Nicholas 1St Baron VAUX, Of Harrowden, Sir^[1]

Abt 1460 - 1523  (~ 63 years)

• Name	Nicholas 1St Baron VAUX  [2, 3, 4]
  Suffix	Of Harrowden, Sir
  Birth	Abt 1460	Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	762C2AE5EB0C418795F8A6F0272B772C88ED
  Death	14 May 1523	Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England   [2]
  Person ID	I13366	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	William VAUX, Sir,   b. Abt 1437, Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England d. 4 May 1471, Battle Of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England (Killed) (Age ~ 34 years)
  Mother	Katherine PENISTON,   b. Abt 1440, Courtesello, Piedmont, Italy d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Bef 22 Dec 1456  [3]
  Family ID	F6915	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1
  Marriage	Aft 1484	2ND Husband 1St Wife   [2, 4]
  Family ID	F6823	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

  Family 2
  Marriage	Bef 29 Jan 1507-1508	2ND Wife   [3]
  Family ID	F6824	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden, so created 27 April 1423, KB (1497); born c 1460; allegedly educated at Oxford; procured nullification of his father's attainder on Henry VII's coming to the throne, also restoration of his estates Nov 1485; Steward Olney and Newport Pagnell, Bucks, Nov 1485; fought at Battle of Stoke 1487, following which he was knighted; High Sheriff of Northants 1495-96, 1501-2 and 1516-17; Constable of Rockingham Castle 1502, Lt Guisnes Castle in English-held Picardy 1502 and 1509 on, Knight for the Body to Henry's VII and VIII; married 1st Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of 5th Lord (Baron) FitzHugh and widow of Sir William Parr, KG (hence grandmother of Queen Katharine Parr), and had three daughters; married 2nd between 17 Nov 1507 and 29 Jan 1507/8 Anne, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Green, of Boughton and Green's Norton, Northants, and died 14 May 1523. [Burke's Peerage]

  
  

• Sources

  [S579] Jim Weber. [S25] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, 94-12 (Reliability: 3). [S289] Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles M o s l e y Editor-in-Chief, 1999, 2874, 26 May 2003. (Reliability: 3). [S63] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000, X:309 (c) (Reliability: 3).