Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden

English poet, eldest son of Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux, was born in 1510. In 1527 he accompanied Cardinal Wolsey on bis embassy to France; he attended Henry VIII. to Calais and Boulogne in 1532; in 1531 he took his seat in the House of Lords, and was made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Anne Boleyn. He was captain of the Isle of Jersey until 1536.

He married Elizabeth Cheney, her age 18, him age 14, the year his father died and he succeeded. While they were not relations, his father had once been married to her grandmother, and so they had Throckmorton cousins in common.

He sold his only crown office, the governorship of Jersey, to Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp.

Two of his poems were included in the Songes and Sonettes of Surrey (Tottel's Miscellany, 1557). They are "The assault of Cupid upon the fort where the lover's hart lay wounded, and how he was taken," and the "Dittye... representinge the Image of Deathe," which the gravedigger in Shakespeare's Hamlet misquotes. Thirteen pieces in the Paradise of Dainty Devices (1576) are signed by him.

Lord Thomas died in Oct 1556. Sketches of Vaux and his wife by Holbein are at Windsor, and a finished portrait of Lady Vaux is at Hampton Court.

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Acc. to: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vfarch/genealogy-data/wc18/...

Died of the plague.

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Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden. Related on his mother's side to Katherine Parr. Studied at Cambridge. He was made a Knight of the Bath, 1533, at the coronation of Anne Boleyn.

He was a poet:

"The harbinger of death, To me I see him ride; The cough, the cold, the gasping breath, Doth bid me to provide ... ............ My keepers knit the knot That youth did laugh to scorn, Of me that clean shall be forgot As I had not been born."

Published in 1557, by Henry Tottel.

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• Sir Thomas Vaux, 2nd Lord Vaux of Harrowden, Governor of Jersey1,2
• M, b. 25 April 1509, d. after 12 March 1556
• Father Sir Nicholas Vaux, 1st Lord Vaux, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Constable of Rockingham Castle1,3,4 b. c 1460, d. 14 May 1523
• Mother Anne Greene1,3,4 b. c 1489, d. b 14 May 1523
• Sir Thomas Vaux, 2nd Lord Vaux of Harrowden, Governor of Jersey was born on 25 April 1509 at of Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England.1,2 A contract for the marriage of Sir Thomas Vaux, 2nd Lord Vaux of Harrowden, Governor of Jersey and Elizabeth Cheyne was signed on 6 May 1511.1,2 Sir Thomas Vaux, 2nd Lord Vaux of Harrowden, Governor of Jersey married Elizabeth Cheyne, daughter of Sir Thomas Cheyne and Anne Parr, between 25 April 1523 and 10 November 1523; They had 2 sons (William, 3rd Lord Vaux of Harrowden; & Nicholas) & 2 daughters (Anne, wife of Reginald Bray; & Maud).1,2 Sir Thomas Vaux, 2nd Lord Vaux of Harrowden, Governor of Jersey died after 12 March 1556 at Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England.1,2 He was buried in October 1556 at Northamptonshire, England.1,2
• Family Elizabeth Cheyne b. c 1505, d. 20 Nov 1556
• Child
  • William Vaux, 3rd Lord Vaux of Harrowden+1 b. c 14 Aug 1535, d. 20 Aug 1595
• Citations
• 1.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 219-221.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 291.
• 3.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XII/2, p. 216-9.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 290-291.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3501.htm#...
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• Thomas VAUX (2° B. Vaux of Harrowden)
• Born: 25 Apr 1509
• Died: Oct 1556
• Notes: See his Biography.
• Father: Nicholas VAUX (1º B. Vaux of Harrowden)
• Mother: Anne GREEN
• Married: Elizabeth CHENEY (B. Vaux of Harrowden) 1523, Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, England
• Children:
  • 1. William VAUX (3° B. Vaux of Harrowden)
  • 2. Anne VAUX
  • 3. Maud VAUX
  • 4. Nicholas VAUX
  • 5. Catherine VAUX
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/VAUX.htm#Thomas VAUX (2° B. Vaux of Harrowden)
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