John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey

John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford

John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford (1465/1466 – 1536/1537) (sometimes "Huse") was Chief Butler of England[2] from 1521 until his death.[3] He was a member of the House of Lords, and a Chamberlain to King Henry VIII's daughter, Mary I of England.

Hussey was born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, son of William Hussey, an English judge and Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. His mother was the former Elizabeth Berkeley.[4] Hussey's siblings included Sir Robert Hussey (d.1546), the father of Elizabeth Hussey, the 'Mistress Crane' at whose home at East Molesey the first of the Marprelate tracts, Martin's Epistle, was printed in October 1588; Elizabeth Hussey, who married Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent; and Mary Hussey, who married William Willoughby, 11th Baron Willoughby de Eresby.

In 1497, at the Battle of Blackheath, Hussey was knighted. Six years later, he was made "Knight of the Body", bodyguard to King Henry VII, followed by an appointment as "Master of Lyfield Forest", Rutland in 1505 and Comptroller of the Household in 1509. On 16 August 1513, at the battle of the Spurs, he was promoted to Knight banneret.

In 1493 Hussey was appointed Sheriff of Lincolnshire and by 1513 he was custos rotulorum for the county. On 6 July 1523, he was elected Member of Parliament as a knight of the shire for Lincolnshire. Three years later, 5 February 1526, he was appointed a judge. On 3 November 1529 he was re-elected to Parliament as knight of the shire for Lincolnshire but received a Writs of Summons on 1 December 1529 to the House of Lords as 'Johannes Hussey de sleford, chivaler'. In June 1530, Hussey was named Lincolnshire Castle's Commissioner for Gaol Delivery, and later that same year, Hussey sold some of his large holdings (the Somersetshire manors of Batheaston, Bathampton, Bathford, Twerton; the Wiltshire manors of Compton Bassett, Comerwell, and North Wraxall).[5]

On 10 September 1533, Lord Hussey attended the christening of princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth 1), daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, and carried the canopy over the 3-day old child with George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, Lord Thomas Howard, and William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham.

Hussey was Chamberlain to King Henry's daughter, Mary, while Hussey's second wife, Lady Anne, was one of Mary's attendants. Though King Henry forbade anyone from calling his daughter, Mary, by the title of Princess, Lady Anne did do so, after which she lost her attendant position around June 1534 and was imprisoned in the Tower of London in August. Asking for the King's pardon, she was released before the end of the year.[3]

In addition to his responsibilities at Court and Parliament, Hussey was steward to John Longland, the conservative Bishop of Lincoln,[6] and King Henry's confessor.[7]

Hussey was implicated along with his cousin as complicit in the 1536 uprising known as the Pilgrimage of Grace. Though Hussey denied participation in the rebellion, he was accused of conspiring to change laws and depose the king, and that he abetted those who made war on the king in October 1536.[8] The charges may have been levied in part because of Hussey's Catholic sympathies,[9] and because Hussey and his wife, having served 'Princess' Mary, were partisans on her behalf.[10] Hussey was indicted and tried for treason, and found guilty by the House of Lords. He was beheaded in Lincoln in 1536,[1] while his cousin, Thomas Darcy, was executed on Tower Hill.[3]

Hussey's statement ("confession") survives.[11]

Hussey first married Margaret Blount in 1490 at Mangotsfield, by whom he had three sons:[3]

• Sir William Hussey, Knt. (c. 1492)
• Thomas Hussey (c. 1495)
• Gilbert Hussey (c. 1497)

About 1509, he then married Lady Anne Grey (c. 1490, Denbigh – from 1 March 1544/1545 to 11 February 1545/1546), daughter of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent by his second wife, Catherine Herbert.[12] They had eight children:[3]

• Sir Giles Hussey (born 1505, who married Jane Pigot, and had issue (descendants include President Richard Nixon (twice), actor James Dean and entrepreneurs J. A. Folger and Peter Folger[13])
• Joan Hussey, wife of Sir Roger Forster.[14]
• Elizabeth Hussey, second wife of Sir Robert Throckmorton of Coughton, Warwickshire (d. 1586), and had four daughters and two sons
• Bridget Hussey (c. 1526 - 13 January 1600/1601, bur. Watford, Hertfordshire, will dated 2 June 1600) probated 12 January 1600/1601), wife of Sir Richard Morrison of Cashiobury, Hertfordshire (d. Strasbourg, 17 March 1556), Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland before 1563, without issue, and second wife of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford on 25 June 1566, without issue; her daughter by first husband Jane Sibella Morrison (d. July 1615, last will dated 6 March 1614/1615 probated 14 July 1615), naturalized as an English subject in 1575/1576, married c. 1571 Edward Russell, Baron Russell (d. bef. June 1572 without issue and intestate and his estate was administered on 30 June 1572, bur. Chenies, Buckinghamshire), son of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford and Margaret St John, and after 1572 Sir Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton, and had issue
• Anne or Agnes Hussey, who married Sir Humphrey Browne, Justice of the Common Pleas, by whom she was the mother of Christian Browne, wife of Sir John Tufton, 1st Baronet.[15]
• Dorothy Hussey
• Mary Hussey
• William Hussey

After his execution, Hussey's home in Sleaford,[1] as well as his other estates were confiscated by the crown.[4] His children were restored to Parliament in 1563 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, but Hussey's title was forfeited, and the estates were not returned.[3] .... etc.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hussey,_1st_Baron_Hussey_of_Sleaford

