DORMER

Notes: John Gresham is buried in Sir Thomas Gresham's vault in St. Helen's Bishopgate. He lived in Bishopgate Street in 1562 and sold Mayfield to Sir Thomas Gresham, Knight. John was from North End, Fulham, Middlesex County, and Mayfield, County of Sussex. John was a Mercer in North End, Fulham, County of Middlesex. Member of Parliament for Horsham 1570. He married Elizabeth Dormer, dau. and heir of Edward Dormer, Esq. After the death of Elizabeth's father in 1539, her mother, Catherine Sampson, became the second wife of Elizabeth's father-in-law, Sir John Gresham, Knight of Titsey.

Father: Edward DORMER (Esq.)

Mother: Catherine SAMPSON

Married: John GRESHAM (b. 14 Mar 1528) (son of Sir John Gresham and Mary Ipswell) 15 Jul 1553, St. Michael's, Bassiahaw, England

Children:

1. Thomas GRESHAM (b. 1554)

2. William GRESHAM (b. ABT 1560)

3. Edmund GRESHAM (b. 1557)

Peter DORMER of Lee Grange

Died: 1 Apr 1555, Newbottle Manor, Newbottle, Northamptonshire, England

Buried: Newbottle, Northamptonshire, England

Notes: Shipton, later Shipton Grange or Shipton Lee Manor, near Quainton, Buckinghamshire, before the Conquest was held by Boding the 'constable'; in 1086, when it was assessed at 7 hides, by Henry Ferrers. Later it was held as one knight's fee of the honour of Tutbury, which descended in the Ferrers, Earls of Derby, and in the duchy of Lancaster. The Ferrers' land in Shipton was given by William Fitz Otho before 1146 to Thame Abbey, his brother Everard being the first abbot. Shipton Lee remained with the abbey until its surrender in 1539, a lease for ninety-nine years having been granted in 1534 to Peter and Agnes Dormer.

Peter Dormer, successor to Sir Michael Dormer of Purston, who bought the advowson of the church and the rectorial tithes when Dunstable Priory was dissolved in the time of Henry VIII.

Monument at St James Church, Newbottle', Northants: There is a good sixteenth century brass in the north wall of the sanctuary to Peter Dormer and his 2 wives. He had 8 sons and 11 daughters.

Father: Geoffrey DORMER

Mother: Ursula (Alice) COLLINRIDGE

Married 1: Anne CRISPE

Children:

1. Elizabeth DORMER

Married 2: Agnes COOPER (dau. of Thomas Cowper of Quainton)

Children:

2. Alice DORMER

3. John DORMER of Olney (dsp)

4. Eleanor DORMER

5. Jane DORMER

6. Gabriel DORMER of Lee Grange

Elizabeth DORMER

Died: 20 Apr 1613

Buried: Beoley, Worcestershire, England

Father: Peter DORMER of Lee Grange

Mother: Anne CRISPE

Married: John ALDERFORD

Children:

1. Eleanor ALDERFORD

2. Margaret ALDERFORD

Alice DORMER

Father: Peter DORMER of Lee Grange

Mother: Agnes COOPER

Married: Edmund OSBALDISTON

Eleanor DORMER

Father: Peter DORMER of Lee Grange

Mother: Agnes COOPER

Married: Christopher CRISPE (son of Richard Crispe of Copcott and Alice Lenthall)

Children:

1. Henry CRISPE

2. Peter CRISPE

3. LeonardCRISPE

5. Nicholas CRISPE

6. MichaelCRISPE

7. Arthur CRISPE

8. JosephCRISPE

9. Frances CRISPE

10. Anne CRISPE

Gabriel DORMER of Lee Grange

Father: Peter DORMER of Lee Grange

Mother: Agnes COOPER

Married: Bridget LOVETT (dau. of Thomas Lovett and Elizabeth Butler) (m.2 John Hawtrey)

Children:

1. Peter DORMER of Lee Grange

2. Elizabeth DORMER

Elizabeth DORMER

Father: Gabriel DORMER of Lee Grange

Mother: Bridget LOVETT

Married: Edward HAWTREY (b. 1545 - d. ABT 1592) (son of Ralph Hawtrey and Winifred ?)

