Sir John Lunsford

Son of William Lunsford and Margaret Fiennes, grandson of William Lunsford and Cecily Pelham, Thomas Fiennes and Anne Urswick.

Husband of Mary Sackville, daughter of John of Sussex and Margery Boleyn, daughter of William and descendant of King Edward I. They had two sons and three daughters; Sir John, James, Anne, Mary and Isabel, wife of John Randolph.

John was buried November 28th, left a will dated 19 Oct 1581 and proved 29 Jan 1582.

Following the Hundred Years' Wars, England became embroiled in its own succession wars. The Wars of the Roses pitted two branches of the House of Plantagenet against one another, the House of York and the House of Lancaster. The Lancastrian Henry Tudor ended the War of the Roses and established the Tudor dynasty in 1485.

Under the Tudors and the later Stuart dynasty, England became a colonial power. During the rule of the Stuarts, the English Civil War took place between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists, which resulted in the execution of King Charles I (1649) and the establishment of a series of republican governments — first, a Parliamentary republic known as the Commonwealth of England (1649–1653), then a military dictatorship under Oliver Cromwell known as The Protectorate (1653–1659). The Stuarts returned to the restored throne in 1660, though continued questions over religion and power resulted in the deposition of another Stuart king, James II, in the Glorious Revolution (1688). England, which had conquered Wales in the 13th century, united with Scotland in 1707 to form a new sovereign state called Great Britain