237678. Lord Thomas Fiennes & 237679. Lady
Anne Bourchier
1470, Anne born in England, d/o 475358. Sir Humphrey Bourchier & 92347. Elizabeth Tilney.
4/14/1471, Anne’s father died at the Battle of Barnet. [Thomas,
earl of Surrey, her soon-to-be stepfather, was wounded in the same battle.]
1471, Thomas Fenys born in England, s/o 475356. John Fiennes & 475357. Alice Fitzhugh.
2/28/1472, Anne given £100 in the first will of her
mother. (S) Testamenta Vetusta, Nicolas, 1826, P483.
5/8/1472, Anne named in her mother’s 2nd will
after Elizabeth’s marriage to Duke Thomas Howard.
Aft. 2/22/1482, Thomas’ father died. Thomas, earl of Surrey
[Anne’s stepfather], appointed guardian of the lands of Sir Thomas Fenys lord Dacre
in his minority. (S) L&P, F&D, Henry VIII, V1, 1920, 1510 Pardon Roll,
Part 3.
6/26/1483, Richard III succeeded Edward V as King of
England. [Usurping never-crowned 12-year-old Edward V.]
11/25/1483, Thomas heir to his grandfather Richard Fenys;
his father already deceased.
2/13/1485, IPM of Richard Fenys, knight, Lord Dacre. He was
seised of the under-mentioned manor and lands &c., and died 25 November, 1
Richard III. Thomas Fenys, aged 14 years and more, is his kinsman and heir, to wit,
son of John Fenys, knight, his son. Kent: Manor or lordship of Codeham, with
all the lands &c. pertaining thereto, worth 20 marks, held of the king in
chief by knight-service. (S) CIsPM.
3/8/1485, Thomas, 8th Lord Dacre of the South as
heir to his grandmother Joan. (S) 10/23/1486, IPM of Joan, late the wife of
Richard Fenys de Dacre, Knt. [Thomas age 16 and more.]
8/22/1485, Henry VII succeeded Richard III as King of
England.
[––Thomas & Anne––]
1492, Thomas, given special
livery of his inheritance, married Anne. (S) Delineations of Fonthill and its
Abbey, Rutter, 1823, P117.
1492, Thomas admitted to Gray’s Inn, the 1st
nobleman on the roll.
9/20/1493, The following are
summoned to receive the honour of knighthood on All Saints next when the king
will create his second son Henry a companion of the Bath and duke of York: …,
Thomas Fenys lord Dacre, … (S) CCRs.
1495, Thomas summoned to
parliament. (S) Select Cases in the Court Requests, 1898, P-CXIV.
9/1496, Thomas supported the repression of Perkin Warbeck’s
insurrection from Scotland. Warbeck was a Fleming claiming the English throne.
4/4/1497, Anne’s mother died.
6/17/1497, Thomas supported the repression of the Cornish
rebellion at the battle of Blackheath [aka battle of Deptford Bridge],
southeast of London. Ill-armed Cornish men from Devon and Somerset were
commanded by James Touchet, Lord Audeley of Heleigh. The small army chanced
upon King Henry VII’s 10,000 men organized for an invasion of Scotland under
Lord Daubeney. About 200 of the Cornish men were killed.
1501-04, Thomas Fenys, knight, Anne, his wife, and Richard,
son and heir of Roger Copley. v. William Fayrefax: The manors of Rowghey,
Warnham, and Hurst, enfeoffed by Guy Fayrefax, knight, … to the use of Thomas
Hoo and Alice, his wife, with remainder to Roger Copley and Anne, then his
wife.: Sussex. (S) UKNA.
1/17/1505, IPM of John Grey, Viscount Lysle. He took to wife
Meriella, daughter of Thomas, earl of Surrey, treasurer of England; and after
the marriage he enfeoffed the said earl, Thomas Howard, John Bourghchier,
knight, lord Barners, Thomas Fenys, knight, lord Dacre, …, of the manor of
Kyngeston Lysle, Berks. … (S) CIsPM.
10/18/1505, Ralph Belyngham to Thomas Fenys, kt, Edward
Sudely and others of all his lands and tenements in West Firle called Mested
and Charleston and his manor of Covert in Yapton [Sussex]. (S) UKNA.
1/28/1506, Thomas Fenys knight lord Dacre, to William Capell
knight, …. Indenture of sale for £420 of Burgh Seynt Margaretes manor
with lands … co. Norfolk; …, Thomas and Anne his wife and William Fenys his
uncle … (S) CCRs.
2/3/1506, William Capell', knight, … querents, and Thomas
Fenys, knight, lord de Dacre, and Anne, his wife, deforciants. The manor of
Burgh' of St Margaret … [Norfolk] … William and John have given them 600 pounds
sterling. (S) Feet of Fines, Norfolk.
