Frank Norris
Art Neuendorffer
Susan Vere : Burial Date 1 Feb 1628-9
Birth Date 16 OCT 1584
Death Date 23 Jan 1649-50
Father Henry Herbert 2nd Earl Of Pembroke ( - 19 Jan 1600-1)
Mother Mary Sydney ( - 25 SEP 1621)
Marriage Date 27 DEC 1604
Philip Herbert 4th Earl Of Pembroke and Susan Vere
had the following children:
1 James Herbert
2 Henry Herbert
3 Charles Herbert K.B.
4 Philip Herbert 5th Earl Of Pembroke
5 William Herbert
6 James Herbert
7 John Herbert
8 Anna Sophia Herbert
9 Catherine Herbert
10 Mary Herbert
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Alan H. Nelson wrote:
<<Oxford's first wife, Anne, died at the queen's palace at Greenwich
on 5 June 1588, and was buried in state at Westminster Abbey on 25
June. Numerous elegies are preserved in the British Library (Lansdowne
MS 104, fols. 195-214; Cotton MS Julius F. 10, fols. 112-115v, 132).
Though she was well educated and is even said by Sturmius to have
spoken Latin, the four epitaphs written after her son died at birth
in May 1583, and attributed to Anne by John Southern in his Pandora
of 1584, were in fact translations (doubtless by Southern himself)
from the French poetry of Desportes. Anne's other children were:
Elizabeth, born 2 July 1575, who married William Stanley,
earl of Derby, at Greenwich on 26 January 1594
and died at Richmond on 10 March 1627;
Bridget, born 6 April 1584, who married Francis,
Lord Norris (afterwards earl of Berkshire) in May or June 1599;
Susan, born 26 May 1587, who married Philip Herbert, earl
of Montgomery on Dec. 27, 1605 , and died in 1628 or 1629.
Oxford's 2d wife, Elizabeth, was buried at Hackney on 3 January 1613.
The illegitimate son of the earl and Anne Vavasour, Edward Vere,
distinguished himself as a soldier and died on 18 August 1629.>>
http://home.eol.ca/~cumulus/Shakespeare/ch35.htm
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A Few Curiosities Regarding Edward de Vere
and the Writer Who Called Himself Shakespeare
http://www.deverestudies.org/articles/oxford_shakespeare.cfm
by Mark Alexander and Prof. Daniel Wright
Copyright 2005 - Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference
<<The three dedicatees of Shakespeare's works
(the earls of Southampton, Montgomery & Pembroke)
were each proposed as husbands for the
three daughters of Edward de Vere. (Venus and Adonis and
The Rape of Lucrece were dedicated to Southampton and
the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays was dedicated to
Montgomery & Pembroke.) Southampton declined the hand
of Elizabeth Vere to marry
__ Elizabeth Vernon(e)
(Elizabeth Vere later married William Stanley, the 6th earl of
Derby, himself a man of the theatre); Montgomery married
Oxford's daughter, Susan, in 1604; & Bridget Vere, proposed
by her prospective father-in-law, the earl of Pembroke,
as a bride for his son, married Lord Norris.>>
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<<Birdget's husband was the 20 year old aspiring politician
Francis Norris, a hothead who would years later fight a duel with
Peregrine Bertie junior *upon an old reckoning* THe de Vere-Norris
was an understated affair due to the recent passing of Lord Burghley.
Soon after saying "I do" Norris raced off to the continent
leaving his blushing bride behind.
On June 18, de Vere transferred custody of the forest of Essex
to his son-in-law Lord Norris and his cousin Sir Francis Vere.>>
_ - Mark Anderson _Shakespeare by Another Name_
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http://www2.tcu.edu/depts/prs/amwest/pdf/wl0370.pdf
<<AFTER BRET HARTE & Mark Twain, Frank Norris was the next seminal
writer to explore the literary possibilities of the American West.
Unlike Harte and Twain, Norris was a westerner through and
through. Although born in Chicago, in 1870, he considered San
Francisco his true home. His family moved there when he was 14,
and Norris later liked to say in typical western fashion that he
had been "born 'n raised" in California. Norris was a city youth,
his father a man of wealth and entrenched bourgeois values, his
mother a former actress devoted to conventional Victorian culture.
