Sir Anthony Babington, of Dethick, MP

• Sir Anthony Babington1,2
• M, #144552, b. 1475 or 1476, d. 23 August 1536
• Father Thomas Babington3 b. c 1449, d. 13 Mar 1518
• Mother Edith FitzHerbert3 b. c 1453, d. c 1511
• Sir Anthony Babington was born in 1475 or 1476 at of Dethick, Derbyshire, England.1 He married Catherine Ferrers, daughter of John Ferrers and Margaret Hungerford, circa 1510; His 2nd marriage.3 Sir Anthony Babington died on 23 August 1536; The date is from the official history of Parliament. His estate was probated on 2 September 1536; The date is from a listing of wills.
• Family Catherine Ferrers b. c 1488, d. 1537
• Child
  • Elizabeth Babington1,2 b. c 1517, d. 9 Nov 1543
• Citations
• 1.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 359.
• 2.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 373.
• 3.[S11597] Ancestry.com, Robert Taylor Family Tree.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p4814.htm#... ______________________
• Sir Anthony Babington1
• M, #215754
• Last Edited=10 Jan 2007
• Sir Anthony Babington married Elizabeth Ormond, daughter of John Ormond and Joan Chaworth.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 III, page 154. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p21576.htm#i215754 _________________
• BABINGTON, Anthony (by 1476-1536), of Dethick, Derbys. and Kingston-on-Soar, Notts.
• b. by 1476, 1st s. of Thomas Babington of Dethick by Edith, da. of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury, Derbys. educ. I. Temple. m. (1) settlement 20 Mar. 1498, Elizabeth (d. Nov. 1505), da. and coh. of John Ormond of Alfreton, Derbys., 2s.; (2) by 1509, Catherine, da. of Sir John Ferrers of Tamworth, Staffs., wid. of Thomas Cotton ?of Hamstall Ridware, Staffs., 5s. 3da. suc. fa. 13 Mar. 1519. Kntd. aft. 3 Nov. 1529.2
• Offices Held
  • Autumn reader, I. Temple 1513, treasurer 1520-1, gov. by July 1521-d.
  • J.p. Notts. 1511-d., Leics. 1515, Derbys. 1520-d.; commr. subsidy, Notts. 1512, 1514, 1515, Derbys. 1523, 1524; other commissions 1513-d.; recorder, Nottingham 1525-d.; steward to prior of the Knights of St. John in 1533; knight of the body by 1533; sheriff, Notts and Derbys. 1533-4; steward, Whitwick, Leics. at d. 3
• Anthony Babington was descended from an ancient Northumbrian family, whose main branch settled in Derbyshire after the marriage of Thomas Babington to the heiress of Robert Dethick in the early 15th century. Throughout the remainder of that century the Babingtons consolidated their position, acquiring additional property in adjacent counties, participating in the affairs of both Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and representing both shires and the borough of Nottingham in Parliament. On his father’s death Anthony Babington inherited the manors of Ashover, Dethick and Litchurch, together with the lease of other lands in Hartington, Derbyshire. The bulk of his Nottinghamshire estate lay south of Nottingham, on the borders of Derbyshire and Leicestershire. Its centre was the manor of Kingston, which he made his chief seat, and to which he added, by purchase, large areas of land in the neighbourhood and in Thrumpton, so that on his death it was valued at £40 a year. In 1507, on the death of Joan Ormond, his mother-in-law, he succeeded to a third part of the manors of Marnham and Osberton, which together with other lands around Tuxford gave him a considerable holding in north Nottinghamshire. Through this first marriage he also obtained a third portion of the manor of Alfreton in Derbyshire and certain lands in Northamptonshire.4
• Babington followed his father to the Inner Temple and like him played a leading part in its affairs. He was Autumn reader in 1513 but ten years later, when appointed to read a second time, he refused, escaping a fine by undertaking ‘to make a book of all the statutes and rules necessary in the House of the Inner Temple’. It was his legal training and experience, rather than his gentle birth and inheritance, which shaped Babington’s career, procuring for him the recordership of Nottingham, an office which his father had held for many years and which he himself appears to have kept until his death. The Babington estates at Kingston, within a short distance of the town, had brought his family into close contact with borough affairs. In the county at large he was first nominated for the shrievalty in 1520.5
