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Lady married Roger DRURY in 1454 in Hawstead, Suffolk, England. Roger (son of Nicholas DRURY and Joan HEATH) was born about 1422 in Suffolk, England; died on 20 Jan 1494 in Suffolk, England; was buried in 1494 in Hawstead, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: ; Member of Parliament
• Occupation: ; Privy Council of King Henry VII
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• Occupation: 1473; Barrister at law
• Title (Nobility): 1491; Knight of the Shire for Suffolk
• Occupation: 1495; Speaker of the House of Commons
• Will: 1 May 1531, England
• Alt. Death: 1538; Alt. Death

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Sir Robert Drury (Knight) was born before 1456 of Hawstead, Suffolk, England, to Roger Drury (1428-1494) and Felice Denston (1434-1523.) He married Anne Calthrope about 1483 of Burha, Norfolk, England.

Robert Drury died 2 March 1536/7, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Buried at St. Marys Church, Burey St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England.

Robert Drury (speaker)
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Sir Robert Drury
Bornbefore 1456
Hawstead, Suffolk

Died2 March 1535
Knighted by King Henry VII (The 7th) of England after the battle of Blackheath, 17 June 1497 and Lord of the Manor of Hawstead, Suffolk, was Knight of the Body to King Henry the 7th and King Henry the 8th, Knight of the Shire for Suffolk, Speaker of the House of Commons [Elected 4 October 1495], and Privy Councillor. He was also a barrister-at-law. His London townhouse was in Drury Lane.

St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds, where Sir Robert Drury and his first wife are buried
Robert Drury, born before 1456 at Hawstead, Suffolk, was the eldest of four sons of Roger Drury (d. 1496) of Hawstead, Suffolk, by his second wife Felice Denston, daughter and heiress of William Denston of Besthorpe, Norfolk.[1]

Career

With Sir Robert Drury began for this family a long connection with the courts of the Tudor sovereigns, and a succession of capable and eminent men whose careers are part of English history throughout the 16th century. In 1473 he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, where he became a prominent figure. However, according to Hyde 'there is no evidence, as was once thought,[2] that he was educated at Gonville Hall, Cambridge'.[3]

Drury was named in many commissions in the county of Suffolk from 1486 onwards. Drury procured from Pope Alexander VI a licence for the chapel in his house at Hawstead, dated 8 July 1501 in the tenth year of that pontificate. The original is now in the museum at Bury. Another early reference to him is an indenture 15 December 1490 by which Robert Geddying, son and heir of John Geddyng, agreed with Robert Drury, esquire, for the erection of houses at Lackford, Suffolk, Roger and William Drury being co-feoffees.

He was elected Knight of the Shire (MP) for Suffolk in 1491, 1495 and 1510, acting as Speaker of the House in 1495.[4]
Drury was knighted by King Henry VII on 17 June 1497, after the battle of Blackheath,[5] and was present at the funeral of the young Prince Arthur in 1511, where, amongst the list of mourners, he is included as one of the knights to bear the canopy. He was an executor of the will of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, who died in 1513.

Between June 1510 and February 1513 inclusive he was engaged with various colleagues in the attempt "to pacify the Scottish border by peaceful methods and to obtain redress for wrongs committed." Previously, on August 29, 1509, he had been a witness to the renewal of the "Treaty of Perpetual Peace" between England and Scotland, signed shortly after Henry VIII's accession to the throne.

In 1520 he sailed with other knights to France to attend the famous meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I of France now known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

Two splendid books once owned by Sir Robert Drury have survived. One, a fine Latin MS of the Vulgate, written by an English scribe early in the 13th century, is now in the library of Christ's College, Cambridge. Some blank leaves at the end have been used to record the marriages and progeny of his children.

The first group of entries was made at the end of 1527; subsequent entries carry on the records of the growth of the family until 1566. The other book is the finest and most famous of all Chaucer MSS, the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales now in the Huntington Library. At the top of a preliminary fly-leaf is written "Robertus Drury, miles", and below a list of his children: "William Drury, miles, Robertus Drury, miles, Domina [Anne] Jarmin, Domina [Bridget] Jarningham, and Domina [Ursula] Allington."

