Individual Details
Sir Edward Ferrers
(By 1468 - 29 Aug 1535)
From The History of Parliament, The House of Commons,1509-1558, Vol I (1982), p. 128
Ferrers, Sir Edward (by 1468-1535), of Baddesley Clinton, Warws.
Warwickshire 1529
b. by 1468, 1st s. of Sir Henry Ferrers of Hambleton, Rutland and East Peckham, Kent by 2nd w. Margaret, da. and coh. of William Hextall of East Peckham and Gerrard's Bromley, Staffs., wid. of William Whetenhall. m. settlement 1497, Constance (d.1551), da. and coh. of Nicholas Brome (d. 10 Oct. 1517) of Baddesely Clinton, 4s. 6da. 28 Dec. 1500. Kntd. 25 Sept. 1513.
Offices Held
Esquire of the body by 1509; bailiff, manors of Snitterfield and Warwick, Warws. 1509-d.; sewer by 1511; j.p. Warws. 1511-d.; commr. subsidy 1512, 1514, 1515, 1523, 1524, musters 1522; other commissions 1519-d.; sheriff, Warws. and Leics. 1513-14, 1518-19, Worcs. 1528-35; steward, manor of Knowle, Warws. at d.3
Biography
Edward Ferrers’s father was a younger son of the family of Tamworth, Staffordshire, who made his career at court and in his second wife’s county of Kent, the shire for which he sat in Parliament and of which he was three times sheriff. His wife’s manor of Hextalls Court in East Peckham passed, however, on her death to her son by an earlier marriage, and although Edward Ferrers retained some interest in Kent—as late as 1506 he was described as of Peckham and he died holding lands in Brenchley and Hadloy—and inherited Hambleton in Rutland, it was on his wife’s estate at Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire that he was to settle. His father had evidently introduced him into the service of the crown and as early as September 1500 he was among the witnesses to the surrender of the great seal by the executors of Cardinal Morton. In 1509 he attended the funeral of Henry VII and two years later the infant Prince Henry’s. He had already received his first reward of the reign, the bailiwick of Warwick and Snitterfield and in the years that followed he was to obtain several grants of wardships. He was knighted at Tournai, having led a band of 100 men on the campaign, he attended the Greenwich banquet in 1517, and three years later he was a commissioner to oversee footmen at the Field of Cloth of Gold and afterwards served at the meeting with Charles V at Gravelines.4
Ferrers was concurrently establishing himself in the government of his adopted shire, only being employed elsewhere, apart from his activities as a courtier, in two searches of London in 1519 and 1524. He evidently proved his worth for in July 1528 he was chosen to serve out the shrieval [relating to a sheriff] term in Worcestershire of his fellow-courtier and Warwickshire landowner Sir William Compton; moreover, although he seems to have been a stranger to the shire, he was retained in the office until his death, an arrangement which if not unprecedented, for it had obtained under Compton himself, was certainly unusual. He was thus a sheriff in 1529 when returned as junior knight for his own shire of Warwickshire. This is the only occasion on which Ferrers, then in or approaching his sixties, is known to have sat, but he may have done so earlier, the names of the Warwickshire knights being unknown for the four previous Henrician Parliaments. Nothing is known of his role in the Commons and there is no indication that he shared the strong Catholic views of his fellow-knight Sir George Throckmorton, with whose father he had been associated as early as 1504. Outside the House he was involved as sheriff of Worcestershire in a dispute over election expenses with the knights for that shire, (Sir) John Russell I and Sir Gilbert Talbot. He evidently remained in favour until his death. On 24 June 1535 he wrote from Baddesley Clinton to thank Cromwell for the pains the minister had taken in a dispute between Ferrers’s son-in-law and one Mr. Wyott or Wyatt. He was then too ill to visit Cromwell himself but sent a message by a Mr. Wigston, presumably Roger Wigston, a Member for Coventry in this Parliament, who was soon to be involved in the electioneering following Ferrers’s death, of which the outcome is unknown.5
Ferrers died on 29 Aug. 1535 and was buried at Baddesley, where his wife later set up a window to his and her own memory. In the will which he had made on 10 July and added to on 24 Aug., and which was later to be contested by his surviving sons, he listed lands in Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Rutland, Staffordshire and Warwickshire, as well as some tenements beside London Wall. His wife was sole executrix and his overseers a serjeant-at-law, Sir Thomas Willoughby, his ‘cousin’ Thomas Marrow (the father of the Member of that name), and Thomas Holte. His eldest son had died in 1526 and the heir was his grandson, Edward Ferrers. Ferrers’s wife survived him by some 16 years and, according to the tenor of her will, the administration of her husband’s was committed in 1546 to Richard Mountney, one of his creditors.6
Ref Volumes: 1509-1558
Author: S. M. Thorpe
Notes
1. Did not serve for the full duration of the Parliament.
2. Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., CIPM Hen. VII, ii. 681, 853. Dugdale, Warws. ii. 973; Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 5; CCR, 1485-1500, p. 213; VCH Warws. iv. 18.