Children:

1. Ralph HAWTREY (b. 1570 - d. 1638) (m. Mary Altman)

Peter DORMER of Lee Grange

Died: 1583

Father: Gabriel DORMER of Lee Grange

Mother: Bridget LOVETT

Married: Margaret FLEETWOOD (dau. of Thomas Fleetwood and Bridget Spring)

Children:

1. Fleetwood DORMER of Lee Grange (Sir)

Fleetwood DORMER of Lee Grange (Sir)

Born: 1570, Buckinghamshire, England

Died: Feb 1639, Gloucestershire, England

Buried: Quainton, Buckinghamshire, England

Father: Peter DORMER of Lee Grange

Mother: Margaret FLEETWOOD

Married: Mary ISHAM (dau. of Sir Euseby Isham, Sheriff of Northamptonshire and Anne Borlase) (w. of Edward Reade)

Children:

1. Fleetwood DORMER of Arle Court (Sir) (b. 1604 - d. 1696)

2. Euseby DORMER

3. Peter DORMER

4. John DORMER of Lee Grange (MP) (b. 1612 - d. 1679) (m. Catherine Woodward)

5. Margaret DORMER

6. Dorothy DORMER

Michael DORMER (Sir Mayor of London)

Died: 20 Sep 1545

Notes: Mercer. Sheriff 1529-30. Mayor 1541/2. Knighted 2 Feb 1542; Auditor 1526-8; Master Mercers 1531, 1545; Will (PCC 38 Pynning) 17 Sep; proved 2 Oct.

Father:Geoffrey DORMER

Mother:Margaret LAUNCELYN

Married 1: Elizabeth DAVYE

Children:

1. John DORMER (Sir) (b. 1525 - d. 1610)

2.Thomas DORMER

3. John DORMER

4. Joan DORMER

5. Geoffrey DORMER of Farthingoe

6. Ambrose DORMER of Great Milton

7. William DORMER of Long Crendon

8. Walter DORMER (Rector of North Crawley)

9. Margaret DORMER

Married 2: Catherine DALLAM

Joan DORMER

Father: Michael DORMER (Sir Mayor of London)

Mother: Elizabeth DAVYE

Married 1: James BOLNEY

Children:

1. Agnes BOLNEY

Married 2: Edward BORLASE

Children:

2. John BORLASE

Married 3: Anthony STAPLETON (MP)

Children:

3. Michael STAPLETON

4. Amyas STAPLETON

Ambrose DORMER of Great Milton

Died: 1556, Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England

Father: Michael DORMER (Sir Mayor of London)

Mother: Elizabeth DAVYE

Married: Jane BURY (dau. of James Bury and Amy Lovett) (m.2 William Hawtrey, MP)

Children:

1. Winifred DORMER

2. Michael DORMER (Sir)

Winifred DORMER

Born: 1555

Died: ABT 1619

Father: Ambrose DORMER of Great Milton

Mother: Jane BURY

Married 1: William HAWTREY (Sir) (son of William Hawtrey and Anne ?)

Married 2: John PIGOTT (MP) (b. 1550 - d. 1624) (son of Francis Pigott of Stratton and Eleanor Enderby)

Children:

1. Catherine PIGOTT (b. ABT 1592 - d. 1640) (m. Robert Ward)

Thomas DORMER

Born: 1506

Died: 1550, Burghfield, Berkshire, England

Father:Michael DORMER (Sir Mayor of London)

Mother: Elizabeth DAVYE

Married:¿?

Children:

1. Alice DORMER

Alice DORMER

Father:Thomas DORMER

Mother:¿?

