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    Wriothesley, Mary

    Female Abt 1530 - 1561  (~ 31 years)


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    • Name Wriothesley, Mary 
      Born Abt 1530  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Buried 12 Dec 1561  St Kathrine Christ Church, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I08310  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 28 May 2015 

      Family 1 Shelley, William,   b. Of Michelgrove, Clapham, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F02602  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family 2 Lister, Richard,   b. 23 Nov 1532, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1558, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 25 years) 
      Married Abt 1552  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
       1. Lister, Michael,   b. Abt 1555, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1574  (Age ~ 20 years)
      Family ID F02515  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Daughter of Thomas:
        Thomas WRIOTHESLEY was born 21st December 1505. He was created 1st Earl of SOUTHAMPTON 17th February 1547. He was married (in or prior to 1533) to Jane CHENEY (daughter of William CHENEY of Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire). He died 30th July 1550 and was buried 3rd August 1550 at St Andrew Holborn. M.I. His body was afterwards removed to Titchfield. M.I. Will dated 21st July 1550, proved PCC 14th May 1551, Buck 13, PROB11/34. She died 15th September 1574 and was buried at Titchfield. M.I. Will dated 26th June 1574, proved PCC 19th November 1574, Martyn 43, PROB11/56.(See below)
        born
        21 Dec 1505
        mar.
        bef. 1533 Jane Cheney (d. 15 Sep 1574), dau. of William Cheney, of Chesham Bois, co. Buckingham, by his wife Emma Walwyn, dau. of Thomas Walwyn, of Much Marcle, co. Hereford
        children
        1.William Wriothesley (b. bef. 12 Sep 1535; dvp. Aug 1537)
        2. Anthony Wriothesley (dvp. c. 1542)
        3. Hon Henry Wriothesley, later 2nd Earl of Southampton
        1. Lady Mary Wriothesley, mar. (1) William Shelley, of Michelgrove, co. Sussex, and (2) ..... Lyster, son and heir of Sir Michael Lyster
        2. Lady Elizabeth Wriothesley (bur. spms. 15 Jan 1554/5), mar. bef. 1 Nov 1545 Thomas [Radcliffe], 3rd Earl of Sussex , and had issue
        3. Lady Katherine Wriothesley, mar. Thomas Cornwallis
        4. Lady Mabel Wriothesley, mar. Sir Walter Sandys
        5. Lady Anne Wriothesley, mar. Sir Oliver Lawrence
        died
        30 Jul 1550

        Will of Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton.
        WILL OF THOMAS WRIOTHESLEY, EARL or SOUTHAMPTON.* A. D. 1561. In Dei nomine Amen. xxj die Julij, anno regni regis Edwardi sexti quarto. I Thomas Earl of Southampton, beyng whole of mynd and perfect remembrance, althoughe feeble and weake in bodye, thankes be unto almightie God, make and ordayne this my present testament and last will, in manner and forme followinge. First, I yeld my soule wholelie to the infynite mercye of almightie God, trusting assuredlie to be saved by the merrits of the passion of our Lord and Saviour Jesu Christ, his onlie sonne and our onelie mediator, the second person in Trinitie. Item, I gyve and bequeathe unto my most gratious soveraigne lorde the kinges majestie, for a remembraunce of my bounden dutie towardes his hieghnes, my collar of the Garter, my guilt bason and ewer, that is in my wyffes custodie, my sixe guilt candlestickes, and my great guilt wreathen pottys, besechynge God to send him his grace, with health of bodye, till he be as olde a kinge as ever anie of his noble progenitors. Item, I gyve to my lady Maryes grace, for a remembraunce, my best standing Cubbe f guilte. Item, I gyve and bequeathe to my ladye Elizabethes grace, for a like remembraunce, my second standing cupp guilt.

        Need to find this in National ARchives site to verify??
        In a Court Roll of 1545 (5M53/932) the Court Minutes the Manor of Husseys is listed with many others in a marriage settlement between Mary Wriothesley and Sir Richard Lyster, Chief Baron of the King’s Exchequer who held this manor for a further ten years when on the 21st. day of December in the second and third years of the reigns of the late King and Queen (Philip and Mary, 1555), he sold Husseys to John Gifford of Northall (Northolt) in the County of Middlesex.

