More. Two of More’s daughters were married in Alington’s private chapel at Willesden, Elizabeth to William Dauntesey and Cecily to Giles Heron.4

With such a background, it is possible that Alington sat as knight of the shire in the Parliament of 1523, for which the returns are lost; when he was returned to its successor in 1529 his connexion with More, then chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster and soon to become lord chancellor, may have strengthened his claim to represent a shire in which he was already a considerable figure. It is likely that he sat again in 1536, as he is known to have done in 1539. There is nothing to suggest that his apparent absence from the last two Parliaments of the reign was due to any connexion with Cromwell; on the contrary he may have sat in 1545, since Cambridgeshire is one of the few shires for which the returns of that year are missing. He had continued to perform the other duties of a leading gentleman of his county. He was among those commissioned to keep order there at the time of the Pilgrimage of Grace, having previously been summoned for service against the rebels, a summons which was later countermanded. He was at court for the christening of Prince Edward in 1537, and at the receptions of Anne of Cleves in 1540 and of the French ambassador in 1546. In 1544 he served in the vanguard of the army that crossed to France and he brought back to Horseheath a large copper ball and a bell from Boulogne as trophies of its capture.5

Alington sued out a pardon after Edward VI’s accession; his recent discharge of the shrievalty perhaps explains his omission from the new commission of the peace, for he served on the other Cambridgeshire commissions of the reign. As sheriff again in 1552-3, Alington was not surprisingly included in Cecil’s supposed list of gentlemen who would be needed to transact affairs for Queen Jane: what attitude he took when the crisis came we do not know, but he obtained a pardon from Mary and thereafter seems to have supported her government: in June 1555 he and others were thanked by the Privy Council ‘for their diligence in the well ordering’ of their shire. The encomium, in so far as it related to Alington, would have been rejected by Anne, Countess of Oxford, who two years later was to bring a Star Chamber action against Alington and others, including his servant and later son-in-law Robert Chapman, for armed entry upon a property of hers. In March 1556 Alington effected settlements of his Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire property for the benefit of several of his family, including a son, Richard, who married a sister of another Speaker-to-be, William Cordell. It may have been to Cordell that Alington owed his seat in the first Marian Parliament: as sheriff he was disabled from election within his own shire, and his return for Liverpool, a duchy of Lancaster borough, would have needed the assent of Sir Robert Rochester, the duchy chancellor, with whom Cordell, himself high in the Queen’s favour, was on terms of close friendship. Alington’s name appears on the indenture in a different hand and over an erasure. His son was to be a duchy official from 1558 until his death in 1561. This was to be the only aberration in Alington’s record of Membership, which concluded with the knighthood for Cambridgeshire in two more Parliaments. Nothing is known of his service in the House which was spread over nearly 30 years.6

Alington appears to have accommodated himself as easily to the Elizabethan regime as he had to the Marian. In 1564 he was described as ‘conformable’ in religion. Four years later he and Roger North, 2nd Lord North, were among those made freemen of Cambridge so that they might assist in the revision of the town’s electoral rules, and in 1574 the two men reported to the Privy Council on the proceedings in the Cambridgeshire musters. When in 1572 North and Alington were successively hosts to the Queen, it was noted that at Horseheath ‘things were well, and well liked’. It was there that Alington died on 22 Aug. 1586, survived by his wife, upon whom he had settled Wymondley and other Hertfordshire lands in 1564, his two younger sons and at least two daughters; he had outlived his eldest son and grandson, and his heir was a great-grandson, a boy of 14 also called Giles.7

Alington had made his will on 26 Feb. 1580, leaving cash, plate and other presents to his wife and family and £20 for division among the poor of four Cambridgeshire and Suffolk villages. The executors were his wife, his youngest son, who was also residuary legatee, a grandson, and Sir William Cordell, who had predeceased him. Lord Burghley, who was named supervisor, was left a cup worth £10 ‘for the duty, love and good will that I have ever borne unto him’ and was asked to see that the marriage arranged between Alington’s heir and a daughter of Burghley’s heir-apparent Thomas Cecil should take place, as it later did.8

