Alice Norton (Cranmer)

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Alice Norton (Cranmer)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Aslacton, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Death: February 1602 (55-64)
Chestnut, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Edmund Cranmer, Archdeacon of Canterbury and Alice Anne Cranmer
Wife of Thomas Norton, MP
Mother of Henry Norton; Robert Norton; William Norton; Thomas Norton, Jr.; Lieut. Col. Walter Norton and 4 others
Sister of Sir Thomas Cranmer, Kt; Anne Cranmer; Samuel Cranmer; George Cranmer; Joanna Cranmer and 1 other

Managed by: Geoffrey David Trowbridge
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About Alice Norton (Cranmer)

Daughter of Edmund Cranmer (1494-1571), Archdeacon of Canterbury, niece of Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), Archbishop of Canterbury, Alice was m. c1568 to Thomas Norton (1532-1584), poet and controversial MP -- also known as the "Rackmaster of London". Alice was his second wife -- his first wife was her first cousin Margaret Cranmer, dau of Thomas Cranmer, who died childless prior to 1568. _____________________________________________

Note by Robert Hanscom, a Norton descendant -- 3 May 2016:

Alice was the mother of nine children born between 1571 and 1583. From the biography of her husband, Thomas Norton, this passage: "Always a bigoted protestant, she at length fell a victim to religious mania. In 1582 [error for 1583], she was hopelessly insane, and at the time of her husband's death [March 1584] was living at Cheshunt..." An entry from June 1583 indicates that her daughter, Anne, age 5, was staying with her. However, the rest of her children were at Sharpenhoe Manor (including a newborn daughter, Elizabeth), being cared for by their father until his death, and then likely by their uncle, Luke Norton.

Following the marriage of her daughter Anne to Sir George Coppin (about 1600), Alice resided in their household in Cheshunt. She died in there in Feb 1602, age about 60, having "never recovered her reason".

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Alice Norton (Cranmer)'s Timeline

1542
1542
Aslacton, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
1571
June 20, 1571
Sharpenhoe, Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
1573
1573
London, England or Sharpenhoe, Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
1574
1574
Sharpenhoe, Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
1575
1575
Sharpenhoe, Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
1576
1576
Sharpenhoe, Bedfordshire, England
1578
1578
Sharpenhoe, Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
1579
1579
Sharpenhoe, Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
1582
1582
London, England or Sharpenhoe, Central Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom