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Robert Lytton KB

(Abt 1511 - Aft 8 Jul 1550)

[[Category: Knebworth, Hertfordshire]] }
''} } }'' is a descendant of Magna Carta surety barons [[Albini-39|William d'Aubigné]], [[Clare-651|Richard de Clare]], [[Clare-673|Gilbert de Clare]], [[Lacy-284|John de Lacy]], [[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]], and [[Ros-162|Robert de Ros]].
[[Category:Albini-39 Descendants]][[Category:Clare-673 Descendants]][[Category:Clare-651 Descendants]][[Category:Lacy-284 Descendants]][[Category:Quincy-226 Descendants]][[Category:Ros-162 Descendants]]


--------[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertfordshire Hertfordshire, England at Wikipedia]


== Biography =='''Sir Robert Lytton, KB''' was born about 1510 (age 6 in 1517). He was the son and heir of [[Lytton-9|William Lytton]] of Knebworth, Herts, Esq by his wife [[Booth-124|Audrey Booth]].
He married '''Frances Calverley''', daughter of Anthony Calverley. They had the following children:::1. [[Lytton-7|'''Helen Lytton''']], m. Gabriel Fowler, Knt. and John Brockett, Knt. ::2. [[Lytton-8|'''Elizabeth Lytton''']], m. Edward Barrett, Esq. and Thomas Little
::3. [[Lytton-5| '''Anne Lytton''']], m John Borlase, Esq
Sir Robert held properties at Knebworth, Cannix (in Stevenage), Grimbolds (in Ware), and Mendlesden (in Hitchin), Herts. He was appointed Remembrancer of the Treasury of the Exchequer, and served as Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire for the year 1545-6.The Remembrancer was originally a subordinate officer of the English Exchequer. The Remembrancer compiled memorandum rolls and thus “reminded” the barons of the Exchequer of business pending.
By dispensation dated 14 Feb 1546 (ambiguous), in the bride's parish (unidentified), he married (2nd) Elizabeth Munden, widow of Robert Burgoyne Esq and daughter of Thomas Munden.
On 20 Feb 1546/7 he was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Edward VI.
He made a will on 5th July 1550, with a nuncupative codicil three days later, proved 30 March 1551.



== Sources ==*[https://books.google.com/books?id=QisAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA447&lpg=PA447&dq=Frances+Cavalery+married+Robert+Lytton&source=bl&ots=YAUSAgyR5m&sig=IviELFWEMrdOk-5IhawF-FEhk08&hl=ensa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAmoVChMIu6edj6bryAIVylw-Ch0TxQ1y#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books ] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great, Vol 1 By John Burke.* Richardson, Douglas: ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', 2nd edn (2011), 4 vols, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA461&dq=richardson+magna+carta+ancestry+masham+marlow&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A35DVbqpKcztapKogbgC&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=richardson%20magna%20carta%20ancestry%20masham%20marlow&f=false Vol. II, pg. 461], ISHAM 12.* Richardson, Douglas: ''Royal Ancestry'', 1st edn (2013), 5 vols, Vol. III, pg. 402.
See also* [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p653.htm#i19621 Marlyn Lewis].* ~braidwood. Selected Families and Individuals. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~braidwood/pafg56.htm#2319 RootsWeb]. Accessed 27 July 2014. . (This site attempts to make a doubtful connection with a Lutton family of Devon.)* Also in circulation is an attempt to make a doubtful connection with a Laughton family of Leicester.

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''} } }'' is a descendant of
''[[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]], [[Lacy-284|John de Lacy]]'' and other Magna Carta surety barons
[[Category:Albini-39 Descendants]][[Category:Clare-673 Descendants]][[Category:Clare-651 Descendants]][[Category:Lacy-284 Descendants]][[Category:Quincy-226 Descendants]][[Category:Ros-162 Descendants]]
[[Category: Knebworth, Hertfordshire]]
[[Category: Knights of the Bath]]
}

== Biography =='''Robert Lytton''', Knt.Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. III, pg. 402
: Robert was born about 1511 (age 6 in 1517), son and heir of [[Lytton-9|William Lytton]], Esq., of Knebworth, Hertfordshire, by his wife [[Booth-124|Audrey Booth]], daughter of Philip Booth and his wife Margaret Hopton.
: He married '''Frances Calverley''', daughter of Anthony Calverley. They had three daughters:* [[Lytton-7|Helen Lytton]], m. Gabriel Fowler, Knt. and John Brocket, Knt. * [[Lytton-8|Elizabeth Lytton]], m. Edward Barrett, Esq. and Thomas Little
* [[Lytton-5|Anne Lytton]], m John Borlase, Esq.
Sir Robert held properties at Knebworth, Cannix (in Stevenage), Grimbolds (in Ware), and Mendlesden (in Hitchin), Herts. He was appointed Remembrancer of the Treasury of the Exchequer, and served as Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire for the year 1545-6.The Remembrancer was originally a subordinate officer of the English Exchequer. The Remembrancer compiled memorandum rolls and thus “reminded” the barons of the Exchequer of business pending.
By dispensation dated 14 Feb 1546 (ambiguous), in the bride's parish (unidentified), he married (2nd) Elizabeth Munden, widow of Robert Burgoyne Esq and daughter of Thomas Munden.
On 20 Feb 1546/7 he was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Edward VI.
He made a will on 5th July 1550, with a nuncupative codicil three days later, proved 30 March 1551.

== Sources ==
* Richardson, Douglas: ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', 2nd edn (2011), 4 vols, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA461&dq=richardson+magna+carta+ancestry+masham+marlow&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A35DVbqpKcztapKogbgC&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=richardson%20magna%20carta%20ancestry%20masham%20marlow&f=false Vol. II, pg. 461], ISHAM 12.*[https://books.google.com/books?id=QisAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA447&lpg=PA447&dq=Frances+Cavalery+married+Robert+Lytton&source=bl&ots=YAUSAgyR5m&sig=IviELFWEMrdOk-5IhawF-FEhk08&hl=ensa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAmoVChMIu6edj6bryAIVylw-Ch0TxQ1y#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books]: ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great,'' Vol 1, by John Burke.
:See also:* [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p653.htm#i19621 Sir Robert de Lytton, Sheriff of Hertfordshire & Essex, Remembrancer of the Treasurer of the Exchequer], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed March 29, 2016).* ~braidwood. Selected Families and Individuals. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~braidwood/pafg56.htm#2319 RootsWeb]. Accessed 27 July 2014. (This site attempts to make a doubtful connection with a Lutton family of Devon.)* Also in circulation is an attempt to make a doubtful connection with a Laughton family of Leicester.* [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertfordshire Hertfordshire, England at Wikipedia]





}
''} } }'' is a descendant of
''[[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]], [[Lacy-284|John de Lacy]]'' and other Magna Carta surety barons
[[Category:Albini-39 Descendants]][[Category:Clare-673 Descendants]][[Category:Clare-651 Descendants]][[Category:Lacy-284 Descendants]][[Category:Quincy-226 Descendants]][[Category:Ros-162 Descendants]]
[[Category: Knebworth, Hertfordshire]]
[[Category: Knights of the Bath]]
}

== Biography =='''Robert Lytton''', Knt.Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. III, pg. 402
: Robert was born about 1511 (age 6 in 1517), son and heir of [[Lytton-9|William Lytton]], Esq., of Knebworth, Hertfordshire, by his wife [[Booth-124|Audrey Booth]], daughter of Philip Booth and his wife Margaret Hopton.
: He married '''Frances Calverley''', daughter of Anthony Calverley. They had three daughters:* [[Lytton-7|Helen Lytton]], m. Gabriel Fowler, Knt. and John Brocket, Knt. * [[Lytton-8|Elizabeth Lytton]], m. Edward Barrett, Esq. and Thomas Little
* [[Lytton-5|Anne Lytton]], m John Borlase, Esq.
Sir Robert held properties at Knebworth, Cannix (in Stevenage), Grimbolds (in Ware), and Mendlesden (in Hitchin), Herts. He was appointed Remembrancer of the Treasury of the Exchequer, and served as Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire for the year 1545-6.The Remembrancer was originally a subordinate officer of the English Exchequer. The Remembrancer compiled memorandum rolls and thus “reminded” the barons of the Exchequer of business pending.
By dispensation dated 14 Feb 1546 (ambiguous), in the bride's parish (unidentified), he married (2nd) Elizabeth Munden, widow of Robert Burgoyne Esq and daughter of Thomas Munden.
On 20 Feb 1546/7 he was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Edward VI.
He made a will on 5th July 1550, with a nuncupative codicil three days later, proved 30 March 1551.

== Sources ==
* Richardson, Douglas: ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', 2nd edn (2011), 4 vols, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA461&dq=richardson+magna+carta+ancestry+masham+marlow&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A35DVbqpKcztapKogbgC&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=richardson%20magna%20carta%20ancestry%20masham%20marlow&f=false Vol. II, pg. 461], ISHAM 12.*[https://books.google.com/books?id=QisAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA447&lpg=PA447&dq=Frances+Cavalery+married+Robert+Lytton&source=bl&ots=YAUSAgyR5m&sig=IviELFWEMrdOk-5IhawF-FEhk08&hl=ensa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAmoVChMIu6edj6bryAIVylw-Ch0TxQ1y#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books]: ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great,'' Vol 1, by John Burke.
:See also:* [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p653.htm#i19621 Sir Robert de Lytton, Sheriff of Hertfordshire & Essex, Remembrancer of the Treasurer of the Exchequer], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed March 29, 2016).* ~braidwood. Selected Families and Individuals. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~braidwood/pafg56.htm#2319 RootsWeb]. Accessed 27 July 2014. (This site attempts to make a doubtful connection with a Lutton family of Devon.)* Also in circulation is an attempt to make a doubtful connection with a Laughton family of Leicester.* [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertfordshire Hertfordshire, England at Wikipedia]




}
''} } }'' is a descendant of
''[[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]], [[Lacy-284|John de Lacy]]'' and other Magna Carta surety barons
[[Category:Albini-39 Descendants]][[Category:Clare-673 Descendants]][[Category:Clare-651 Descendants]][[Category:Lacy-284 Descendants]][[Category:Quincy-226 Descendants]][[Category:Ros-162 Descendants]]
[[Category: Knebworth, Hertfordshire]]
[[Category: Knights of the Bath]]
}

== Biography =='''Robert Lytton''', Knt.Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. III, pg. 402
: Robert was born about 1511 (age 6 in 1517), son and heir of [[Lytton-9|William Lytton]], Esq., of Knebworth, Hertfordshire, by his wife [[Booth-124|Audrey Booth]], daughter of Philip Booth and his wife Margaret Hopton.
: He married '''Frances Calverley''', daughter of Anthony Calverley. They had three daughters:* [[Lytton-7|Helen Lytton]], m. Gabriel Fowler, Knt. and John Brocket, Knt. * [[Lytton-8|Elizabeth Lytton]], m. Edward Barrett, Esq. and Thomas Little
* [[Lytton-5|Anne Lytton]], m John Borlase, Esq.
Sir Robert held properties at Knebworth, Cannix (in Stevenage), Grimbolds (in Ware), and Mendlesden (in Hitchin), Herts. He was appointed Remembrancer of the Treasury of the Exchequer, and served as Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire for the year 1545-6.The Remembrancer was originally a subordinate officer of the English Exchequer. The Remembrancer compiled memorandum rolls and thus “reminded” the barons of the Exchequer of business pending.
By dispensation dated 14 Feb 1546 (ambiguous), in the bride's parish (unidentified), he married (2nd) Elizabeth Munden, widow of Robert Burgoyne Esq and daughter of Thomas Munden.
On 20 Feb 1546/7 he was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Edward VI.
He made a will on 5th July 1550, with a nuncupative codicil three days later, proved 30 March 1551.

== Sources ==
* Richardson, Douglas: ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', 2nd edn (2011), 4 vols, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA461&dq=richardson+magna+carta+ancestry+masham+marlow&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A35DVbqpKcztapKogbgC&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=richardson%20magna%20carta%20ancestry%20masham%20marlow&f=false Vol. II, pg. 461], ISHAM 12.*[https://books.google.com/books?id=QisAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA447&lpg=PA447&dq=Frances+Cavalery+married+Robert+Lytton&source=bl&ots=YAUSAgyR5m&sig=IviELFWEMrdOk-5IhawF-FEhk08&hl=ensa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAmoVChMIu6edj6bryAIVylw-Ch0TxQ1y#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books]: ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great,'' Vol 1, by John Burke.
:See also:* [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p653.htm#i19621 Sir Robert de Lytton, Sheriff of Hertfordshire & Essex, Remembrancer of the Treasurer of the Exchequer], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed March 29, 2016).* ~braidwood. Selected Families and Individuals. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~braidwood/pafg56.htm#2319 RootsWeb]. Accessed 27 July 2014. (This site attempts to make a doubtful connection with a Lutton family of Devon.)* Also in circulation is an attempt to make a doubtful connection with a Laughton family of Leicester.* [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertfordshire Hertfordshire, England at Wikipedia]






