JERNINGHAM

Notes: was already married to John Denton or Dentonys, about whom nothing is known, when she entered the household of Henry VII’s children as mistress of the nursery to Prince Henry in 1496. Later she was Princess Mary’s governess. She may be the Mistress Denton who accompanied Princess Margaret to Scotland, returning when King James reduced the number of English attendants Margaret was allowed to keep with her. David Loades identifies her as the first Lady Mistress of the nursery of Henry VIII's daughter Mary. In May 1515, by then a widow, she was granted a annuity of £50 per annum "for service to the late King and Queen". By Nov 1517, Margaret Bryan was in charge of Mary Tudor's nursery. In 1518, Elizabeth Denton erected a tomb to herself. She lived in some comfort in the Blackfriars Precinct until her death. Philippa Jones’s The Other Tudors: Henry VIII’s Mistresses and Bastards makes the extraordinary claim that Elizabeth Denton was Henry’s first lover and even suggests that his grandmother, Margaret Beaufort, selected her for him.

Father: John JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Agnes DARRELL

Married: John (William) DENTON

John JERNINGHAM

Died: 1503

Father: John JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Agnes DARRELL

Married: Isabel CLIFTON(dau. of Gervase Clifton and Isabel Francis)

Children:

1. Edward JERNINGHAM (Sir)

2. Mary JERNINGHAM

3. Richard JERNINGHAM

Richard JERNINGHAM

Died: 1525

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: John JERNINGHAM

Mother: Isabel CLIFTON

Married: Anne SAPCOTE (C. Bedford) (d. 14 Mar 1558/9) (See her Biography) 1526

Children:

1. John JERNINGHAM

2. Edward JERNINGHAM

Mary JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1460, Somerleyton, England

Father: John JERNINGHAM

Mother: Isabel CLIFTON

Married: Thomas STANHOPE (Sir)

Children:

1. Edward STANHOPE (Sir)

2. John STANHOPE

Edward JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Died: 6 Jan 1515, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Father: John JERNINGHAM

Mother: Isabel CLIFTON

Married 1: Margaret BEDINGFIELD (b. ABT 1476 - d. 24 Mar 1504) (dau. of Sir Edmund Bedingfield of Oxborough and Alice Shelton) ABT 1499

Children:

1. Anne JERNINGHAM

2. John JERNINGHAM of Somerleyton

3. Thomas JERNINGHAM

4. Nicholas JERNINGHAM

5. Henry JERNINGHAM

6. Fernand JERNINGHAM

7. Margaret JERNINGHAM

8. Robert JERNINGHAM

Married 2: Mary SCROPE ABT 1509, Bolton, Yorkshire, England

Children:

9. Henry JERNINGHAM of Cotesby Hall(Sir)

10. Elizabeth JERNINGHAM

Elizabeth JERNINGHAM

Born: BEF 1515

Died: AFT 1558

Notes: a waiting gentlewoman to Anne Stanhope, Lady Beauchamp until Jan, 1537, when she became a maid of honor to Anne’s sister-in-law, Queen Jane Seymour. Later she was a maid of honor to Queen Mary. She was following family tradition. Her mother, first as Lady Jerningham and then as Lady Kingston, had been in the Queen’s household since the beginning of Henry VIII’s reign.

Father: Edward JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Mary SCROPE

Robert JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1490, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Died: 25 Apr 1528

Father: Edward JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Margaret BEDINGFIELD

Anne JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1484, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Died: ABT 1555 / BEF 8 May 1558

Notes: was at court before May of 1511, when she received a half-year's wages (100s). She was listed as a chamberer on 9 Oct 1514, when King Henry VIII's sister, Mary Tudor, married King Louis XII of France. She was one of the few English attendants allowed to remain in France after the wedding. Sir Edward Grey, eldest son of Thomas Grey, first Marquis of Dorset, was also allowed to remain and they were married soon after, probably in France. As Lady Anne Grey, she remained in Mary Tudor's service, accompanying her back to England after Mary wed the Duke of Suffolk. Anne Jerningham carried the infant Henry Brandon at his christening. Widowed by the spring of 1517, Anne was in Norfolk, in the household of the Duke and Duchess of Suffolk, when Queen Catalina of Aragon paid a visit. Anne's stepmother, Mary Scrope, was one of the Queen's ladies. It is not clear when she married Henry Barley, but even if she had wed by 1520, she'd still have been listed as Lady Anne Grey at the Field of Cloth of Gold. At some point before 1531, Barley died and she married Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead. Her last husband, to whom she was wed by 1543, was Sir Edmund Walsingham of Scadbury, who was Lord Lieutenant of the Tower from 1521-1543. Anne was buried on 6 Apr 1559 beside her first husband in the church of St. Clement Danes, London.

