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Robert DRURY, Of Hawstead, Speaker Of House, Sir

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

Male Abt 1465 - 1537  (~ 72 years)

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  • Name Robert DRURY  [7, 8
    Suffix Of Hawstead, Speaker Of House, Sir 
    Born Abt 1465  Hawstead, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Died 11 Jan 1536-1537  St Mary's Church, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 8
    Alt. Death 1538  [7
    Alt. Death 
    Occupation   [9
    Member of Parliament 
    Occupation   [9
    Privy Council of King Henry VII 
    _FSFTID K8G3-7J8 
    _FSLINK https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K8G3-7J8 
    _UID 128086574CDF40FFBBDDB32156BB45B95481 
    Buried Y  [6
    Person ID I5093  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 2 Jan 2023 

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

    Family 1 Anne JERNEGAN,   b. Abt 1484, Somerleyton, Yarmouth, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 8 May 1558  (Age ~ 74 years) 
    Married Aft 1394  2ND Husband, 2ND Wife Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F2583  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Anne CALTHORPE,   b. Abt 1462, Burnham Thorpe, Wallsingham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1531, St Marys, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Married Abt 1483  France Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 8, 11, 12
    Children 
     1. Anne DRURY,   b. 1487, Hawstead, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jun 1572, Depden, St Edmundsbury, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
     2. Bridget DRURY,   b. Abt 1492, Hawstead, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   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. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jan 1556, Suffolk Co. England, U.K. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 41 years)
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F2578  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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
      Born?tab?before 1456
      Hawstead, Suffolk

      Died?tab?2 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]
      ??tab?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).
      ??tab?Sir Robert Drury.
      ??tab?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.
      ??tab?Elizabeth Drury, who married, in 1510, Sir Philip Boteler.
      ??tab?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]
      ??tab?Ursula Drury, who married Sir Giles Alington of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire.

      After Anne Calthorpe's death, Drury married secondly, Anne (n?e 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 (n?e 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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