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}
''} } }'' is a descendant of
''[[Quincy-226|Saher de Quincy]], [[Lacy-284|John de Lacy]]'' and other Magna Carta surety barons
[[Category:Albini-39 Descendants]][[Category:Clare-673 Descendants]][[Category:Clare-651 Descendants]][[Category:Lacy-284 Descendants]][[Category:Quincy-226 Descendants]][[Category:Ros-162 Descendants]]
[[Category: Knebworth, Hertfordshire]]
[[Category: Knights of the Bath]]
}

== Biography =='''Robert Lytton''', Knt.Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.royalancestry.net/ Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families],'' 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. III, pg. 402
: Robert was born about 1511 (age 6 in 1517), son and heir of [[Lytton-9|William Lytton]], Esq., of Knebworth, Hertfordshire, by his wife [[Booth-124|Audrey Booth]], daughter of Philip Booth and his wife Margaret Hopton.
: He married '''Frances Calverley''', daughter of Anthony Calverley. They had three daughters:* [[Lytton-7|Helen Lytton]], m. Gabriel Fowler, Knt. and John Brocket, Knt. * [[Lytton-8|Elizabeth Lytton]], m. Edward Barrett, Esq. and Thomas Little
* [[Lytton-5|Anne Lytton]], m John Borlase, Esq.
Sir Robert held properties at Knebworth, Cannix (in Stevenage), Grimbolds (in Ware), and Mendlesden (in Hitchin), Herts. He was appointed Remembrancer of the Treasury of the Exchequer, and served as Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire for the year 1545-6.The Remembrancer was originally a subordinate officer of the English Exchequer. The Remembrancer compiled memorandum rolls and thus “reminded” the barons of the Exchequer of business pending.
By dispensation dated 14 Feb 1546 (ambiguous), in the bride's parish (unidentified), he married (2nd) Elizabeth Munden, widow of Robert Burgoyne Esq and daughter of Thomas Munden.
On 20 Feb 1546/7 he was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Edward VI.
He made a will on 5th July 1550, with a nuncupative codicil three days later, proved 30 March 1551.

== Sources ==
* Richardson, Douglas: ''Magna Carta Ancestry'', 2nd edn (2011), 4 vols, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA1-PA461&dq=richardson+magna+carta+ancestry+masham+marlow&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A35DVbqpKcztapKogbgC&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=richardson%20magna%20carta%20ancestry%20masham%20marlow&f=false Vol. II, pg. 461], ISHAM 12.*[https://books.google.com/books?id=QisAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA447&lpg=PA447&dq=Frances+Cavalery+married+Robert+Lytton&source=bl&ots=YAUSAgyR5m&sig=IviELFWEMrdOk-5IhawF-FEhk08&hl=ensa=X&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAmoVChMIu6edj6bryAIVylw-Ch0TxQ1y#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books]: ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great,'' Vol 1, by John Burke.
:See also:* [http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p653.htm#i19621 Sir Robert de Lytton, Sheriff of Hertfordshire & Essex, Remembrancer of the Treasurer of the Exchequer], "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed March 29, 2016).* ~braidwood. Selected Families and Individuals. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~braidwood/pafg56.htm#2319 RootsWeb]. Accessed 27 July 2014. (This site attempts to make a doubtful connection with a Lutton family of Devon.)* Also in circulation is an attempt to make a doubtful connection with a Laughton family of Leicester.* [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertfordshire Hertfordshire, England at Wikipedia]