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• HUSSEY, Sir John (1463/65-1537), of Sleaford, Lincs.; Dagenham, Essex and London.
• b. 1463/65, 1st s. of Sir William Hussey of Sleaford and Dagenham by Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Berkeley of Wymondham, Leics., bro. of William Hussey I. m. (1) by Aug. 1492, Margaret (d. June 1509), da. and h. of Simon Blount of Mangotsfield, Glos., at least 2s. inc. William Hussey II; (2) Anne, da. of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, at least 1s. Thomas II 4da., 1 other s. suc. fa. 8 Sept. 1495. Kntd. 17 June 1497, banneret 1513; cr. Lord Hussee or Husey, adm. Lords 1 Dec. 1529.4
• Offices Held
  • Surveyor, possessions late of George, Duke of Clarence, Lincs. 1481; steward, manors of Belvoir, Leics., Bottesford, Friston, Lincs. 1486 (with Sir Reginald Bray) 1496-1503, Grantham and Stamford, Lincs., sole 1503, Folkingham, Ruskington, Lincs., Caythorpe, Leics. 1509, jt. (with s. William) 1510, Boston, Lincs. 1510; sheriff, Lincs. 1493-4; esquire of the body 1494, knight 1503, troner and peiser, Boston 1494; j.p. Lincs. 1495-d., Essex 1506-13, Kent 1506-9, Hunts. 1510-d.; commr. array, Lincs. 1496, inquiry, duchy of Lancaster 1505, musters, Greenwich 1512, mint 1512, subsidy, Lincs. 1623, 1514, 1515, 1523, 1524; master of wards 9 Dec. 1503-13; steward, duchy of Lancaster, Long Barrington and Long Sutton, Lincs. 1504-24; collector petty customs, Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorks. 1505, gauger 1506; King’s councillor 1505; comptroller, the Household 1509; custos rot. Lincs. by 1513; chief butler 1 June 1521-d.; chamberlain, household of Princess Mary 1533-d.5
• Sir William Hussey, who had been made chief justice of the King’s bench by Edward IV, was confirmed in his appointment by Henry VII (although his brother Gilbert Hussey lost the receivership of Guisnes) and retained it until his death. His son John may have received some legal education at Gray’s Inn but was never to practice as a lawyer. Early in Henry VII’s reign he entered the royal household, probably under the sponsorship of Sir Reginald Bray, a lifelong friend (and perhaps kinsman) of his father with whom he would later hold several stewardships: he was present at the peace negotiations with France in 1492, the meeting with the Archduke Philip and the reception of Catherine of Aragon. From Bray he gained the administrative experience which qualified him to become the first master of the wards, although his mentor had died shortly before: in that capacity he emerged as one of the directors of the household organization and a highly regarded royal adviser, but without incurring the obloquy which attached to some of that group. At the accession of Henry VIII, when he had been comptroller for only a few months, he was confirmed in all his offices: the rumour current in 1510 that he had lost his mastership of the wards proved groundless as he kept it for three more years.6
• Hussey had made proof of his allegiance to the house of Tudor as early as 1487 when he fought on the King’s side at Stoke; ten years later he took part at Blackheath where he was knighted on the field; and in 1513 he served with distinction during the Tournai campaign, being then made a banneret. His duties at court did not prevent him from taking an interest in the affairs of his home county, where even before his father’s successful career his family had enjoyed some standing; in 1493 he was pricked sheriff and two years later he succeeded to his father’s place on the local bench. By 1508, when the King visited him (albeit at Dagenham), he was probably the most influential man in the shire and already a parliamentary patron in several of its constituencies.7
• In 1514 he accompanied Henry VIII’s sister, Princess Mary, to Paris for her marriage to Louis XII, and thereafter he attended all the important state occasions at home and abroad. Unlike his more elderly colleagues he was not opposed to the Continental involvement of Wolsey’s time, and he was entrusted with the care of many foreign diplomats in England. Although seemingly one of Wolsey’s closest adherents, he did not suffer any setback at the cardinal’s fall. In the summer of 1529 he appeared as a witness against the papal dispensation allowing the King’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon, and in the following year he signed the petition to the pope for a divorce. It was doubtless as much for his loyalty in the ‘great matter’ as in recognition of his long service that in 1529 he was raised to the peerage. There was as yet, or for some time to come, no hint that he was suspect: he continued to receive New Year’s gifts from the King, became chamberlain to Princess Mary, and was present at both the coronation of Anne Boleyn and the christening of Princess Elizabeth, when he was one of the canopy bearers. He also witnessed the submission of the clergy. The religious changes following the Divorce were eventually to trouble his conscience but seem never to have strained his allegiance, he himself confessing shortly before his death that the limit of his disloyalty was a decision of 1534 never to become a heretic.8
• So prominent a man doubtless sat in Parliament regularly, but the loss of so many early 16th century names means that Hussey is known to have been elected only three times. In 1515 he and Sir Nicholas Vaux took a ‘memorandum ... concerning certain Acts of Parliament’ from the Commons to the Upper House: presumably he was sitting for Lincolnshire, where he was afterwards appointed a commissioner for the tax which he had helped to grant and where he was to be returned twice more. In 1523 he caused ‘sore discontent’ when during the long drawn-out debate on the subsidy bill he moved to please the cardinal somewhat, ‘Let us gentlemen of fifty pound lands and upwards, give to the King of our lands 12d. of the pound, to be paid in three years’.He remarked to his associate Lord Darcy on 6 July that they were so occupied with ‘common causes in the Parliament’ that Hussey had had no time to press his and Darcy’s own matters. Six years later he attended the House for four weeks before taking his place in the Lords on 1 Dec. 1529. Beyond his presences and absences little is known about his part in the Upper House: he absented himself from the sixth session early in 1534, and on 30 Jan. 1536 he wrote to Cromwell, ‘as one who is not able to ride or go’, to be excused from the forthcoming eighth session because he feared he would not reach London alive. He did, however, manage the journey from Lincolnshire for the short Parliament of June-July 1536. It is not known who took Hussey’s place in the Commons: a list of suggested replacements, probably compiled late in 1532, mentions three names, those of Robert Hussey, the new peer’s brother, William Skipwith and Sir Robert Tyrwhitt. As Skipwith was to be knighted in 1533 or 1534, and was to be returned for the shire in 1539, he was probably the one chosen.9