3. LP Hen. VIII, i, iii-v, vii, viii, add.; Statutes, iii. 85, 114, 171.
4. Hasted, Kent, v. 100-1, 177, 286; CCR; 1500-9, pp. 21, 242; LP Hen. VIII, i-iii, viii.
5. LP Hen. VIII, iii, iv, vii, viii, add.; CCR, 1500-9, p. 158; E13/214/11d.
6. VCH Warws. iv. 18; PCC 27 Hogen, 29 Bucke; CPR, 1553, p. 413; Vis. Warws. 69; LP Hen. VIII, xiii.
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From FindMyPast
First name(s) Sir Edward
Last name Ferrers
Sex Male
Marriage year 1535-1746
Denomination Anglican
Place Baddesley Clinton
Spouse's first name(s) Constance
Spouse's last name Brome
County Warwickshire
Country England
Document type Parish registers
Archive Warwickshire County Record Office
Archive reference DRB0028/1
Record type Baptisms, marriages & burials
Record's year range 1535-1746
Record set Warwickshire Marriages
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Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy - Notes for Edward Ferrers and Constance Brome http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m25992x25994.htm
c 1468 Sir Edward Ferrers was born. [1]
1506/7 Edward Ferrers and Constance Brome were married by 10 January. "Memorandum of the persons present at the sealing of deeds relating to the manor of Baddesley Clinton and lands in Warwick on 10 January 22 Henry VII [1506/7]. 'These be the names of them that were present when Nicholas Brome esquire sealed his dedes of the maner of Baddusley & certen londes in Warrewyk & in other places to the use of Edward Ferrers esquire & Constance his wyff as it apperith in the same dedes the xth day of January xxiith yere of the reign of Kyng Herry the viith First mastres Kateryn Brome, John Brome esquire and Elizabeth his wyf, Robert Bankes parson of Baddusley, John Mountford', John Byrd' & Anne his wyf, Roger Slye, Robert a Lee & William Bakere & other' etc.' Undated: early 16th century. [In the hand of Edward Ferrers c. 1630]. 1506 John Brome & Elizab: his wife, Katherine Brome, Robert Banckes parson, Jo: Mountford, Jo: Bird & Anne his wife, Roger Sly, Robert a lee & William Baker. Endorsed: 1. [In the hand of Edward Ferrers c. 1630] The names of those yt were presente att ye sealinge of ye deedes by Nichol Brome unto Sr Edw: Ferrers the 10th day of Januarie in ye 22te yeares of ye raigne of Henry ye viith Nicho: Brome his 3 wives Elizab: Arundle, Lettice Catesby, Katherine Lampecke. He had 2 daughters by Eliz his first wife Isable the eldest maried to Tho: Marrow sogent at law Constance the yonger married to Sr Edw: Ferrers by whom he had the manor of Baddesly Clinton in mariagge. 2. [c. 1839] The names of the Persons present at the sealing of the Settlement by Nicholas Brome of Baddesley on the 10th of January 22d. Henry 7th. on the marriage of Edward Ferrers with Constance Brome the daughter of said Nicholas. [2]
1517 "Mid 17th century attested copy of the Inquisition held at Warwicke 31 May 9 Henry VIII [1517] by Thomas Purfray esq. Escheator to the King for the county of Warwick, upon the death of Nicholas Brome esq. ... Lady Constance Ferrers and Dorothy Marrow were co-heirs of the said Nicholas Brome and Elizabeth, his wife; Lady Constance being daughter of the said Nicholas and Elizabeth, and Dorothy Marrow being daughter of Isabel Marrow, daughter of the said Nicholas and Elizabeth, Lady Constance being twenty-three years of age and Dorothy Marrow being twenty years of age. The said Nicholas stated in his will concerning the manor of Baddesly Clynton, that the said feoffees should hold the said manor to the use of Sir Edward Ferrers and Lady Constance, his wife, and that the said Dorothy Marrow and her heirs should have lands to the annual value of £12. ... The said Nicholas Brome died on the 10th. day of October last past, and Edward Brome, his eldest son and heir was aged 8 years and more at the time of his father's death.
1535 The will of Edward Ferres [Ferrers], written 10 July 1535, proved 18 November 1535, provides for wife Constance, the marriage of daughter Jane Ferrers, son-in-law John Hampden and Elizabeth his wife, daughter Alice Ferrers, Edward Ferrers son of Henry Ferrers, sons Edward Ferrers, George Ferrers, and Nicholas Ferrers. [3][4]
1535 Edward Ferrers died on 29 Aug. 1535 and was buried at Baddesley. [5]
1551 Will of Dame Constance Ferrers, Widow of Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, written 26 August 1551, proved 17 October 1551. "My son Edward Ferrers to have the lease of Morebarn fields and 800 sheep, that ys to wytt, 500 ewes, 250 hoggewells, and half a hundred Rames and other shepe. And also 8 oxen, 8 steres, and four mares to store the same pastures during the same lease if my son do live. To my son George Ferrers a yearly rent of £20, and also I will that if it happen one Edward Ferrers the younger, son of Henry Ferrers my son now deceased, after my decease and before the years of the said lease of Morebarne Fyldes shall be fully expired and determyned, to dye without yssue of his body lawfully begotten whereby the said Edward Ferrers my son shall inherit the manor of Baddesly Clynton aforesaid &c. &c., then my sonne George Ferrers and Nicholas Ferrers shall enjoy the same lease. I give and bequeath to my son Edward Ferrers the lease and tenure of the parsonage of Aston Cantlow--also the disposing of my household at Baddesly. To George Ferrers the lease of the Tythecorn at Hampton in Arden and of Balall, saving to Robert Edgeworth and his assignes his interest in tythecorn of Knoll according to indenture made. I bequeathe to Edward Ferrers, the younger, son of Henry Ferrers, my second bason and ewer of silver--a standing cupp of silver gilt with a cover--a gilt spoon wt an Angell on the Knappe thereof--and the feather bed wt the bolster, the tester of Redd and Yelowye saye with bells, and the curteyn of the same--one peire of blankets, the counterpoint of verdour--the cubbord and a carpet of lisynges of redd and yellowe--the hangings of redd and yellow saye with the border of story of Grysill, and the grate coffer, all which be in the grate chamber over the seller. Also the hangings of Redd and yelowe saye in the hall, the syde tabull with the grate forme and benche thereupon in the seyd hall. [6][7]
"Sir Edward Ferrers, knt., the founder of the family of Ferrers of Baddesley, was son and heir of Sir Henry Ferrers, knt., and great-grandson of William de Ferrers, the last of his family that held the barony of Groby. He married Constance, daughter and coheir of Nicholas Brome, by which marriage the manor of Baddesley came into his possession in 1517. In 1513 and again in 1518 he was high-sheriff of Warwickshire. In the latter year both he and his wife are recorded to have been admitted members of the ancient Gild of St. Anne at Knowle. In 1535 he was capital seneschal of the Augustinian priory at Maxstoke, as also of the Benedictine priory at Wroxhall. He made his will July 10, 1535, died on August 29 following, and was buried in the
chancel of the church at Baddesley, where an altar tomb was erected to his memory. His wife survived him, and died September 30, 1551, (Inq. p. m. September 24, 1552.) By her he had a numerous family." [8]
A biography of Sir Edward Ferrers has been published in The History of Parliament. [9]
Footnotes:
[1] S.T. Bindoff, ed., The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1509-1558 (Boydell & Brewer, 1982), "Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., CIPM Hen. VII, ii. 681, 853.", [History_Parliament_Online].
[2] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, DR 3/291, Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, [UK_National_Archives].
[3] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, PROB 11/25/416, [UK_National_Archives].
[4] Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, Piece 25: Hogen (1533-1536), [Ancestry_Image].
[5] S.T. Bindoff, ed., The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1509-1558 (Boydell & Brewer, 1982), [History_Parliament_Online].
[6] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Bucke, PROB 11/34/401, [UK_National_Archives].
[7] Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, Piece 34: Bucke (1551), [Ancestry_Image].
[8] Henry Norris, Baddesley Cinton, its manor, church and hall; with some account of the family of Ferrers from the Norman conquest to the present day (London and Leamington, Art and book company, 1897), 118, [HathiTrust].
[9] S.T. Bindoff, ed., The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1509-1558 (Boydell & Brewer, 1982), [History_Parliament_Online].
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From Wikipedia re Battle of the Spurs, Aug. 1513
The Battle of the Spurs or Battle of Guinegate took place on 16 August 1513. As part of the Holy League, during the ongoing Italian Wars, English and Imperial troops under Henry VIII and Maximilian I surprised and routed a body of French cavalry under Jacques de La Palice. Henry and Maximilian were besieging the town of Thérouanne in Artois (now Pas-de-Calais). Henry's camp was at Guinegate, now called Enguinegatte[1] After Thérouanne fell, Henry VIII besieged and took Tournai.
