THROCKMORTON, High Sheriff Robert

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• Name	THROCKMORTON, Robert
  Prefix	High Sheriff
  Birth	15 Jun 1510	Coughton Court, Throckmorton, Warwickshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Feb 1581
  Death	12 Feb 1581	Coughton, Warwickshire, England
  WAC	14 Feb 1941	ARIZO
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  Father	THROCKMORTON, Sir George ,   b. Bef 1480, Coughton, Warwickshire, England Coughton, Warwickshire, Englandd. 6 Aug 1552, Coughton, Warwickshire, England (Age > 72 years)
  Mother	VAUX, Anna Catherine ,   b. 1488, Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England Harrowden, Northamptonshire, Englandd. 14 Apr 1569, Alcester, Warwickshire, England (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	1511	Harrowden, Northamptonshire, England
  Notes	MARRIAGE: REFN119689 [spelman.FTW] REFN119689
  Family ID	F15101	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BERKELEY, Muriel ,   b. 1508, Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, Englandd. 6 Oct 1541, Coughton, Warwickshire, England (Age 33 years)
  Marriage	1533	Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
  Family ID	F19076	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
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  Name Suffix: Knight Ancestral File Number: 9FSV-08 Ancestral File Number: GLC5-6K From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998. !AFN:GLC5-6K SOURCE CITATION: Title: Ancestral File (TM) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication Information: July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996 Repository Name: Family History Library Address: 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA SOURCE CITATION: Title: Ancestral File (TM) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication Information: July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996 Repository Name: Family History Library Address: 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA SOURCE CITATION: Title: Ancestral File (TM) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication Information: July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996 Repository Name: Family History Library Address: 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA Sources: Ancestral File 31 Mar 1996 From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 JAN 1998. Name Suffix: Sheriff Of Warwick, Sir Sheriff of Warwick & Leicester 1554 Sir Robert Throckmorton, Knight, High Sheriff of Warwick and Leicesterinthe 1st year of Queen Mary. (1544). He married a second timeElizabethHussey, daughter of John, Lrod Hussey and widow of John,Lord Hungerford.They had four daughters, Merial, Anne, Elizabeth andTemperance. Burke's Peerage (1953) p 2078; EDB (1841) p 532 Born by 1513, first son of Sir George Throckmorton, and brother ofAnthony, Clement, George, John, Kenelm and Nicholas. Educ. ?M. Temple.Married firstly, 1527, Muriel, dau. of Thomas, 5th Lord Berkeley; andsecondly, 1542, Elizabeth (d. 23 Jan 1554), dau. of Sir John Hussey, LordHussey, widow of Walter, Lord Hungerford, at least 2s. 5da. suc. fa. 6Aug 1552. Kntd. by 25 Sep 1553. Jt. (with fa.) steward, Evesham abbey1527, Claverdon, Warws. 1531; Maxstoke, Warws. 1535, Balsall,Warws.1539; bailiff, Warwick 1544-5; j.p. Warws. from 1547, q. 1561-4, rem.1570; commr. relief 1550, loan 1557, musters 1569; sheriff, Warws. andLeics. 1553-4; constable, Warwick castle Sep 1553-8; steward, lands ofbp. of Worcester in 1564. Robert Throckmorton may have trained at the Middle Temple, the innattended by his father, at least three of his younger brothers and hisown eldest son, but as the heir to extensive estates he had little needto seek a career at court or ingovernment. He was joined with his fatherin several stewardships from 1527 and was perhaps the servant of RobertTyrwhitt, a distant relative by marriage of the Throckmortons, who in1540 took an inventory of Cromwell's goods at Mortlake. Heattended thereception of Anne of Cleves and with several of his brothers served inthe French war of 1544. Three years later he was placed on theWarwickshire bench and was thus suitably qualified for the knighthood ofthe shire which fell tohim almost as though it were a part of hisinheritance in Mar 1553: three of his brothers sat in the sameParliament, Nicholas as knight for Northamptonshire. Throckmorton's role in the succession crisis of 1553 is unknown but hisstanding with Queen Mary is shown by her reputed answer to the news ofEdward VI's death sent her by four of his brothers: ‘If Robert had beenthere she durst have gagedher life and hazarded the