• It was as a sick man that Hussey had made his will on 22 Oct. and three months later had excused himself to Cromwell: whether he was still suffering from the effects of this illness in the following summer is not clear. Shortly after his return to Sleaford from the Parliament of 1536, rebellion broke out in Lincolnshire. He tried to raise the county for the King, but his efforts evoked little support and the Council had to call upon the 4th Earl of Shrewsbury to restore order. Hussey joined Shrewsbury with 200 men well horsed and harnessed, but on the Council’s orders he was not allowed to lead them any further, being conveyed instead to London to defend his own ill success. His answers satisfied the King and he was allowed to go free, informing Darcy of his good fortune early in November. It was this continuing association with a man who so conspicuously failed to resist the concurrent rising in Yorkshire that was to prove fatal to Hussey: arrested in the following spring, he was imprisoned in the Tower, condemned for treason at Westminster, and executed at Lincoln on or shortly before 8 July, the day on which Cromwell mentioned his death in a letter. In 1539 an Act of attainder (31 Hen. VIII, c.15) was passed retrospectively against him, Darcy and the Marquess of Exeter; his forfeited lands were said to be worth about £5,000 a year. His children were restored in blood under Edward VI and Elizabeth, but the attainder was never reversed.10
• Ref Volumes: 1509-1558 .... etc.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/hu... ___________________________
• Sir John Hussey, Baron Sleaford1,2,3
• M, #34652, b. 1466, d. 27 August 1537
• Father Sir William Hussey, Chief Justice of the King's Bench b. c 1443, d. 8 Sep 1496
• Mother Elizabeth Berkeley b. c 1445, d. b 21 Dec 1504
• Sir John Hussey, Baron Sleaford was born in 1466 at of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England. He married Margaret Blount, daughter of Sir Simon Blount and Eleanor Daubeny, before 4 August 1492.4 Sir John Hussey, Baron Sleaford married Anne Grey, daughter of Sir George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, 5th Lord Grey of Ruthin, Constable of Northampton Castle and Katherine Herbert, after 18 May 1509.4,2,3 Sir John Hussey, Baron Sleaford died on 27 August 1537.
• Family 1 Margaret Blount b. 3 Oct 1474
• Children
  • Sir William Hussey b. c 1493, d. 19 Jan 1556
  • Sir Giles Hussey5 b. c 1495
  • Elizabeth Hussey b. c 1497
  • Sir Gilbert Hussey b. c 1499
  • Reginald Hussey b. c 1501
• Family 2 Anne Grey d. bt 1 Mar 1545 - 11 Feb 1546
• Children
  • Giles Hussey+ b. c 1510
  • Elizabeth Hussey+ b. c 1512, d. 23 Jan 1554
  • Thomas Hussey b. c 1514
  • Anne Hussey b. c 1516
  • Dorothy Hussey b. c 1518
  • Bridget Hussey+2,3 b. c 1526, d. 12 Jan 1601
• Citations
• 1.[S10726] Unknown author, The Hussey Connection to the Plantagenet Lineage, by Roy Leggitt.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 465-466.
• 3.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 506-507.
• 4.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. VII, p. 17.
• 5.[S11581] Burke's Dormant & Extinct Peerages, p. 294.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1154.htm#... __________________________
• John Hussey, 1st Lord Hussey1
• M, #18387
• Last Edited=29 Dec 2008
• John Hussey, 1st Lord Hussey was the son of Sir William Hussey.2 He married, secondly, Lady Anne Grey, daughter of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent and Lady Catherine Herbert.1
• He gained the title of 1st Lord Hussey.
• Child of John Hussey, 1st Lord Hussey
  • 1.Elizabeth Hussey+3
• Child of John Hussey, 1st Lord Hussey and Lady Anne Grey
  • 1.Bridget Hussey+1 b. c 1526, d. 12 Jan 1600/1
• Citations
• 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 76. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2.[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 137. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.
• 3.[S34] BP1970 page 2643. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S34]
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p1839.htm#i18387 __________________________
• John HUSSEY (1º B. Hussey of Sleaford)
• Born: 1465/6, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England
• Died: 29 Jun / 27 Aug 1537, Lincoln, England
• Notes: See his Biography.
• Father: William HUSSEY (Sir Knight)
• Mother: Elizabeth BERKELEY
• Married 1: Margaret BLOUNT 1490, Mangotsfield, Gloucester, England
• Children:
  • 1. William HUSSEY (Sir Knight) (b. ABT 1492)
  • 2. Thomas HUSSEY (b. ABT 1495)
  • 3. Gilbert HUSSEY (b. ABT 1497)
• Married 2: Anne GREY (B. Hussey of Sleaford)
• Children:
  • 4. Giles HUSSEY (Sir)
  • 5. Elizabeth HUSSEY (B. Hungerford of Heystesbury)
  • 6. Bridget HUSSEY (C. Rutland/C. Bedford)
  • 7. Anne HUSSEY
  • 8. Dorothy HUSSEY
  • 9. Mary HUSSEY
  • 10. William HUSSEY
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/HUSSEY.htm#John HUSSEY (1º B. Hussey of Sleaford)
• According to the Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Sir John Hussey of Sleaford, Knight, first son and heir; Sheriff of county Lincoln 9 Henry VII; aet. 30 at his father's death; Knight of the King's Body 5 Henry VIII; Chief Butler of England 13 Henry VIII; summoned to Parliament 3 Nov 21 Henry VIII, 1529; attained and beheaded at Lincoln 29 Jun 29 Henry VIII, 1537; his children restored in blood only 5 Elizabeth I, 1562. See also Cokayne, "Complete Peerage", 2° ed., vol. VII, pgs. 15-17.
• On 12 Jun 1481 John Hussey was appointed surveyor of the lordships in Lincolnshire held by the Duke of Clarence. On 16 Jun 1487 he fought in the three-hour Battle of Stoke in which the invasion of England by Lambert Simnel was defeated. Simnel was an impostor claimant to the British crown and a pawn in the Yorkist conspiracies against King Henry VII. Immediately following the battle, the King brought Hussey into the royal household and appointed him comptroller. He was sheriff of Lincolnshire from 7 Nov 1493 to 5 Nov 1494. In 1494 he held the office "of tronage and pesage" at Boston, Lincolnshire, according to "Complete Peerage". In that year he was described as "esquire of the King's body".
