The Ardens of Wilmcote (Shakespeare's mother's family) knew Sir Robert Throckmorton
lyra
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How William Shakespeare may have started in his career as an actor...
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Walter Arden of Park Hall
and
Thomas Arden of Wilmcote
(whom Smart believes to be Walter's younger son)
had a common friend in
Sir Robert Throckmorton of Coughton,
just outside Stratford,
who acted as a trustee for each of them in property transactions.
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Sir Robert THROCKMORTON of Coughton, Knight
Born: ABT 1510, Coughton, Warws. and Weston Underwood, Bucks.
Died: 12 Feb 1581, Coughton, Warwickshire
Father: George THROCKMORTON of Coughton (Sir Knight)
Mother: Catherine VAUX
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Married 1: Muriel BERKELEY 1527
(7 children)
Married 2: Elizabeth HUSSEY (B. Hungerford of Heystesbury) 1542
(14 children)
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Born by 1513, first son of Sir George Throckmorton
Robert Throckmorton may have trained at the Middle Temple, the inn
attended by his father, at least three of his younger brothers and his
own eldest son,
but as the heir to extensive estates he had little need to seek a
career at court or in government.
He was joined with his father in several stewardships from 1527 and was
perhaps the servant of Robert Tyrwhitt, a distant relative by marriage
of the Throckmortons, who in 1540 took an inventory of Cromwell's goods
at Mortlake.
He attended the reception of Anne of Cleves and with several of his
brothers served in the French war of 1544.
Three years later he was placed on the Warwickshire bench and was thus
suitably qualified for the knighthood of the shire which fell to him
almost as though it were a part of his inheritance in Mar 1553: three
of his brothers sat in the same Parliament, Nicholas as knight for
Northamptonshire.
Throckmorton's role in the succession crisis of 1553 is unknown but his
standing with Queen Mary is shown by her reputed answer to the news of
Edward VI's death sent her by four of his brothers: 'If Robert had
been there she durst have gaged her life and hazarded the hap'.
He died on 12 Feb 1581, six days after making a will in which he styled
himself of Weston Underwood but asked to be buried at Coughton, where
an alabaster and marble tomb was accordingly erected to his memory:
there is a portrait at Coughton.
He named as executors his eldest son Thomas and his sons-in-law Sir
John Goodwin and Ralph Sheldon , and as overseers another son-in-law
Sir Thomas Tresham and his 'loving friend' Edmund Plowden.
Sir Robert Throckmorton continued the family in the Catholic tradition.
He married his children into the leading Catholic families, and in
these generations the increased persecution of the Catholic spawned
many relatives who became involved in plots against the throne.
The sons of his daughters Anne and Muriel, were Robert Catesby and
Francis Tresham,
and a third daughter Mary was married to Edward Arden,
who was also convicted of treason and executed for his part in a plot
to assasinate Queen Elizabeth in 1583.
This daughter kept an excellent record of a woman persecuted for
recusancy, documenting the fines and searches made at Coughton Court,
that is still in the family archives.
A nephew, Francis Throckmorton, was executed in 1584 for acting as a
go-between for Mary Queen of Scots and the Spanish Ambassador in an
attempt to invade England and place Mary on the throne.
A niece Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Nicholas and lady-in-waiting to
Queen Elizabeth, also got into trouble by secretly marrying Sir Walter
Raleigh.
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(from the History of Parliament, a biographical dictionary of Members
of the House of Commons,
quoted at
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/RobertThrockmortonofCoughton.htm )
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lyra
(The Ardens of Wilmcote (Shakespeare's mother's family) knew Sir Robert
Throckmorton)
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May not Sir Robert Throckmorton,
or his family -
well-known to the Queen,
and including an ambassador,
and also the wife of Sir Walter Ralegh -
have helped the career or start in life
of
William Shakespeare,
son of Mary Arden,
one of the Ardens of Wilmcote,
a family known to Sir Robert Throckmorton
(of Coughton, near Stratford on Avon)
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lyra
> Ambassador to France and Scotland for Queen Elizabeth 1st.
> Throgmorton Street in the City of London is named after him.