• As recorder, Babington can have had little difficulty in 1529 in securing his own election at Nottingham. The King had asked for the writ to be sent to him, but even if he did not support Babington he is unlikely to have impeded him: Babington was one of those knighted at York Place during the first session of the Parliament. He may already have had some standing at court: his son John had been in the service of Cardinal Wolsey, presumably under the aegis of Babington’s kinsman-by-marriage and Wolsey’s treasurer Sir William Fitzwilliam of Milton, Northamptonshire. Nothing is known directly of the part Babington played in this Parliament but his name was included by Cromwelly—doubtless in error, it occurs twice—on a list drawn up probably in December 1534 and thought to be of Members with a particular, but unknown, connexion with the treasons bill, then on its passage through Parliament. His name also appears, with those of three other lawyers, on the dorse of an Act for continuing expiring laws passed in the following Parliament; to this he had doubtless again been returned for Nottingham, in accordance with the King’s general request for the re-election of the previous Members.6
• Nothing has come to light about Babington’s attitude towards the momentous events of these years. His brother Sir John was turcopolier of the Knights of St. John and he himself was for a time steward to the prior of the order in 1533. He evidently took some interest in the state of the local monasteries, as is shown by his request to Cromwell in 1534 to ensure the election of one of the Lenton monks as prior there rather than an outsider, ‘for the house will prosper better than under a stranger’. After the passing of the Act dissolving the smaller monasteries (27 Hen. VIII, c.28) he besought the minister to spare Beauchief abbey, Yorkshire, despite its low value, because his wife’s ancestors lay there. Yet he was first and foremost a servant of the crown. In 1517 he had reported Sir Richard Sacheverell to the Council for maintaining men in livery contrary to the statute, and 15 years later he accused one Roger Dycker of speaking against the King. In the same year he took part in the suppression of Colwich priory, Staffordshire, and in 1535 he sat on the Nottinghamshire commission for tenths of spiritualities, accompanying Sir John Markham to Beauvale.7
• Babington augmented and developed his property. Among his acquisitions were the lease of the rectory of Colston Basset and the lands in Rampton and Teyswell which he purchased from Richard Stanhope, and he was involved in several disputes over lands in Kingston. In 1513 he had enclosed 100 acres of land for sheep grazing. He also engaged in lead-mining.8
• It was at Kingston that Babington died on 23 Aug. 1536. In his will, drawn up on 18 Feb. 1534 (when he was presumably attending the sixth session of the Parliament of 1529) and proved on 2 Sept. 1536, he divided his lands and possessions between his wife and sons, his eldest son Thomas receiving the bulk of the estate, part of which, to the value of £100 a year, had already been settled on him at his marriage to Catherine, daughter of Sir Henry Sacheverell. The testator’s own wife Catherine was to have a life interest in Kingston manor and all the Babington lands in Kingston and Thrumpton, together with an annuity of £40 out of the manors of Ashover and Litchurch. She and one of the younger sons were appointed executors and two sons-in-law, John Markham and George Pierrepont, supervisors. The widow died in the following year, having asked to be buried ‘in the new chapel’ of Kingston church ‘as near unto my husband as may be’ and charged her son and executor, John, to finish this chapel and to make an alabaster tomb over herself and her husband in the arch between it and the chancel. The Elizabethan conspirator who bore his name was Babington’s great-grandson.9
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/ba... _______________________
• PIERREPONT, George (1510-64), of Whaley, Derbys. and Holme Pierrepont, Notts.
• b. 16 July 1510. 1st s. of Sir William Pierrepont of Holme Pierrepont by Joan, da. of Sir Richard Empson of Easton Neston, Northants. educ. ?I. Temple. m. (1) 25 Nov. 1532, Elizabeth (d.1543), da. of (Sir) Anthony Babington of Dethick, Derbys. and Kingston-on-Soar, Notts., 1da., (2) 20 Nov. 1544, Winifred, da. and h. of Sir William Thwaites of ‘Mallowtree’ (?Manningtree), Essex, 2s. inc. Henry† 2da. suc. fa. 29 Aug. 1533. Kntd. 22 Feb. 1547.2
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/pi... ___________________________
• Anthony Babington (by 1476-1536), was an English politician.