• John Hussey was knighted in 1497 at the Battle of Blackheath near London. On 9 Dec 1503 he was given the powerful office of overseer of the wardships in the King's hand. In this office he was instrumental in increasing the King's personal income by six-fold. In 1503 he was made "Knight of the Body," bodyguard to the King. He was appointed Master of Lyfield Forest, Rutlandshire in 1505. In 1509 he was mentioned as being Master Forester of Weybridge and Sapley, Surrey, according to "Letters and Papers of Henry VIII".
• John Hussey was involved in putting down Lovell's rebellion (1486) and was a partner of Sir Richard Empson, knight; and Edmund Dudley, Sergeant at Law, Henry VII's tax gatherers executed on 17 Aug 1510 at Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII.
• He was "Comptroller of the Household" to Henry VII and was with the court at Richmond in 1509 when the King died and was also present at his burial in Westminster, according to "Complete Peerage". He received a £5 annuity for life as comptroller. In 1509 he was listed as owner of Dagnams manor, Essex and Wodhede manor, Rutlandshire at that time. In that year he was Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer [commission empowering judges on circuit to hold courts to hear and determine offenses] in Lincolnshire.
• When King Henry VIII ascended the throne John Hussey continued to receive the king's favor, receiving large grants of land in Lincolnshire and neighboring counties. He became a member of the council and continued as Knight of the Body and Master of the King's Wards. On 20 Aug 1509 he obtained a pardon for his part in an extortion plot and release of all debts due the crown. It was claimed that he had used his position at court to enrich himself by illegal means. This pardon mentioned his wife 'Margaret Blownt' in a last documented reference to her, suggesting that she died shortly after this time.
• It is believed that John Hussey was remarried almost immediately to Anne Grey, dau. of George Grey second Earl of Kent, and Catherine Herbert. Later in 1509 John Hussey and Anne Grey transferred Basilton manor, Berkshire to Henry Bridges. She inherited Stoke Hammond manor in 1512 and transferred it in 1514 to Richard Wyatt.
• John Hussey was a pall bearer at the funeral of Prince Henry, son of Henry VIII, 27 Feb 1511. He agreed to furnish 12 men for the invasion of France 2 May 1512. In 1513 Hussey was a captain commanding 328 men engaged in the French war. In that year he crossed the channel with his troops and engaged in the successful seiges of Therouanne and Tournais and in the Battle of Guinegate. He was made a 'Knight Banneret', possibly at the Battle of Spurs, in France on 16 Aug 1513. A banneret had the privilege of leading his retainers to battle under his own flag. They ranked at the next order below Knights of the Garter providing they were created by the King on the field of battle.
• He was present 9 Oct 1514 at the marriage of Princess Mary, sister of Henry VIII, to King Louis XII of France, and in 1515 was called upon to attend the French Queen.
• He transferred Button manor and Mangotsfield manor to Lord Berkeley in 1516. Hussey had become a close personal friend of King Henry, and when his daughter, Princess Mary was born 18 Feb 1516, he was entrusted with her guardianship. He wrote a letter on 1 Mar 1518 to Lord Lisle in which he reported the theft of religious articles from a church. He reported that '... Pilgrimage Saints goeth down apace and instanced Our Lady at Southwick Church...'. Little did he realize when he wrote the letter how he would become a victim and a casualty of the rebellious religious movement which was to grow in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.
• John Hussey and "Sir William Hussie", either his son or his brother, accompanied Henry on his visit to France in 1520. He was one of 11 knights who attended the King at the Field of Cloth of Gold near Guiness where the Henry met King Francois I of France for three weeks of tournaments, pageants, masques, and banquets. All of the knights in attendance were later created peers or succeeded to peerages.
• Hussey was sent as envoy to the Emperor Carlos V after the Field of the Cloth of Gold. He was appointed 10 Jun 1520 to a commission "...to settle disputes between English merchants and the Teutonic Hanse..." by King Henry VIII, according to "Calendar of State Papers". He was appointed a commissioner of peace in Lincolnshire in Nov 1520. It was reported that on 1 Feb 1521 John Hussey "owed the King £2,3l8, 19 s, 17 d.".
• In 1521 he was made chief butler of England, and he held that office until his death. On 17 May 1522 he attended the King at Canterbury, Kent on the occasion of the visit of Emperor Carlos V. Sir John Hussey was mentioned in the will of Simon FitzRichard dated 5 Nov 1527. On 20 May 1522 the sheriff of Lincolnshire was ordered by the King to seize the goods and part of the land of "... Sir John Hussey and Sir Edward Guilford, of the king's household for satisfaction of a debt to the Bishop of London, now deceased, and the Hospital of St. Thomas of Avon, London...".
• Hussey was a Member of Parliament on 6 Jul 1523. He wrote a letter on that date describing the work he was doing in Parliament which was published in "Calendar of State Papers". In Mar 1524 he and his son Giles were named on the Commission of Sewers [servers to theking] for Lincolnshire by the King.
• John was named as one of the executors of the estate of Edward Stanley, Lord Monteagle, in Apr 1524. Part of the probate arrangements was that Thomas Stanley, the heir, was to marry '...one of the daughters of John Hussey...' Later on 2 Jun 1527 John Hussey released the heir from the marriage bond and declared that he could marry whom he pleased, according to "Calendar of State Papers". Richard Bank, one of the executors of the estate of Edward Stanley, went to prison for misappropriation of the funds of the estate. While in prison he implicated John Hussey and Thomas Darcy, the other two executors.
• On 1 Apr 1524 Hussey, along with others in Lincolnshire, "loaned" to the King £4,254 to finance his war in France. John Hussey received a receipt for two hogsheads of wine from Sir Ralph Verney and Eleanor Pole, his wife, 11 Dec 1524. He was named to a Commission for Searches 13 Feb 1525 for Holburn. He was appointed a judge 5 Feb 1526. In Jan 1529 John Hussey filed a complaint against Richard Bank for '... breaking into his close 1 Sep 1528 at Enfield, Middlesex and doing damage to the extent of 10 pounds...'.