Siege of Thérouanne
Contemporary woodcut of the meeting of Henry VIII and Maximilian at the siege of Thérouanne
In May 1513 English soldiers began to arrive in number at Calais to join an army commanded by George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Steward of the Household. Shrewsbury was appointed Lieutenant-General on 12 May, John Hopton commanded the troop ships. On 17 May Henry announced to the Cinque Ports and Edward Poynings, Constable of Dover Castle that he would join the invasion in person, and had appointed commissioners to requisition all shipping. In Henry's absence across the sea (ad partes transmarinas), Catherine of Aragon would rule England and Wales as Rector and Governor (Rectrix et Gubernatrix).[3]
English knights made at the Battle of Spurs and in Tournai
English knights made at the Battle of Spurs and in Tournai
The following were made knights banneret after the battle of the Spurs on 16 September 1513,[42] Edward Hall specifically mentioned the knighting of John Peachy, captain of the King's horse, as a banneret and John Car who was "sore hurt" as a knight.[43]
Andrew Wyndsore, Treasurer of the King's middle-ward
Richard Dymoke, treasurer of the rear-ward
Randolph Brereton, marshall of the rear-ward
Henry Guildford
John Reynsford
Henry Wyatt
John Seymour
John Audely
Richard Carew
Anthony Ughtred
Thomas West
John Hussey of Sleaford
John Arundell
Richard Wentworth
Piers Edgecombe
Henry Clifford
Thomas Cornwall
Thomas Leighton
Thomas Blount
John Aston
William Pierpoint
Henry Sacheverell
George Holford
John Warbleton
On 2 October 1513, after Henry attended mass at Tournai Cathedral the following were knighted:[44]
John Tuchet, Lord Audely
Edward, Lord Grey
Anthony Wingfield
Thomas Tyrell of Gipping
Christopher Willoughby of Parham
Edward Guildford
William Compton
Richard Sacheverell
Thomas Tyrell
William Eure
Thomas Borough
Robert Tyrwhit
Thomas Fairfax
Edward and Walter Hungerford
Giles Capell
Edward Doon
Edward Belknape
Edward Ferrers
William Hussey
Owen Perrot
William Fitzwilliam
Christopher Garneys
Henry Poole
John Vere
John Marney
John Markham
John Savage
Edward Stradling
John Ragland
Edward Chamberlain
William Griffiths
William Parr
Edward Neville
John Neville of Liversedge, captain of Northern Light Horsemen
Robert Neville of Liversedge, (knighted at Lille)
William Essex
Ralph Egerton
James Framlingham
John Mainwaring
John Mainwaring of Ightfield, (knighted at Lille)
William Tyler
John Sharpe
Thomas Lovell, junior of Barton Bendish
Richard Jerningham
Lewis Orell
Geffrey Gates
Richard Tempest
William Brereton
Henry Owen
John Giffard
Henry Longe
William Hansarde
William Ascu (Askew) or Ainscough of Stallingborough
Christopher Ascu (Askew)
John Zowkett (German)
Lewis de Waldencourt ("de Hannonia")
Nicholas Barrington
John Bruges
William Finch
George Harvey
Nicholas Heydon
Lionel Dymoke
Edward Benstead
William Smith
John Daunce
Thomas Clinton
Richard Whethill
William Thomas
John Wiseman
The heir of Baron Zouche
(Edward) Sutton, heir of Baron Dudley
Christopher Baynham of Clearwell
With others, and more were knighted at Lille on 13 and 14 October.
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From tudorqueen6
http://tudorqueen6.com/2013/07/07/7-july-1517-st-thomas-day-banquet-at-greenwich/
7 July 1517: St. Thomas Day Banquet at Greenwich
On 7 July 1517, a lavish banquet was held for the Emperor’s Ambassadors at Greenwich. The tables above show where several of the notables, including the King and Queen, sat. The banquet seems to have been largely a Howard family event.
The banquet was held on St Thomas’s day that is to say the summer feast the 7th of July. There were in all thirty three people seated at the banquet. The King had the centre place at the upper table; Queen Katherine was on his right and Cardinal Wolsey on hers; on the King’s left was the French Queen [Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk] and the Emperor’s Ambassador was beside her. Then at the side tables with English peers and peeresses sat the Ambassadors of France, Aragon, and Venice. To attend on these thirty three persons no less than 250 names are given in a paper that was drawn up beforehand and these are almost all lords or knights. How they could avoid being in one another’s way is the difficulty. For instance Lords Abergavenny, Fitzwalter, Willoughby, and Ferrers to hold torches while the King washes. To bear towels and basons for the King the Earl of Surrey, Lords Richard Grey, Leonard Grey, and Clinton, Sir Maurice Berkeley, and eight other knights. The King’s server was Sir William Kingston and to attend on him Lord Edmund Howard [father of the future Queen Katherine] and fourteen knights the last named of whom is Sir Adrian Fortescue. To help the Vice-chamberlain in the ordering of the company, Sirs Thomas Parr [father of the future Queen Katherine] and John Peche. At the third mess, the French Queen’s servant; to attend on him, Sirs William Parr [brother to Sir Thomas and uncle to the future queen] and several others.
At the head table:
Card
Queen Katherine
King Henry
French Queen Mary Tudor
Emperor’s Ambassador
The table on the left:
Duchess of Norfolk
French Ambassador
Countess of Surrey
Bishop of Spain
Lady Elizabeth Boleyn [mother of the future Queen Anne]
Provost of Cassel
Lady Howard [mother of the future Queen Katherine]
Duke of Nofolk
Lady Guildford, the elder
Lord Marques
Lady Willoughby
Earl of Surrey
Lady FitzWilliam
Lady Marques
The table on the right:
Mons. Dancye
Lady Elizabeth Stafford
Knight of the Toyson
Countess of Oxenford
Ambassador of Venice
Lady Elizabeth Gray
Duke of Suffolk [Charles Brandon]
Lady Abergavenny
Bishop of Durham [perhaps Cuthbert Tunstall]
Lady Montjoy
Earl of Kent
Mistress Mary Fynes [Mary Fiennes]
Sources
‘Henry VIII: July 1517, 1-10’, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 2: 1515-1518 (1864), pp. 1092-1102. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=90948&strquery=william+parr Date accessed: 07 July 2013
John S. Brewer, Robert H. Brodie, James Gairdner. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII.:Preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum and Elsewhere: 1517 – 1518, Volume 2, Issue 2, H.M. Stationery Office, 1864.
John Morris. The Venerable Sir Adrian Fortescue, knight of the bath, knight of St. John, martyr, Burns and Oates, 1887.
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From Wikipedia re Field of the Cloth of Gold
The Field of the Cloth of Gold (French: Camp du Drap d'Or) was a site in Balinghem – between Ardres in France and Guînes in the then-English Pale of Calais – that hosted a meeting from 7 to 24 June 1520, between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France.
The meeting was arranged to increase the bond of friendship between the two kings following the Anglo-French treaty of 1514. These two monarchs would meet again in 1532 to arrange Francis' assistance in pressuring Pope Clement VII to pronounce Henry's first marriage as illegitimate. Under the guidance of English Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the chief nations of Europe sought to outlaw war forever among Christian nations.