On 1 May 1531 Drury made his last will, requesting burial in the chancel of St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds beside his first wife, Anne Calthorpe. He died 2 March 1535. Drury and Anne Calthorpe are buried under a stone monument in St. Mary's Church; a wooden palisade bears the inscription 'Such as ye be, sometime were we, such as we are, such shall ye be. Miserere nostri.'[7][3]

Drury House, the mansion built by Robert Drury, eventually gave its name to London's Drury Lane and to the well-known Drury Lane Theatre.

Marriages and issue
Drury married firstly, by 1494, Anne Calthorpe, daughter of Sir William Calthorpe of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, by whom he had two sons and four daughters:[1][3]
?Sir William Drury (c. 1500? 1558) of Hawstead, Suffolk, who married firstly, Jane Saint Maur (d. 1517), by whom he had no issue, and secondly, Elizabeth Sothill (1505? 1575) a granddaughter of another Speaker of the House of Commons, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Sir Richard Empson (d. 17 August 1510).
?Sir Robert Drury.
?Anne Drury, who married firstly Sir George Waldegrave, esquire (c. 1483 ? 8 July 1528) of Smallbridge, Suffolk, from whom descend the Earls Waldegrave, as well as a branch of the Highams of Higham Green and the Denham family, and secondly Sir Thomas Jermyn (c. 1500 ? 1552) of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, from whom descend that family (including the Jacobite peer) as well as the Crane family of Chilton, later baronets.
?Elizabeth Drury, who married, in 1510, Sir Philip Boteler.
?Bridget Drury (d. 19 January 1518), who married Sir John Jerningham of Somerleyton, Suffolk, eldest son and heir of Edward Jerningham (d. 6 January 1515) of Somerleyton by his first wife, Margaret Bedingfield (d. 24 March 1504), by whom she had three sons, George, Robert and John, and two daughters, Anne Jerningham, who married Sir Thomas Cornwallis of Brome, Suffolk, and Elizabeth Jerningham, who married John Sulyardof Wetherden, Suffolk.[8]
?Ursula Drury, who married Sir Giles Alington of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire.

After Anne Calthorpe's death, Drury married secondly, Anne (n?e Jerningham), daughter of Sir Edward Jerningham (d. 6 January 1515) of Somerleyton, Suffolk, by Margaret Bedingfield (d. 24 March 1504), and sister of Sir John Jerningham (see above). At the time of her marriage to Sir Robert Drury, she is said to have been the widow of two husbands: Lord Edward Grey (d. before 1517), eldest son and heir of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, and grandson of King Edward IV's wife, Elizabeth Woodville; and Henry Barley (d. 12 November 1529) of Albury, Hertfordshire. In his will Drury refers to her as 'my Lady Grey'. There were no issue of Drury's second marriage. After Drury's death, Anne (n?e Jerningham) married Sir Edmund Walsingham.[9][10][11][12]



Anne Calthorpe, will 1494; m. as (1) wife, Sir Robert Drury of Hanstead, MP Suffolk, Speaker of the House of Commons 1495, Privy Council 1526, etc., d. 2 Mar 1535/6, buried St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds; m. (2) Anne, daughter of Edward Jernegan (or Jerningham) of Somerley, widow of Edward, Lord Gray, by whom no issue. [Ancestral Roots]

Robert married Anne JERNEGAN after 1394 in 2ND Husband, 2ND Wife. Anne (daughter of Edward JERNEGAN, Of Somerleyton, Sir and Margaret BEDINGFIELD) was born about 1484 in Somerleyton, Yarmouth, Suffolk, England; died before 8 May 1558. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Anne CALTHORPE about 1483 in France. Anne (daughter of William CALTHORPE, Sheriff Of Norfolk and Elizabeth STAPLETON) was born about 1462 in Burnham Thorpe, Wallsingham, Norfolk, England; died in 1531 in St Marys, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England; was buried in 1531 in Bury St Edmund's Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ann Drury
m. George Waldegrave, esq. Issue: 5 sons, 2 dau.
* Sir William
* George
* Edward, Esq;
* Richard
* Anne m. Henry Bures, esq; m. Sir Clement Higham
* Phyllis m. Thomas Higham, esq.
LADY ANNE DRURY was born about 1480 of Hawstead, St. Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England, to Sir Robert Drury (1456-1537) and Anne Calthorpe (1457-1494.) She married (1) *Sir George Waldegrave about 1502 of Hempstead, Babergh, Suffolk, England; (2) Thomas Jermyn, 1528, Suffolk, England.