• Hussey was summoned to Parliament 3 Nov 1529 as Knight of the Shire for Lincolnshire. On 1 Dec 1529 he was summoned by writ to the House of Lords as 'Johannes Hussey de sleford, chivaler'. He paid Garter an admission fee of 20s. He was a signatory to the document sent from England begging the papal sanction to Henry VIII's divorce from Catalina de Aragon, and was one of those at the Queen's trial who gave evidence as to her previous marriage with Prince Arthur.
• In Jun 1530 he was named Commissioner for Gaol Delivery for Lincolnshre Castle. He entered into an indenture with his son William Hussey 2 Jul 1530 regarding his son's marriage settlement. John Hussey "chamberlain of London", was involved in a suit with Robert Bayley, "mercer of London" in Oct 1530. In Nov 1530 he received custody of Harewode manor and wardship of Henry Rither, son and heir of Thomas Rither. In 1530 Hussey and his son William sold to William Button the Somersetshire manors of Batheaston, Bathampton, Bathford, Twerton, and the Wiltshire manors of Compton Basset, Comerwell, and North Wraxall, according to "Medieval Deeds of Bath and District".
• John Hussey was present at the christening of Princess Elizabeth in 1533 and was mentioned as chamberlain to Princess Mary, on 31 May 1533 and also in 1535. Anne, Lady Hussey is mentioned as one of Mary's attendants which position she lost about Jun 1534 and was imprisoned in Aug 1534 in the Tower of London for a time for having called Mary 'Princess' after the King had forbidden the use of that title. She is also suspected of not thinking the marriage with Catalina of Aragon unlawful. She asked for the King's pardon 3 Aug 1554 and was released before 18 Dec 1534. Following his wife's imprisonment and observing the King's erratic behavior when the Pope refused to allow him to divorce Catalina, John Hussey began to waver in his loyalty to the King. He was scheduled to go to Rome in 1534 to intercede with the Pope on behalf of Henry, but the trip was cancelled.
• John Fewterer dedicated "The Miracle of Christ's Passion", his book, to the Honorable 'Lord Husey', from Syon, 6 Dec 1533. In 1534 he was reappointed to the "Butlership of England". In that year he wrote Lord Lisle, Deputy of Calais, that he had been bedfast for 14 weeks.
• Hussey wrote his will 22 Oct 1535 in which he mentioned that he was "somewhat sick in body". In the will he requested "... to be buried in Sempringham church if I die within seven miles of it...". He gave title to Brigeasterton manor and Rutland manor to his wife; his lands he left intail male to "... Sir William Huse, son and heir apparent; sons, Thomas, Gilbert, Sir Giles; brothers, Sir William and Sir Robert Huse; daughters, Mary and Bridget Huse, each to have 500 marks; Executor, brother, Sir Robert Huse...".
• On 30 Jan 1535/6 John Hussey wrote to Secretary Thomas Cromwell, Lord Privy Seal, asking to absentuate himself from Parliament because of illness, "... not being able to ride or go. I beg I may be excused from Parliament as I shall not reach London alive...". He was, however, present at Parliament in Jun and Jul 1536, according to "Journal of the House of Lords".
• John Hussey wrote a letter to Lord Lisle in 1536 requesting him to use his influence to obtain a grant of Waverly Abbey to him during the King's suppression of Catholic institutions. The abbey had been confiscated by Thomas Cromwell.
• On the outbreak of the Lincolnshire rebellion, in the autumn of 1536, Hussey seemed to remain firm in his allegiance to the King. He was opposed to the rebellion, but remained in his house at Sleaford, Lincolnshire, afraid to stir out, knowing that his tenants were in sympathy with the rest of the people. However, he did toy with the idea of taking a part in the rebellion. He had a clandestine meeting with the Imperial Ambassador who reported to Emperor Carlos V that John Hussey had stated that the rebellion had 1/3 more men than the King "with plenty of victuals and money". Apparently the meeting was a feeler to see if the Emperor would back the rebellion and perhaps assist in the overthrow of the King. There was a William Hussey with the rebels at Lincoln. He was probably of the same family as John, Lord Hussey. Lord Hussey had been able to bring in his tenants to fight for the King when he had been ordered to do so on 4 Oct 1536. He was accused of making no effort to raise men to put down the rebellion, and the King accused him of being a traitor when he refused to tell the names of the men behind the rebellion. Although he was believed loyal to the King by his fellow members of the House of Lords, particularly the Earl of Shrewsbury, he was taken to London to face an inquiry, and it appears that the charges aginst him were dropped temporarily due to the intervention of the Duke of Norfolk on his behalf. Shortly afterwards another rebellion known as the Pilgrimage of Grace was organized by Robert Aske, a nobleman who gathered a force of some 30,000 men in his following. However Aske was arrested shortly afterwards for high treason and hanged at York.
• Eventually Hussey was indicted for treason and a true bill was returned at Sleaford, Lincolnshire in May 1537. At the insistance of the King he and Lord Darcy were tried by the House of Lords at Westminster, and on 15 May 1537 were found guilty of treason. John Hussey lanquished in the Tower for eight weeks at a cost to the crown of '20 shillings per week' for his keep. He maintained his innocence to the end. He addressed one final, futile appeal to the King in Jun 1537. In addition to appealing for his life, he gave an account of his debts and requested they be promptly paid. He also requested that the impending marriage of his daughter, Dorothy to Thomas Wimbish be allowed to procede. The spiteful King denied the marriage request. Before the execution Thomas Cromwell offered him "lyffe, landes and goodes" if he would furnish particulars of those involved in the rebellion, but Hussey was unable to agree to this since, on his own testimony, he was ignorant of the whole affair.