For about two and a half weeks in June 1520, a meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I of France occurred near Calais that was to become known to history as the Field of Cloth of Gold. Although the political purpose of the meeting didn’t amount to much in the overall scheme of things in early 16th century Europe, the glamour and extravagance of the meeting give us a picture of two Renaissance princes and their times.
In 1518, through the work of Cardinal Wolsey, the Treaty of London was signed as a non-aggression pact between the major European powers of the time. But less than a year later, the pact was already in danger of falling apart. To preserve the peace, Wolsey arranged a meeting between Henry VIII and Charles V, the new Holy Roman Emperor, and a meeting of Henry VIII and Francis I of France. This second meeting was to be in France, near the English-held town of Calais.
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Each king tried to outshine the other, with dazzling tents and clothes, huge feasts, music, jousting and games. The tents and the costumes displayed so much cloth of gold, an expensive fabric woven with silk and gold thread, that the site of the meeting was named after it.
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List of attendees
A record of the list of attendees survives in at least two places: in the Rutland Papers[8] and in the Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of King Henry VIII,[9] catalogued as Letters indented specifying, in accordance with the treaty of 12 March 1519, the number and rank of the lords, ladies and gentlemen to attend the King and Queen at the interview with Francis I. The latter source lists the following:
For King Henry VIII
"For the King: The cardinal of York, with 300 servants, of whom 12 shall be chaplains and 50 gentlemen, with 50 horses; one archbishop with 70 servants, of whom 5 shall be chaplains and 10 gentlemen, with 30 horses; 2 dukes, each with 70 servants, 5 to be chaplains and 10 gentlemen, with 30 horses. 1 marquis with 56 servants, 4 to be chaplains and 8 gentlemen; 26 horses. 10 earls, each with 42 servants, 3 to be chaplains and 6 gentlemen; 20 horses. 5 bishops, of whom the bishop of Winchester shall have 56 servants, 4 to be chaplains and 8 gentlemen; 26 horses;—each of the others, 44 servants, 4 to be chaplains and 6 gentlemen; 20 horses. 20 barons, each to have 22 servants, 2 to be chaplains and 2 gentlemen; 12 horses. 4 knights of the order of St. George, each to have 22 servants, 2 to be chaplains and 2 gentlemen; 48 horses. 70 knights, each to have 12 servants, one to be a chaplain; 8 horses. Councillors of the long robe; viz., the King's secretary, the vice-chancellor, the dean of the Chapel, and the almoner, each to have 12 servants, one a chaplain, and 8 horses. 12 King's chaplains, each with 6 servants and 3 horses. 12 serjeants-at-arms, each with 1 servant and two horses. 200 of the King's guard with 100 horses. 70 grooms of the chamber, with 150 servants and 100 horses among them; 266 officers of the house, with 216 servants and 70 horses; 205 grooms of the stable and of the armories, with 211 horses. The earl of Essex, being earl marshal, shall have, beside the number above stated, 130 servants and 100 light horses. Sum total of the King's company, 3,997 persons and 2,087 horses".
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Commissioners
"Names of those appointed to attend the king of England at the Congress:
Commissioners to oversee followers of French King
Commissioners appointed to oversee those who shall accompany the king of France:—The earl of Essex, lord Abergavenny, Sir Edw. Ponynges, Sir Rob. Wingfield.
Commissioners to give orders to the gentlemen
Commissioners to give orders to the gentlemen:—Sir Edw. Belknapp, Sir Nich. Vaux, Sir John Peche, Sir Maurice Berkeley.
Commissioners to give orders to the foot soldiers
Commissioners to give orders to the foot soldiers:—Sir Weston Browne, Sir Edw. Ferrers, Sir Rob. Constable, Sir Ralph Egerton, Sir Thomas Lucy, Sir John Marney.
Other attendees
At the embracing of the two Kings
To ride with the king of England at the embracing of the two Kings:—The Legate, archbishop of Canterbury, dukes of Buckingham and Suffolk, marquis of Dorset. Bishops:—Durham, Armagh, Ely, Chichester,[10] Rochester, Exeter, Hereford. Earls:—Stafford, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Devonshire, Kent, Wiltshire, Derby, Kildare. Barons:—Maltravers, Montagu, Herbert, the grand prior of St. John of England, Roos, Fitzwalter, Hastings, Delaware, Dacre, Ferrers, Cobham, Daubeney, Lumley, Sir Henry Marney, Sir Wm. Sandys, Thomas Boleyn, Lord Howard.
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From Wikipedia re Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire
In 1438, John Brome, Under-Treasurer of England, bought the manor, which passed to his son, Nicholas. Nicholas was responsible for the extensive rebuilding of the nearby parish church dedicated to Saint Michael, done as penance for killing the parish priest, a murder reputed to have taken place in the great house itself. The house from this period was equipped with gun-ports, and possibly a drawbridge. When Nicholas Brome died in 1517, the house passed to his daughter, who married Sir Edward Ferrers (High Sheriff of Warwickshire) in 1500. The house remained in the ownership of the Ferrers family until 1940 when it was purchased by Thomas Walker, a relative of the family who changed his name to Ferrers. His son, who inherited it in 1970, sold the estate in 1980 to the National Trust, who now manage it.[citation needed]
Henry Ferrers "The Antiquary" (1549–1633) made many additions to Baddesley Clinton, including starting the tradition of stained glass representing the family's coat of arms. Such glass now appears in many of the public rooms in the house. It is thought that he was responsible for building the great hall. In the 18th century the great hall was rebuilt in brick, and the east range was extended, though with great care to continue the style of the original building.
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Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 3, 1519-1523, pages 231-239
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol3/pp231-249
It is in the records of the elaborate meeting at the Field of Cloth and Gold that we find further written evidence of how the Ferrers surname could be altered. In the Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 3, 1519-1523 at pages 231-239, Edward Ferrers' presence at the meeting is recorded as “Sir Edw. Ferys.”
Ferrers, Sir Edward (by 1468-1535), of Baddesley Clinton, Warws.
Warwickshire 1529
b. by 1468, 1st s. of Sir Henry Ferrers of Hambleton, Rutland and East Peckham, Kent by 2nd w. Margaret, da. and coh. of William Hextall of East Peckham and Gerrard's Bromley, Staffs., wid. of William Whetenhall. m. settlement 1497, Constance (d.1551), da. and coh. of Nicholas Brome (d. 10 Oct. 1517) of Baddesely Clinton, 4s. 6da. 28 Dec. 1500. Kntd. 25 Sept. 1513.
