MORDAUNT

Notes: his Will mentions Lady Agnes Pecke, late wife of John Pecke of Cople, daughter of John Vynter of Crick (Creke), Northamptonshire. The testators were his brother William Mordaunt, John Vynter and William Gascoigne. John Mordaunt, wounded at the battle of Barnet, was a commander at the battle of Stoke (1487), Speaker of the House of Commons, sergeant-at-law (10 Sep 1495), King's Serjeant (25 Nov 1495), attorney to Prince Arthur, Chief Justice of Chester (c. 1499), knighted (1502-3), High Steward of Cambridge University (1504), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (24 Jun 1504), lawyer at Middle Temple. He married Edith. His son and heir John, aged 21 at his father's death, was created Lord Mordaunt of Turvey and married Elizabeth Vere, sister of Etheldreda Vere mentioned in the Will.

Father: William MORDAUNT

Mother: Margaret PEAKE

Married: Edith LATIMER (dau. of Sir Nicholas Latimer of Duntish) (w. of John Greene of Stotfold) ABT 1482, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Children:

1. John MORDAUNT (1º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

John MORDAUNT (1º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Born: ABT 1483, Copley, Bedfordshire, England

Died: 1561

Notes: Speaker of the House of Commons of England. He was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1503 to be trained as a barrister. He was made a Knight of the Bath when the future Henry VIII was created Prince of Wales on 18 Feb 1503. He succeeded his father in 1504, inheriting his Bedfordshire estates, and was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire for 1509. He was a member of Henry VIII's court and was with him at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 and a member of his council in 1526 and was involved in investigating the possessions of the great Cardinal Wolsey after the Cardinal’s fall from power in 1529. Created Baron Mordaunt in 1529. He took his seat in the House of Lords in 1532. The following year he assisted at the reception of Anne Boleyn and subsequently took part in her trial. He became active in local government and rarely visited Parliament, especially after an accident in 1539.

He died in 1562 and was buried in Turvey church alongside his wife, who had predeceased him. He had married Elizabeth Vere, daughter and coheir of Sir Henry Vere of Great Addington, Northamptonshire. They had four sons and four daughters. He was succeeded by his eldest son John Mordaunt, 2nd Baron Mordaunt. His second son Edmund became MP for Bedford.

Father:John MORDAUNT

Mother:Edith LATIMER

Originally identified as Sir Edward Osbourne (c 1530-1591) then John, Lord Mordaunt (1490-1562), a man tall enough in Henry VIII's favor to have the right to own armor from the Greenwich workshops.

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Married: Elizabeth De VERE (B. Mordaunt of Turvey) ABT 1507, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Children:

1. Anne MORDAUNT

2. Margaret MORDAUNT

3. Edmund MORDAUNT

4. Edith MORDAUNT

5. George MORDAUNT

6. Elizabeth MORDAUNT

7. John MORDAUNT (2º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

8.Winifred MORDAUNT

9. William MORDAUNT

10. Dorothy MORDAUNT

11. Audrey (Etheldreda) MORDAUNT (Nun at Barking) (d. AFT 1553)

Anne MORDAUNT

Born: ABT 1506, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Father: John MORDAUNT (1º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother: Elizabeth De VERE (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married 1: John RODNEY (b. 1506 - d. 25 Dec 1549) (son of Walter Rodney and Elizabeth Compton)

Children:

1. Anne RODNEY (m. William Sutton) Married 2: John CHENEY

Married 3: John FISHER (son of Michael Fisher and Margaret Frowicke)

Children:

2. Agnes FISHER (B. St. John of Bletsoe) (b. 1522 - d. 28 Aug 1572) (m. Oliver St. John, 1° B. St. John of Bletsoe)

Margaret MORDAUNT

Born: ABT 1509, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Father: John MORDAUNT (1º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother: Elizabeth De VERE (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married 1: Edmund FETTIPLACEABT 1526, Turvey, Berkshire, England

Children:

1. John FETTIPLACE (Sir Knight)

2. Thomas FETTIPLACE

3. George FETTIPLACE

4. Edward (Edmund) FETTIPLACE

5. William FETTIPLACE

6. Elizabeth FETTIPLACE

7. Jane FETTIPLACE

8. Anne FETTIPLACE

9. Dorothy FETTIPLACE

Married 2: Thomas DENTON (MP) (d. 1558) (son of Thomas Denton and Jane Webbe) AFT 1540

Edith MORDAUNT

Born: ABT 1516, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Father: John MORDAUNT (1º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother: Elizabeth De VERE (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married: John ELMES

Elizabeth MORDAUNT

Born: 1518, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Father: John MORDAUNT (1º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother: Elizabeth De VERE (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married: Silvester DANVERS of Dauntsey (Sheriff of Wiltshire) (b. 1518 - d. 1552) (son of Thomas Danvers and Margaret Courtenay) Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Children:

1. John DANVERS of Dauntsey (Sir Knight) (See his Biography) (m. Elizabeth Neville)

2. Anne DANVERS

3. Ursula DANVERS

4. Anthony DANVERS

5. Elizabeth DANVERS

6. Henry DANVERS

Winifred MORDAUNT

Born: ABT 1520, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Died: 8 Jul 1561/2

Buried: Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, England

Notes: a nun at Barking Abbey, Winifred was approximately nineteen at the dissolution and in fact did marry a John Cheney on 23 Oct 1541.

Father:John MORDAUNT (1º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother:Elizabeth De VERE (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married: John CHENEY 23 Oct 1541

Dorothy MORDAUNT

Born: ABT 1524, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Father:John MORDAUNT (1º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother: Elizabeth De VERE (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married: Thomas MORE

William MORDAUNT

Born: ABT 1522, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Died: AFT 1580

Father:John MORDAUNT (1º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother: Elizabeth De VERE (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married 1: Agnes (Janet) BOOTH ABT 1545, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Children:

1. Edmund MORDAUNT

Married 2: Cecilia HARDING

Edmund MORDAUNT

Born: ABT 1550

Died: AFT 1580

Father: William MORDAUNT

Mother: Agnes (Janet) BOOTH

Married 1: Agnes RICH 1580, Greensted, Essex, England

Married 2: Elizabeth STAVELEY

Children:

1. Anne MORDAUNT

Anne MORDAUNT

Father: Edmund MORDAUNT

Mother: Elizabeth STAVELEY

Married: Simon THROCKMORTON 13 Jul 1612, Oakley, Bedfordshire

George MORDAUNT

Born: ABT 1518, Oakley, Bedfordshire, England

Father: John MORDAUNT (1º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother: Elizabeth De VERE (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married: Cecilia HARDING ABT 1549, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Children:

1. Lewis MORDAUNT

Lewis MORDAUNT

Born: 1543, Caldecot, Northill, Bedfordshire, England

Father: George MORDAUNT

Mother: Cecilia HARDING

Married: Jane NEEDHAM 1573, Little Wimondley, Hertfordshire, England

Children:

1. George MORDAUNT

George MORDAUNT

Born: 1574, Caldecot, Northill, Bedfordshire, England

Father: Lewis MORDAUNT

Mother: Jane NEEDHAM

Married: Anne SMYTHE

Children:

1. George MORDAUNT

George MORDAUNT

Born: 1601, Caldecot, Northill, Bedfordshire, England

Father: George MORDAUNT

Mother: Anne SMYTHE

Married: Elizabeth EVERARD 1629, Beeston, Bedfordshire, England

Edmund MORDAUNT

Born: ABT 1510, Middle Temple, London

Died: 1556

Notes: Edmund Mordaunt’s elder brother John was knight of the shire in all three of the Parliaments for which Mordaunt himself represented Bedford, proof enough that he owed his career in the House to his family’s pervasive influence. Of the man himself little is known for certain. His record at the Middle Temple can barely be disentangled from that of at least one contemporary namesake there. Since Edmund Mordaunt ‘gentleman’ was apparently living in 1559 and had a son who was admitted during that year, it is likely that the Member, who did not marry, was the Edmund Mordaunt described in the Middle Temple books from 1553 as ‘senior, esquire’ (a style appropriate to the son of a knight), who on four occasions between Nov 1551 and Dec 1554 was one of those from whom the inn’s butler was chosen. In Aug 1556 a chamber there, ‘late Mr. Edmund Mordaunt’s, deceased’, was vacant: if this was the Member he died intestate, and administration of his estate was not granted until 6 Oct. 1562 when the 2nd Baron Mordaunt, ‘brother ... of Edmund Mordaunt, late of the Middle Temple, esquire’ was declared administrator. Part of the delay could have been due to the misfortune attendant upon his Catholicism which overtook the elder brother after Elizabeth’s accession. Another grant, on 28 Jun 1592, was made to one of Edmund’s creditors, the 2nd Baron having died in 1571 without completing the administration: perhaps his widow, who died in 1592, had acted for him until this date.

Father: John MORDAUNT (1º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother: Elizabeth De VERE (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married: ¿?

Children:

1. Margaret MORDAUNT

Margaret MORDAUNT

Notes: Her husband, Lawrence Taylard of Diddington. Taylards of Diddington had practised law and sat in Parliament for almost a century before Lawrence Taylard began to do so. By the close of the 15th century his forbears had acquired all three manors at Diddington as well as property in the south of Huntingdonshire and in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire: they remained, however, well below the first rank of local landowners and their continued prominence in the area rested more on their legal attainments than on their wealth. Lawrence Taylard's father died in 1515 and his mother three years later, whereupon he became the ward of his uncle William Taylard, a doctor of law and rector of Offord Darcy near Diddington. Another uncle who took an interest in him, and whose heir he became, was John Taylard of Upwood, Huntingdonshire, an Inner Templar who had sat in Henry VIII's first Parliament, but it was to the Middle Temple that Taylard was admitted in 1520. Within four years he was named a justice of the peace for his native county, its escheator and one of its subsidy commissioners. He may also have sat in the Parliament of 1523 for Huntingdon, which lies a few miles north of Diddington, and thus have been able to add experience of the Commons to the qualifications which six years later were to secure him the junior knighthood of the shire. His achievement on that occasion perhaps owed something to the current paucity of candidates from the leading county families, a situation in which Taylard's own standing could have sufficed for his election: already in Wolsey's time he was described by an opponent in Chancery, although not perhaps without some conventional exaggeration, as ‘a great man of power and friends’ in the shire.

Of Taylard's part in the proceedings of the Parliament of 1529 nothing is known for certain, but two facts may throw indirect light on it. The first is the knighthood which was conferred on him at an early stage in that Parliament's lifetime. Coinciding as it probably did with the knighting of Nicholas Harvey, his fellow-Member for Huntingdonshire, Taylard's promotion may look like the counterpart of Harvey's but it must also imply satisfaction with his conduct both at Westminster and elsewhere. By contrast, the appearance of his name on a list of Members drawn up by Cromwell early in 1533 suggests something quite different, for this list is thought to record the names of known or putative opponents of the bill in restraint of appeals and Taylard stands second on it and next to such well-known dissidents as Sir William Essex, Sir Richard Shirley and Sir George Throckmorton. It may be that Taylard's initial acquiescence in what was demanded of this Parliament gave way to disenchantment and that the change did not escape official notice: by this time he was almost certainly married, and the strongly Catholic Mordaunts could well have influenced both his outlook and his fortunes. Such an interpretation of the meagre evidence gains some colour from Taylard's record in local government: named to a variety of commissions, and nominated for sheriff five times between 1532 and 1541, he was passed over at each pricking and not chosen until 1546. His parliamentary career exhibits a similar pattern: it is not known whether he was returned to the Parliament of Jun 1536, in accordance with the King's request for the re-election of the previous Members, but he did not sit again for the shire (save, perhaps, in 1545, when the names of the Members are lost, or in the spring of 1553, when the name of only one Member is known) until the reign of Mary.