hap’. In the autumn of 1553 Throckmorton was knighted and appointed constableof Warwick castle and only his shrievalty prevented him from continuingto sit for the shire until in 1558 he gave way to his eldest son. His Catholicism explains his disappearance from the Commons in the newreign, although the most Catholic of his brothers, Anthony Throckmorton,was to sit in the Parliament of 1563. Judged an ‘adversary of truereligion’ in 1564, Throckmorton remained active in Warwickshire until hisrefusal to subscribe to the Act of Uniformity led to his removal rom thecommission of the peace. In 1577 the Bishop of Worcester listed Throckmorton as a Catholic andreckoned him to be worth 1,000 marks a year in lands and Ð1,000 in goods. He died on 12 Feb 1581, six days after making a will in which he styledhimself of Weston Underwood but asked to be buried at Coughton, where analabaster and marble tomb was accordingly erected to his memory: there isa portrait at Coughton. He named as executors his eldest son Thomas andhis sons-in-law Sir John Goodwin and Ralph Sheldon , and as overseersanother son-in-law Sir Thomas Tresham and his ‘loving friend’ EdmundPlowden. Sir Robert Throckmorton continued the family in the Catholic tradition.He married his children into the leading Catholic families, and in thesegenerations the increased persecution of the Catholic spawned manyrelatives who became involvedin plots against the throne. The sons ofhis daughters Anne and Muriel, were Robert Catesby and Francis Tresham,and a third daughter Mary was married to Edward Arden, who was alsoconvicted of treason and executed for his part in a plot to assasinateQueen Elizabeth in 1583. This daughter kept an excellent record of awoman persecuted for recusancy, documenting the fines and searches madeat Coughton Court, that is still in the family archives. A nephew,Francis Throckmorton, was executed in 1584 for acting as a go-between forMary Queen of Scots and the Spanish Ambassador in an attempt to invadeEngland and place Mary on the throne. A niece Elizabeth, the daughter ofSir Nicholas and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, also got intotrouble by secretly marrying Sir Walter Raleigh. Sources: A. L. Rowse: Ralegh and the Throckmortons R. C. Strong: Tudor and Jacobean Portraits Sir Robert Throckmorton may have trained at the Middle Temple, the inn attended by his father, at least three of his younger brothers and his own eldest son, but as the heir to extensive estates he had little need to seek a career at court or in government. He was joined with his father in several stewardships from 1527 and was perhaps the servant of Robert Tyrwhitt, a distant relative by marriage of the Throckmortons, who in 1540 took an inventory of Cromwell’s goods at Mortlake. He attended the reception of Anne of Cleves and with several of his brothers served in the French war of 1544. Three years later he was placed on the Warwickshire bench and was thus suitably qualified for the knighthood of the shire which fell to him almost as though it were a part of his inheritance in March 1553: three of his brothers sat in the same Parliament, Nicholas as knight for Northamptonshire.3 Throckmorton’s role in the succession crisis of 1553 is unknown but his standing with Queen Mary is shown by her reputed answer to the news of Edward VI’s death sent her by four of his brothers: ‘If Robert had been there she durst have gaged her life and hazarded the hap’. In the autumn of 1553 Throckmorton was knighted and appointed constable of Warwick castle and only his shrievalty prevented him from continuing to sit for the shire until in 1558 he gave way to his eldest son. His Catholicism explains his disappearance from the Commons in the new reign, although the most Catholic of his brothers, Anthony Throckmorton, was to sit in the Parliament of 1563. Judged an ‘adversary of true religion’ in 1564, Throckmorton remained active in Warwickshire until his refusal to subscribe to the Act of Uniformity led to his removal rom the commission of the peace.4 In 1577 the bishop of Worcester listed Throckmorton as a Catholic and reckoned him to be worth 1,000 marks a year in lands and £1,000 in goods. He died on 12 Feb. 1581, six days after making a will in which he styled himself of Weston Underwood but asked to be buried at Coughton, where an alabaster and marble tomb was accordingly erected to his memory: there is a portrait at Coughton. He named as executors his eldest son Thomas and his sons-in-law Sir John Goodwin and Ralph Sheldon†, and as overseers another son-in-law Sir Thomas Tresham and his ‘loving friend’ Edmund Plowden.5 Ref Volumes: 1509-1558 Author: S. M. Thorpe