Married: John BROWNE of Willey

Children:

1. John BROWNE

John DORMER

Born: ABT 1520, Steeple-Barton, Oxford, England

Died: BET 1544 / 1630, Steeple-Barton, Oxford, England

Father:Michael DORMER (Sir Mayor of London)

Mother: Elizabeth DAVYE

Married: Elizabeth GODDARD (b. ABT 1527) 1546, Steeple-Barton, Oxford, England

Children:

1. Elizabeth DORMER

2. Stephen DORMER

3. Mary DORMER

4. William DORMER

Elizabeth DORMER

Born: ABT 1546, Steeple Barton, Oxford, England

Died: ABT 1594, Wolton, Isle Of Wight, Hampshire, England

Father:John DORMER

Mother: Elizabeth GODDARD

Married: Anthony LISLE (b. ABT 1540) (son of Thomas Lisle and Dau. Moore) ABT 1569, Wolton, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England

Children:

1. William LISLE (b. 1569) (m.1 Bridget Hungerford - m.2 Elizabeth Searle - m.3 Grace Potnall)

2. Anne LISLE (m. Henry Leigh)

3. Eleanor LISLE (m. Thomas Peckham)

4. Edward LISLE

William DORMER of Long Crendon

Died: 1563

Father:Michael DORMER (Sir Mayor of London)

Mother: Elizabeth DAVYE

Married: Elizabeth SCRIVEN

Children:

1. John DORMER (Sir)

2. William DORMER (Vicar of Olney)

John DORMER (Sir)

Born: 18 Oct 1556

Died: 10 Mar 1627, Buckinghamshire, England

Buried: Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, England

Father: William DORMER of Long Crendon

Mother: Elizabeth SCRIVEN

Married 1: Judith HUNGERFORD

Married 2: Jane GIFFARD (dau. of Sir John Giffard of Chillington y Joyce Levenson)

Children:

1. Dorothy DORMER

2. Robert DORMER of Ascot (Sir)

Married 3: Catherine BLOUNT

Robert DORMER of Ascot (Sir)

Died: 1649

Buried: Long Clendon, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England

Father: John DORMER (Sir)

Mother: Jane GIFFARD

Married: Mary READ (dau. of Sir Thomas Reade and Mary Brockett)

Children:

1. Robert DORMER

2. William "The Splendid" DORMER

3. Robert DORMER of Dorton and Long Crendon

Dorothy DORMER

Father: John DORMER (Sir)

Mother: Jane GIFFARD

Married 1: Robert SPILLER (Sir)

Children:

1. Jane SPILLER (m. James Herbert)

Married 2: John DYNHAM (Sir) (son of Sir John Dynham and Catherine Brome)

William DORMER

Born: ABT 1438, West Wycomb, Buckinghamshire, England

Died: BEF 22 Sep 1506, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England

Father: Geoffrey DORMER

Mother: Margaret LAUNCELYN

Married: Agnes WOODVILLE

Children:

1. Robert DORMER of West Wycombe (Sir)

2. Agnes DORMER

3. Joan DORMER

4. Margery DORMER

5. Bridget DORMER

6. Parnell DORMER

7. Elizabeth DORMER

8. John DORMER

9. Lettice DORMER

Married 2: Jane LAUNCELYN

Agnes DORMER

Born: 1482, Wycombe, Buckhamshire, England

Father: William DORMER

Mother: Agnes WOODVILLE

Married: John BALDWIN (b. 11 Aug 1470) Aston Clinton, Buckhamshire, England

Children:

1. Richard BALDWIN (b. 1505)

Joan DORMER

Born: ABT 1479

Died: 1550

Father: William DORMER

Mother: Agnes WOODVILLE

Married: William ALBURGH

Margery DORMER

Born: ABT 1480

Father: William DORMER

Mother: Agnes WOODVILLE

Married: Thomas DEANE

Children:

1. Henry DEANE

Bridget DORMER

Born: ABT 1483, Wycombe, Buckhamshire, England

Father: William DORMER

Mother: Agnes WOODVILLE

Married: Son BRITTAYNE

Parnell DORMER

Father: William DORMER

Mother: Agnes WOODVILLE

Married: John COLLINGBORNE

Robert DORMER of West Wycombe (Sir)

Died: 12 Jul 1552, Buckinghamshire, England

Notes: Had a grant of the manor Wenge, part of the possessions of the Abbey of St. Albans. High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Well connected at court by his relations with the Seymour family. Before her marriage with Henry VIII, Jane Seymour had been engaged to one of the Dormer family, perhaps William Dormer, Sir Robert's son.