Offices Held
Esquire of the body by 1509; bailiff, manors of Snitterfield and Warwick, Warws. 1509-d.; sewer by 1511; j.p. Warws. 1511-d.; commr. subsidy 1512, 1514, 1515, 1523, 1524, musters 1522; other commissions 1519-d.; sheriff, Warws. and Leics. 1513-14, 1518-19, Worcs. 1528-35; steward, manor of Knowle, Warws. at d.3
Biography
Edward Ferrers’s father was a younger son of the family of Tamworth, Staffordshire, who made his career at court and in his second wife’s county of Kent, the shire for which he sat in Parliament and of which he was three times sheriff. His wife’s manor of Hextalls Court in East Peckham passed, however, on her death to her son by an earlier marriage, and although Edward Ferrers retained some interest in Kent—as late as 1506 he was described as of Peckham and he died holding lands in Brenchley and Hadloy—and inherited Hambleton in Rutland, it was on his wife’s estate at Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire that he was to settle. His father had evidently introduced him into the service of the crown and as early as September 1500 he was among the witnesses to the surrender of the great seal by the executors of Cardinal Morton. In 1509 he attended the funeral of Henry VII and two years later the infant Prince Henry’s. He had already received his first reward of the reign, the bailiwick of Warwick and Snitterfield and in the years that followed he was to obtain several grants of wardships. He was knighted at Tournai, having led a band of 100 men on the campaign, he attended the Greenwich banquet in 1517, and three years later he was a commissioner to oversee footmen at the Field of Cloth of Gold and afterwards served at the meeting with Charles V at Gravelines.4
Ferrers was concurrently establishing himself in the government of his adopted shire, only being employed elsewhere, apart from his activities as a courtier, in two searches of London in 1519 and 1524. He evidently proved his worth for in July 1528 he was chosen to serve out the shrieval [relating to a sheriff] term in Worcestershire of his fellow-courtier and Warwickshire landowner Sir William Compton; moreover, although he seems to have been a stranger to the shire, he was retained in the office until his death, an arrangement which if not unprecedented, for it had obtained under Compton himself, was certainly unusual. He was thus a sheriff in 1529 when returned as junior knight for his own shire of Warwickshire. This is the only occasion on which Ferrers, then in or approaching his sixties, is known to have sat, but he may have done so earlier, the names of the Warwickshire knights being unknown for the four previous Henrician Parliaments. Nothing is known of his role in the Commons and there is no indication that he shared the strong Catholic views of his fellow-knight Sir George Throckmorton, with whose father he had been associated as early as 1504. Outside the House he was involved as sheriff of Worcestershire in a dispute over election expenses with the knights for that shire, (Sir) John Russell I and Sir Gilbert Talbot. He evidently remained in favour until his death. On 24 June 1535 he wrote from Baddesley Clinton to thank Cromwell for the pains the minister had taken in a dispute between Ferrers’s son-in-law and one Mr. Wyott or Wyatt. He was then too ill to visit Cromwell himself but sent a message by a Mr. Wigston, presumably Roger Wigston, a Member for Coventry in this Parliament, who was soon to be involved in the electioneering following Ferrers’s death, of which the outcome is unknown.5
Ferrers died on 29 Aug. 1535 and was buried at Baddesley, where his wife later set up a window to his and her own memory. In the will which he had made on 10 July and added to on 24 Aug., and which was later to be contested by his surviving sons, he listed lands in Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Rutland, Staffordshire and Warwickshire, as well as some tenements beside London Wall. His wife was sole executrix and his overseers a serjeant-at-law, Sir Thomas Willoughby, his ‘cousin’ Thomas Marrow (the father of the Member of that name), and Thomas Holte. His eldest son had died in 1526 and the heir was his grandson, Edward Ferrers. Ferrers’s wife survived him by some 16 years and, according to the tenor of her will, the administration of her husband’s was committed in 1546 to Richard Mountney, one of his creditors.6
Ref Volumes: 1509-1558
Author: S. M. Thorpe
Notes
1. Did not serve for the full duration of the Parliament.
2. Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., CIPM Hen. VII, ii. 681, 853. Dugdale, Warws. ii. 973; Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 5; CCR, 1485-1500, p. 213; VCH Warws. iv. 18.
3. LP Hen. VIII, i, iii-v, vii, viii, add.; Statutes, iii. 85, 114, 171.
4. Hasted, Kent, v. 100-1, 177, 286; CCR; 1500-9, pp. 21, 242; LP Hen. VIII, i-iii, viii.
5. LP Hen. VIII, iii, iv, vii, viii, add.; CCR, 1500-9, p. 158; E13/214/11d.
6. VCH Warws. iv. 18; PCC 27 Hogen, 29 Bucke; CPR, 1553, p. 413; Vis. Warws. 69; LP Hen. VIII, xiii.
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From FindMyPast
First name(s) Sir Edward
Last name Ferrers
Sex Male
Marriage year 1535-1746
Denomination Anglican
Place Baddesley Clinton
Spouse's first name(s) Constance
Spouse's last name Brome
County Warwickshire
Country England
Document type Parish registers
Archive Warwickshire County Record Office
Archive reference DRB0028/1
Record type Baptisms, marriages & burials
Record's year range 1535-1746
Record set Warwickshire Marriages
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Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy - Notes for Edward Ferrers and Constance Brome http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m25992x25994.htm
c 1468 Sir Edward Ferrers was born. [1]
1506/7 Edward Ferrers and Constance Brome were married by 10 January. "Memorandum of the persons present at the sealing of deeds relating to the manor of Baddesley Clinton and lands in Warwick on 10 January 22 Henry VII [1506/7]. 'These be the names of them that were present when Nicholas Brome esquire sealed his dedes of the maner of Baddusley & certen londes in Warrewyk & in other places to the use of Edward Ferrers esquire & Constance his wyff as it apperith in the same dedes the xth day of January xxiith yere of the reign of Kyng Herry the viith First mastres Kateryn Brome, John Brome esquire and Elizabeth his wyf, Robert Bankes parson of Baddusley, John Mountford', John Byrd' & Anne his wyf, Roger Slye, Robert a Lee & William Bakere & other' etc.' Undated: early 16th century. [In the hand of Edward Ferrers c. 1630]. 1506 John Brome & Elizab: his wife, Katherine Brome, Robert Banckes parson, Jo: Mountford, Jo: Bird & Anne his wife, Roger Sly, Robert a lee & William Baker. Endorsed: 1. [In the hand of Edward Ferrers c. 1630] The names of those yt were presente att ye sealinge of ye deedes by Nichol Brome unto Sr Edw: Ferrers the 10th day of Januarie in ye 22te yeares of ye raigne of Henry ye viith Nicho: Brome his 3 wives Elizab: Arundle, Lettice Catesby, Katherine Lampecke. He had 2 daughters by Eliz his first wife Isable the eldest maried to Tho: Marrow sogent at law Constance the yonger married to Sr Edw: Ferrers by whom he had the manor of Baddesly Clinton in mariagge. 2. [c. 1839] The names of the Persons present at the sealing of the Settlement by Nicholas Brome of Baddesley on the 10th of January 22d. Henry 7th. on the marriage of Edward Ferrers with Constance Brome the daughter of said Nicholas. [2]
1517 "Mid 17th century attested copy of the Inquisition held at Warwicke 31 May 9 Henry VIII [1517] by Thomas Purfray esq. Escheator to the King for the county of Warwick, upon the death of Nicholas Brome esq. ... Lady Constance Ferrers and Dorothy Marrow were co-heirs of the said Nicholas Brome and Elizabeth, his wife; Lady Constance being daughter of the said Nicholas and Elizabeth, and Dorothy Marrow being daughter of Isabel Marrow, daughter of the said Nicholas and Elizabeth, Lady Constance being twenty-three years of age and Dorothy Marrow being twenty years of age. The said Nicholas stated in his will concerning the manor of Baddesly Clynton, that the said feoffees should hold the said manor to the use of Sir Edward Ferrers and Lady Constance, his wife, and that the said Dorothy Marrow and her heirs should have lands to the annual value of £12. ... The said Nicholas Brome died on the 10th. day of October last past, and Edward Brome, his eldest son and heir was aged 8 years and more at the time of his father's death.