Death foreclosed Norris's career in 1902, leaving behind a reputation
as one of America's foremost naturalistic writers. This view of Norris
has persisted until fairly recently, when other facets of his writing
have begun to be appreciated. Among these is his singular contribution
to western American literature. Norris's exploration of land-centered
values versus economicpolitical considerations was a prescient
discovery for western fiction. Later writers like John Steinbeck and
Edward Abbey owe much to his groundbreaking analysis of ecological and
social themes. This is especially the case with Steinbeck. It is hard
to imagine The Grapes of Wrath without The Octopus in the background.
Both novels aspire to epic scope; both use melodrama to highlight a
titanic struggle between the People and the System; both abound with
panegyrics to the earth, visionary preachers, earth mothers, and a
lyrical tenderness on behalf of spontaneous, primal responses.
More than any figure of his era, Norris was a true literary
trailblazer of the Far West.>> - DON GRAHAM, University of Texas
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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
VOLUME XVII. Later National Literature, Part II.
<<Frank Norris had larger aims than Crane and on the whole achieved
more, though no one of his books excels the Red Badge. He was one of
the least sectional of American novelists, with a vision of his native
land which attached him to the movement, then under discussion, to
"continentalize" American literature by breaking up the parochial
habits of the local colour school. He had a certain epic disposition,
tended to vast plans, and conceived trilogies. His "Epic of the
Wheat"-The Octopus (1901), The Pit (1903), and The Wolf (never
written)-he thought of as the history of the cosmic spirit of wheat
moving from the place of its production in California to the place of
its consumption in Europe. Another trilogy to which he meant to give
years of work would have centred about the battle of Gettysburg, one
part for each day, and would have sought to present what Norris
considered the American spirit as his Epic of the Wheat presented an
impersonal force of nature. Such conceptions explain his grandiose
manner and the passion of his naturalism, which he was even willing to
call romanticism provided he could mean by it the search for truths
deeper than the surface truths of orthodox realism. He had a strong
vein of mysticism; he habitually occupied himself with "elemental"
emotions. His heroes are nearly all violent men, wilful, passionate,
combative; his heroines-thick-haired, large-armed women-are endowed
with a rich and deep, if slow, vitality. Love, in Norris's world is
the mating of vikings and valkyries. Love, however, is not his sole
concern. The Pacific and California novels, Moran of the Lady Letty
(1898), Blix (1899), McTeague (1899), A Man's Woman (1900), as well as
The Octopus, are full of ardently detailed actualities; The Pit is a
valuable representation of a "corner" on the Chicago Board of Trade.
In all these his eagerness to be truthful gave Norris a large energy,
particularly in scenes of action, but his speed and vividness are not
matched by his body and meaning.>>
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http://www.sourcetext.com/sourcebook/library/barrell/05Sonnets3.htm
"Shake-speare's" Own Secret Drama Discovery of Hidden Facts
in the Private Life of Edward de Vere, Proves Him Author of
the Bard's Sonnets (Part 3) - by Charles Wisner Barrell
<<Other unsatisfactory labors envisage attempts to picture William
Herbert, later Earl of Pembroke, as the young nobleman here addressed.
For, while strange as it may seem, Herbert's parents sought to marry
him to the Earl of Oxford's second daughter, Bridget Vere, in 1597,
and a long letter has been found in Oxford's own hand, approving the
match, William Herbert simply does not measure up to the realistic
descriptions of the "faire youth" of the early sonnets. Far from
being an Adonis with incandescent eyes and long blonde locks that
curled into "buds of marjorum" like those that made Southampton the
outstanding male beauty of his day, Herbert is described as stout
and swarthy. And although he developed into one of the great
personalities of his age, of stronger character-fibre than
Southampton, he was the reverse of beautiful. There is no record
of anyone writing sonnets to celebrate the glory of his person.>>
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http://www.sirbacon.org/Sonnet/1.html
<<The sonnets addressed to William Herbert require no explaining.
