Robert DRURY, Of Hawstead, Speaker Of House, Sir^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]}

Abt 1465 - 1537  (~ 72 years)

• Name	Robert DRURY  [7, 8]
  Suffix	Of Hawstead, Speaker Of House, Sir
  Birth	Abt 1465	Hawstead, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England   [6]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1473  [9]
  	Barrister at law
  Title (Nobility)	1491  [9]
  	Knight of the Shire for Suffolk
  Occupation	1495  [9]
  	Speaker of the House of Commons
  Will	1 May 1531	England   [9]
  Death	11 Jan 1536-1537	St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England   [6, 8]
  Alt. Death	1538  [7]
  	Alt. Death
  FamilySearch ID	K8G3-7J8
  Occupation	[9]
  	Member of Parliament
  Occupation	[9]
  	Privy Council of King Henry VII
  _UID	128086574CDF40FFBBDDB32156BB45B95481
  Burial	Y  [6]
  Person ID	I5093	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2023

  
  

  Father	Roger DRURY,   b. Abt 1422, Suffolk, England d. 20 Jan 1494, Suffolk, England (Age ~ 72 years)
  Mother	Lady Felice DENSTON,   b. 1434, Besthorpe, Breckland Borough, Norfolk, England d. 12 Jan 1523, Hawstead, St Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	1454	Hawstead, Suffolk, England   [10]
  Family ID	F536728871	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Anne JERNEGAN,   b. Abt 1484, Somerleyton, Yarmouth, Suffolk, England d. Bef 8 May 1558 (Age ~ 74 years)
  Marriage	Aft 1394	2ND Husband, 2ND Wife   [8]
  Family ID	F2583	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Anne CALTHORPE,   b. Abt 1462, Burnham Thorpe, Wallsingham, Norfolk, England d. 1531, St Marys, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England (Age ~ 69 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1483	France   [6, 8, 11, 12]
  Children	1. Anne DRURY,   b. 1487, Hawstead, Suffolk, England d. 8 Jun 1572, Depden, St Edmundsbury, Suffolk, England (Age 85 years)   2. Bridget DRURY,   b. Abt 1492, Hawstead, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England d. Yes, date unknown   3. Elizabeth DRURY,   b. Abt 1502   d. 11 Dec 1574 (Age ~ 72 years)   4. William DRURY,   b. Abt 1515, Suffolk Co. England, U.K. d. 11 Jan 1556, Suffolk Co. England, U.K. (Age ~ 41 years)
  Family ID	F2578	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Sir Robert Drury (Knight) was born before 1456 of Hawstead, Suffolk, England, to Roger Drury (1428-1494) and Felice Denston (1434-1523.) He married Anne Calthrope about 1483 of Burha, Norfolk, England. Robert Drury died 2 March 1536/7, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Buried at St. Marys Church, Burey St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Robert Drury (speaker) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sir Robert Drury Bornbefore 1456 Hawstead, Suffolk Died2 March 1535 Knighted by King Henry VII (The 7th) of England after the battle of Blackheath, 17 June 1497 and Lord of the Manor of Hawstead, Suffolk, was Knight of the Body to King Henry the 7th and King Henry the 8th, Knight of the Shire for Suffolk, Speaker of the House of Commons [Elected 4 October 1495], and Privy Councillor. He was also a barrister-at-law. His London townhouse was in Drury Lane. St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds, where Sir Robert Drury and his first wife are buried Robert Drury, born before 1456 at Hawstead, Suffolk, was the eldest of four sons of Roger Drury (d. 1496) of Hawstead, Suffolk, by his second wife Felice Denston, daughter and heiress of William Denston of Besthorpe, Norfolk.[1] Career With Sir Robert Drury began for this family a long connection with the courts of the Tudor sovereigns, and a succession of capable and eminent men whose careers are part of English history throughout the 16th century. In 1473 he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, where he became a prominent figure. However, according to Hyde 'there is no evidence, as was once thought,[2] that he was educated at Gonville Hall, Cambridge'.[3] Drury was named in many commissions in the county of Suffolk from 1486 onwards. Drury procured from Pope Alexander VI a licence for the chapel in his house at Hawstead, dated 8 July 1501 in the tenth year of that pontificate. The original is now in the museum at Bury. Another early reference to him is an indenture 15 December 1490 by which Robert Geddying, son and heir of John Geddyng, agreed with Robert Drury, esquire, for the erection of houses at Lackford, Suffolk, Roger and William Drury being co-feoffees. He was elected Knight of the Shire (MP) for Suffolk in 1491, 1495 and 1510, acting as Speaker of the House in 1495.