1535 The will of Edward Ferres [Ferrers], written 10 July 1535, proved 18 November 1535, provides for wife Constance, the marriage of daughter Jane Ferrers, son-in-law John Hampden and Elizabeth his wife, daughter Alice Ferrers, Edward Ferrers son of Henry Ferrers, sons Edward Ferrers, George Ferrers, and Nicholas Ferrers. [3][4]
1535 Edward Ferrers died on 29 Aug. 1535 and was buried at Baddesley. [5]
1551 Will of Dame Constance Ferrers, Widow of Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, written 26 August 1551, proved 17 October 1551. "My son Edward Ferrers to have the lease of Morebarn fields and 800 sheep, that ys to wytt, 500 ewes, 250 hoggewells, and half a hundred Rames and other shepe. And also 8 oxen, 8 steres, and four mares to store the same pastures during the same lease if my son do live. To my son George Ferrers a yearly rent of £20, and also I will that if it happen one Edward Ferrers the younger, son of Henry Ferrers my son now deceased, after my decease and before the years of the said lease of Morebarne Fyldes shall be fully expired and determyned, to dye without yssue of his body lawfully begotten whereby the said Edward Ferrers my son shall inherit the manor of Baddesly Clynton aforesaid &c. &c., then my sonne George Ferrers and Nicholas Ferrers shall enjoy the same lease. I give and bequeath to my son Edward Ferrers the lease and tenure of the parsonage of Aston Cantlow--also the disposing of my household at Baddesly. To George Ferrers the lease of the Tythecorn at Hampton in Arden and of Balall, saving to Robert Edgeworth and his assignes his interest in tythecorn of Knoll according to indenture made. I bequeathe to Edward Ferrers, the younger, son of Henry Ferrers, my second bason and ewer of silver--a standing cupp of silver gilt with a cover--a gilt spoon wt an Angell on the Knappe thereof--and the feather bed wt the bolster, the tester of Redd and Yelowye saye with bells, and the curteyn of the same--one peire of blankets, the counterpoint of verdour--the cubbord and a carpet of lisynges of redd and yellowe--the hangings of redd and yellow saye with the border of story of Grysill, and the grate coffer, all which be in the grate chamber over the seller. Also the hangings of Redd and yelowe saye in the hall, the syde tabull with the grate forme and benche thereupon in the seyd hall. [6][7]
"Sir Edward Ferrers, knt., the founder of the family of Ferrers of Baddesley, was son and heir of Sir Henry Ferrers, knt., and great-grandson of William de Ferrers, the last of his family that held the barony of Groby. He married Constance, daughter and coheir of Nicholas Brome, by which marriage the manor of Baddesley came into his possession in 1517. In 1513 and again in 1518 he was high-sheriff of Warwickshire. In the latter year both he and his wife are recorded to have been admitted members of the ancient Gild of St. Anne at Knowle. In 1535 he was capital seneschal of the Augustinian priory at Maxstoke, as also of the Benedictine priory at Wroxhall. He made his will July 10, 1535, died on August 29 following, and was buried in the
chancel of the church at Baddesley, where an altar tomb was erected to his memory. His wife survived him, and died September 30, 1551, (Inq. p. m. September 24, 1552.) By her he had a numerous family." [8]
A biography of Sir Edward Ferrers has been published in The History of Parliament. [9]
Footnotes:
[1] S.T. Bindoff, ed., The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1509-1558 (Boydell & Brewer, 1982), "Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., CIPM Hen. VII, ii. 681, 853.", [History_Parliament_Online].
[2] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, DR 3/291, Shakespeare Centre Library and Archive, [UK_National_Archives].
[3] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, PROB 11/25/416, [UK_National_Archives].
[4] Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, Piece 25: Hogen (1533-1536), [Ancestry_Image].
[5] S.T. Bindoff, ed., The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1509-1558 (Boydell & Brewer, 1982), [History_Parliament_Online].
[6] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Bucke, PROB 11/34/401, [UK_National_Archives].
[7] Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858, Piece 34: Bucke (1551), [Ancestry_Image].
[8] Henry Norris, Baddesley Cinton, its manor, church and hall; with some account of the family of Ferrers from the Norman conquest to the present day (London and Leamington, Art and book company, 1897), 118, [HathiTrust].
[9] S.T. Bindoff, ed., The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1509-1558 (Boydell & Brewer, 1982), [History_Parliament_Online].
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From Wikipedia re Battle of the Spurs, Aug. 1513
The Battle of the Spurs or Battle of Guinegate took place on 16 August 1513. As part of the Holy League, during the ongoing Italian Wars, English and Imperial troops under Henry VIII and Maximilian I surprised and routed a body of French cavalry under Jacques de La Palice. Henry and Maximilian were besieging the town of Thérouanne in Artois (now Pas-de-Calais). Henry's camp was at Guinegate, now called Enguinegatte[1] After Thérouanne fell, Henry VIII besieged and took Tournai.