Father: Edward JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Margaret BEDINGFIELD

Married 1: Edward GREY

Married 2: Henry BERKELEY

Married 3: Henry BARLEY of Albury (See his Biography) AFT 1517

Children:

1. William BARLEY

2. Elizabeth BARLEY

3. Dau. BARLEY

4. Dau. BARLEY

Married 4: Robert DRURY of Hawstead (Sir) BEF 1531

Married 5: Edmund WALSINGHAM of Scadbury (Sir Knight) BEF 1543

John JERNINGHAM of Somerleyton

Born: ABT 1493, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Died: 1558

Father: Edward JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Margaret BEDINGFIELD

Married: Bridget DRURY

Children:

1. George JERNINGHAM (Esq.)

2. Anne JERNINGHAM

3. Elizabeth JERNINGHAM

4. Robert JERNINGHAM (b. 1518)

5. John JERNINGHAM

Anne JERNINGHAM

Born: 28 Jun 1516
Died: BEF 28 May 1581

Notes: gentlewoman of the privy chamber to Queen Mary in 1555.
Father: John JERNINGHAM of Somerleyton

Mother: Bridget DRURY

Married: Thomas CORNWALLIS of Brome Hall (Sir) (b. 1518 - 24 Dec 1604) (son of Sir John Cornwallis and Mary Sulyard) (See his Biography) BEF 1540, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Anne Jerningham, lady Cornwallis

by Hans Eworth

English Heritage, Audley End HouseSince

Children:

1. William CORNWALLIS of Brome Hall (Sir Knight) (See his Biography)

2. Charles CORNWALLIS (Sir) (b. ABT 1547 - d. ABT 1610) (m.1 Elizabeth Farnham - m.2 Anne Barrow)

3. Elizabeth CORNWALLIS (b. 1547 - d. 12 Aug 1628) (m. Sir Thomas Kytson)

4. Anne CORNWALLIS (m. William Halse) (b. ABT 1551)

5. Alice CORNWALLIS (b. ABT 1553) (m.Richard Southwell)

6. Mary CORNWALLIS (d. 1627) (m. William Bourchier, 3º E. Bath)

Elizabeth JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1517

Father: John JERNINGHAM of Somerleyton

Mother: Bridget DRURY

Married: John SULYARD (Sir) 1537

Children:

1. Anne SULYARD

2. Edward SULYARD (Sir)

3. Margaret SULYARD

4. Thomas SULYARD

John JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1520 / 1527, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Father: John JERNINGHAM of Somerleyton

Mother: Bridget DRURY

Married: Dau. PARSONS

George JERNINGHAM (Esq.)

Born: 26 Mar 1515, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Died: 1559

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: John JERNINGHAM of Somerleyton

Mother: Bridget DRURY

Married: Ella SPELMAN (dau. of John Spelmanof Narborough and Elizabeth Frowick) ABT 1535 (by deed drawn 1535)

Children:

1. John JERNINGHAM

2. Robert JERNINGHAM

3. Mary JERNINGHAM

4. Walter JERNINGHAM

5. Henry JERNINGHAM

6. Thomas JERNINGHAM (Sir)

7. Son JERNINGHAM

8. Dau. JERNINGHAM

9. Dau. JERNINGHAM

10. Dau. JERNINGHAM

Mary JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1538, Bunwell, Norfolk, England

Buried: 6 Apr 1559

Father: George JERNINGHAM (Esq.)

Mother: Ella SPELMAN

Married: Edmund GREY ABT 1559

Children:

1. John GREY (b. ABT 1560)

2. Elizabeth GREY

3. Anne GREY

4. Eleanor GREY

5. Margaret GREY (b. ABT 1568)

Robert JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1526, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Father:George JERNINGHAM (Esq.)

Mother:Ella SPELMAN

Married: Catherine CANNON

Walter JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1527, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Father:George JERNINGHAM (Esq.)

Mother:Ella SPELMAN

Married: Anne JENNYS

Children:

1. John JERNINGHAM

Henry JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1550, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Died: ABT 1616

Father:George JERNINGHAM (Esq.)

