Thomas Mildmay of Chelmsford

Origins

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/m...

The distinguished medieval descent claimed by the Mildmays was probably a late 16th century fabrication: the real founder of the family appears to have been a merchant who from small beginnings manning his own stall in Chelmsford market prospered sufficiently to buy ‘Guy Harlings’, the principal house in the town from Richard Rich in 1527. Nothing has been discovered about Thomas Mildmay’s early life and education, but presumably he learnt the rudiments of accountancy at his father’s prompting and obtained his first post in augmentations through his father’s dealings with Rich, the court’s first chancellor.

Family

Thomas Mildmay of Chelmsford in Essex was the son of Walter Mildmay of Writtell and Mary Everard. He married Agnes Read of High Easter in Essex (died 1557) by 1510. They had two notable sons, his eldest Thomas Mildmay, Sheriff of Essex and Herts. and the youngest Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Thomas l died in 1547 and was succeeded by his son Thomas.

Children of Thomas Mildmay and Agnes Read:

1. Edward Mildmay, 1st son. Died before his father in 1549.
2. Margery Mildmay, b abt 1510. Married Mathew Bernard.
3. Thomas Mildmay+ d. b 29 Jan 1566/67. Son and heir. Married Avice Gonson.
4. William Mildmay+ d. 13 Feb 1570/71. 3rd, later 2nd son. Married Elizabeth Pascall.
5. John Mildmay, 4th, later 3rd son. Married Jane Allington, widow to Thomas Browne.
6. Joanna Mildmay+ Married Christopher Payton.
7. Sir Walter Mildmay+ b. 1520, d. 31 May 1589. 5th, later 4th son. Married Mary Walsingham.
8. ?Thomasine Mildmay. Married 1) Anthony Bourchier 2) William Thomas. (Not listed in Lehmberg’s book)

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• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1119.htm#...
• 'Thomas Mildmay1
• 'M, b. circa 1495, d. 1550
• Father Walter Mildmay
• Mother Mary Everard
• ' Thomas Mildmay was born circa 1495 at of Chelmsford, Essex, England.2 He married Agnes Reade, daughter of Thomas Reade and Agnes Hoo, circa 1519.2 Thomas Mildmay died in 1550.
• 'Family Agnes Reade b. c 1497, d. 1552
• Children
  • ◦Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer b. c 1520, d. 31 May 1589
  • ◦Thomasine Mildmay+ b. c 1531
• Citations
• 1.[S10440] Unknown author, Wallop Family, p. 545.
• 2.[S11583] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, by Vernon James Watney, p., 545.
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• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/MILDMAY.htm#Thomas MILDMAY1
• 'Thomas MILDMAY
• 'Born: 1472 / ABT 1486, Chelmsford, Essex, England
• 'Died: 1566
• Notes: Auditor of Court of Augmentations for Henry VIII.
• Father: Walter MILDMAY
• Mother: Mary EVERWARD
• 'Married: Agnes READE
• Children:
  • 1. Joan MILDMAY
  • 2. Thomasine MILDMAY
  • 3. Thomas MILDMAY
  • 4. William MILDMAY
  • 5. Walter MILDMAY (Sir)
  • 6. Mary MILDMAY
  • 7. John MILDMAY of Crillingham
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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mildmay
• Sir Walter Mildmay (bef. 1523 – 31 May 1589) was an English statesman who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer of England under Queen Elizabeth I, and founder of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
• Early life
• Mildmay was the fourth and the youngest son of 'Thomas Mildmay of Chelmsford, by his wife, Agnes Read.' As the Commissioner for receiving the surrender of the monasteries, his father Thomas had made a large fortune and in 1540 granted the manor of Moulsham, near Chelmsford, and here built a fine mansion.[1]
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• http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/mildmay.htm
• SIR WALTER MILDMAY, (1520?-1589), chancellor of the exchequer, and founder of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, was fourth and youngest son of 'Thomas Mildmay of Chelmsford, by his wife, Agnes Head. The latter was buried at Chelmsford, 6 Oct. 1557. As commissioner for receiving the surrender of the monasteries, the father had made a large fortune'. In 1540 he was granted the manor of Moulsham, near Chelmsford, and built there a fine mansion. He received a general pardon from Queen Mary, 1 Oct. 1553.
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References