• He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Nottingham in 1529 and 1536.[1]
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Babington_(died_1536) ___________________________
• MARKHAM, Robert (1536-1606), of Cotham, Notts.
• b. 1536, 1st s. of John Markham of Cotham by Catherine, da. of Sir Anthony Babington† of Dethick. m. (1) in 1562, Mary, da. of Francis Leck of Sutton in the Dale, Derbys., 5s. 3da.; (2) in 1597, Jane, da. of William Burnell of Winkburn, s.p. suc. gd.-fa. 1559.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ma... ______________________
• A history of the Markham family (1854)
• http://archive.org/details/ahistorymarkham00markgoog
• http://archive.org/stream/ahistorymarkham00markgoog#page/n66/mode/1up
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• JOHN MARKHAM, the eldest, was seated at Sireston in the
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• county of Nottingham, and died in his father's life time, leaving issue by Katharine his wife, daughter of Sir Anthony Babington, one son, Robert, who succeeded him, and two daughters: Sanchia, who married William de Hardwicke, and Anne, who died unmarried.(*)
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• Familiae minorum gentium; v39 (1894)
• http://archive.org/details/FamiliaeMinorumGentiumV39
  • Markham. MS.412 - Chart Pg.964-968
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  • Sir John Markham, knighted at Tournay; L't of the Tower; d. 1558, aged nr 100. = Ann, 1 w., dau. & h. of Sir George Nevile; wid. of Earl Rivers; bur. at Croydon. ; ch: Sir John (m. Cath'e Babington Dethick) Markham ; = Margery, 2 w., dau. of Sir John Langford. ; ch: Robert & 13 other sons, (ob. s.p.), Alice (m. John Morton of Bawtry) Markham ; = Ann, 3 w., dau. & c. of John Strelley; wid. of Richard Stanhope. ; ch: (Pg.966 William (m. Elizab. Montacute), Thomas (m. Mary Griffin), Isabel (m. Sir John Harrington.(1)), Frances (m. Sir Henry Babington) Markham.)
    • Sir John M. of Sierston, ob. v.p. = Cath'e, dau. of Sir Anth. Babington Dethick. ; ch: Robert (m. Mary Leke) Markham.
      • Robert, of Cotham = Mary, dau. of Sir Fran. Leke. ; ch: (Pg.966 Robert (m. Ann Warburton & Winifred Thorold), Francis, Gervas, John, Godfrey, Thomas, George, Gerturde, Frances, Mary, Anne, Isabel, Catherine, Ruth Markham)
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• Anthony Babington
• Birth: unknown
• Death: Aug. 23, 1536 Kingston-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, England
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• Catherine Ferrers Babington (____ - 1537)*
• Burial: Kingston-on-Soar St Winifred's Churchyard, Kingston-on-Soar, Rushcliffe Borough, Nottinghamshire, England
• Plot: Chancel
• Find A Grave Memorial# 130335937
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=130335937 _____________________
• Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dethick_Manor
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Chaworth

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References

• The visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 : made by William Flower, esquire, Norroy king of arms by Flower, William, ca. 1498-1588; Norcliffe, Charles Best; College of Arms (Great Britain). “Dunham.” Page 100-101. Archive.Org
• A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great ..., Volume 1 By Bernard Burke Page 66. Lists children with 2nd wife Catherine Ferrers. < GoogleBooks >
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Babington_(died_1536)
• Kerry, C. (1887) ‘Babington family (from Report of the Hon. Secretary).’ Derbyshire Archeological Journal :9. (pp. XXI-XXVIII). < link >
• Babington, T. (1897) ‘The will of Thomas Babington, of Dethick, Derbys.’ Derbyshire Archeological Journal :19. (pp. 080-093). < link >
• Extracted from The Babingtons of Dethick before the reign of Elizabeth I. (Posted on April 28, 2019.) < link >