Mother:Ella SPELMAN

Married1:Elizabeth BROWNE

Married2: Agnes SHALFORD

John JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1525, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Died: 1592

Notes: in 1570, he was found guilty of abetting treasonous riots at Norwich but was pardoned, after which he retired to Somerleyton with his wife. By the early 1590s, he was on recusant lists and fled to the King of Spain.

Father:George JERNINGHAM (Esq.)

Mother:Ella SPELMAN

Married:Catherine BROOKE

Children:

1. Catherine JERNINGHAM

2. Frances JERNINGHAM

3. Elizabeth JERNINGHAM

4. Henry JERNINGHAM (d. young)

5. Margaret JERNINGHAM

Frances JERNINGHAM

Born: BEF 7 Aug 1562, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Died: 1598 / 1614, Oxborough, Norfolk, England

Father: John JERNINGHAM

Mother: Catherine BROOKE

Married 1: Thomas (Henry) BEDINGFIELD (son of Edmund Bedingfield and Anne Southwell) 9 Oct 1580, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Children:

1. Henry BEDINGFIELD (b. 1587 - d. 22 Nov 1657) (m.Mary Howard)

2. William BEDINGFIELD

Married 2: Henry JERNINGHAM of Cotesby Hall (Esq.)

Children:

3. Son JERNINGHAM

2. Anne JERNINGHAM (b. 1576)

Catherine JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1549, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Died: 1614

Father: John JERNINGHAM

Mother: Catherine BROOKE

Married 1: Henry CRANE (Sir) (b. ABT 1546 - d. 20 Aug 1577) (son of Robert Crane and Bridget Jermyn) Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Children:

1. Robert CRANE (b. 1576 - d. 1658) (m. Mary Sparhawk)

Married 2: Wymond CAREY of Snettisham 1589, Somerleyton, Suffolk, England

Thomas JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Born: 1553

Died: 1609

Father: George JERNINGHAM (Esq.)

Mother: Ella SPELMAN

Married: Elizabeth THOMPSON

Children:

1. Penelope JERNINGHAM

2. Anne JERNINGHAM

3. Elizabeth JERNINGHAM

4. Mary JERNINGHAM

5. Susan JERNINGHAM

6. Jane JERNINGHAM

7. Frances JERNINGHAM

8. Ellie JERNINGHAM

9. Thomas JERNINGHAM

Penelope JERNINGHAM

Father: Thomas JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth THOMPSON

Married: Thomas SPENCER

Anne JERNINGHAM

Father: Thomas JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth THOMPSON

Married: Matthew CRACHROOD

Mary JERNINGHAM

Father: Thomas JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth THOMPSON

Married: Henry MINGAY

Susan JERNINGHAM

Father: Thomas JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth THOMPSON

Married: William BIGGE

Frances JERNINGHAM

Father: Thomas JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth THOMPSON

Married: John SPARROW

Ellie JERNINGHAM

Father: Thomas JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth THOMPSON

Married: John REYNOLDS

Thomas JERNINGHAM

Born: 1591, Poslingford Manor, Suffolk, England

Died: 7 Aug 1645

Father: Thomas JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Elizabeth THOMPSON

Married: Eleanor WENTWORTH

Children:

1. Edward JERNINGHAM (b. 14 Sep 1615)

2. Mary JERNINGHAM (b. 17 Jun 1617)

3. Thomas JERNINGHAM (b. 28 Dec 1618)

4. Ellie JERNINGHAM (b. 6 Jun 1620)

5. Thomasine JERNINGHAM (b. 14 Apr 1623)

6. Henry JERNINGHAM (b. 24 Aug 1629)

Henry JERNINGHAM of Cotesby Hall (Sir)

Born: 1512, Norfolk, Wingfield, Suffolk, England

Died: 7 Sep 1572, Painswick, Gloucestershire, England

Notes: See his Biography.

