New ancestors for the Virginia Randolphs?

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John Brandon

New ancestors for the Virginia Randolphs?

Legg inn av John Brandon » 15 mai 2006 23:47:16

(See, now, I do sometimes post things with a late-medieval connection
....)

Do the following biographies (of George Vincent, M.P., and Sir Richard
Sacheverell, M.P.) from S. T. Bindoff, ed., _The House of Commons,
1509-1558_ add any new ancestry (? Sacheverells) for the Randolph
family of Virginia?

VINCENT, George (by 1493-1566), of Peckleton, Leics.

b. by 1493, 1st s. of Richard Vincent of Messingham, Lincs. by Anne,
da. and h. of William Grimsby of Lincoln, Lincs. ... m. (1) by 1517,
Jane, da. of William Story of Sleaford, Lincs., 7s. 2da.; (2) by 1542,
Anne, da. of Richard Radcliffe, wid. of Roger Lache of Daventry,
Northants.; (3) Amy, da. of Peter Colles of Preston Capes, Northants.
[an ancestor of Mrs. Alice Freeman Thompson Parke of Massachusetts Bay
and Connecticut, by the way] 2s. 1da. _suc._ fa. bef. 1515.

The Harington affair might have been expected to evoke a conciliatory
intervention by Sir Richard Sacheverell*: he had arranged Harrington's
marriage with his ward Elizabeth Moton and had doubtless also had a
hand in [George] Vincent's marriage with his niece Jane Story. In the
upshot Sacheverell appears to have promoted the Vincents' interest, for
George Vincent remained his adherent and as such sided with the
Hastings faction in its long struggle against the Greys: Vincent was
Sacheverell's principal agent in the harrying of Reginald Grey and his
ultimate ejection from the manor of Barwell, and when in 1534
Sacheverell came to make his will George and Jane Vincent were among
the principal beneficiaries.

* * * * * * * * *


SACHEVERELL, Sir Richard (by 1469-1534), of Newarke College, Leics. and
Ratcliffe-upon-Soar, Notts.

b. by 1469, 2nd s. of Ralph Sacheverell (d. 28 Aug. 1488) of Morley,
Derbys. by Joan, da. of John Curzon of Kedleston, Derbys. m. 1 May
1509, Mary, _suo jure_ Baroness Botreaux ...

Sacheverell took advantage of his ascendancy to obtain various
profitable leases and tenancies from both monastic and lay landlords,
to some of which his title was disputed. By his will dated 29 Mar.
1534 (the last day but one of the sixth session of Parliament) he left
his lands to his kinsforlk, and in particular his sisters' children,
for whom he seems to have been solicitous, arranging a marriage for one
of them with the wealthy Christopher Nele of Barrow and bestowing the
two others on his own leading supporters John Turvile and George
Vincent*. To these nieces and to a nephew he left equal shares in his
property in tail male, with reversion first to the heirs of two of the
nieces, Elizabeth Nele and Jane Vincent, and then to Mary Turvile's
brothers, George and William Fyndern, and to another nephew, Ralph
Sacheverell. Sacheverell died on 14 Apr. 1534, and was buried beside
his wife, who had predeceased him by little more than a year, in
Newarke College. It is not known by whom the vacancy left in the
Commons was filled unless it was by William Ashby (q.v.).

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