• “Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government.” Stanford E. Lehmberg. GoogleBooks
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Reade-94 has errors
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mildmay-10 has errors
• Visitation of Essex 1612 Page 251: Mildmay Archive.Org has errors
• ” The Little History of Essex.” By Judith Williams. GoogleBooks
• https://moulshamhistory.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/thomas-and-walter-...
• http://thepeerage.com/p57000.htm#i570000
• Ancestry.com. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data:Roberts, Gary Boyd. The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Page 567. AncestryImage “William Boddie of Virginia”
• Ancestry.com. The history of the Fanshawe family [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data:Fanshawe, H. C.. The history of the Fanshawe family. Newcastle-upon-Tyne England: A. Reid and Co., 1927. Page 22. AncestryImage “Mary Bouchier.”
• “Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 1”. “Adam Winthrop.” Page 23. “William Mildmay, son of Thomas Mildmay of Chelmsford and Anne (Reade) Mildmay, married (1) Elizabeth, daughter of John Paschall of Much Baddow, co. Essex, and (2) Agnes (Sharpe) Winthrop, widow of Adam Winthrop of Groton. Muskett, 47; Morant, Essex, II. 18; Visitations of Essex, I (H. S., Pub. , XIII), 260, 262.”
• https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/mm4fz/mildmay1.php
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/4301949509
• “2. Arms of the Founder, Sir Walter Mildmay” page 9-12. Quarterly: 1. Argent, three lions rampant azure (Mildmay, of Gloucestershire) 2. Azure, on a canton or a mullet sable (Le Rous) 3. Sable [sometimes shown, less correctly, as Azure], a chevron embattled or between three roses argent barbed and seeded proper (Cornish) 4. Per fesse nebulae argent and sable, three greyhounds’ heads couped countercharged collared gules (Mildmay, of Essex) Crest: a leopard’s head erased or gorged with a coronet gules
• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_18... MILDMAY, Sir WALTER (1520?–1589), chancellor of the exchequer, and founder of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, was fourth and youngest son of Thomas Mildmay of Chelmsford, by his wife, Agnes Read. The latter was buried at Chelmsford, 5 Oct. 1557 (Machyn, Diary, p. 154).
• https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/publications/EmmanuelHeraldry.pdf page 11. Roundel and tablet showing the Founder’s ‘Mildmay of Essex’ arms, formerly at Apethorpe, now at Emmanuel (right). Detail of the shield in the roundel, showing a golden martlet (above) The ‘Mildmay of Essex’ arms, used by Sir Walter until 1583, had been granted to his father by a previous Clarenceux King. At Emmanuel they can be seen in the plaque mounted on the wall above the main Library staircase; this carving, originally displayed over a fireplace in the Founder’s mansion at Apethorpe, comprises an armorial roundel and a tablet containing latin verses composed by Mildmay’s friend Walter Haddon; it was brought to Emmanuel in 1950. The ‘Mildmay of Essex’ arms are also enamelled on the finial of the Founder’s Cup, a silver-gilt tazza made in Antwerp in 1541/2. In 1583 or soon afterwards Sir Walter had his new quarterly arms enamelled on a print inside the cover of the tazza, which he presented to Emmanuel shortly after the College’s foundation. Although the exact date of Sir Walter’s birth is unknown, documentary evidence indicates that he was the fifth son of Thomas Mildmay; yet many representations of his arms include the bird known in heraldry as a martlet, the cadency mark of a fourth son. The explanation for this is that one of Sir Walter’s elder brothers, Edward, died in 1549, following which event the younger brothers would have changed their cadency marks.
• “Brief memoir of the Mildmay family”. by Mildmay, Herbert A. St. John. “Genealogy”. Page 238. Archive.Org

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Children
Thomasine Mildmay Bourchier
William Mildmay
unknown–1570
John Mildmay
unknown–1584
Thomas Mildmay
1515–1566
Walter Mildmay
1520–1589