Father: William DORMER

Mother: Agnes WOODVILLE

Married: Jane NEWDIGATE

Children:

1. William DORMER (Sir Knight)

William DORMER (Sir Knight)

Born: 1503, Eythorpe, Buckinghamshire, England

Died: 17 May 1575, Wenge, Buckinghamshire, England

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: Robert DORMER of West Wycombe (Sir)

Mother: Jane NEWDIGATE

Married 1:Mary SIDNEY

Children:

1. Jane DORMER (D. Feria)

2. Anne DORMER

Married 2: Dorothy CATESBY ABT 1552

Children:

3. Catherine DORMER (B. St. John of Bletsoe)

4. Mary DORMER

5. Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)

6. Margaret DORMER

7. Richard DORMER

8. Francis DORMER

9. Anne DORMER

10. Peregrine DORMER

Anne DORMER

Born: 1525, Ascot, Buckinghamshire, England

Died: 1603, Louvain

Notes: In 1568 Hungerford sued his wife for divorce, alleging that she attempts to poison him in 1564 and had committed adultery between 1560 and 1568 with William Darrell of Littlecote and that she had had a child by him. 'Will Darrell' was a notorious loose-liver, and surviving letters from Anne Hungerford to her 'good Will' suggest that Hungerford's accusations of adultery and attempted poisoning were not unfounded. Nevertheless, two years later Sir Francis Englefield was able to report that 'my lady Hungerford's great suit has ended by sentence to her sufficient purgation, though neither sufficient for her recompense nor his punishment'.

Hungerford spent three years in the fleet prison, refusing to support his wife in separation or to pay the 250 poundsawarded her as costs in the suit, though willing, he afterwards asserted, to take her back. She eventually left England under a license obtained for her by the Earl of Leicester to visit her dying grandmother at Louvain. In Aug 1571 the Duchess of Feria wrote to ask that the license be extended from six months to two years, partly to allow Lady Hungerford to keep a safe distance from her husband. Anne took over her grandmother's household in Louvain after Lady Dormer's death and remained there. In 1573, she was granted a pension of 1,100 livres a year by the King of Spain and in 1583 he granted her a further pension of fifty escudos a month. Anne became friends with Margaret of Parma as well as with the other English exiles living in Flanders. After her only son died (the date of his death varies, depending on the source, from 1583 to 1587), Anne claimed that Hungerford was attempting to defraud their daughters of their portion. In his 1595 will, Hungerford left two farms to Margery Bright, his mistress for some years and the mother of four children by him, the last born after Hungerford's death. Upon hearing a rumor that Anne was dead, Hungerford married Margery shortly before he died with the result that both Anne and Margery sued to establish the right to inherit as Hungerford's widow. There was never any question but that the victory would go to Anne. During that same period, Anne involved herself in politics in Flanders, urging her sister, the widowed duchess of Feria, to leave Spain and travel to Brussels. She wrote a number of letters on the subject and seems to have been convinced that the duchess's journey would alarm Queen Elizabeth and turn the tide in King Felipe's favor in the ongoing war in the Netherlands. Anne's nephew, Don Lorenzo, 2nd duke of Feria, took steps to thwart this intrigue and Anne seems to have given up the plan around 1599. There is no record that she returned to England before her death in 1603 at Louvain.

Father:William DORMER (Sir Knight)

Mother: Mary SIDNEY

Married: Walter HUNGERFORD of Farleigh (Sir Knight)1558, Suffolk, England

Children:

1. SusanHUNGERFORD

2. EdmundHUNGERFORD

3. JaneHUNGERFORD

4. LucyHUNGERFORD

Associated with: William DARRELL of Littlecote

Children:

5. William DARRELL

Jane DORMER (D. Feria)