What looks like Taylard's partial withdrawal or exclusion from public affairs under Henry VIII was to become more evident in the following reign. Put off the commission of the peace for his shrieval year in 1546-7 he was not restored to it nor employed, as before, on judicial ones: only three such appointments came his way. His demotion is not surprising in view of a clash between him and the Protector Somerset in Oct 1547. When one Dowve and certain others of St. Neots, which lies not far from Diddington, carried out the injunctions of that year to remove ‘certain images of abuse’ from the church there, Taylard, who was still sheriff, and Oliver Leder, the steward of St. Neots, tried to make them restore the images and, when they failed in this, so maltreated Dowve as to cause a tumult. Dowve complained to the Protector, who was then passing through from Scotland, and Somerset told Taylard and Leder in friendly fashion to stop molesting the image -breakers, but no sooner had he left than the two started making fresh trouble for Dowve. They were then summoned before the Council and again ordered by Somerset to behave themselves, ‘upon pain, if they were found any more culpable in that part, to be therefor sharply punished’.

With the accession of Mary, Taylard resumed full public activity: he was restored to the commission of the peace, served again for oyer and terminer and gaol delivery, and had another term as sheriff. With his comrade Oliver Leder he reappeared in the House of Commons, which had probably not seen him for 17 years; not surprisingly, the Members who ‘stood for the true religion’, that is, for Protestantism, did not enlist his support. Yet neither then nor later can he have distinguished himself by his zeal for Catholicism, for the Elizabethan settlement was not to interfere with his public life as the Edwardian Reformation had done: in 1564 Nicholas Bullingham, Bishop of Lincoln, categorized him as ‘indifferent’ in religion and he kept his place on the commission of the peace. He was included in that of 1573/74 but apparently died in 1573 when letters of administration were issued for his estate. His eldest son had predeceased him and the heir was a granddaughter Catherine, who married into the Catholic family of Brudenell and whose son Thomas became the 1st Earl of Cardigan.

Father: Edmund MORDAUNT

Mother: ¿?

Married: Lawrence TAYLARD (b. 1498/99 - d. 1573) (son of Walter Taylard of Diddington by Alice, dau. and coheir of Robert Forster of London) (m.2 Dorothy, dau. of Thomas Roberds of Willesden, Mdx., w. of Alan Horde)

Children:

1. Son TAYLARD

2. Dau. TAYLARD

3. Son TAYLARD

4. Dau. TAYLARD

5. Son TAYLARD

6.Dau. TAYLARD

7. Son TAYLARD

8.Dau. TAYLARD

9. Son TAYLARD

10. Son TAYLARD

11. Son TAYLARD

12. Son TAYLARD

13. Son TAYLARD

14. Son TAYLARD

John MORDAUNT (2º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Born: ABT 1508 / 1518, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Acceded: 18 Aug 1562

Died: 1571/2

Buried: Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Notes: See his Biography.

Father:John MORDAUNT (1º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother:Elizabeth De VERE (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married 1: Ellen FITZLEWIS (b. ABT 1522 - d. 2 Jun 1543) (dau. of John Fitzlewis and Catherine Lovell) ABT 1537, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Children:

1. Lewis MORDAUNT (3º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

2. Elizabeth MORDAUNT

3. Margaret MORDAUNT

4. Anne MORDAUNT

5. Ursula MORDAUNT

6. Son MORDAUNT

7. Dau. MORDAUNT

8. Son MORDAUNT

9. Dau. MORDAUNT

10. Son MORDAUNT

Married2:Joan FERMOR (B. Mordaunt of Turvey) (b. 1516 - d. Apr 1592)(dau. of Richard Fermor of Easton Neston andAnne Browne) (w. of Robert Wilford - m.3 Thomas Kempe) ABT 1550, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Anne MORDAUNT

Father:John MORDAUNT (2º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother:Ellen FITZLEWIS

Married: Clement TANFIELD (son of Francis Tanfield and Bridget Cave) (b. 1539 - d. 1585)

Children:

1. Fancis Tanfield (Governor of South Falkland Colony)

Lewis MORDAUNT (3º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Born: 21 Sep 1538, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Died: 16 Jun 1601, Drayton Manor House, Northhamptonshire, England

Buried: 29 Jul 1601, Lowick, Northamptonshire, England

Notes: See his Biography.