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A record of the Redes of Barton Court, Berks: with a short précis of other ... By Compton Reade, R. Reade Macmullen
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William de Lytton, Esq., of Knebworth, Herts, Governor of the Castle of Boulogne, France, Sheriff of Essex and Herts, 1510, is mentioned as "son and heir apprent of Robert Lytton" in the will of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Rede, dated 9th June, 1492. He is also mentioned in the will of his maternal grandmother, Letice Rede, dated 1st August. 1496. He married 13 Henry VII. (1498), Audrey, daughter and heiress of Sir Philip Booth, Knight, of Shrubland Hall, Suffolk, by Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir Wittin Hopton, of Swillington, York. (Arms of Booth.--Arg., three boars' heads erect and erased gu.) She died 11th April, 10 Henry VIII. (1518), having survived her husband, who died 26th August, 1517. William de Lytton had issue
I. Sir Robert, Knight, of Knebworth, Herts, and Shrubland Hall, Suffolk, Sheriff of Herts and Essex. 37 Henry VIII, (1545), born 1511; knighted at the coronation of King Edward VI., sunday, 20th February, 1545-6 (Metcalfe's Book of Knights, p. 88). He married firstly (marriage license at the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury, London, dated 14th February, 1545-6), Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Munden, and relict of Robert Burgoyne; and secondly, Frances, daughter of Anthony Cavalery, and by her (who was buried at Watton, 20th December, 1585), had three daughters and co-heirs, of whom the elder, Helen, m. Sir John Brocket or Brockett, Knight, of Brocket Hall.
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Papers, including Manorial Records, Title Deeds, Family papers and Estate Records of the Lytton family of Knebworth House, 1279-c1940
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Pedigree of 'Famiglia Cavalli', 1274-1732) DE/K/1543 Undated
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Contents:
Burke's Peerage: Sir Robert Lytton, kt (d 1550) married first Frances, daughter of Anthony Cavalery]
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http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p653.htm#i19621
Sir Robert de Lytton, Sheriff of Hertford & Essex1
M, b. circa 1511
Father William Lytton, Esq., Sheriff of Hertford & Essex b. c 1475, d. 26 Aug 1517
Mother Audrey Booth b. c 1486, d. 11 Apr 1519
Sir Robert de Lytton, Sheriff of Hertford & Essex was born circa 1511 at of Knebworth, Cannix in Stevenage, Grimbolds in Ware, & Mendlesden in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England; Age 6 in 1517. He married Frances Calverley, daughter of Sir Anthony Calverley, circa 1535; They had 3 daughters (Helen, Elizabeth, & Anne).2 Sir Robert de Lytton, Sheriff of Hertford & Essex and Elizabeth Munden obtained a marriage license on 14 February 1546; Date of Dispensation. Married in the bride's parish. Sir Robert de Lytton, Sheriff of Hertford & Essex left a will on 5 July 1550. He wrote a codicil on 8 July 1550. His estate was probated on 30 March 1551.
Family Frances Calverley d. b 14 Feb 1546
Children
?Anne Lytton+ b. c 1538, d. Jan 1621
?Helen Lytton b. c 1540
?Elizabeth Lytton b. c 1544
Citations
1.[S6053] Unknown author, Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 1619; The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, by Gary Boyd Roberts, p. 338; Family Group Sheets in SLC Archives.
2.[S147] Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 1938 ed., by Sir Bernard Burke, p., 1619.
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Having lately had an opportunity of seeing the ancient mansion of the Lytton family at Knebworth near Stevenage in Hertfordshire your topographical readers may not be displeased with some account of it Knebworth House is a large structure built of brick round a quadrangle of which the east front may be seen in Sir H Chauncey's.

History of Hertfordshire p 352 The approach to it is by iron gates in a court walled round corresponding with an arched gateway in the centre of a part of the front sided by imitations of embattled towers from which extend two unequal wings The north side is partly formed by a colonnade of seven light round arches on pillars opening to a garden and supporting a gallery 76 feet long by 14 wide floored with oak and as many windows over the arches The south side of this colonnade is lighted by windows corresponding with the rest of the quadrangle At the west end of this colonnade is a suite of rooms with modern sashes as is the greater part of the west side to the park In this side is a spacious hall fitted up in a later style with a gallery at the upper end and communicating with the kitchens and offices at the south west end In the west side is another gateway corresponding with the former sided by a tower in the staircase in the spandrel of whose door is the Lytton rebus a tun in an L Under a long window on this side is a tun richly flowered and over this window the Lytton arms Over the inside of the first or eastern gateway are the arms of Lytton quartering Booth Oke and Wayland


and the date 1563 which fixes it to Rowland Lytton great grandson to the first purchaser of this family Sheriff of Herts 1568 10 Elizabeth and afterwards knighted He died 1582 and was buried in the church