Born: 6 Jan 1538, Hayle, Buckinghamshire, England

Died: 13 Jan 1612, Madrid, Spain

Notes: half-sister of the Catholic former Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, had been the loyal companion of Mary Tudor; after Mary's death, she led several Tudor noblewomen into Catholic exile in Spain. Jane’s hand in marriage was sought by the Earl of Devon, the Duke of Norfolk, and Charles Howard, later earl of Nottingham, but she accepted the proposal of Don Gomez Suarez de Figueroa of Cordova, Duke of Feria, Felipe II's former representative in England. Raised broadly outside the influence of the Sidneys from the death of her mother in 1542, she spent her youth not only in the household of her paternal grandmother but also as a playmate of the young Edward VI who was very fond of the young Jane and is reported to have said after having beaten her at cards "now your king is gone Jane I shall be good enough for you" (by extension Jane would have been acquainted with Elizabeth I when she lodged with her half brother). Jane herself had been ill in Oct of 1558 but she returned to her dying mistress’s bedside in November and was entrusted with the errand of journeying to Hatfield to deliver Mary’s jewels to her sister and heir, Elizabeth Tudor. After Mary’s death, Jane lived with her grandmother, Jane Newdigate, Lady Dormer (d. 7 Jul 1571) at the Savoy Palace. Jane Dormer married the count of Feria on 29 Dec and left England in Jul 1559. Her party included her grandmother and six gentlewomen. Feria was quick to perceive how Elizabeth's accession would change the religious tide in England and, despite his formal role as Spanish ambassador, refused to attend Elizabeth's coronation in a public rejection of expected Protestant elements in the service. Jane’s son Lorenzo was born at Mechlin, at the court of Margaret of Parma. At Amboise, France the following spring, Jane began a friendship with Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, that lasted until the Queen’s execution. Upon reaching Spain, Feria and Jane settled at Zafra in Estremadura and Feria was created duke of Feria in 1567. Jane's interest in the cause of Catholicism in England did not cause her to cease a correspondence with Elizabeth but she also received letters from four Popes and numerous other contacts. Within Spain she was a champion of exiled English fallen on hard times. Jane proved so adept at running his estates after Feria’s death on 7 Sep 1571 that Felipe II considered naming her Regent of the Netherlands in 1592. In 1603, an Englishman named Henry Clifford entered her service and wrote her biography, possibly from her dictation, but it was not published until 1887. Her health never recovered from an accident in 1609 and she was bedridden from the start of 1611 - planning ahead she had already prepared a coffin she kept in the house. At her death on 1612, she was attended by seven priests. She was buried in the habit of a Franciscan tertiary.

Father: William DORMER (Sir Knight)

Mother: Mary SIDNEY

Married: Don GOMEZ SUAREZ De FIGUEROA (1° D. Feria)

Children:

1. Lorenzo SUAREZ De FIGUEROA (2° D. Feria) (b. 28 Sep 1559 - d. 1607)

Catherine DORMER (B. St. John of Bletsoe)

Born: ABT 1549

Died: 23 Mar 1615

Buried: Westminster Abbey, London, England

Father: William DORMER (Sir Knight)

Mother: Dorothy CATESBY

Married: John St. JOHN (2° B. St. John of Bletsoe) AFT 28 Feb 1574/5, Bedfordshire, England

Children:

1. Anne St. JOHN (B. Howard of Effingham)

Mary DORMER

Born: ABT 1555, Eythorpe, Buckinghamshire, England

Died: 1637

Buried: Midhurst, Sussex, England

Notes: third dau.

Father: William DORMER (Sir Knight)

Mother: Dorothy CATESBY

Married 1: Anthony BROWNE (Sir) ABT 1569

Children:

1. Anthony Maria BROWNE (2º V. Montague)

2. Dorothy BROWNE

3. Jane BROWNE

4. Catherine BROWNE

5. George BROWNE

6. John BROWNE

Married 2: Edmund UVEDALE (Sir) (See his Biography) AFT Jun 1592

Married 3: Thomas GERARD (Sir) AFT Apr 1606

Married 4: William PELHAM

MargaretDORMER

Born: 1553, Eythorpe, Buckinghamshire, England

Died: 26 Apr 1637

Notes: a notable recusant who spent time in prison in 1592. She raised her children as pious Roman Catholics.