Father:John MORDAUNT (2º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother:Ellen FITZLEWIS

Married:Elizabeth DARCY (B. Mordaunt of Turvey) ABT 1563, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Children:

1. Henry MORDAUNT (4° B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

3. Mary MORDAUNT

4. Elizabeth MORDAUNT

5. Catherine MORDAUNT

Mary MORDAUNT

Father: Lewis MORDAUNT (3º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother: Elizabeth DARCY (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married: Thomas MANSELL (1° Bt.) (son of Sir Edward Mansell and Jane Somerset) (m.2 Jane Pole) 30 May 1582

Children:

1. Lewis MANSELL (2° Bt.) (b. ABT 1594 - d. 4 Apr 1638) (m. Elizabeth Montague)

Catherine MORDAUNT

Born: ABT 1568

Father:Lewis MORDAUNT (3º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother:Elizabeth DARCY (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married: John HEVENINGHAM of Ketteringham (Sir)(d. 1633) (son of Sir Arthur Heveningham and Mary Hanschet) (m.2 Bridget Paston)

Henry MORDAUNT (4º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Born: ABT 1564 / 1568, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England

Died: 13 Feb 1608/09

Buried: Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Father: Lewis MORDAUNT (3º B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother: Elizabeth DARCY (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married: Margaret COMPTON (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)ABT 1585, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England / BEF 01 Oct 1593

Children:

1. John MORDAUNT (1° E. Peterborough)

2. Frances MORDAUNT

3. James MORDAUNT

4. Henry MORDAUNT

5. Lewis MORDAUNT

6. Margaret MORDAUNT

7. Anne MORDAUNT

8. Frances MORDAUNT

9. Elizabeth MORDAUNT

10. Francis MORDAUNT

11. Anne MORDAUNT

Frances MORDAUNT

Born: ABT 1595, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Father: Henry MORDAUNT (4° B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother: Margaret COMPTON (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married: Thomas NEVILLE ABT 1622, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Children:

1. Margaret NEVILLE

2. Henry NEVILLE

3. Charles NEVILLE

Married 2:Basil BROOKE of Madeley Court (Sir)

Children:

2. Frances BROOKE

Francis MORDAUNT

Father:Henry MORDAUNT (4° B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother:Margaret COMPTON (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married: Frances GOSTWICK

John MORDAUNT (1° E. Peterborough)

Born: 1598/99, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Christened: 18 Jan 1598/99, Lowick, Northamptonshire, England

Acceded: 9 Mar 1627/8

Died: 19 Jun 1642/18 Jun 1644

Buried: 24 Jun 1644, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England

Notes: 5th Lord Mordaunt.

Father: Henry MORDAUNT (4° B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Mother: Margaret COMPTON (B. Mordaunt of Turvey)

Married:Elizabeth HOWARD (C. Peterborough) 31 Mar 1620 Pre-Nuptial / BEF 7 Apr 1621

Children:

1. Henry MORDAUNT (2° E. Peterborough)

2.JohnMORDAUNT(V. Mordaunt)(b. 18 Jun 1626, Lowick, Northampton, England - d. 05 Jun 1675, Parson's Green, Middlesex, England) (m.Elizabeth CareyABT 1656)

3. ElizabethMORDAUNT(d. BEF Jun 1677) (m. Thomas Howard, 2º B. Howard of Escrick)

4. WilliamMORDAUNT

Thomas MORDAUNT

Born: ABT 1530

Married:Mary CALTHORPE

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