They are written by one friend to another advising Herbert to marry &
have children and in the meantime not to behave in any manner which
would prevent him from coming to a wife with a clean heart. In his
youth Herbert appears to have had undesirable aquaintances. He was
born in 1580 and in 1598 in his eighteenth year came to reside
permanently in London. His parents, the Earl and Countess of Pembroke,
wished him to marry and settle down so they arranged that he should
marry Bridget Vere--a daughter of the Earl of Oxford, but apparently
Herbert cried off and this marriage did not take place, as Herbert
preferred to remain a bachelor & enjoy the pleasures of London town.
When his father died three years later (January 1601), he became
Earl of Pembroke.
Mary Pembroke is supposed to have commissioned Shakespeare to write
seventeen sonnets to celebrate headstrong William's 17th birthday, and
urging the young heir to marry. Bridget Vere, the granddaughter of
Lord Burleigh, Queen Elizabeth's great minister, had been chosen as a
bride for him, but he refused to obey his parents. Two years earlier,
a marriage had been negotiated with Elizabeth Carey, the granddaughter
of the Lord Chamberlain, then patron of Shakespeare's company, but
William had declared it "not to his liking". Whether Shakespeare
wrote the sonnets for Mary's son or not, he was not persuaded
to give up his bachelor life.>>
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Vere, Edward de, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550-1604).
Patron (Oxford's 1562-5, 1580-87, 1600-2), playwright.
(Son of John de Vere (III);
father of Bridget Vere Norris,
Elizabeth Vere Stanley, and Susan Vere Herbert;
nephew of Arthur Golding; son-in-law of William Cecil; brother-in-law
of Peregrine Bertie, Robert Cecil, and Thomas Cecil (I); cousin of
Thomas Howard (II), Frederick Windsor and Sir Francis Vere;
father-in-law of Francis Norris and William Stanley (II)) [ES ii, 99;
iii, 503; Ward, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford (1928); Peerage x, 250
(1945); Rowse, Eminent Elizabethans, 75 (1983); DLB 172: 181 (1996);
Gurr, Playing Companies, 306, 313 (1996)]
Norris, Bridget Vere, Countess of Berkshire (1584-c.1631). Performer
in masque (Love's Triumph Through Callipolis, 1631). (Daughter of
Edward de Vere; sister of Elizabeth Vere Stanley & Susan Vere Herbert;
wife of Francis Norris; granddaughter of William Cecil) [Peerage ix,
647 (1936); Herford and Simpson, Ben Jonson x, 440 (1950)]
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Henry MANNERS (2nd E. Rutland)
Born: ABT 23 Sep 1526, Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, England
Christened: Enfield, England
Died: 17 Sep 1563
Buried: St. Mary the Virgin Church, Bottesford, Leicesterhire, England
Notes: Knight of the Garter. 14° B. Ros
Father: Thomas MANNERS (1° E. Rutland)
Mother: Eleanor PASTON (C. Rutland)
Married 1: Margaret NEVILLE (C. Rutland) 3 Jul 1536, Holywell,
Shoreditch, London, Middlesex, England
Children:
1. Edward MANNERS (3° E. Rutland)
2. John MANNERS (4° E. Rutland)
3. Elizabeth MANNERS
Married 2: Bridget HUSSEY (C. Rutland/C. Bedford)
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Eldest son of Thomas Manners, first Earl of Rutland, and his second
wife, Eleanor Paston, Countess of Rutland. He is stated by Doyle to
have been born BEF 1526, but most probably he was born BEF 1513. A son
of Lord Ros is mentioned as being a page of honour at the marriage of
Louis XII of France and the Princess Mary. His mother complained that
in bringing him up she had incurred in debts which she could not pay.
His first marriage was celebrated with the royal presence of the King
Henry VIII and the new Queen, Jane Seymour, on 3 Jul 1536. He married
Margaret, fourth daughter of Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland, a great
northern magnate. The same day his sister, Anne, married Henry,
Westmoreland's heir.
He succeeded as second Earl of Rutland on his father death,
20 Sep 1543; was knighted by Henry VIII in 1544 and
was one of the mourners at the King's funeral.
At Edward's coronation he was bearer of the spurs. In 1547 he was
nominated Constable of Nottingham Castle and warden and chief justice
of Sherwood Forest as a reward for conducting an expedition into
Scotland, with 3000 men, took and sacked Haddington. On 1 May 1549
he was appointed warden of the east and middle marches,
and had personal command of a hundred horse at Berwick.