On the grand staircase are the portraits three quarters of Sir Rowland lieutenant of the county and commander of their troops at Tilbury 1588 and his lady Anne daughter of Oliver Lord St John Baron of Bletsoe He is represented in dark hair whiskers and peaked beard armed completely in plated armour almost to the knees on which appear flowered silk or linen drawers with red garters reaching to his black boots which just appear red sash and tassels to his sword In his right hand he holds a heavy tilting lance his left hand is akimbo his helmet stands on a table behind him Above behind his head are his arms quarterly Ermine on a chief indented gules 3 crowns or Lytton Sable on a fess azure between 6 trefoils 3 oak leaves gules Oke Argent 3 boars heads sable Booth Ermine a cross gules charged with 4 bezants Weyland Motto Hoc virtvtis opvs Crest a bittern in rushes and over it 1588 with another motto Before his face a tree with an inscription which as well as the second motto the height of the stairs prevented from being seen His lady is represented in her hair ruff black gown double gold chain supported by her left hand and in her right a silver ball On another staircase is a portrait of a man in red hair and enormous ruff his left hand on his belly By him is written A aetatis 23 1586 Below these is a three quarter portrait of Sir Watkin Williams Wynne in a tie wig brown coat laced waistcoat in his left hand An act for the more effectually preventing bribery and corruption of members to serve in Parliament On the landing place a whole length portrait of a man in his hair whiskers and falling beard black coat and mantle trunk hose roses to shoes standing on a red and white lozenge pavement his right hand on a table his left on his sword Behind him in the left corner is a view as seems of St Mark's Square at Venice In one of the rooms are high backed wooden chairs painted with RL in cipher and this coat 1 4 gules over a fret or a fess azure 2 3 azure In the gallery a whole length portrait of the last Mr Lytton leaning on his gun in a gold laced green coat ribbed stockings square toed high quartered shoes and tie wig a pointer running looking back to him At the right corner below Ferrers surdus & mutus pinxit 1 7 10 A whole length of a young gentleman in a similar style of composition seems of the same master A small head on board in armour with ruff and red hair superscribed Le dvc mateas davstriche Another small head on board of a lady in small cap and coronet ruff and standing cape with a double headed spread eagle pendent from her necklace A man with flowing hair in armour in a red gown with white sleeves under it A coat of arms of quarterly 1 4 Lytton Q 2 ermine in a canton sable a crescent azure 3 ermine on a chief indented azure 3 crowns Lytton On a shield of pretence gules an anchor or on a chief or 3 torteaux Crest a bird with wings extended sable Another small woman's head on board in a ruff small cap black and ermine gown and rich stomacher superscribed Chaterina d Holande A pedigree of the Lytton family by Peter le Neve

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He was sheriff of Hertfordshire and Essex in 1545. He was knighted at the coronation of Edward VI on Sunday, February 20, 1545/46.

    Events

    BirthAbt 1511
    Birth15 Mar 1512Knebworth
    MarriageAbt 1531Knebworth, , Hertfordshire, England - Frances Cavalery
    Marriage1547Elizabeth Munden
    DeathAft 8 Jul 1550
    DeathAbt 1551Shrubland Hall
    Burial20 Nov 1585Watton at Stone
    MarriageFrances Cavalery
    Alt nameSir Robert Lytton KB
    Alt nameRobert Lytton III
    Title (Nobility)Sir
    Reference No594264
    Reference No611854
    Reference No60
    OccupationOf Knebworth. Governor of Boulogne.
    OccupationSheriff of Hertfordshire and Essex

    Families

    SpouseFrances Cavalery (1513 - 1585)
    ChildElizabeth Lytton (1530 - 1594)
    ChildAnne Lytton (1535 - 1621)
    ChildHelen Lytton ( - )
    SpouseElizabeth Munden ( - )
    SpouseFrances Cavalery (1512 - 1585)
    ChildAnne Lytton (1535 - 1621)
    FatherWilliam Lytton (1482 - 1517)
    MotherAudrey Booth ( - 1519)
    SiblingRowland Lytton (1515 - 1582)
    FatherWilliam de Lytton of Knebworth (1475 - 1517)
    MotherAudrey "Boothe" Booth (1482 - 1518)