Anne Drury died 8 June 1572, Depden, St. Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England, age 92.

Wikitree:

"Anne Drury was born circa 1482 at of Hawstead, Suffolk, England.[1] She married George Waldegrave, Esq., son of Sir William Waldegrave, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk and Margery Wentworth, circa 1502. They had 5 sons (including Sir William; George; Edward, Esq; & Richard) and 2 daughters (Anne, wife of Henry Bures, Esq., & of Sir Clement Higham; & Phyllis, wife of Thomas Higham, Esq.).[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Anne Drury married 2nd, Sir Thomas Jermyn, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk, son of Thomas Jermyn and Catherine Bernard, between 8 July 1528 and 1546; They had 2 sons (John, Esq; & Thomas).[8] [9][10] [11][12] [13]
Anne Drury died on 8 June 1572 at of Rushbrook, Suffolk, England. She was buried on 9 June 1572 at Depden, Suffolk, England.[14] [15] [16] [17]




Suffolk, England


Hawstead, Suffolk

?Anne Drury
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?Upon George Waldegrave's death, Anne, the executrix of his will, was left with the manors of Smallbridge, Silvesters, Overhall, and Freps, during the minority of her eldest son, William. T. M. Felgate's, "Suffolk Heraldic Brasses," notes her memorial is unusual because it contains an identical effigy of herself for each husband. He writes, "She wears a French Bonnet with short lappets falling behind, and her high puffed shoulders reflect the haute-pieces on the shoulders of her husbands. Frills encircle her neck and wrists, and a bow-knotted sash girdles her waist, below which the gown divides to show a plain undergarmet. (In one pose) She kneels at a prayer desk with her two daughters (by George Waldegrave) behind her. They are similarly attired, except they have the more simple close-fitting bonnet." Both husbands wear almost identical armour. George Waldegrave's hair is of medium length and he is clean shaven, popular during the Tudor period of his time. Sir Jermyn is shown with the short hair, a moustache and beard of his Elizabethan time. Each appear with their own sons kneeling behind them, all in Elizabethan costumes. Her husbands were not buried with her unless they were removed from their original tombs and brought to Depden. The inscription reads: "Here under lyeth buried the boddy of the Lady Anne Jermyn, widdowe, daughter of Syr Robert Drewry, of Halsted in the Countie of Suff. Knight & Anne his wife, whiche Anne was first married to Geroge Waldegve, of Smallbridge in the saide Countie, Esquier, and after married to Syr Thomas Jermyn, of Rushebrooke, in the said Countie, Knight, and died the viii daye of June, in the yere of oure Lorde God a Thowsand five hundred seventy two." Note it does not say the husbands share her tomb. Children of George Waldegrave and Anne Drury are:
i. Edward Waldegrave, I, Esq., of Lawford Hall, born 1514 in Smallbridge Manor, probably, and probably baptized at St. Mary, Bures St. Mary, County Suffolk, about 5 miles southeast of Sudbury; died August 13, 1584 in Lawford Hall, County Essex, probably, about 8 miles northeast of Colchester.

ii. William Waldegrave, Knt. of Smallbridge Manor, born in Smallbridge Manor, probably, and probably baptized at St. Mary, Bures St. Mary, County Suffolk, about 5 miles southeast of Sudbury; died May 2, 1554 in Callys, France where his body is buried at St. Maries Church.

iii. George Waldegrave, of Witherton Manor, Hitcham, born in Smallbridge Manor, probably, and probably baptized at St. Mary, Bures St. Mary, County Suffolk, about 5 miles southeast of Sudbury; died Abt. 1551 in Hitchem, County Suffolk, probably, about 7 miles northwest of Hadleigh, and probably buried at All Saints, Hitcham. He married Mary Corbett, of Assington, County Suffolk; born in Assington, County Suffolk, probably, about 5 miles southeast of Sudbury, and probably baptized at St. Edmund; died Abt. 1562 in London, and probably buried at All Saints, Hitcham.

