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Manners, Thomas (1497 - 1543)

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Born / Died

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

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

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

Siblings

Offspring

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

Details of Properties

Residence

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

Lands

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

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - 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.