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 - Abt 1587
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| Name |
Rocco, Bonetti |
| Born |
Italy  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Abt 1587 |
Blackfriars, Ludgate, London, England |
| Person ID |
I08307 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
13 Jun 2015 |
| Family |
Burbage, Eleanor, b. Abt 1528, Of Hayes, Middlesex, England , d. Abt 1574, St Marys, Lambeth, Surrey, England (Age ~ 46 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1572 |
England |
| Family ID |
F02513 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- BONETTI, ROCCO
An Italian fencing master teaching in London during the late 16th century.
Master of a school of fence at Blackfriars in London during the late 1500's. He was critically injured by Austen Bagger, an Englishman, outside of the school. ... He set up a school in London in 1576, calling it a "colledge". His students were typically "Noblemen & Gentlemen of the Court", and his colledge reflected this. It was decorated with the devices of his students and there was a writing desk with stationary and even a clock, clearly reflecting a clientelle beyond the hopes of the London Masters. [36] Bonetti's patrons included Sir Walter Raleigh, and one of the Queen's best swordsmen, Lord Peregrin Willoughby, both men of high stature. [37]
L.b.446 Farrant, Richard. d. 1580. Autograph letter signed. To Sir William More at Loseley. London. August 27, [1576].
Farrant requests the lease of a "howse in ye blakefriers late in ye L. Cobhams handes...if ye Italian [i.e. Rocco Bonetti] may be removid". He further asks permission to "pull downe one perticion & so make of too roomes one." Being successful in his request, he later converted these rooms into a theatre for the Children of the Chapel Royal (H.N. Hillebrand, Child actors, 1926, pp. 90-94). 1 fol.; 30.5 × 20.5 cm. (Film Fo 321.162)
L.b.37 Raleigh, Sir Walter. 1552-1618. Letter signed to Sir William More. ca. 1585.
Requests Sir William More to allow Rocco Bonetti, a fencing master who has erected a structure on the grounds of Blackfriars without his consent, time to adjust matters. The circumstances which called forth this letter are summarized in E. K. Chambers, Elizabethan stage, 1923, II, 500-503.
2 fols; 31 × 21 cm. (Film Fo 319.37)
L.b.352 More, Sir William. 1520-1600. Lease of a messuage and its appurtenances in the Blackfriars to Rocco Bonetti. March 20, 1584/85.
An indenture leasing to Bonetti a messuage and some adjoining pieces of property, part of which "did belong to the tenement late in the tenure of John lillie gentleman and nowe in the tenure of the said Rocho Bonetti". Signed by Bonetti. Printed in Feuillerat, 1924, pp. 55-60. 1 fol.; 57 × 33 cm. Pendant seal of Bonetti. (Film Fo 321.68)
L.b.356 More, Sir William. 1520-1600. Bargain and sale of seven upper rooms in the Blackfriars to James Burbage. February 4, 1595/96.
For £600 More sells to Burbage "those Seaven greate vpper romes as they are nowe devided ... late in the tenure ... of William de Lawne Doctor of Phisicke ... And also those romes ... with the Kitchen therevnto adoiyninge called the Middle Romes ... beinge in the tenure... of Rocco Bonetto ..." together with stairs and similar appurtenances. Those rooms were converted into the Blackfriars theatre. Signed by Burbage. 1 fol., vellum; 62 × 74 cm. Pendant seal of beeswax, 2 cm. (Film Fo 321.72)
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