• There is a difference of opinion as to where he was executed, Sleaford or Tyburn, and as to whether he was hung or beheaded. In a history of "The Earlier Tudors"; by Mackie, it is related that Hussey was beheaded in Lincoln. The story tells that on 28 Jun 1537, King Henry wrote to the Duke of Suffolk, '... am sending Hussey for you to behead in Lincoln as soon as possible after his arrival...'. John Hussey and his accomplice, Sir Robert Constable, were delivered out of the Tower 28 Jun 1537 to Sir Thomas Wentworth who conducted them northward with 50 horsemen as guards. The sentence was carried out on the following day and Thomas Darcy, cousin to Hussey, was executed at the same time.
• After John Hussey was attainted of treason and executed, his manor of Sleaford, with other lands to the value of five thousand pounds per annum were confiscated, and forfeited. His children were, however, afterwards restored in parliament the 5° year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1563); but neither his estates nor the title were granted to his heirs.
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/JohnHussey(1BSleaford).htm ____________________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 28
• Hussey, John by William John Hardy
• HUSSEY, JOHN, Lord Hussey (1466?–1537), was the eldest son of Sir William Hussey [q. v.], by Elizabeth his wife; he is referred to as a knight in his mother's will, which is dated in 1503. He fought on the king's side at Stoke in 1486, and became comptroller of the royal household. In the first year of Henry VIII he received a pardon, apparently for his share in the extortions of the late reign. Scores of recognisances for various sums, upon which his name is associated with those of Empson and Dudley, were cancelled in the early years of Henry VIII. Hussey received large grants of land in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties, became one of the council, master of the king's wards, knight of the body, and took three hundred and forty men to the French war in 1513, when he was one of the commanders of the rearguard. He was employed on various diplomatic missions, and was sent as envoy to the emperor after the Field of Cloth of Gold. In 1521 he was made chief butler of England. In 1529 he was summoned by writ to the House of Lords as 'Johannes Hussey de Sleford, chivaler.' He was a signatory to the document sent from England begging the papal sanction to Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Arragon, and was one of those who at the queen's trial gave evidence as to her previous marriage with Prince Arthur. He was appointed in 1533 chamberlain to the illegitimated 'Princess' Mary, and his allegiance to her father seems about the same time to have begun to waver. On 30 Sept. 1534 Chapuys, the imperial ambassador, reports to Charles V an interview in which Hussey held out hopes of a national uprising if Charles would make war upon Henry. In January 1536 Hussey begged Cromwell to excuse him from attending forthcoming parliament on the ground of ill-health. Nevertheless he was present when parliament met, 8 June. His wife Anne was at the same time sent to the Tower for calling Mary princess.
• On the outbreak of the Lincolnshire rebellion, known as the Pilgrimage of Grace, in the autumn of 1536, the rebels warned Hussey that personal danger would attend a refusal to join with them; he appears, however, to have remained firm in his allegiance to the king, forwarding the rebels' letters to Cromwell, and telling the writers who were anxious that he should submit their terms of agreement to Henry that the king could make no terms with traitors. But when the king sent a message to Hussey (4 Oct.), directing him to raise men to repress the rebellion, he took no steps to carry out the royal order. He was consequently summoned to Windsor to answer for his conduct. In a letter to Darcy, written from Windsor on 7 Nov., he says he was 'like to have suffered' for confederacy with his correspondent had not the Duke of Norfolk interceded for him. He concludes by urging Darcy to use all his energies to secure the 'traitor' Aske.
• However, in the spring of 1537 Hussey again fell under the king's suspicion, and he was arrested, together with Darcy and some others, for complicity in the Lincolnshire rising. On 12 May 1537 a true bill was returned against him at Sleaford. On 15 May he was tried with Lord Darcy at Westminster. Hussey pleaded not guilty,' but he was convicted and sentenced to be executed at Tyburn. Cromwell offered him pardon of 'lyffe, landes, and goodes' if he would furnish particulars of those concerned in the rebellion; but this he could not do, being, he said, ignorant as to the whole affair. Foreseeing no hope of pardon, he earnestly entreated that those bounden to him might not suffer by his forfeiture, and he sent the king a list of his debts. According to Stow he was executed at Sleaford in the following June, but the record of his conviction mentions Tyburn as the place for carrying out the sentence.
• He married Anne, daughter of George Grey, earl of Kent. According to Dugdale he had a second wife, Margaret Blount; but in the documents written by him shortly before his death he speaks of his wife as 'Anne.' Possibly Margaret Blount may have been a first wife. One of his sons, William, seems to have been knighted at Tournai in 1510, and became a privy councillor. His children were restored in blood in 1563, but his attainder was not reversed.
• [Letters and Papers, Henry VIII; Record of the Trial and Conviction of Lord Hussey and other original documents at the Public Record Office; Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 310; Notes and Queries, 6th ser. iv. 531; Froude's Hist. of England; Nicolas's Peerage, ed. Courthope.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hussey,_John_(DNB00) ______________
• HUSSEY, William II (by 1493-1556), of Beauvale, Notts.
• b. by 1493, 1st s. of Sir John Hussey*, Lord Hussey, of Sleaford, Lincs. by 1st w. Margaret, da. and h. of Simon Blount of Mangotsfield, Glos.; half-bro. of Thomas Hussey II*. m. contract 1503, settlement 1529, Ursula, da. and coh. of Sir Robery Lovell, 2da. Kntd. Nov. 1529; suc. fa. 1537.1
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/hu... ____________________________
• HUSSEY, Thomas II (by 1530-72/76), of the Middle Temple, London.
• b. by 1530, yr. s. of John Hussey, Lord Hussey, of Sleaford, Lincs. by 2nd w. Anne, da. of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent; half-bro. of William Hussey II. educ. M. Temple.2
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/hu... ________________________
• HUSSEY, Thomas I (c.1520-by 1576), of the Middle Temple, London.