[4] Drury was knighted by King Henry VII on 17 June 1497, after the battle of Blackheath,[5] and was present at the funeral of the young Prince Arthur in 1511, where, amongst the list of mourners, he is included as one of the knights to bear the canopy. He was an executor of the will of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, who died in 1513. Between June 1510 and February 1513 inclusive he was engaged with various colleagues in the attempt "to pacify the Scottish border by peaceful methods and to obtain redress for wrongs committed." Previously, on August 29, 1509, he had been a witness to the renewal of the "Treaty of Perpetual Peace" between England and Scotland, signed shortly after Henry VIII's accession to the throne. In 1520 he sailed with other knights to France to attend the famous meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I of France now known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold. Two splendid books once owned by Sir Robert Drury have survived. One, a fine Latin MS of the Vulgate, written by an English scribe early in the 13th century, is now in the library of Christ's College, Cambridge. Some blank leaves at the end have been used to record the marriages and progeny of his children. The first group of entries was made at the end of 1527; subsequent entries carry on the records of the growth of the family until 1566. The other book is the finest and most famous of all Chaucer MSS, the Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales now in the Huntington Library. At the top of a preliminary fly-leaf is written "Robertus Drury, miles", and below a list of his children: "William Drury, miles, Robertus Drury, miles, Domina [Anne] Jarmin, Domina [Bridget] Jarningham, and Domina [Ursula] Allington." On 1 May 1531 Drury made his last will, requesting burial in the chancel of St. Mary's Church, Bury St. Edmunds beside his first wife, Anne Calthorpe. He died 2 March 1535. Drury and Anne Calthorpe are buried under a stone monument in St. Mary's Church; a wooden palisade bears the inscription 'Such as ye be, sometime were we, such as we are, such shall ye be. Miserere nostri.'[7][3] Drury House, the mansion built by Robert Drury, eventually gave its name to London's Drury Lane and to the well-known Drury Lane Theatre. Marriages and issue Drury married firstly, by 1494, Anne Calthorpe, daughter of Sir William Calthorpe of Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, by whom he had two sons and four daughters:[1][3] •Sir William Drury (c. 1500– 1558) of Hawstead, Suffolk, who married firstly, Jane Saint Maur (d. 1517), by whom he had no issue, and secondly, Elizabeth Sothill (1505– 1575) a granddaughter of another Speaker of the House of Commons, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Sir Richard Empson (d. 17 August 1510). •Sir Robert Drury. •Anne Drury, who married firstly Sir George Waldegrave, esquire (c. 1483 – 8 July 1528) of Smallbridge, Suffolk, from whom descend the Earls Waldegrave, as well as a branch of the Highams of Higham Green and the Denham family, and secondly Sir Thomas Jermyn (c. 1500 – 1552) of Rushbrooke, Suffolk, from whom descend that family (including the Jacobite peer) as well as the Crane family of Chilton, later baronets. •Elizabeth Drury, who married, in 1510, Sir Philip Boteler. •Bridget Drury (d. 19 January 1518), who married Sir John Jerningham of Somerleyton, Suffolk, eldest son and heir of Edward Jerningham (d. 6 January 1515) of Somerleyton by his first wife, Margaret Bedingfield (d. 24 March 1504), by whom she had three sons, George, Robert and John, and two daughters, Anne Jerningham, who married Sir Thomas Cornwallis of Brome, Suffolk, and Elizabeth Jerningham, who married John Sulyardof Wetherden, Suffolk.[8] •Ursula Drury, who married Sir Giles Alington of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire. After Anne Calthorpe's death, Drury married secondly, Anne (née Jerningham), daughter of Sir Edward Jerningham (d. 6 January 1515) of Somerleyton, Suffolk, by Margaret Bedingfield (d. 24 March 1504), and sister of Sir John Jerningham (see above). At the time of her marriage to Sir Robert Drury, she is said to have been the widow of two husbands: Lord Edward Grey (d. before 1517), eldest son and heir of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, and grandson of King Edward IV's wife, Elizabeth Woodville; and Henry Barley (d. 12 November 1529) of Albury, Hertfordshire. In his will Drury refers to her as 'my Lady Grey'. There were no issue of Drury's second marriage. After Drury's death, Anne (née Jerningham) married Sir Edmund Walsingham.[9][10][11][12] Anne Calthorpe, will 1494; m. as (1) wife, Sir Robert Drury of Hanstead, MP Suffolk, Speaker of the House of Commons 1495, Privy Council 1526, etc., d. 2 Mar 1535/6, buried St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds; m. (2) Anne, daughter of Edward Jernegan (or Jerningham) of Somerley, widow of Edward, Lord Gray, by whom no issue. [Ancestral Roots]

  
  

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