Manners, Thomas (1497 - 1543)

Biographical Overview

Parents

Titles - 2
Properties - 16
Total events naming patron - 1
Troupes - 1
Bibliographic Sources - 2
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Born / Died

Birth Date: ca. 1497 (CP says born before 1492.)
Death Date: 1543-09-20

Siblings

Female

Manners, Eleanor ( - 1547)
Manners, Elizabeth ( - 1560/61)

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. , (n.d.)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: ca. 1513-2-21
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Marriage settlement dated 21 February 1512/13
  2. Paston, Eleanor ( - 1551)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: before 1523
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Union produced 5 sons and 6 daughters

Offspring

From Paston, Eleanor ( - 1551)

  1. Male offspring: Manners, Henry (1526 - 1563)
  2. Female offspring: Manners, Gertrude (d. 1567)
  3. Female offspring: Manners, Anne (d. 1549)
  4. Female offspring: Manners, Frances (d. 1576)

Primary Title

3rd Earl of Rutland

Titles

  • 12th Baron Ros of Helmsley
    Assumed 1513-10-27
    Vacated 1543-09-20
  • 3rd Earl of Rutland
    Assumed 1525-16-18
    Vacated 1543-09-20

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Constable, Nottinghamshire 1519-7-7 n.d. Held jointly
Keeper, Nottinghamshire 1519-7-7 n.d.
Steward, Yorkshire: North Riding 1521/2-1 n.d.
Warden, Marches towards Scotland 1522-4 1522-09 East & Middle Marches
Chief Justice Intinerant & Warden, Nottinghamshire 1524-7-12 n.d.
JP, Leicestershire 1524 n.d.
JP, Middlesex 1524 n.d.
JP, Lincolnshire 1524 n.d.
JP, Essex 1524/5 1526
JP, Hertfordshire 1524/5 1526
JP, Surrey 1524/5 1526
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding 1525 n.d.
JP, Yorkshire: North Riding 1525 n.d.
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1525 n.d.
JP, Lincolnshire 1525/6 n.d.
JP, Rutland 1525/6 n.d.
JP, Leicestershire 1525/6 n.d.
JP, Nottinghamshire 1525/6 n.d.
JP, Middlesex 1525/6 n.d.
Keeper, Middlesex 1526-7-12 n.d.
JP, Yorkshire: North Riding 1528 n.d.
JP, Surrey 1528 n.d.
JP, Middlesex 1528 n.d.
JP, Lincolnshire 1528 n.d.
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding 1528 n.d.
JP, Essex 1528 n.d.
JP, Hertfordshire 1528 n.d.
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1528/9 1530
JP, Essex 1530 n.d.
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding 1530 n.d.
JP, Leicestershire 1530/1 1532
JP, Nottinghamshire 1530/1 1532
JP, Hertfordshire 1530/1 1532
JP, Rutland 1530/1 1532
JP, Surrey 1530/1 1532
JP, Middlesex 1530/1 1532
JP, Lincolnshire 1530/1 1532
JP, Essex 1531/2 n.d.
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1531/2 n.d.
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding 1532 n.d.
JP, Yorkshire: North Riding 1532 n.d.
Constable, Yorkshire: West Riding 1533-12-10 1542-08-17
Steward, Yorkshire: West Riding 1533-12-10 1542-08-17
JP, Lincolnshire 1536 1540
JP, Essex 1536 n.d.
JP, Yorkshire: North Riding 1536 n.d.
JP, Rutland 1536 n.d.
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1536 n.d.
Privy Councillor, England 1536 n.d.
JP, Nottinghamshire 1537 1538
JP, Hertfordshire 1537 1540
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding 1537 1542
JP, Middlesex 1537 n.d.
JP, Leicestershire 1537/8 1539
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1538 n.d.
JP, Surrey 1538 1539
JP, Essex 1538 n.d.
JP, Yorkshire: North Riding 1538 1540
JP, Middlesex 1539 1540
JP, Essex 1539/40 1542
Chief Justice in Eyre & Warden, North of Trent 1540-8-9 1543-09-20
JP, Surrey 1540/1 1542
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1540/1 n.d.
Constable, Nottinghamshire 1542 n.d. Held jointly
JP, Rutland 1542 n.d.
JP, Lincolnshire 1542 n.d.
Warden, Marches towards Scotland 1542-8 1542-09
JP, Middlesex 1542/3 n.d.
JP, Nottinghamshire 1542/3 n.d.

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire
  • Croxton, Leicestershire
    Granted
    Acquired: 1539-03
  • Holywell, Shoreditch, London (city-county)
  • Elsinges Manor, Enfield, Middlesex
    Sold to the King
    Divested: 1539-03
  • Helmsley, Yorkshire: North Riding

Lands

  • Derbyshire
  • Essex
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Middlesex
  • Norfolk
  • Northamptonshire
  • Northumberland
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Suffolk
  • Yorkshire

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1535-1536 Guildhall, Cambridge , Cambridgeshire Earl of Rutland's Minstrel

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Earl of Rutland's Minstrel Manners, Thomas (1497 - 1543) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Bibliographic Sources

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The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 01/05/2005 (http://www.oxforddnb.com)