• b. c.1520, yr. s. of Sir John Hussey† of Sleaford, Lincs. by his 2nd w. Anne, da. of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent. educ. M. Temple.2
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/hu... ________________________
• Collectanea topographica et genealogica (1834)
• https://archive.org/details/collectaneatopog01londuoft
• https://archive.org/stream/collectaneatopog01londuoft#page/314/mode...
  • No. XIV.
• Sir Giles Daubeney. = Dame Jane, dau. of Philip Lord Darcy.; ch: William (m. Alice Stourton) Daubeney; = Dame Alice Daubeney.; ch: Avice (m. John Flynt & John Lisle) Daubeney; = Mary, dau. of . . . . Leke.; ch: Dame Jane (m. Sir Robert Markham), . . . . Daubeney.
  • William Daubeney. = Alice, dau. of Jenkin Stourton. (m2. Robt. Hill); ch: Giles (m. Eliz Arundell), Alianor (m. Simon Blount & Rd. Newton), James (m. Elizab. Painsfoot) Daubeney.
    • Alianor, first wed. to Simon Blount,; ch: . . . (m.John Husee) Blount; aft. to Rd. Newton, Esq. for the King's Body.; ch: dau. of Richard Newton.
      • . . . . wedd. to John Husee, son and heir of the Lord Husse, Chief Justice. _________________________________
• LINKED ON JOHN HUSSEY'S BIO AS A POSSIBLE SON
• GREY, Thomas II (by 1519-58), of Norwich, Norf.
• b. by 1519. m. by 1540, Ursula, da. of Margaret Hobart or Hubberd of Southwold, Suff., 3s. 3da.1
• An apprentice of Augustine Steward, Thomas Grey, mercer, was admitted to the freedom of Norwich on 16 June 1540 ‘for Mr. Tracy, one of the sheriffs’, who thus exercised his right to nominate a freeman during his term of office. Grey’s parentage is unknown, but he may have been the Norwich yeoman’s son for whose assault on a weaver at some time during the reign of Henry VIII the father, John Grey, had to give bond for the payment of damages. If he belonged to the Greys of Merton, Norfolk, he was related to Edmund Grey, recorder of Norwich from 1540, and probably also to Richard Catlyn, a Member for Norwich in three Parliaments.3
• Grey’s civic career stopped short of the mayoralty, doubtless because of his early death, but it took him to Westminster as a Member of Mary’s fourth Parliament, where he and John Aldrich, a fellow-mercer with whom Grey had served as sheriff, must have been concerned with the bills for the dyeing of coloured worsteds in Norwich and Norfolk and for the trade in Norfolk wool, both of which failed after their first reading. Neither appears on the list of those who voted against one of the government’s bills.
• In July 1556 Grey was elected to the newly founded russell-makers’ company in place of John Ball, and in the following January he was one of those appointed by the Norwich assembly to organize the provision of work for the poor. He made his will on 24 July 1557, perhaps because of the current epidemic, but he did not die before the following April, when his name reappears on the list of aldermen. He left £3 6s.8d. to Dr. John Barrett ‘to pray for me’, 10 marks to be used ‘in true preaching and setting forth of the word of God in the city of Norwich’ and 20s. each to three scholars studying at Cambridge for five years. To his wife he bequeathed £100 and a life interest in a house and a messuage in the city, to his eldest son Augustine 200 marks and to his other children lesser sums on their marriage or coming of age. He named his wife sole executrix and John Barrett, parson of St. Michael ‘Marstowe’, ‘where I now do dwell’, and John Aldrich supervisors. The will was proved on 3 June 1558. Augustine Grey was admitted a freeman in December 1561.4
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/gr... ______________________________
• Sleaford History
• The original settlement of Old Sleaford was situated between Boston Road and the River Slea and objects found at the site give evidence of Roman and Anglo-Saxon occupation.
• In the time of Edward the Confessor, the Manor of New Sleaford was held by Bardi, a Saxon landowner. With the Norman Conquest of 1066 Bardi was dispossessed, and it was given to the Bishop of Lincoln.
• The Manor remained in the possession of the Bishops of Lincoln for over 400 years until the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553) when it was sold by Bishop Holbeach to the Duke of Somerset who was attained for treason and the Manor reverted to the Crown. Queen Mary I (1553-1558) granted the Manor to Edward, Lord Clinton, who sold it to the Carre family.
• The Carre family held it until 1686 when following the death in 1684 of Sir Robert Carre the land Baronet, it passed to his daughter and heiress, Isabella Carre, who married John Hervey, first Earl of Bristol, and since then the Manor of New Sleaford has remained in the ownership of the Earls (later Marquess) of Bristol.
• The Old Manor of Sleaford was held for many years by the Hussey family until 1536 when John, Lord Hussey, was beheaded for treason at Lincoln, and the Manor was purchased by the Carre family who held it until 1686 when on the marriage of Isabella Carre it also passed to the Bristol family who have held it ever since.
• From: http://web.archive.org/web/20080515203548/http://www.sleaford.gov.u... ________________
• Lincolnshire pedigrees (1902) Volume 2
• http://archive.org/details/lincolnshirepedi02madd
• http://archive.org/stream/lincolnshirepedi02madd#page/301/mode/1up
• Pg. 527
  • Hussey of Sleaford and Donington. Pg. 526-532
• Sir John Hussey m. Margaret Blount m2. Anne Grey ___________________
• A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct ...
• By Sir Bernard Burke
• http://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog
• http://archive.org/stream/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog#page/n312/mode/1up
• Pg. 294
• Sir John Hussey m1. Anne Grey m2. Margaret Blount ___________________
• The royal lineage of our noble and gentle families. Together with their paternal ancestry .. (1887), Volume 1
• http://archive.org/details/royallineageour00unkngoog
• http://archive.org/stream/royallineageour00unkngoog#page/n117/mode/1up
• Pg. 93
  • The Descent of Georgina Frances Loftus Otway Pg. 92-93
• Anne Grey m. John, Lord Hussey __________________
• Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hussey_(judge)
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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Throckmorton
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Morrison_(ambassador)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Russell,_2nd_Earl_of_Bedford
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• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hussey,_William_(DNB00)