4/21/1509, Henry VIII succeeded Henry VII as King of
England.
12/16/1509, Indenture between Thomas Ffenys, Knight, Sheryff
of Surrey and Sussex, and John Goodefeld of London making John the keeper of
the King’s gaol of Guldeford. (S) Surrey Archaeological Collections, V15, 1900.
11/10/1510, Pardon Roll. … Thomas Howard, k., earl of
Surrey, John Bourchier, k., lord Barners, Thomas Fenys, k., lord Dacre, … (S)
L&P, F&D, Henry VIII, V1, 1920.
11/28/1511, Writ of summons to parliament: … Thomas Fenys of Dacre … (S) CCRs.
1518-29, Edward Colepeper, esquire, and Nicholas Haryson,
clerk, administrators of the goods of Alice, late the wife of John Fenys,
knight. v. Thomas Fenys, Lord Dacre `of the South,' son and heir of the said
Sir John.: Money secured to the said Alice on the manors of Herstmonceux and
Buckholt, in the parishes of Herstmonceux, Wartling, Pevensey, Hailsham, and
Bexhill, defendant having renounced execution of her will to avoid payment of
her debts.: Sussex. (S) UKNA.
1/20/1523, Receipt for £20 15s 0d: Robert Stanacre of
Winchelsea to Thomas Fenys, kt, Lord Dacre in full payment of £106 due for
houses and lands called Knights and Doleham in Westfield and Winchelsea lately
bought by TF from RS. [Sussex] (S) UKNA.
9/24/1523, Thomas with the Earl of Surrey [Thomas Howard]
captured Fernihirst castle in Scotland.
3/13/1527, Confirmation of a grant from John Comber of
Pevensey to Thomas Fenys Lnt Lord Dacre, … [Sussex]. (S) UKNA.
10/26/1528, Thomas’ eldest son and heir died.
‘Lady Anne Dacre’ wrote her will. (S) UKNA. [Partial with no
persons named.]
9/29/1530, Anne, “Ladie Anne Dakers of the Southe”
celebrated by the poet John Skelton, died.
2/2/1531, George Jenour to … the manors of Herstmonceux,
Buckholt [in Bexhill], Hurstpierpoint, Westmeston, Streat, Ewhurst and Berwick,
in which they were lately all enfeoffed by Thomas Fenys, kt, Lord Dacre, in
trust for himself and his will. (S) UKNA.
9/1/1531, “Will of Sir Thomas Fenys Lord Dacre of
Horstmonceaux, Sussex.” (S) UKNA. [Proved 5/18/1534.] ‘… profits of certain
manors and lands in cos. Suffolk and Sussex to the performance of his
testament, and appointed the rest of his manors and lands to be taken by his
exors. till Thomas Fenys his cousin [grandson] and heir come of age. He also
devised all manors, including Frome Quintyn, in England (except certain lands
in cos. Essex, Sussex and Norfolk given to his younger sons) to Thomas Fenys
his cousin and heir and his male heirs, remainder to John Fenys, the devisor's
s., remainder to Thomas his youngest s., remainder to Thomas the cousin and
heir, remainder to Anne Fenys, d. of Sir Thomas, his eldest s., remainder to
the said John, remainder to Thomas the youngest s., remainder to Henry Norrys,
s. of Mary, the devisor's d., remainder to Mary Norrys, sister of Henry,
remainder to Gyles Fenys his cousin, remainder to the heirs of Sir Thomas
Fenys, the devisor's uncle …’. (S) UKNA, DAN/1126/fo. 134r-135v.
9/9/1533, Thomas, knight of York, died, leaving as his heir his
grandson Thomas, age 18. Thomas had estates in 13 counties, worth an estimated
£1000 annually, with 40% of revenues from Sussex. (S) IPM, 1534-35, UKNA.
(S) UKNA, East Susses Record
Office, The Danny Archives. (S) The decline of English feudalism, 1215-1540,
Bean, P275.
Family notes:
·
Anne Bourchier was half-aunt to Queen Anne
Boleyn, and half-aunt to Queen consort Catherine Howard.
·
Anne, her mother, and 2 half sisters are commemorated
in John Skelton’s poem “Garlande of Laurrell”.
Children of Thomas
and Anne:
i. Sir Thomas Fiennes, born ~1493 in England.
Thomas married Joan Sutton, d/o Edward, 2nd Lord
Dudley.
10/26/1528, Thomas died [before his father – his son Thomas
the 9th Lord Dacre of the South].
Children: Sir Thomas Fiennes,
born 1515 in England. 1536, Thomas was one of the jurors in the trial of Anne
Boleyn. 4/30/1541, Thomas was involved in a poaching incident in which a
servant of the owner died; and which resulted in a famous trial. 6/29/1541,
Thomas was executed at Tyburn.
ii. Mary Fiennes (118839), born ~1497 in Sussex, England.
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