        The Earl of Southampton seems to have had his full pardon by that time. His mother had long been failing and was now very ill; she lived over six months after.
        Will of Jane Countesse of Southampton of Southampton, Hampshire 19 November 1574 PROB 11/56
        Her will was drawn up on 1st July, I574* and she died not long afterwards; the will was proved on 26th July. She left certain leases to her son, Henry, Earl of Southampton, failing whom to his son, Lord Harry Wriothesley, failing whom to the Lady Mary Wriothesley, failing whom to her own daughters. Her household stuff was to go in the same way. She left liberal shares of her cattle and sheep to her son-in-law, Cornwallys, and his wife Katharine, the rest to her son. Certain leases were left directly to her grandson, failing whom to his sister Mary. Her own daughter, Mabel, was to have for life Longlands and Gravelpits, lately parcel of the possessions of the monastery of Clerkenwell, after her to Robert Cornwallys, her daughter's son. One hundred pounds' worth of plate was left to each of her daughters, 100 marks' worth to Lord Harry Wriothesley, and the same to Lady Mary. To my son the Earl all my stuff in Southampton Place, Holborn, my best crosse of gold set with diamonds on one side and enamelled with green and red on the other, with a faire pearl hanging at it. A faire tablet of golde wherein is the picture of my Lord his father's face, weighing about ^\ ounces, also my great flaggon chayne that I was wont to weare about my middle for a girdle, weighing 12 ounces.... To my Lady Southampton, my son's wife, a Browche with an Agate and 7 little rubyes, with the picture of a face upon the Agatt; also a girdle of gold, with roses black and white enamelled, and wheatsheaves enamelled. . . .To my daughter Katharine my best booke of gold, set with 4 diamonds and a ruby in the midst on one side, and 4 rubyes with a diamond in the midst on the other side, and the Queen's writing in the same book; also my wrethed long girdle of gold with black enamel ; and a short girdle of perles with little perles of gold enamelled in black, a brooch of gold with a saphire in it, and a Storye, also a cheyne of fine golde. To my daughter Mabel my best brooche which hath 10 diamonds in it and a ruby at the foot of the Storye; also a gold booke with a black knot inamelled and two scallop shells; a chain of gold inamelled black and white; a long girdle of gold, another with pillars inamelled red and white and black, the links playne and wrethed, and a cross of gold, with a crucifix sett with 2 diamonds and a perle pendent, with another chayne. To my son's daughter, the Lady Mary, my best flower of gold set with 2 rubyes, 2 emeralds, and 3 perles pendent, a tablet of gold with an old storey in it, a pair of beads without Amell, and a tablet hanging at them, inamelled ; a browche of gold with 2 little rubyes in it. These jewels to her at her marriage. If she dye, to her brother the Lord Harry, if he die too, to my daughters. All my perles to my daughters. . . . To my daughter Cornwallys a pair of Tennes, with red currall richly dressed with lyly pottes enamelled with words graven on them. To my daughter Mabel another payre of tennes in gold and jewels and one of my diamond rings to each . All the rest of my rings to my son .... To Robert Cornwallys my daughter's son 40, to , weight to Michael Lyster my daughter Mary Lyster's son, a gilt bowl 32 ounce weight. To her daughter Mabel she left 500 if she marries within three years, or 300 if she marries later, the 200 to go to her son's daughter. She prayed her son to be good to his sisters, to her servants, farmers, and tenants. She left to Andrew Mundaye, her servant, 10, and a year's wages to all her servants. To the poor of Titchfield and Holborn near London she left 60. 13-r. 4^. Her son Henry to be sole executor; overseers, Mr Justice Manwood and Mr Baver of Lincoln's Inn, who are to have .10 a year for their trouble.

        Her son buried her at Titchfield, but I have found no account of the proceedings. Beyond his legacies, the Earl would step into her jointures and dwelling-houses, and his position in the county would be strengthened. (Her children:)
        Lady Elizabeth Wriothesley (1532 - 1554). She became the first wife (1545) of Thomas Radcliffe (1525 - 1583), third Earl of Sussex.
        Lady Mary Wriothesley (born 1534). She was married firstly to William Shelley, and secondly to Richard Lyster.
        William Wriothesley (1535 - 1537). He died young.
        Anthony Wriothesley (1537 - 1542). He died young.
        Lady Catherine Wriothesley (born 1539). She was married to Thomas Cornwallis, of East Horsley, Surrey.
        Lady Mabel Wriothesley (born 1541). She was married to Sir Walter Sandys.
        Lady Anne Wriothesley (born c1543). She died unmarried.
        Henry Wriothesley (1545 - 1581). He succeeded his father as second Earl of Southampton (1550 - 1581) and left issue.

        Will of Henry Earl of Southampton 07 February 1583 PROB 11/65 Montague's son in law, Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, died 4 Oct 1581 and was buried at Titchfield, Hants, on 30 Nov.