Siege of Thérouanne
Contemporary woodcut of the meeting of Henry VIII and Maximilian at the siege of Thérouanne
In May 1513 English soldiers began to arrive in number at Calais to join an army commanded by George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Steward of the Household. Shrewsbury was appointed Lieutenant-General on 12 May, John Hopton commanded the troop ships. On 17 May Henry announced to the Cinque Ports and Edward Poynings, Constable of Dover Castle that he would join the invasion in person, and had appointed commissioners to requisition all shipping. In Henry's absence across the sea (ad partes transmarinas), Catherine of Aragon would rule England and Wales as Rector and Governor (Rectrix et Gubernatrix).[3]
English knights made at the Battle of Spurs and in Tournai
English knights made at the Battle of Spurs and in Tournai
The following were made knights banneret after the battle of the Spurs on 16 September 1513,[42] Edward Hall specifically mentioned the knighting of John Peachy, captain of the King's horse, as a banneret and John Car who was "sore hurt" as a knight.[43]
Andrew Wyndsore, Treasurer of the King's middle-ward
Richard Dymoke, treasurer of the rear-ward
Randolph Brereton, marshall of the rear-ward
Henry Guildford
John Reynsford
Henry Wyatt
John Seymour
John Audely
Richard Carew
Anthony Ughtred
Thomas West
John Hussey of Sleaford
John Arundell
Richard Wentworth
Piers Edgecombe
Henry Clifford
Thomas Cornwall
Thomas Leighton
Thomas Blount
John Aston
William Pierpoint
Henry Sacheverell
George Holford
John Warbleton
On 2 October 1513, after Henry attended mass at Tournai Cathedral the following were knighted:[44]
John Tuchet, Lord Audely
Edward, Lord Grey
Anthony Wingfield
Thomas Tyrell of Gipping
Christopher Willoughby of Parham
Edward Guildford
William Compton
Richard Sacheverell
Thomas Tyrell
William Eure
Thomas Borough
Robert Tyrwhit
Thomas Fairfax
Edward and Walter Hungerford
Giles Capell
Edward Doon
Edward Belknape
Edward Ferrers
William Hussey
Owen Perrot
William Fitzwilliam
Christopher Garneys
Henry Poole
John Vere
John Marney
John Markham
John Savage
Edward Stradling
John Ragland
Edward Chamberlain
William Griffiths
William Parr
Edward Neville
John Neville of Liversedge, captain of Northern Light Horsemen
Robert Neville of Liversedge, (knighted at Lille)
William Essex
Ralph Egerton
James Framlingham
John Mainwaring
John Mainwaring of Ightfield, (knighted at Lille)
William Tyler
John Sharpe
Thomas Lovell, junior of Barton Bendish
Richard Jerningham
Lewis Orell
Geffrey Gates
Richard Tempest
William Brereton
Henry Owen
John Giffard
Henry Longe
William Hansarde
William Ascu (Askew) or Ainscough of Stallingborough
Christopher Ascu (Askew)
John Zowkett (German)
Lewis de Waldencourt ("de Hannonia")
Nicholas Barrington
John Bruges
William Finch
George Harvey
Nicholas Heydon
Lionel Dymoke
Edward Benstead
William Smith
John Daunce
Thomas Clinton
Richard Whethill
William Thomas
John Wiseman
The heir of Baron Zouche
(Edward) Sutton, heir of Baron Dudley
Christopher Baynham of Clearwell
With others, and more were knighted at Lille on 13 and 14 October.
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From tudorqueen6
http://tudorqueen6.com/2013/07/07/7-july-1517-st-thomas-day-banquet-at-greenwich/
7 July 1517: St. Thomas Day Banquet at Greenwich
On 7 July 1517, a lavish banquet was held for the Emperor’s Ambassadors at Greenwich. The tables above show where several of the notables, including the King and Queen, sat. The banquet seems to have been largely a Howard family event.
The banquet was held on St Thomas’s day that is to say the summer feast the 7th of July. There were in all thirty three people seated at the banquet. The King had the centre place at the upper table; Queen Katherine was on his right and Cardinal Wolsey on hers; on the King’s left was the French Queen [Mary Tudor, Duchess of Suffolk] and the Emperor’s Ambassador was beside her. Then at the side tables with English peers and peeresses sat the Ambassadors of France, Aragon, and Venice. To attend on these thirty three persons no less than 250 names are given in a paper that was drawn up beforehand and these are almost all lords or knights. How they could avoid being in one another’s way is the difficulty. For instance Lords Abergavenny, Fitzwalter, Willoughby, and Ferrers to hold torches while the King washes. To bear towels and basons for the King the Earl of Surrey, Lords Richard Grey, Leonard Grey, and Clinton, Sir Maurice Berkeley, and eight other knights. The King’s server was Sir William Kingston and to attend on him Lord Edmund Howard [father of the future Queen Katherine] and fourteen knights the last named of whom is Sir Adrian Fortescue. To help the Vice-chamberlain in the ordering of the company, Sirs Thomas Parr [father of the future Queen Katherine] and John Peche. At the third mess, the French Queen’s servant; to attend on him, Sirs William Parr [brother to Sir Thomas and uncle to the future queen] and several others.
At the head table:
Card
Queen Katherine
King Henry
French Queen Mary Tudor
Emperor’s Ambassador
The table on the left:
Duchess of Norfolk
French Ambassador
Countess of Surrey
Bishop of Spain
Lady Elizabeth Boleyn [mother of the future Queen Anne]
Provost of Cassel
Lady Howard [mother of the future Queen Katherine]
Duke of Nofolk
Lady Guildford, the elder
Lord Marques
Lady Willoughby
Earl of Surrey
Lady FitzWilliam
Lady Marques
The table on the right:
Mons. Dancye
Lady Elizabeth Stafford
Knight of the Toyson
Countess of Oxenford
Ambassador of Venice
Lady Elizabeth Gray
Duke of Suffolk [Charles Brandon]
Lady Abergavenny
Bishop of Durham [perhaps Cuthbert Tunstall]
Lady Montjoy
Earl of Kent
Mistress Mary Fynes [Mary Fiennes]
Sources
‘Henry VIII: July 1517, 1-10’, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 2: 1515-1518 (1864), pp. 1092-1102. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=90948&strquery=william+parr Date accessed: 07 July 2013
John S. Brewer, Robert H. Brodie, James Gairdner. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII.:Preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum and Elsewhere: 1517 – 1518, Volume 2, Issue 2, H.M. Stationery Office, 1864.
John Morris. The Venerable Sir Adrian Fortescue, knight of the bath, knight of St. John, martyr, Burns and Oates, 1887.
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From Wikipedia re Field of the Cloth of Gold
The Field of the Cloth of Gold (French: Camp du Drap d'Or) was a site in Balinghem – between Ardres in France and Guînes in the then-English Pale of Calais – that hosted a meeting from 7 to 24 June 1520, between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France.
The meeting was arranged to increase the bond of friendship between the two kings following the Anglo-French treaty of 1514. These two monarchs would meet again in 1532 to arrange Francis' assistance in pressuring Pope Clement VII to pronounce Henry's first marriage as illegitimate. Under the guidance of English Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the chief nations of Europe sought to outlaw war forever among Christian nations.
For about two and a half weeks in June 1520, a meeting between Henry VIII and Francis I of France occurred near Calais that was to become known to history as the Field of Cloth of Gold. Although the political purpose of the meeting didn’t amount to much in the overall scheme of things in early 16th century Europe, the glamour and extravagance of the meeting give us a picture of two Renaissance princes and their times.
In 1518, through the work of Cardinal Wolsey, the Treaty of London was signed as a non-aggression pact between the major European powers of the time. But less than a year later, the pact was already in danger of falling apart. To preserve the peace, Wolsey arranged a meeting between Henry VIII and Charles V, the new Holy Roman Emperor, and a meeting of Henry VIII and Francis I of France. This second meeting was to be in France, near the English-held town of Calais.
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Each king tried to outshine the other, with dazzling tents and clothes, huge feasts, music, jousting and games. The tents and the costumes displayed so much cloth of gold, an expensive fabric woven with silk and gold thread, that the site of the meeting was named after it.