Father: William DORMER (Sir Knight)

Mother: Dorothy CATESBY

Married: HenryCONSTABLEof Burton Constable (Sir) ABT 1575

Margaret Dormer

by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger

Children:

1. Dorothy CONSTABLE

2. Henry CONSTABLE (1° V. Dunbar)

3. Catherine CONSTABLE

4. Margaret CONSTABLE

5. Mary CONSTABLE

6. John CONSTABLE (b. ABT 1584)

Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)

Born: 26 Jan 1551, Eythorpe, Buckinghamshire, England

Died: 8 Nov 1616, Wing, Buckinghamshire, England

Buried: 19 Nov 1616, Wing, Buckinghamshire, England

Notes: Letters of Sir Francis Englefieldto Duchess of Feria in 1570 show plainly how Sir Robert Dormer, in his "old age" was in danger of falling away from the Roman Catholic interest. He was said to be beset by heretics (such as the Earl of Bedford) so that one letter quoted "he breathes their spirit" and "the use of ill company and all lack of good occasions of reviving a man's slow devotion to good things, in time corrupts the mind, affection and soul". It was hoped at the same time that his son's marriage with a daughter of Lord Montague would make him a "pillar to that family that shall succeed in that realm". This marriage did not make Sir Robert an open recusant but it kept him within the old circle and all his children married into Roman Catholic families. Between 1577 and 1586 there was an increase in recusants throughout the country due largely to the activities of Jesuits and seminary priests. In 1585 Sir Robert as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire was ordered to draw up a list of recusants for the shire "that they may be compelled to pay their fines and provide horses for the queen's service". 22 names were included representing 15 families. Created a Bart. 10 Jun 1615. Baron Dormer of Wing 1615.

Father: William DORMER (Sir Knight)

Mother: Mary SIDNEY

Married: Elizabeth BROWNE ABT 1580

Children:

1. William DORMER (Sir)

2. Anthony DORMER of Grove Park

3. Robert DORMER of Peterley

4. Dorothy DORMER

5. Magdalen DORMER

6. Catherine DORMER

Anthony DORMER of Grove Park

Father: Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)

Mother: Elizabeth BROWNE

Married: Margaret TERRINGHAM(dau. of Henry Terringham) Warwickshire, England

Robert DORMER of Peterley

Father: Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)

Mother: Elizabeth BROWNE

Married: Mary BANNISTER (dau. of Edward Bannister)

Dorothy DORMER

Born: 1577

Father:Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)

Mother: Elizabeth BROWNE

Married: Henry HUDDLESTON (Esq.)

Dorothy Dormer

Formerly attributed to Nicholas Hilliard

Magdalen DORMER

Father: Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)

Mother: Elizabeth BROWNE

Married: John CURZON

Catherine DORMER

Born: ABT 1585, Warblington, Sussex, England

Father: Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)

Mother: Elizabeth BROWNE

Married: John CARYLL (b. 1564) (son of John Carryll and Mary Cotton) 1602, Warnham, Sussex, England

Children:

1. Anne Elizabeth CARRYLL (b. 1603)

2. John CARRYLL (b. 1603) (m. Catherine Petre)

William DORMER (Sir)

Died: BEF 1592

Father: Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)

Mother: Elizabeth BROWNE

Married: Alice MOLYNEUX

Children:

1. Elizabeth DORMER

2. Robert DORMER (1° E. Carnarvon)

Elizabeth DORMER

Died: 31 May 1635, Worcester House

Buried: Raglan

Father: William DORMER (Sir)

Mother: Alice MOLYNEUX

Married: Edward SOMERSET (2° M. Worcester) 1628

Children:

1. Henry SOMERSET (1° D. Beaufort)

2. Anne SOMERSET (D. Norfolk)

3. Elizabeth SOMERSET (M. Powis) (b. ABT 1634 - d. 11 May 1691, St.Germain-en-Laye - bur. St.Germain-en-Laye) (m. William Herbert, 1° M. Powis, Jul 1654 London)

Jane DORMER

Born: ABT 1550, Eythorpe, Waddeston, Buckinghamshire, England

Married:George THROCKMORTON ABT 1570

Children:

1. Henry THROCKMORTON

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