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Hussey, John (1465 - 1537)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1465 (possibly born 1466)
Death Date: 1537-06-29 (beheaded)

Notes

Granted (with Thomas, 1st Baron Darcy and Sir Alexander Ratcliff) wardship and marriage of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Baron Monteagle, 8 Jan. 1523/4--13 July 1529; wardship of Henry Ryther, brother and heir of Thomas Ryther of Ryther, Yorkshire West Riding 8 Nov. 1530; wardship and marriage of Thomas, son and heir of Christopher Wynbusshe 17 Feb. 1532/3. Indicted 12 May 1537 of conspiracy against the king and raising a rebellion against him at Lincoln; tried and convicted 15 May 1537. Estates forfeited to the Crown and posthumously attainted in 1539

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Blount, Margaret (1474 - 1505)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1492-8-4
    Union ended: n.d.
  2. Grey, Anne ( - 1545/6)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1505-2-18
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1497-07-17
    Vacated: 1537-06-29
  • 1st Baron Hussey
    Assumed: 1529-12-01
    Vacated: 1537-06-29

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Lincolnshire
Receiver, Denbighshire -05 -22
Surveyor of Lands, late of George, Duke of Clarence, Lincolnshire 1481 -6 -12 1537 For life
Steward, Lincolnshire 1485 Regranted 25 July 1509
Steward, Leicestershire 1486 -4 -7
Steward, Lincolnshire 1486 -4 -7
Sheriff, Lincolnshire 1493 -11 -7 1494 -11 -5
JP, Lincolnshire 1495 1537
Steward, Lincolnshire 1495 -3 -25
Bailiff, Lincolnshire 1495/6 -1 -16 Held jointly with Sir Reynold Bray
Steward & Receiver, Lincolnshire 1495/6 -1 -16 Held jointly with Sir Reynold Bray
Commissioner of Musters, Lincolnshire 1496
JP, Lincolnshire 1497 1537
JP, Lincolnshire 1501 1537
Master of the Wards, England 1503 -12 -9 1513
Steward, Lincolnshire 1504 1524 Part of the Duchy of Lancaster
Bailiff, Steward & Keeper, Lincolnshire 1505 -9 -4 Granted during the life of William de la Pole
Controller, Surveyor & Keeper of the Game, Rutland 1505 -8 -4
Master, Rutland 1505 -6 -10
Privy Councillor, England 1505 -8 -4
JP, Kent 1506 1509
JP, Huntingdonshire 1506 1537
JP, Essex 1506 1513
Comptroller of the Household, England 1508/9 1509
Keeper, Lincolnshire 1509 -7 -27 Royal grant; had previously held office through grants from William, 2nd Viscount Beaumont and John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford
Master Forester, Huntingdonshire 1509 -7 -21 1537 For life
Steward, Lincolnshire 1509 -7 -8
Steward, Lincolnshire 1509 -7 -27 Royal grant; had previously held office through grants from William, 2nd Viscount Beaumont and John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford
Steward, Honour of Richmond Lands, Lincolnshire 1509 -7 -8
Steward, Honour of Richmond Lands, Nottinghamshire 1509 -7 -8
Commissioner of Musters, Kent 1512
Commissioner of Custos Rotulorum, Lincolnshire 1513
MP, Lincolnshire 1515 Possibly held this office
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Lincolnshire 1520
Chief Butler of England, England 1521 -6 -1 1537
MP, Lincolnshire 1523
Head Steward to Thomas, 1st Baron Darcy, England 1526 -9 -29 Lands in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Northumberland and elsewhere
MP, Lincolnshire 1529
Chamberlain, Princess Mary's Household, England 1530 1533
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Lincolnshire 1530

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Essex: Dagenham & Cockerell in Havering atte Bower Manors & lands in Dagenham, Cockerell & Hornchurch
    Divested: 1512-07-02
    Exchanged for lands in Lincolnshire
  • Gloucestershire
    Via wife; sold
  • Huntingdonshire: Brampton
  • Lincolnshire: Branston & Blankley Lordships & Manors; lands in Branston, Blankney, Hanwortham, Nocton, Dunston, Metheringham, 'Scopey,' Thorpe, Timberland, Martin, Kirkby Green & Walcot
    Acquired: 1512-07-02
    Granted in exchange for lands in Essex
  • Lincolnshire: Castle & Little Bytham, Hanby, Boston, Sapperton, Folkingham Park, Morton, Rippingale, Lobthorpe, West Willoughby, Whaplode Hall in Bicker, Old Sleaford, Navenby, Ingoldsby, Bicker called Beaumont Rents, Pickworth, Aunby, Grantham, Gunnerby, Corcy, Welby
  • Lincolnshire: King's Lands in Holywell
    Acquired: 1493/4-02-28
  • Nottinghamshire: Beeston & Chilwell
  • Nottinghamshire: Kneesall Manor
    Acquired: 1522-04-19
    Divested: 1537
  • Rutland: King's Lands in Stretton
    Acquired: 1493/4-02-28
    Divested: 1537
    Granted
  • Rutland: Whissendine
  • Somerset
    Via wife; sold
  • Wiltshire
    Via wife; sold
  • Yorkshire: East Riding: North Duffield Manor
    Acquired: 1486-04-27
    Granted (jointly with Thomas Ballard) during the minority of Ann, daughter and heir of John Salvan
  • Yorkshire: West Riding: Harewood & Ryther Manors
    Acquired: 1530-11-08
    Granted during minority of Henry Ryther, brother and heir of Thomas Ryther

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Bardney (Unknown), Bardney, Lincolnshire Sir John Hussey's Bearward
Performance - Abbot's House, Bardney, Bardney, Lincolnshire Sir John Hussey's Performer

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir John Hussey's Performer Hussey, John (1465 - 1537) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Sir John Hussey's Bearward Hussey, John (1465 - 1537) Performing Animals 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Hussey Manor Lincolnshire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III [1476--85]. London: HMSO, 1901
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VII [1485–1509]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1914--16
  • 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
  • Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII [1509--47]. 21 vols and Addenda (2 vols). London: HMSO, 1864--1932
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.