iv. Anne Waldegrave, of Smallbridge Manor, born in Smallbridge Manor, probably, and probably baptized at St. Mary, Bures St. Mary, County Suffolk, about 5 miles southeast of Sudbury; died Abt. April 24, 1590 in Thornage, County Norfolk, possibly, about 26 miles northwest of Norwich, and buried at Thornage.

v. Phyllis Waldegrave, of Smallbridge Manor, born in Smallbridge Manor, probably, and possibly baptized at St. Mary, Bures St. Mary, County Suffolk, about 5 miles southeast of Sudbury.

vi. Richard Waldegrave, of Smallbridge Manor, died Aft. July 8, 1528.
vii. Thomas Waldegrave, of Smallbridge Manor, born in Smallbridge Manor, probably, and probably baptized at St. Mary, Bures St. Mary, County Suffolk, about 5 miles southeast of Sudbury.


Hawstead Place, Suffolk, England
unknown
Suffolk, England
An illustration of the old manor.






Anne Drury
Brass is in Baconsthorpe Church


Baconsthorpe Church


Sir Robert & Anne's Tomb
The magnificent tombs of Sir Robert Drury and his wife, Anne. The tomb is located on the side of the sanctuary just beyond the chancel. The tomb of Sir Robert Drury, d. 1536, and his first wife, Anne, daughter of Sir William Calthorpe, Knight. Sir Robert was elected Speaker of the House on October 4, 1495 and Privy Councilor to Henry VII, the son of Sir Roger Drury, of Hawsted, and his first wife, Felice, the daughter of William Denston, of Besthorpe. As you can see, the tomb is of elaborately carved white marble. Resting on top are the sculptured figures of Robert and his wife. A Greyhound is found at Robert's feet.



ANNE DRURY
"Anne Drury was born circa 1482 at of Hawstead, Suffolk, England.[1]She married George Waldegrave, Esq., son of Sir William Waldegrave, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk and Margery Wentworth, circa 1502. They had 5 sons (including Sir William; George; Edward, Esq; & Richard) and 2 daughters (Anne, wife of Henry Bures, Esq., & of Sir Clement Higham; & Phyllis, wife of Thomas Higham, Esq.).[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Anne Drury married 2nd, Sir Thomas Jermyn, Sheriff of Norfolk & Suffolk, son of Thomas Jermyn and Catherine Bernard, between 8 July 1528 and 1546; They had 2 sons (John, Esq; & Thomas).[8] [9][10] [11][12] [13]
Anne Drury died on 8 June 1572 at of Rushbrook, Suffolk, England. She was buried on 9 June 1572 at Depden, Suffolk, England.[14] [15] [16][17]


Depden Suffolk St. Mary the Virgin Church

Children of Sir George Waldegrave and Anne Drury:

1.Anne Waldegrave (1506-1590)
2.Sir William Waldegrave (1507-1554)
3.*PHYLLIS WALDEGRAVE (1509-1579)
4.George Waldegrave (1511-1551)
5.Edward Waldegrave (1511-1584)
6.Richard Waldegrave (1514-1528)
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Anne married George WALGRAVE about 1507 in Hawstead, S, England. George (son of William WALGRAVE and Margery WENTWORTH) was born on 3 Jul 1483 in Bures St Mary, Babergh District, Suffolk, England; died on 8 Jul 1528 in Bures St Mary, Babergh District, Suffolk, England; was buried in 1528 in Church, Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: John JERNEGAN, Of Somerleyton, Sir. John (son of Edward JERNEGAN, Of Somerleyton, Sir and Margaret BEDINGFIELD) was born about 1490 in Somerleyton, Yarmouth, Suffolk, England; died in 1559. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William married about 1535 in Suffolk Co. England, U.K.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Anne married about 1515. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: William WALDEGRAVE
• Occupation: ; Knight of Smallbridge Manor
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• Residence: Smallbridge Manor, Bures Saint Mary, Suffolk, England
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Born: 2 Aug 1507, Smallbridge, Suffolk, England

Died: 2 May 1554, Calais, France

Father: George WALDEGRAVE of Smallbridge (Sir)

Mother: Anne DRURY

Married: Julian RAINSFORD settlement (b. ABT 1510 - d. ABT 1581) (dau. of John Rainsford of Bradfield and Anne Starkey) 7 Jul 1528

Children:

1. Dorothy WALDEGRAVE

2. Margaret WALDEGRAVE

3. Mary WALDEGRAVE

4. Dau. WALDEGRAVE

5. William WALDEGRAVE


The details in this biography come from the History of Parliament, a biographical dictionary of Members of the House of Commons.

Born 2 Aug 1507, first son of Sir George Waldegrave of Smallbridge by Anne, dau. of Robert Drury of Hawstead; kinsman of Sir Edward Waldegrave who married Frances Neville. m. settlement 7 Jul 1528, Juliana, dau. of Sir John Raynsford of Bradfield, Essex, sister of Sir John Rainsford. Suc. family 8 Jul 1528. Kntd. 25 May 1533. J.p. Suff. ?1531, 1532-d.; commr. tenths of spiritualities 1535, coastal defence 1539, relief 1550, goods of churches and fraternities 1553; other commissions 1534-d.; sheriff, Norf. and Suff. 1550-1.

William Waldegrave was born and brought up at his maternal grandfather's house in Suffolk. The deaths within the space of 14 months of his paternal grandfather Sir William Waldegrave and his own father left him heir to one of the handsomest patrimonies at the age of a few weeks short of 21. The marriage contracted for him by his father while dying strengthened his connexions in the region and added to his property. From thenceforward he combined local administration with attendance at court and military service. Knighted at the coronation of Anne Boleyn he headed the commission to take the oath of succession in Suffolk. In the autumn of 1536 he was one of a group of men who Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, believed would quell any rising in Suffolk. Two years later he approached Cromwell about help in obtaining an unspecified reward from Henry VIII, but nothing came of this, perhaps because later in the same year he told the minister about his troubled conscience over enforcing the injunctions for divine service to be said in English. Nothwithstanding his 'great heartburning' he remained on the bench and in 1539 he was ordered to attend the reception of Anne of Cleves.

In 1542 Waldegrave served under the Duke of Norfolk's command against the Scots and two years later he captained 60 of his own men in the French campaign. His election to the Parliament of 1545 reflected this recent military experience as much as his own standing in Suffolk and may have been promoted by his uncle Sir William Drury as sheriff. Of his part in the Parliament nothing has come to light but during the prorogation he was present at the reception of the Admiral of France at Greenwich. Although he was not to be re-elected, early in Jan 1553 the Council considered him for nomination with Sir William Drury as knights for Suffolk in the forthcoming Parliament but in the event nominated Sir Henry Bedingfield with Drury. Following Edward VI's death in the summer Cecil listed Waldegrave among potential supporters of Lady Jane Grey but on being summoned to Kenninghall by Mary on 8 Jul he joined the princess in her successful bid for the throne. Later he heard the indictments in Suffolk against Jane's adherents.

While on a visit to Calais late in 1554, perhaps in connexion with the arrival of Cardinal Pole, Waldegrave fell sick. By his will made on 8 Nov he asked to be buried in the graveyard of St. Mary's church there, provided for his wife and children and remembered his mother and other kin. He died on the following 12 Dec, and the will was proved by the executors in Oct 1555 a week before they renounced the administration in favour of the widow. A monument to his memory was placed in Bures church near the tombs of his ancestors and an inscription in the church of St. Mary, Sudbury.

Sources:

Vis. Norf. (Harl. Soc. xxxii), 298-9

Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii)

Vis. Suff. ed. Metcalfe

Copinger, Suff. Manors

Elton, Policy and Police, 258-9.

Chron. Q. Jane and Q. Mary (Cam. Soc. xlviii)

William married Julian RAINSFORD in 1530 in France. Julian (daughter of Sir John RAYNSFORD and Margaret ILAM) was born in 1505 in Smallbridge, Suffolk, England; died in 1581. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Phillis married about 1528. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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George married about 1536. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Edward married about 1556. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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