Ref Volumes: 1509-1558

Author: D. F. Coros

Notes 1. E159/319, brev. ret. Mich. r. [1-2]. 2. Date of birth given at fa.’s i.p.m., C142/36/16. Vis. Cambs. (Harl. Soc. xli), 15-16; More Corresp. ed. Rogers, 249n; Mar. Lic. London, ed. Foster, c.16; Trans. Cambs. and Hunts. Arch. Soc. iii. 1 seq.; Clutterbuck, Herts. ii. 542; Camb. Antiq. Soc. Procs. xli. bet. pp. 50-51. 3. LP Hen. VIII, iii, iv, viii, xvi, xvii, xx, xxi; CPR, 1550-3, pp. 141, 395; 1553, pp. 351, 417; 1553-4, pp. 17, 28-29; 1558-60, pp. 31, 422; 1560-3, p. 435; 1563-6, pp. 20, 41. 4. Copinger, Suff. Manors, ii. 75-76; Clutterbuck, loc. cit.; CIPM Hen. VII, i. 31, 994; PCC 14 Porch; LP Hen. VIII, iii, vi; Lit. Rems. Edw. VI, ccxcvii; J. H. Round, King’s Serjeants and Officers of State, 264-7; Camb. Antiq. Soc. Procs. lii. 30-55; S. E. Lehmberg, Ref. Parlt. 29. 5. LP Hen. VIII, xi, xii, xiv, xix-xxi; Camb. Antiq. Soc. Procs. xli. 6; N. and Q. (ser. 6), x. 362. 6. Lansd. 103, ff. 1-2; CPR, 1548-9, p. 150; 1553-4, p. 444; 1555-7, pp. 55-56, 85; APC, v. 150; St.Ch.4/7/16; C219/21/87; Somerville, Duchy, i. 413-14, 577; LP Hen. VIII, iv. 7. Cam. Misc. ix(3), 24; VCH Cambs. iii. 48; C. H. Cooper, Cambridge Annals, ii. 233; CSP Dom. 1547-80, pp. 483-4; J. Nichols, Progresses Eliz. ii. 221; CPR, 1563-6, p. 143; C142/211/163. 8. PCC 49 Windsor.