> His daughter married Sir Walter Raleigh.
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"Coughton Court has had a troubled history. The Throckmorton
family have always been strongly Roman Catholic and they paid a
high price for their faith during the reign of Elizabeth I and in the
years that followed.
Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, who had been
Ambassador to France, was imprisoned by the queen because of his
friendship with Mary, Queen of Scots."
"In 1583 his nephew was executed for his part in the 'Throckmorton
Plot' to murder Elizabeth and replace her with her cousin.
Throughout Elizabeth's reign, although they suffered fines and
imprisonment, the Throckmortons continued to hold secret masses and to
harbour priests and recusants at Coughton Court."
"A canvas in the Tower Room displays the arms of all the Catholic
gentry who suffered imprisonment for recusancy during Elizabeth's
reign."
"Among the family portraits is a picture of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton
whose daughter Bessie Throckmorton was a lady in waiting to Queen
Elizabeth I and married Sir Walter Raleigh.
Adjoining the Dining
Room is a little panelled room which contains family momentoes
including the shift in which Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded and
locks of hair of the Old and Young Pretenders. These reflect the
Throckmortons' strong Catholic faith and their allegiance to the
Stuart cause. There is also an exhibition on the Gunpowder Plot and
a collection of children's costumes."
"Coughton Court is surrounded by 25 acres of gardens and grounds which
two churchs and a lake. Beyond the open courtyard yew-framed lawns
stretch down to the River Arrow and the peaceful wooded countryside
beyond. In 1992 a formal garden was created in the courtyard with
designs based on an Elizabethan knot garden. In the old walled garden
a new 1.5 acre garden was established in 1996. There is also a bog
garden and a specially created walk along the River Arrow."
http://www.touruk.co.uk/houses/housewarw_coug.htm
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lyra
of the Ardens of Wilmcote
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Robert Arden, who died in 1556, was a well-to-do husbandman with eight
daughters.
In 1550, when he made arrangements for the future division of his
estates, four were still unmarried.
Mary was one of these and she was still single on Robert's death six
years later.
By that time, her father had married again, taking as his second wife a
widow, Agnes Hill, who had four young children of her own.
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The Ardens' copyhold title passed from Agnes Arden to her son-in-law,
John Fullwood, and then descended in his family until 1662.
It was then sold off by the lord of the manor and in 1738 later owners
disposed of it to augment the living of the neighbouring parish of
Billesley,
hence its traditional name,
Glebe Farm.
A few years later, more lands and buildings were added to this glebe
which recent research has further established
represent the freehold premises in
Wilmcote
which had come to John Shakespeare on his marriage to Mary Arden.
These John had then mortgaged to his brother-in-law, Edmund Lambert,
whose son John kept them in his possession despite legal cases brought
against him by the Shakespeares.
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(from http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/content/view/51/51/ )
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lyra
one of Swinburne's ancestors is the very same
Sir Robert Throckmorton,
who knew the Ardens (of Park Hall,
and also the Wilmcote Ardens)
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Elizabeth Tyringham
Birth: Place: of Tyringham,
Buckinghamshire, England
Death: aft 12 Apr 1647 Place:
Father: Anthony Tyringham
(Sir Knight)
Mother: Eleanor Throckmorton
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Eleanor Throckmorton
Father: Robert Throckmorton
Mother: Elizabeth Hussey
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Robert Throckmorton
Sir Knight
Birth: abt 1515 Place: of Coughton,
Warwickshire, England
Death: 1586 Place:
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Elizabeth Hussey
(also m. to Walter Hungerford, Baron Hungerford)
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> > > > Queen Elizabeth, also got into trouble by secretly marrying Sir Walter...
