 1550 - Abt 1587 (~ 36 years)
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| Name |
Rowe, Robert |
| Christened |
14 Aug 1550 |
All Hallows Bread Street, London, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Abt 1587 |
Of St Martin Outwich, London, England |
| Person ID |
I08746 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
2 Nov 2017 |
| Father |
Rowe, Thomas, b. Abt 1515, Of Essex, England , bur. 2 Sep 1570, Hackney, Middlesex, England (Age ~ 55 years) |
| Mother |
Gresham, Mary, b. 27 Aug 1523, Of London, England , d. 18 Jan 1583, Of London, England (Age 59 years) |
| Married |
24 Jan 1539 |
St Mary Aldermanbury, London, England |
| Family ID |
F02451 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- ROE, Sir THOMAS (1581?-1644), ambassador, son of Robert Rowe, was born at Low Leyton, near Wanstead in Essex, in 1580 or 1581. His grandfather, Sir Thomas Rowe or Roe, merchant tailor, was alderman, sheriff (1560), and lord mayor of London (1568); Mary, daughter of Sir John Gresham, was Sir Thomas's wife [see under Gresham, Sir Richard; and Remembrancia, p. 332]. Robert, the father of the ambassador, died while his son was a child (Wood, Athenæ, ed. Bliss, iii. 111). His mother, Elinor, daughter of Robert Jermy of Worstead, Norfolk (Philpot pedigree in College of Arms), subsequently married ‘one Berkeley of Rendcomb in Gloucestershire, of the family of the Lord Berkeley.’
Thomas matriculated as a commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford, on 6 July 1593, at the age of twelve. He had clearly powerful family influence, whether from the Berkeleys, the family of his stepfather, or from his father's wealthy relations. After spending some time ‘in one of the inns of court or in France or both’ (Wood), he was appointed esquire of the body to Queen Elizabeth in the last years of her reign, and after her death was knighted by James I on 23 March 1604-5. He was popular at court, especially with Henry, prince of Wales, and his sister Elizabeth, afterwards queen of Bohemia; and the former gave him his first opportunity of distant travel by sending him ‘upon a discovery to the West Indies.’ Roe equipped a ship and pinnace, and sailed from Plymouth on 24 Feb. 1609-10. Striking the mouth of the Amazon, then unknown to English explorers, he sailed two hundred miles up the river, and rowed in boats one hundred miles further, making many excursions into the country from the banks; then returning to the mouth, he explored the coast and entered various rivers in canoes, passing over ‘thirty-two falles in the river of Wia Poko’ or Oyapok. Having examined the coast from the Amazon to the Orinoco for thirteen months, without discovering the gold in which the West Indies were believed to abound, he returned home by way of Trinidad, and reached the Isle of Wight in July 1611. Twice again was he sent to the same coast, ‘to make farther discoveries, and maintained twenty men in the River of Amozones, for the good of his countrey, who are yet [1614] remaining there, and supplied’ (Stow, Annales, continued by Howes, 1631, p. 1022). At the close of 1613 he was at Flushing ‘going for Captaine Floods companye,’ who was just dead (Collins, Letters and Memorials of State of the Sydney Family, ii. 329). While in the Netherlands he
In 1587 Robert Rowe (fn. 212) died seisedof the capital messuage called Knotts 'and othertenements there', his son and heir Thomas (laterSir Thomas) being a minor. (fn. 213) Thomas, explorer ofthe Amazon and first English ambassador to Indiaand Turkey, (fn. 214) parted with it, for in 1611 Toby Wooddied seised of it with over 20 a. of land
From: 'Leyton: Manors and estates', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 (1973), pp. 184-197. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42768 Date accessed: 01 February 2012.
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