GEDCOM Note

<p>Giles Alington</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Sir Giles Alington, (1500 - 1586), knight, Lord of the Manor of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire, and noted as High Sheriff of that shire in the 22nd Henry VIII, (1531) and in 1544, and High Sheriff of Huntingdonshire in the 37th (1546) of the same monarch. The Alingtons thrived under the Tudor and Stuart monarchs, and had the privilege of handing to the King his first drink at coronations. 1500 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1586 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... In England, Lord of the Manor is a feudal title. ... Horseheath is a hamlet in Cambridgeshire, England, situated a few miles south-east of Cambridge, between Linton and Haverhill, on the A1307 road. ... 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It was a Classical eleven-bay house with a three-bay pediment, quoins, hipped roof, balustrade and belvedere on the roof.</p></p><p><p>It was further enlarged in 1688, but pulled down in 1777. The splendid wrought-iron gates went to St John's College and Trinity College Cambridge, and the rectory at Cheveley. Henry VIII (28 June 1491</p></p><p><p> â_" 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. ... The Palace of Whitehall was the main residence of the English monarchs in</p></p><p><p> London from 1530 until 1698 when all except Inigo Jones 1622 Banqueting House was destroyed by fire. ... 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Sir Robert Drury, (died March 2, 1536)</p></p><p><p>, knight, (knighted by the King, after the battle of Blackheath, June 17, 1497) succeeded as Lord of the Manor of Hawstead, and with him began for the family a long connection with the courts of the T</p></p><p><p>udor sovereigns, and a succession of capable... Suffolk (pronounced SUF-fk) is a large traditional and administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. ... Althorps entrance front i</p></p><p><p>n the 1820s. ...</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>&nbsp</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>His second marriage was to Alice Middleton (d. before 1564), to whom he had a further five children, including Sir Richard Alington, later Master of the Rolls, (a ma</p></p><p><p>gnificent monument to Sir Richard is in the Rolls Chapel, Chancery Lane, London). He married [3] by license dated 1564, Margaret Talkorne (d.1586), who survived him. In his Will he mentions a worry:-"</p></p><p><p>touching and concerninge the marriage betwene my foresaid nephew [sic; this should read grandson] Giles Alington and Margarett Ellington his Daughter which God is my witness I concluded and made with</p></p><p><p>Sir John Spencer, rather for the goodwill and affection I bore unto him than for the profit....and could have had more by a thousand pounds...". Sir John Spencer was left his "best gowne of velvett fu</p></p><p><p>rred with marteins" provided he ceased pressure for more than Sir Giles thought "kindlie and frindlie." The Master of the Rolls is the third most senior judge of England, the Lord Chancellor of Great</p></p><p><p>Britain traditionally being first and the Lord Chief Justice second. ... Chancery Lane tube station platform, eastbound Chancery Lane tube station platform, with arriving Central Line train Chancery L</p></p><p><p>ane is a London Underground station in central London. ...</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>&nbsp</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>There are several Alington memorials within Horseheath parish church including a tomb of Sir Giles (d.1586) who lies in spl</p></p><p><p>endour with one of his sons, one above the other, both in armour, heads on helmets and feet on hounds. There is in addition a brass to Sir Robert Alington, Knt., (d.22 May 1552) who predeceased his fa</p></p><p><p>ther. There is also another Giles Alington of Shakespeare's day on an impressive alabaster monument with his wife and their six children, he in slashed breeches and armour, she in a ruff and hooped sk</p></p><p><p>irt.</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>&nbsp</p></p><p><p></p ></p><p><p>The arms of this family are: "Quarterly of six: 1, Sable, a bend engrailed argent between six billets of the second, ALINGTON; 2, Gules, on a bend argent three leopards' heads s</p></p><p><p>able, BURGH; 3, Gules, three covered cups argent, ARGENTINE; 4, Azure, five marlets, two, two, and one or, a canton ermine; 5, Azure, sux marlets, three, two, and one or; 6, Sable, per fess and pale a</p></p><p><p>rgent countercharged three griffins' heads erased of the first. Crest: - A talbot passant proper.</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>&nbsp</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>On e of Sir Giles Alington's direct descendants, William Alington, became Baron Aling</p></p><p><p>ton of Killard in 1642. Burke's Armorie (London 1844) states: "ALINGTON, of Wymondley, co.Herts, and Horseheath, co.Cambridge, derived from Sir Hildebrand de Alington, Under Marshal to William the Con</p></p><p><p>queror at Hastings, and raised to the peerage of Ireland in 1642, and to that of England in 1682; the last Lord Alington d.s.p. in 1722. Arms: Sa. a bend engr. between eight billets ar. Crest: A talbo</p></p><p><p>t pass. ppr." William I ( 1027 â_" September 9, 1087), was King of England from 1066 to 1087. ...</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>&nbsp</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Anothe r notable descendant is the Very Reverend Cyril Argentine Alington (d.1955), Ch</p></p><p><p>aplain to H.M.King George V, Dean of Durham, and sometime Headmaster of Eton College. His daughter, Elizabeth Hester Alington (1909-1990), married Sir Alexander or Alec Douglas-Home (1903-1995), 14th</p></p><p>Earl of Home, Lord Home of the Hirsel, and sometime Prime Minister of Great Britain.</p> <p>The name Arlington first found in Cambridgshire, where the Lord Arlington held his estates. Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Henry Allington who arrived in VAin1652; John Allington in PA in 1682; Anne Allington in MD in 1725.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>There are several Alington memorials within Horseheath parish church including a tomb of Sir Giles (d.1586) who lies in splendour with one of his sons, one above the other, both in armour, heads on helmets and feet on hounds. There is in addition a brass to Sir Robert Alington, Knt., (d.22 May 1552) who predeceased his father. There is also another Giles Alington of Shakespeare's day on an impressive alabaster monument with his wife and their six children, he in slashed breeches and armour, she in a ruff and hooped skirt.</p><p></p> <p>http://www.marisancestry.co.uk/Trees/n_2f.htm</p><p><p></p></p><p>< p>Data:</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Text: Sir Gyles Alyington Knighte, Sonne and Heyre of Sir Gyles Alyington Knighte Died XX Augustii AN MDLXXXVI and in the year of his age LXXXVI.He first married Ursula Daughter of Sir Robert Drury Knighte and by her had issue Robert. Secondly he married Alice daughter and heyre of John Middleton esquire before wife of Thomas Elrington Esquire and by her had issue Thomas, Richard, William, Philip, Jane, Ann, Frances, Elizabeth, Joan and Margaret and thirdly he married Margaret Daughter of John Talkarne Esquire before wife of Thomas Argyll Esquire and by her had no issue..</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Source: (Individual)</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Title: Will of Sir Giles Alington (d.1586)</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>&nbsp</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>S ource: (Individual)</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Title: T</p></p><p><p>he Visitations of Cambridgeshire, 1575 & 1619</p></p><p><p></p></p><p>Publication: Harleian Society</p> Lady Diana's 13th great grandfather