Father: Edward JERNINGHAM (Sir)

Mother: Mary SCROPE

Married: Frances BAYNHAM

Children:

1. Henry JERNINGHAM of Cotesby Hall (Esq.)

2. William JERNINGHAM

3. Mary JERNINGHAM

4. Jermina JERNINGHAM

5. Francis JERNINGHAM

Mary JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1542

Father:Henry JERNINGHAM of Cotesby Hall(Sir)

Mother: Frances BAYNHAM

Married: Thomas SOUTHWELL

Jermina JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1550, Cossey Hall, Norfolk, England

Buried: 4 Feb 1627, Cossey, Norfolk, England

Father:Henry JERNINGHAM of Cotesby Hall(Sir)

Mother: Frances BAYNHAM

Married: Charles WALDEGRAVE of Staininghall (Sir) 25 Nov 1571, Cossey Hall, Norfolk, England

Children:

1. Jermina WALDEGRAVE

2. Dorothy WALDEGRAVE

3. Christian WALDEGRAVE

4. Frances WALDEGRAVE

5. Magdalen WALDEGRAVE

6. Nicholas WALDEGRAVE

7. Margaret WALDEGRAVE

8. Mary WALDEGRAVE

9. Anne WALDEGRAVE

10. Jermina WALDEGRAVE

11. Edward WALDEGRAVE of Hever Castle

12. Charles WALDEGRAVE

13. John WALDEGRAVE

Henry JERNINGHAM of Cotesby Hall (Esq.)

Born: ABT 1533

Died: 15 Jul 1619

Buried: St. Margarets Church, Westminster, Middlesex, England

Notes: because of their Catholic faith, their two young sons were taken from them to be brought up as Protestants at Westminster. The plague raging in London prompted Sir Henry to request that his sons be sent back to Cotesby. Consent was given. (Vide Historical Manuscripts Commission 10th report App. part IV. H.M.S.O. 1885): 1593, The Privy Council to Henry Jerningham, Esq.:"In answer to his suit that his two sons remaining with Mr. Molecaster might, during the time of the infection be sent to remain with him for one season, they had formerly permitted them to remain with him until Allhallows' tide next, now, upon his renewed application that his said children for some longer space of time may remain in the country with him until infection be more slacked in the city they consent to his request until Twelvetide next. They look that in the meantime his children be brought up by a schoolmaster known to be well affected in religion, that may give account for their education. Whitehall 22 Oct 1593"

Father: Henry JERNINGHAM of Cotesby Hall(Sir)

Mother: Frances BAYNHAM

Married: Eleanor DACRE

Children:

1. Thomas JERNINGHAM

2. Henry JERNINGHAM (1° Bt.)

3. William JERNINGHAM

4. George JERNINGHAM

5. Francis JERNINGHAM

6. Anne JERNINGHAM

Married2:Frances JERNINGHAM

Children:

7. Son JERNINGHAM

8. Anne JERNINGHAM (b. 1576)

George JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1568, Costessey, Norfolk, England

Father: Henry JERNINGHAM of Cotesby Hall (Esq.)

Mother:Eleanor DACRE

Married: Eleanor PHILPOT

Anne JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1572, Cossey, Norfolk, England

Died: 4 Jan 1637, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Buried: 16 Feb 1637/1638, St. Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Father: Henry JERNINGHAM of Cotesby Hall (Esq.)

Mother: Eleanor DACRE

Married: John ARUNDELL ABT 1595, Cossey, Norfolk, England

Henry JERNINGHAM (1° Bt.)

Died: 1646

Notes: suffered severly during the civil wars in the upsurpation, the Park at Costessey was let down and the deer destroyed, the mansion with the domain, let to a farmer, and a considerable part of the buildings was suffered to fall into decay. It is reported that Sir Henry who had been brought up in Westminster had often attended Protestant churches, lapsing from the Catholic faith. A report published in the 'Chronicle of St. Monica's Louvain' says that when he was near to his death a 'Father of the Society' was sent to him and he re-embraced the Catholic Faith. He was succeeded by his grandson.

Father: Henry JERNINGHAM of Cotesby Hall (Esq.)

Mother: Eleanor DACRE

Married: Eleanor THROCKMORTON 31 Jan 1591/1592, Coughton, Warwickshire, England

Children:

1. John JERNINGHAM (whose son Henry suceeded his grandfather)

2. William JERNINGHAM

3. Thomas JERNINGHAM

4. Catherine JERNINGHAM

5. Anne JERNINGHAM

6. Angela JERNINGHAM

7. Alexis JERNINGHAM (Abbess of the 3rd. Order of St. Francis in Paris)

Elizabeth JERNINGHAM

Born: ABT 1576, Costessey, Norfolk, England

Married:Edward FETTIPLACE

Children:

1. Richard FETTIPLACE

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