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John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford (sometimes "Huse"; 1465/1466 – 1536/1537) was Chief Butler of England from 1521 until his death. He was a member of the House of Lords, and a Chamberlain to King Henry VIII's daughter, Mary. John Hussey was born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, son of William Hussey, an English judge and Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. His mother was the former Elizabeth Berkeley. Hussey's siblings included Sir Robert Hussey (d.1546), the father of Elizabeth Hussey, the 'Mistress Crane' at whose home at East Molesey the first of the Marprelate tracts, Martin's Epistle, was printed in October 1588; Elizabeth Hussey, who married Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent; and Mary Hussey, who married William Willoughby, 11th Baron Willoughby de Eresby.

In 1497, at the Battle of Blackheath, John was knighted. Six years later, he was made "Knight of the Body", bodyguard to King Henry VII, followed by an appointment as "Master of Lyfield Forest", Rutland in 1505 and Comptroller of the Household in 1509. On 16 August 1513, at the battle of the Spurs, he was promoted to Knight banneret. In 1493 Hussey was appointed Sheriff of Lincolnshire and by 1513 he was (Custos Rotulorum) for the county. On 6 July 1523, he was elected Member of Parliament as a knight of the shire for Lincolnshire. On February 5th, 1526, he was appointed a judge. On 3 November 1529 he was re-elected to Parliament as knight of the shire for Lincolnshire but received a Writs of Summons on 1 December 1529 to the House of Lords as 'Johannes Hussey de sleaford, chivaler'. June 1530, Hussey was named Lincolnshire Castle's Commissioner for Gaol Delivery, and later that same year. On 10 September 1533, Lord Hussey attended the christening of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth 1), daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. He helped carry the canopy over the 3-day old child with George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, Lord Thomas Howard, and William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham.

Hussey was Chamberlain to King Henry's daughter, Mary, while Hussey's second wife, Lady Anne, was one of Mary's attendants. Though King Henry forbade anyone from calling his daughter, Mary, by the title of Princess, Lady Anne did so. Lady Anne lost her attendant position around June 1534 and was imprisoned in the Tower of London in August. Asking for the King's pardon, she was released before the end of the year.

In addition to his responsibilities at Court and Parliament, Hussey was steward to John Longland, the conservative Bishop of Lincoln and King Henry's confessor.

John Hussey was implicated along with his cousin as complicit in the 1536 uprising known as the (Pilgrimage of Grace). Hussey denied participation in the rebellion, he was accused of conspiring to change laws and depose the king, and that he abetted those who made war on the king in October 1536. The charges may have been levied in part because of Hussey's Catholic sympathies and because Hussey and his wife, having served 'Princess' Mary, were partisans on her behalf. Hussey was indicted and tried for treason, and found guilty by the House of Lords. He was beheaded in Lincoln in 1536 while his cousin, Thomas Darcy, was executed on Tower Hill.

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