He made depositions in 1549 as to conversation
he had had with Thomas Seymour, the lord Admiral.
He also was one of those who received the French hostages in 1550,
when the Treaty which followed the loss of Bolougne was concluded.
On 14 Apr 1551 he became lord-lieutenant of Lincolnshire and
Nottinghamshire, and at that time lived when in London at
Whittington's College. From May to Aug that year he was absent
as lord in attendance on the embassy to France.
He seems to have belonged to John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland's
party, so he belonged, like Northumberland, to the extreme reformed
party in church matters. And was one of those who took part on
3 Dec 1551 in the second debate on the real presence between
Sir John Cheke and Watson in Sir Richard Morison's house.
On 16 May 1552 he became lord-lieutenant of Nottinghamshire,
probably in Northumberland's interest.
At Mary's accession Henry was at once imprisoned in the Fleet as an
adherent of Lady Jane Grey. Rutland, however, soon became to terms
with Mary's government. While his brother Roger served under Sir
William Howard of Effingham, the Lord Admiral; he was made an Admiral
in 1556, and in 1557 Henry Earl of Rutland was appointed by Felipe
and Mary captain general of all the forces then designed to be
transported into France, and had the chief command of the whole fleet.
In 1555 he completed the noble design, which had been far advanced
by his father, of rebuilding the family mansion at Belvoir,
and making a nobler structure than it had ever been before.
Another plan of his father?s was also completed by Earl Henry;
the collecting together from the ruined monasteries
the memorials of their ancestors.
After the loss of Calais, he was on duty at Dover (Froude, History,
vi. 439), and on 19 Jan 1557/8 five hundred picked men raised
in the city of London were ordered to serve under him.
Rutland was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth,
and had also a certain reputation of learning.
On 13 Apr 1559, months after Elizabeth's accession, Henry Manners was
nominated Knight of the Garter, and installed Jun 4; and on 10 May
became lord-lieutenant of the counties of Nottinham and Rutland, and
president of the council of the North part of the realm. On 13 Oct of
this year, died Countess Margaret at Hollywell, and the Earl gave her
a splendid funeral at St. Leonard, Shoreditch. Strype tells us, her
corpse was carried, Oct 21, 1559, from the house which had been the
nunnery of Haliwell, with thirty clerks and priest singing; about
threescore poor men and women in black gowns; mourners, to the number
of an hundred; two heralds of arms, Garter and York; then came the
corpse; afore a great banner of arms; and about her four goodly banner
rolls of divers arms. Mr. Bacon preached. After was dispersed a great
dole of money, being 2 d. apiece for each. And so all departed
to the place to dinner. About the valance was written:
?Sic transit Gloria mundi.?
Soon Rutland married his second wife, lady Bridget Hussey, a daughter
of John, lord Hussey (executed for the Pilgrimage of the Grace), and
widow of Sir Charles Morison of Cashiobury. These lady was a great
friend of Queen Elizabeth.
On 24 Feb 1560/1 he was made lord president of the north, and on
5 May 1561 an ecclesiatical commissioner for the province of York.
He died, seemingly of the plague, on 17 sep 1563,
and was buried at Bottesford Church in Leicestershire.
By his last will, dated Jul 5, 1560, he bequeathed "his body to be
buried in the church of Bottesford", if he should die within the
realm; and appointed that a tomb suitable to his eslate be made there.
He bequeathed to his daughter Elizabeth a thousand pounds for her
portion, and 30 £ a year for her maintenance till marriage, or
atraining the age of 21 years.
To John, his second son, he gave his manor and rectory of Helmesley,
sometime belonging to the monastery of Kirkham, as also his manor of
Roos in Holderness, and a fee-farm of 40 £ a year issuing out of the
city of York, during his life. To Edward lord Roos, his son and heir,
all his armour, munition, and weapons; and ordered all his goods,
chattels, jewels, plate, and household-stuff, which could be left
unsold, to be divided betwixt his wife and the said Edward his son,
when he should arrive to the age of twenty-one years; and, by a
schedule annexed, inceased the portion of his daughter Elizabeth 500
marks, if she should marry with the consent of his wife, and George
Earl of Shrewsbury, his brother in law, and of his brother John
Manners, or any two of them, whereof his wife to be one.