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lyra
On Dec 21, 11:16 am, "lyra" <mountain_qu...@RockAthens.com> wrote:
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> A way for William Shakespeare to get known at Court -
>
> (The Ardens of Wilmcote (Shakespeare's mother's family) knew Sir Robert
> Throckmorton)
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________
>
> May not Sir Robert Throckmorton,
>
> or his family -
>
> well-known to the Queen,
>
> and including an ambassador,
>
> and also the wife of Sir Walter Ralegh -
>
> have helped the career or start in life
>
> of
>
> William Shakespeare,
>
> son of Mary Arden,
>
> one of the Ardens of Wilmcote,
>
> a family known to Sir Robert Throckmorton
>
> (of Coughton, near Stratford on Avon)
>
> _________________________________________
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The Throckmortons,
via their cousins the Parrs,
are closely linked to the Herbert Earl of Pembroke family
(Anne Parr, Queen Katherine Parr's sister, married one of the Earls) -
of
1. the First Folio ("the incomparable brothers")
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2. Lord Pembroke's acting company
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This is an interesting link,
for the actor William Shakespeare,
(via the Ardens' friendship with Sir Robert Throckmorton)
to a well-known acting company.
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lyra
Katherine Vaux.
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Catherine VAUX
Born: ABT 1490
Father: Nicholas VAUX (1º B. Vaux of Harrowden)
Mother: Elizabeth FITZHUGH (B. Vaux of Harrowden)
Married: George THROCKMORTON of Coughton (Sir Knight) BEF 1512
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Nicholas VAUX (1° B. Vaux of Harrowden)
Born: ABT 1460
Acceeded: 27 Apr 1523
Died 14 May 1523
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: William VAUX of Great Harrowden (Sir)
Mother: Catherine PENNISON
Married 1: Elizabeth FITZHUGH (B. Vaux of Harrowden) ABT 1483/4,
Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England
Married 2: Anne GREEN (dau of Sir Thomas Green and Jane Fogge) 1507
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http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/VAUX.htm#Nicholas%20VAUX%20(1%B0%20B.%20Vaux%20of%20Harrowden)
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Anne Green is the aunt of Anne Parr (married Earl of Pembroke)
and Queen Katherine Parr.
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i. e.,
the "incomparable brothers"' father,
is Anne Parr's son.
Katherine Vaux's stepmother Anne (nee) Green,
is sister to Anne Parr's mother.
This makes Katherine Vaux and Anne Parr first cousins.
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Then Sir Robert Throckmorton,
and
Sir Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke,
are the children of the first cousins.
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Of course, this is a very close link
between Sir Robert,
friend of Shakespeare's mother's family,
and Sir Henry Herbert, who had an acting company.
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Pembroke's Men
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Earl of Pembroke's Men was an Elizabethan era playing company, or
troupe of actors, in English Renaissance theatre. They functioned under
the patronage of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. Early and
equivocal mentions of a Pembroke's company reach as far back as 1575;
but the company is known for certain to have been in existence in 1592.
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It is generally thought that William Shakespeare spent time as both as
actor and writer for Pembroke's Men in the early 1590s.
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Two of the earliest quarto publications of individual Shakespearean
plays are both linked to this company: the title page of the earliest
text of Henry VI, part 3 (1595) states that the play was performed by
Pembroke's Men, while the title page of Q1 of Titus Andronicus (1594)
states that that play was acted by three companies, Pembroke's Men,
Derby's Men, and Sussex's Men.
The mention of three acting companies for one play is unusual; but the
early 1590s were difficult years for the professional actors of the
day.
( from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembroke's_Men )
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Pembroke's Men
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Earl of Pembroke's Men was an Elizabethan era playing company, or
troupe of actors, in English Renaissance theatre. They functioned under
the patronage of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. Early and
equivocal mentions of a Pembroke's company reach as far back as 1575;
but the company is known for certain to have been in existence in 1592.
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It is generally thought that William Shakespeare spent time as both as
actor and writer for Pembroke's Men in the early 1590s.
__________________________________________________________________________________
Two of the earliest quarto publications of individual Shakespearean
plays are both linked to this company: the title page of the earliest
text of Henry VI, part 3 (1595) states that the play was performed by
Pembroke's Men, while the title page of Q1 of Titus Andronicus (1594)
states that that play was acted by three companies, Pembroke's Men,
Derby's Men, and Sussex's Men.
The mention of three acting companies for one play is unusual; but the
early 1590s were difficult years for the professional actors of the
day.
( from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembroke's_Men )
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