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Bacon of Redgrave Hall
Image Right - Sir Nicholas Bacon, Kt., Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Nicholas Bacon, Sir Knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
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1a. Sir Nicholas Bacon and Anne Butts The first person mentioned in the table is Sir Nicholas Bacon, PC, of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk, and Gorhambury, Herts; b 1510; Ld Keeper Gt Seal 1558-Feb 1578/9; m 1st Jane, dau of William Fernly, of W. Creting, Suffolk, and had, with three daus (including Elizabeth, m Sir Robert Mansell):
1a. Sir Nicholas Bacon, MP, 1st Baronet of Redgrave who married Anne Butts, dau and heiress of Edmund Butts of Thornage, Norfolk in 1564.
2a. Nathaniel (Sir), KB, of Stiffkey, Norfolk;
3a. Edward, of Shrubland Hall, Suffolk;
Sir Nicholas m 2nd Anne, Dau of Sir Anthony Cooke, of Gidea Hall, Essex, and d 20 Feb 1578/9 leaving:
4a. Anthony; d unm
5a. Francis Bacon, 1st and las Viscount St. Alban
The following entry goes against other sources information
See Elizabeth ii Bacon, Youngest Daughter and Burke's Peerage - 107th Edition - Irregularities and Proposed Corrections
1a. Jane; m 1st Sir Francis Wyndham, Judge Common Pleas; m 2nd Sir Robert Mansfield.
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/wy...Reference Francis Wyndham (d. 1592)
"2nd s. of Sir Edmund Wyndham of Felbrigg by Susan, da. of Sir Roger Townshend† of Raynham. educ. Camb. prob. Corpus Christi; L. Inn by 1554, called 1560. m. 1570, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Nicholas Bacon†, s.p."
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http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ma...
Reference Sir Robert Mansell (c.1569-1656)
"b. c.1569, 4th s. of (Sir) Edward Mansell† of Margam, Glam. by Lady Jane Somerset, da. of Henry, 2nd Earl of Worcester; bro. of Sir Thomas. educ. Brasenose, Oxf. 1587. m. (1) c.1593, Elizabeth, da. of (Sir) Nicholas Bacon†, wid. of Francis Wyndham, s.p.; (2) 1617, Anne, da. of Sir John Roper, s.p. Kntd. on Cadiz voyage 1596."
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http://www.kateemersonhistoricals.com/TudorWomenB-Bl.htm
Elizabeth Bacon (d. c.1604?)
- youngest daughter (and the second to be named Elizabeth) of Sir Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave Suffolk and Gorhambury, Hertfordshire (1510-1579), Lord Keeper, and his first wife, Jane Ferneley (d. 1552).
She is incorrectly called Jane and the daughter of Bacon's second wife in some genealogies, but the second Lady Bacon's daughters died young.
Further notes and References
From Burke's Peerage Vol 1 page 209 -
Lineage Sir NICHOLAS BACON, PC, of Redgrave Hall, Suffolk, and Gorhambury, Herts; b 1510; Ld Keeper Gt Seal 1558-Feb 1578/9; m 1st Jane, dau of William Fernley, of W Creting, Suffolk, and had, with three daus (including Elizabeth*** m Sir Robert Mansel, see Mansel, Bt.) ....... (1a Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Bt (E) co cr 22 May 1611 ... see below)
1a Jane*** m 1st Sir Francis Wyndham, Judge Common Pleas (see EGREMONT, LEACVONFIELD and B): m 2nd Sir Robert Mansfield
and 1a Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Bt (E) co cr 22 May 1611... m 1564 Anne (d 19 Sept 1616) dau and heiress of Edmund Butts, of Thornage, Norfolk ... ...4 sons listed ..
1a Elizabeth***: m by 1600 Sir Robert Mansel (See Mansel. Bt.)
REFERENCES
The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury By H. L. Meakin page 21
"... Francis Wyndham, the husband of one of the Bacon's daughters named Elizabeth (confusingly but not uncommonly, there were two), who wears ...."
Page 29
"In 1552 at age 22, Anne Cooke became stepmother to Nicholas Baon's six children by Jane Farley. His oldest child by Jane, Elizabeth, was about 11, and the youngest, also named Elizabeth, was only a year old."
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