He also gave 200 £ to be distributed among his household servants,
as his wife should judge convenient.
The countess Bridget was afterwards married to Francis Russel, second
Earl of Bedford (her third husband), whom she survived many years. She
died 12 Jan 1600/1, and was buried at Watford, Herts; where, in the
middle of the South chapel, is a monument with her effigies in her
robes and coronet, a gentleman kneeling on each side, at her feet
a rein-deer, and a cherry-tree below, and this inscription:
The monument of the Lady BRIDGET,
Countess dowager of BEDFORD.
She was daughter to JOHN Lord HUSSEY:
And she was thrice married;
first, to sir RICHARD MORYSON, knt.
then to HENRY MANNERS, Earl of RUTLAND;
thirdly, to FRANCIS RUSSEL, Earl of BEDFORD:
and she had issue only by her first husband,
one son, sir CHARLES MORYSON, knt.
and two daughters, one named JANA SIBILLA,
married to EDWARD lord RUSSELL, eldest son
to her last husband the Earl of BEDFORD,
afterwards married to ARTHUR lord GREY of WILTON,
father to THOMAS lord GREY;
the other daughter, named ELIZABETH,
was first married to WILLIAM NORRYS, esq;
son and heir apparent to HENRY lord NORRYS,
and father to FRANCIS th now lord NORRYS;
at whose charge this monument was erected,
being her sole executor and nephew;
who married the lady BRIDGET VERE,
daughter to EDWARD Earl of OXFORD.
Afterwards ELIZABETH, the second daughter,
was married to HENRY CLINTON Earl of LINCOLN.
This noble countess of BEDFORD, living 75 years
In most honourable reputation, died most quietly,
Answerable to her life, in perfect sense and memory,
the 12th of Jan, 1600, in the 40th year
of our most gracious sovereign Queen ELIZABETH.?
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/HenryManners(2ERutland).htm
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http://www.zip.com.au/~lnbdds/home/smythcaptjohn.htm
<<As a boy, of about fifteen (the future Captain) John Smith became an
orphan and was taken under the wing of (some say relatives) the Bertie
family - Peregrine Bertie, 11th B Willoughby - whose wife was the sister
of Edward de VERE - 17th Earl of Oxford - who was himself orphaned
at the age of 12 and, after a spell in the Cecil household, became
the ward of Sir Thomas Smythe of Hill Hall in Essex. Sir Thomas Smythe
was Secretary of State to the boy king - Edward VI, son of Henry VIII
and his third wife, Jane Seymour, who died soon after childbirth.>>
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_ John Neville --------- Isabel
_ (Northumberland) | INGOLDESTHORPE
_ (Marquis MONTAGU) |
_ |
_ Anthony Browne ------------- Lucy Neville
_ 1485 - 1506 |
_ |
_ /--------------------------------\
_ | | Anne BROWNE--- Charles
_ | | /- Brandon -\
_ | | Mary Tudor-/ (LISLE) |
_ | | |
_Anthony Browne --- Alice Lucy --- Thomas Clifford |
_ L.ISLE of Man | Gage Browne |
_ d. 1548 | Katherine |
_ | Richard Bertie--- Willoughby ---/
_ | |
_ /-----------------------------\ Peregrine -------- Mary Vere
_ | | Bertie | (Ed's sis)
_ | Jane | |
_Anthony Browne --- Ratcliff Lucy Browne--Thomas |
_ d. 1592 | Roper |
_ | |
_Thomas --- MARY BROWNE --- Henry Wriothesley ROBERT BERTIE
_Heneage / | (Southampton) 1st EARL of LINDSEY
_d.1592 / | Lord Great Chamberlain
/ Henry Wriothesley 16 Dec 1582 - 23 Oct 1642
W. Harvey---/ (Southampton) Killed in Battle of Edgehill
(Mr.W.H.) Bart [Married Elizabeth MONTAGU]
_(later Ross)
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_ http://www.jamestowne.org/history/johns.htm
_ Captain John Smith died in London, June, 1631,
_ and was buried in St. Sepulchre's Church.
<<"The [stained glass] window provides a memorial to one of our most
courageous and brave colonists, Captain John Smith, and also to his
distinguished and learned biographer, the late Bradford Smith. The
intention was to accompany the figure of Captain Smith with those of
two of his most loyal and faithful friends. Accordingly, a portrait of
ROBERT BERTIE, EARL of LINDSEY, Lord Willoughby is shown in his Garter
Robes and holding a wand as Lord Great Chamberlain, in 1628. He and
Captain Smith were neighbors in the County of Lincoln and it was due to
Lord Willoughby's help that Smith was able to find a channel for his
energy and to realise his ambitions. Behind Lord Willoughby's figure is
part of the Palace of Whitehall as it was at this period and opposite
stands the Gateway of St. James Palace.
Captain Smith stands surrounded by a few of the nautical instruments of
the time, including the hour glass, lodestone, the quadrant and the
backstaff. At his feet is a volume with the initials of Thomas Hariot
who compiled a small dictionary of the Indian Language.
Smith himself holds a copy of his famous map of Virginia. The other
loyal friend and Patron is Sir Samuel Saltonstall, son of a Lord Mayor
of London. He it was who bore the costs of printing Smith's Sea Grammar.
Not only did he undertake this but he also held open house for Smith at
his home in Snow Hill, to the west of this Church. In this house a room
was reserved for Smith who had a trunk standing there, no doubt for his
personal books and belongings. Sir Samuel's first cousin, Sir Richard
Saltonstall, founded the Massachusetts branch of the family which
continues to this day. The Tower of the Church stands behind his figure
and is shown as it was before restoration not long after Smith died.
Below these three figures is the trio of vessels which on a dark
December night in 1606, sailed down the Thames to arrive on
April 26th of the following year on the coast of Virginia.
Discovery 20 tons/ Susan Constant 120 tons / Godspeed 40 tons.
The Heraldry at the top of the window also has its own story. From
left to right, we see the Monogram R.H. standing for Robert Hunt,
Chaplain to the Expedition and the Colony. Next are the Arms of Thomas,
Lord De La Warr, eldest brother of Francis West and Lord Governor and
Captain General for South Virginia. Adjoining this are the Arms of
Henry Carey, Earl of Dover, to whom Smith dedicated his True Travels,
Adventures and Observations of 1629. Then follow the Arms of William
Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, another Patron to whom Smith's book was
dedicated, and the Arms of Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond and
Lennox, who financed Smith's General History and permitted him to
include an engraving of her Portrait. This line of tracery ends with
the letters B.G. standing fo Bartholomew Gosnold the Pathfinder of New
England who was the prime mover of the Colony of Virginia. High at the
top of the Window are the letters S.H. separated by a Cross, standing
for St. Helen's, Willoughby by Alford in the County of Lincoln where
Captain John Smith was baptised on January 9th 1580.">>
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_ /----------------------\
_ | |
_ | Thomas --- Constance Blount
_ William Blount Tyrrell | Elizabeth TRUSSELL
_[Lord Mountjoy] | |
_ | Charles Tyrrell - Margery --- John deVere
_ | | |
Katherine Blount --- Maurice Berkeley | |
_ | | | P. Bertie
_ | Edward deVere Mary---WILLOUGHBY
_ Widow Russell --- Henry BERKELEY |(Ambassador
_ | | Elsinore)
_THOMAS RUSSELL --- Anne Digges (Aldermanbury neighbor |
_(Shak's will) | Heminges & Condell) |
_ Leonard Digges |
_ ("Stratford moniment") ROBERT BERTIE
_ 1st EARL of LINDSEY
_ Lord Great Chamberlain
_ 16 Dec 1582 - 23 Oct 1642
_ Killed in Battle of Edgehill
_ [Married Elizabeth MONTAGU]
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_ Mary deVere married a Peregrine Bertie
_ (i.e., Lord Willoughby d'Eresby) in 1577.
A dozen years later Lord Willoughby was to raise the siege of
Bergen-op-Zoom against a superior Spanish forces under the Duke of
PARMA. A ballad was even written for our hero:
_ "The new was brought to England
_ With all the speed might be,
_ And soon out gracious Queen was told
_ Of this same victory
_ "Oh, this is brave Lord Willoguhby,
_ My love who ever won;
_ Of all my lords of honour
_ 'Tis he great deeds has done."