        Same Mary??
        10" S. III. JUNE 10, 1905. NOTES AND QUERIES
        William Shelley's first wife was Mary (not, as Berry, in his 'Sussex Genealogies,' p. 62, says, Margaret), one of the daughters of
        Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. Machyn, in his 'Diary,' under the year 1561, thus refers to her funeral :- " The xiij day of Desember was bered at sant Katheryns-chryst chyrche my lade Lyster, sum-tyme the wyff of master Shelley of Sussex, and the dowther of the erle of Sowthamtun late lord chanseler of Engeland -Wresseley, with a harord of armes and a ij dosen of skochyons of armes. "
        From: 'Diary: 1561 (July - Dec)', The Diary of Henry Machyn: Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London (1550-1563) (1848), pp. 262-274. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45528 Date accessed: 13 February 2011.
        What this certainly seems to imply-viz that William Shelley was her first husband, and that she subsequently married Richard Lyster, son of Sir Michael Lyster, and grandson of the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench - is definitely asserted in Banks's ' Extinct Baronage of England ' (iii. G72) and 'D.N.B.' (lxiii. 152). However, she bore Richard Lyster a son in 1556 (Berry's 'Hants Genealogies,' p. 240), and so, on the above theory, must have(l) been married to William
        Shelley, and (2) had her marriage annulled, and (3) remarried before William Shelley was eighteen, which seems improbable. Can we hold, as Machyn's editor apparently does, that William Shelley was not her first, but her second husband ?

        The Wriothesley monument, commemorating the first earl and countess of Southampton, and their son the second earl, was set up in accordance with the will of the latter, proved 7 February, 1582, by which the enormous sum of £1,000 was left for the making of 'two faire monuments' in the 'chapel of the parish church of Tichell, co. Southampton.' The directions for two monuments were however ignored, and one only was made, on which the three alabaster effigies rest. It is a raised rectangular tomb, with projecting pilasters at the angles, which carry tall obelisks; the central part of the tomb is raised some feet above the rest, and on it lies the effigy of Jane countess of Southampton, 1574, that of her husband the first earl, 1551, lying at a lower level on the north, and that of her son the second earl, 1582, in like manner on the south. The whole is of alabaster and marble most elaborately and beautifully worked, carved, and panelled, the inscriptions being on black marble panels at the feet of the three effigies. In the vault beneath are also buried Henry third earl of Southampton and his son James Wriothesley, 1624, and the fourth and last earl, Thomas, 1667.

        From: 'Parishes: Titchfield', A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3 (1908), pp. 220-233. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41958 Date accessed: 13 February 2011.

        Will of Thomas Earl of Southampton of 14 May 1551 PROB 11/34
        Page 1. Thomas Wriothesley, earl of Southampton. The first person noticed by our funereal chronicler was one of the most remarkable men of his age: one who had attained the summit of the law, and who was aspiring to the summit of the state. The historian Carte attributes his death to mortified ambition, and so does Lord Campbell in his recent Lives of the Chancellors: on this part of his history see the Archæologia, vol. xxx. p. 468.
        It should be remarked that, though the body of the earl of Southampton was at first buried in Saint Andrew's Holborn, it was afterwards removed to Tichfield in Hampshire, where a sumptuous monument with his effigy still exists. There is a fine portrait of him in Chamberlain's Holbein Heads.

        From: 'Notes to the diary: 1550-51', The Diary of Henry Machyn: Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London (1550-1563) (1848), pp. 313-323. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45532 Date accessed: 13 February 2011.

        ......1569, when the Earl also made a will. At that time he had a daughter, his only and well-beloved child, the Lady Jane, and for the great affection he bore to her he desired at once to settle an inheritance on her, for her advance-
        ment in marriage. He also left a legacy to the Lady Mabel, his sister, and a similar legacy to Michael Lyster, the son of his sister, the Lady Mary, deceased, sometime the wife of Richard Lyster, also deceased;

        JOHN SHELLEY, esq. Vol. 232, No. 30. E. GK, 8 Nov. 34 Eliz. Died 27 Aug. last. Heir, son John, aged 6 years and 20 days. Lands. Manor of Offord Dacie alias Offord Darcie, co. Hunt., manor of Townland alias Towland, co. Kent, manor of Easton Basset, co. Wilts lands called " Bartholomews " in Storrington, reversion of half manor of Kyngesham alias Keynsham, advowson of Ch. of St. Pancras, co. Sussex, after death of Agnes Carpenter, widow, who still survives, and on 25 Aug. last made will " Eleanor my wief " till John Shelley my son and heir apparent shall accomplish 21, when to him and his heirs, remainder to my heirs, remainder to heirs of Henrie Shelley, late of Mapledurham, geat., deceased, remainder right heirs of said H. S.