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List of attendees
A record of the list of attendees survives in at least two places: in the Rutland Papers[8] and in the Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of King Henry VIII,[9] catalogued as Letters indented specifying, in accordance with the treaty of 12 March 1519, the number and rank of the lords, ladies and gentlemen to attend the King and Queen at the interview with Francis I. The latter source lists the following:
For King Henry VIII
"For the King: The cardinal of York, with 300 servants, of whom 12 shall be chaplains and 50 gentlemen, with 50 horses; one archbishop with 70 servants, of whom 5 shall be chaplains and 10 gentlemen, with 30 horses; 2 dukes, each with 70 servants, 5 to be chaplains and 10 gentlemen, with 30 horses. 1 marquis with 56 servants, 4 to be chaplains and 8 gentlemen; 26 horses. 10 earls, each with 42 servants, 3 to be chaplains and 6 gentlemen; 20 horses. 5 bishops, of whom the bishop of Winchester shall have 56 servants, 4 to be chaplains and 8 gentlemen; 26 horses;—each of the others, 44 servants, 4 to be chaplains and 6 gentlemen; 20 horses. 20 barons, each to have 22 servants, 2 to be chaplains and 2 gentlemen; 12 horses. 4 knights of the order of St. George, each to have 22 servants, 2 to be chaplains and 2 gentlemen; 48 horses. 70 knights, each to have 12 servants, one to be a chaplain; 8 horses. Councillors of the long robe; viz., the King's secretary, the vice-chancellor, the dean of the Chapel, and the almoner, each to have 12 servants, one a chaplain, and 8 horses. 12 King's chaplains, each with 6 servants and 3 horses. 12 serjeants-at-arms, each with 1 servant and two horses. 200 of the King's guard with 100 horses. 70 grooms of the chamber, with 150 servants and 100 horses among them; 266 officers of the house, with 216 servants and 70 horses; 205 grooms of the stable and of the armories, with 211 horses. The earl of Essex, being earl marshal, shall have, beside the number above stated, 130 servants and 100 light horses. Sum total of the King's company, 3,997 persons and 2,087 horses".
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Commissioners
"Names of those appointed to attend the king of England at the Congress:
Commissioners to oversee followers of French King
Commissioners appointed to oversee those who shall accompany the king of France:—The earl of Essex, lord Abergavenny, Sir Edw. Ponynges, Sir Rob. Wingfield.
Commissioners to give orders to the gentlemen
Commissioners to give orders to the gentlemen:—Sir Edw. Belknapp, Sir Nich. Vaux, Sir John Peche, Sir Maurice Berkeley.
Commissioners to give orders to the foot soldiers
Commissioners to give orders to the foot soldiers:—Sir Weston Browne, Sir Edw. Ferrers, Sir Rob. Constable, Sir Ralph Egerton, Sir Thomas Lucy, Sir John Marney.
Other attendees
At the embracing of the two Kings
To ride with the king of England at the embracing of the two Kings:—The Legate, archbishop of Canterbury, dukes of Buckingham and Suffolk, marquis of Dorset. Bishops:—Durham, Armagh, Ely, Chichester,[10] Rochester, Exeter, Hereford. Earls:—Stafford, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Devonshire, Kent, Wiltshire, Derby, Kildare. Barons:—Maltravers, Montagu, Herbert, the grand prior of St. John of England, Roos, Fitzwalter, Hastings, Delaware, Dacre, Ferrers, Cobham, Daubeney, Lumley, Sir Henry Marney, Sir Wm. Sandys, Thomas Boleyn, Lord Howard.
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From Wikipedia re Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire
In 1438, John Brome, Under-Treasurer of England, bought the manor, which passed to his son, Nicholas. Nicholas was responsible for the extensive rebuilding of the nearby parish church dedicated to Saint Michael, done as penance for killing the parish priest, a murder reputed to have taken place in the great house itself. The house from this period was equipped with gun-ports, and possibly a drawbridge. When Nicholas Brome died in 1517, the house passed to his daughter, who married Sir Edward Ferrers (High Sheriff of Warwickshire) in 1500. The house remained in the ownership of the Ferrers family until 1940 when it was purchased by Thomas Walker, a relative of the family who changed his name to Ferrers. His son, who inherited it in 1970, sold the estate in 1980 to the National Trust, who now manage it.[citation needed]
Henry Ferrers "The Antiquary" (1549–1633) made many additions to Baddesley Clinton, including starting the tradition of stained glass representing the family's coat of arms. Such glass now appears in many of the public rooms in the house. It is thought that he was responsible for building the great hall. In the 18th century the great hall was rebuilt in brick, and the east range was extended, though with great care to continue the style of the original building.
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Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 3, 1519-1523, pages 231-239
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol3/pp231-249
It is in the records of the elaborate meeting at the Field of Cloth and Gold that we find further written evidence of how the Ferrers surname could be altered. In the Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 3, 1519-1523 at pages 231-239, Edward Ferrers' presence at the meeting is recorded as “Sir Edw. Ferys.”
Events
| Birth | By 1468 | Kent, England |  | ||
| Marriage | 10 Jan 1507 | Constance Brome | |||
| Miscellaneous | 1509 | Attended the funeral of Henry VII | |||
| Military | 1513 | Batte of the Spurs; lead 100 men; knighted by Henry VII - Tournai, France | |||
| Title (Nobility) | 2 Oct 1513 | Knight - Tournai Cathederal, Tournai, France | |||
| Miscellaneous | 7 Jul 1517 | Attended the Greenwich banquet King Henry, Queen Mary Tudor, etc | |||
| Miscellaneous | Jun 1520 | Field of the Cloth of Gold - Commissioner to oversee foot soldiers - Balinghem, France | |||
| Death | 29 Aug 1535 | ||||
| Alt name | Edward Ferys | ||||
| Title (Nobility) | Member of Parliament | ||||
| Title (Nobility) | Sheriff of Kent |
Families
| Spouse | Constance Brome (1494 - 1551) |
| Child | Henry Ferrers ( - 1526) |
| Child | Edward Ferrers ( - ) |
| Child | George Ferrers ( - ) |
| Child | Nicholas Ferrers ( - ) |
| Child | Jane Ferrers ( - ) |
| Child | Ursula Ferrers ( - ) |
| Child | Anne Ferrers ( - 1554) |
| Child | Elisabeth Ferrers (1507 - ) |
| Child | Alice Ferrers ( - ) |
| Child | Margaret Ferrers ( - ) |
| Father | Sir Henry Ferrers (1440 - 1499) |
| Mother | Margaret Hextall ( - ) |
| Sibling | Richard Ferrers (1473 - 1521) |
| Sibling | Jane Ferrers (1480 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Ferrers (1480 - 1553) |
| Sibling | Margaret Ferrers (1481 - ) |
Endnotes
1. The History of Parliament, The House of Commons,1509-1558, Vol I (1982), p. 128.