_ - (Ogburn, p.591)
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Dutch kriegspiel against PARMA
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In the background of the (dutch) Chess Portrait:
<<The other two inscriptions behind "Ben Jonson" appear to repeat one
and the same word. They also are on book-backs, and also slant towards
the left like the first one. On the second, the initial letter is
indistinct; it seems, however, to have been a P and the third one is the
same. The second word would then be PARMAS; the third, however, PARMA.>>
http://www.tony-net.net/lopez/html/english/books/a/au/authenti.htm
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbertie/namesake.htm
http://www.touruk.co.uk/houses/houselincs_grimst.htm
<<The Bertie family had been prominent in the military and political
history of England since the fifteenth century. Robert Bertie was Lord
of Bersted in Kent. Three generations later, Thomas Bertie was Captain
of Hurst Castle, Isle of Wight, in the latter end of the reign of Henry
VII; in the reign of Edward VI he was granted arms and a crest and was
described as one who "had for a long time used himself in feats of arms
and good works, so that he was worthy in all places of honor to be
admitted, numbered and taken in the company of other nobles." Thomas'
son, Richard, married in 1553 one of the most distinguished ladies of
the day, Katherine, Baroness Willoughby of ERESBY, daughter and sole
heir of William Willoughby. She was Duchess-Dowager of Suffolk,
being the widow of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.>>
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Bertie Motto: Virtus Ariete Fortior
_ Virture is stronger than a battering ram
_ Bertie CREST: PINE TREE.
_ three battering rams
Crest: On a wreath, the head and bust of a King couped proper,
crowned ducally, and charged on the chest with a fret. Or.
Supporters: On the dexter side, a pilgrim, or friar, vested in russet,
with his staff and pater noster. Argent o the sinister, a savage,
wreathed about the temples and middle with ivy, proper.
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_ Gyrfalcon: A large, rare falcon (Falco rusticolus)
_ from: geirr = SPEAR
___ and falki = FALCON
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Social Rank & Appropriate Bird as Delineated in The Boke of St. Albans
_ Emperor: Golden Eagle, Vulture, & Merlin
_ King: Gyrfalcon (male & female)
_ Earl: Peregrine
_ Yeoman: Goshawk or Hobby
_ Knaves, Servants, Children: Old World Kestrel
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_ FALCON: a female Peregrine falcon.
_ One FALCON adorns Shakspeare's crest.
_ Four FALCONs adorn Southampton's crest.
_ <<Southampton (Wriothesley): azure,
_ a cross or between four FALCONS close argent.>>
_ http://renaissance.dm.net/heraldry/blazons.html
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Stephanie Caruana wrote:
<<Then there was [Oxford's] brother-in-law Lord Willoughby's 1583
trip to Elsinore Castle as the Queen's emissary, to invest King
Frederick of Denmark with the order of the Garter. Lord Willoughby
wrote it all down, in a manuscript which still exists today.
[PEREGRINE BERTIE/Willoughby] described the King's celebration:
"...we royally feasted, and the King [had] all the ordnance of
the castle given us....after a whole volley of all the great shot
of the Castle discharged, a royal feast, and a most artificial and
cunning fireworks." This splended celebration at Elsinore Castle,
or something suspiciously like it, turns up in Hamlet.>>
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Peregine Birdie
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Ed's half sister Mary deVere married a PEREGRINE BERTIE
(i.e., Lord WILLOUGHBY d'Eresby) in 1577.
Stephanie Caruana wrote:
<<And then of course there was his brother-in-law Lord Willoughby's
1583 trip to Elsinore Castle as the Queen's emissary, to invest King
Frederick of Denmark with the order of the Garter. Lord Willoughby
wrote it all down, in a manuscript which still exists today.
He described the King's royal celebration:
"...we royally feasted, and the King [had] all the ordnance of
the castle given us....after a whole volley of al the great shot
of the Castle discharged, a royal feast, and a most artificial and
cunning fireworks." This splended celebration at Elsinore Castle,
or something suspiciously like it, turns up in Hamlet,
minus the fireworks:
Hamlet: The king doth wake tonight and takes his rouse,
Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels;
And, as he drinks his draughts of Rhenish down,
The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out
The triumph of his pledge.
It's all there except for the fireworks.>>
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