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From: Reedpcgen< >
Subject: Re: CALTHORPE of England
Date: 18 Jun 1998 00:06:04 GMT


[Cristopher Nash wrote:]

>In case these compilers don't extend so far: I wonder if anything you have
confirms that Elizabeth Stapleton (and not Elizabeth Grey) is the mother of
Anne Calthorp who m. Sir Robert Drury?

A little info: Elizabeth Stapleton [d. of Sir Miles Stapleton of Ingham and
Bedale (b. 1408, d. 30 Sep./1 Oct. 1466), MP, by his second wife (m. 1438)
Katherine de la Pole (b. 1416, d. 13/14 Oct. 1488)] was b. 1441 (age 25+ in
1466, 47+ on 5 Nov. 1489), d. 18 Feb. 1504/5, m. (1) by 7 Mar. 1463/4 as first
wife, Sir William Calthorpe, b. Burnham Thorpe, co. Norfolk 30 Jan. 1409/10, d.
15 Nov. 1494 [son of Sir John Calthorpe and Anne Wythe], MP for Norfolk 1445/6,
sheriff 1441/2, 1458/9, 1463/4 and 1475/6.

[NOTES: CIPM Hen. VII 1:218, no. 518; 2:568, no. 890; _The Genealogist (London,
1903), n. s., 19:161-2, CP 5:397; Rev. James Lee-Warner, "The Calthorps of
Burnham," Norfolk Archaeology (1885) 9:1-19; Wedgwood, History of Parliament,
149-50; L & I 9:87-88.]

Anne Calthorpe, their daughter, was living 31 May 1494 when mentioned in the
will of her father. She m. (1) as first wife, Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead,
co. Suffolk, d. 2 Mar. 1535/6, MP for Suffolk 1491/2, 1495 (Speaker 4 Ocdt.
1495), 1497, 1504 and 1510; legatee of the "Ellesmere Chaucer" from John de
Vere, Earl of Oxford (also his executor), member of the Privy Council 1526,
bur. with his first wife at St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmund, co. Suffolk; he was
son of Sir Roger Drury of Hawstead by Felice Denston.

[NOTES: Arthur Campling, The History of the Family of Drury (Londoh, 1937),
41-7; Wedgwood, 294; PCC 11 Fetiplace; J. J. Muskett, Suffolk Manorial Families
(London, 1900) 1:311-14; Joan Corder ed., The Visitation of Suffolk, 1561
(Harleian Society Publications, n. S., 2-3, 2 vols., London, 1981-84) 1:94-5,
2:395-6.]

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