Ancestral Trails 2016 » Edward FILMER (-1629)

Persönliche Daten Edward FILMER 

• Alternative Name: Knight (auch bekannt als /alias)
• Er wurde geboren am 17. Januar 1565/66 in East Sutton, Maidstone, Kent.
• Titel: Sir
• Berufe:
• im Jahr 1615 in Sheriff of Kent.
• am 17. Februar 1595/96 in Justice of the Peace for the Baileywick of Eyhorne, Lathe of Aylesford.Quelle 3
• im Jahr 1593 in Justice of the Peace at Maidstone.
• Wohnhaft:
• Oxford, Oxfordshire.Quelle 1
• im Jahr 1596: Sutton, Kent.
• (Event) im Jahr 1600 in Knighted by Queen Elizabeth I.
• (Event) im Jahr 1595 in Contributed to the Levy of Arms called by Sir William Twysden.
• (Event) am 23. Juli 1603 in Knighted by King James I on the eve of the coronation.
• Er ist verstorben am 2. November 1629 in East Sutton, Maidstone, Kent, er war 64 Jahre alt.Quelle 2
• Er wurde beerdigt am 4. November 1629 in St Peter &, St Paul, East Sutton, Kent.Quelle 4
• Alternative: Er wurde beerdigt am 4. November 1629 in St Peter &, St Paul, East Sutton, Kent.Quelle 2
• Ein Kind von Robert FILMER und Frances CHESTER

Familie von Edward FILMER

Er ist verheiratet mit Elizabeth ARGALL.

Sie haben geheiratet im Jahr 1585 in East Sutton, Maidstone, Kent, er war 19 Jahre alt.

Kind(er):

1. Thomas FILMER  1598-1599
2. Richard FILMER  1605-????
3. Anne FILMER  1599-????
4. Jane FILMER  1600-????
5. Judith FILMER  1594-????
6. Sarah FILMER  1606-????
7. John FILMER  1591-1624
8. Margaret FILMER  1587-????
9. Reynald FILMER  1597-1638 
10. Mary FILMER  1586-???? 
11. Robert FILMER  1590-1629 
12. Henry Filmer  1607-???? 
13. Edward FILMER  1589-1602
14. Elizabeth FILMER  1593-???? 
15. Katherine FILMER  1597-1662 

Notizen bei Edward FILMER

Sir Edward FILMER was born on 17 Jan 1566 in East Sutton, Kent.

Edward inherited the "Charlton Court" estate when his father Robert died in 1585, the same year that he had married Elizabeth, sister of John Argall and daughter of Richard Argall (1536-1588). Reginald Kempe (previous occupant/owner of CC) married Mary Argall (sister of Elizabeth Argall) in 1590. Edward had the house built between 1609 and 1612. The buildings and grounds prior to the construction of "Charlton Court" were previously owned by the Kempe Family. The stables and coachhouse (built circa 1549) remained but the previous house where the 1612 manor was built was demolished. The design of "Charlton Court" was attributed to John Thorpe (sometimes described as the first British architect). Charlton was also spelled Charleton. It is a fine example of Renaissance architecture (Jacobean style) - the 1612 date is on the eastern gable. It was never completely finished as envisioned - only about one-third was built. About 1610, John Argall (1576-1642) sold "East Sutton Place" to his brother-in-law Sir Edward Filmer who moved into it circa 1614. East Sutton Place was a much larger building that was built around 1570. The Filmers had 18 children.

The main building was originally called "Charlton-court". Daniel de Charleton built a house on the site in the 14th century during the reign of King Edward II (1307-1327), it was then owned by his descendant John de Charleton in the twentieth year of King Edward III (1327-1377). Hence the name Charleton (later spelt as Charlton). Sometime between 1612 and 1798 the building was known as "Little Charlton" or "Little Charleton".

He died on 2 Nov 1629 in East Sutton, Kent. He married Dame Elizabeth ARGALL in 1585 in East Sutton, Kent.

1610 Bought East Sutton Manor from his brother-in-law, John Argall of Colchester which became the family home.

1615 Edward was appointed sheriff of Kent. According to a history of Kent 1892, one of Sir Edward's sons was a royalist and author of "some remarkable treatises" on the 'Natural Power of Kings' and resided at East Sutton Place. His house was plundered ten times because of his loyalty to the king.

20/10/1629 WILL of Sir EDWARD FILMER, of East Sutton
Proved. 5/12/1629
SIR EDWARD FILMER of East Sutton, county Kent, Knight. Aged 63 years on 17th January, last past. Revokes all previous wills. Will 20 October Vth Chas. I; proved 5 December 1629.
To daughter ELIZABETH wife of WILLIAM FAULKNER, Citizen and Draper of London, if she survive her husband, £500 to be paid within 6 months after his decease. And if the said WILLIAM survive his wife I will that my executors pay to the issue of her body £300, equally to be divided amongst them at their several ages of 18 years. If she die without issue, £20 to her husband WILLIAM, to be paid within 6 months after my daughter's decease. For her present maintenance, I will that my executors shall find meat drink and apparel to the value of £40 yearly at the least during the life of her husband.

To sons EDWARD, JOHN and HENRY, to each of them, £10 to be paid immediately after my decease. And because my son REYNALD's estate consists in trading beyond the seas, therefore I give and forgive him all debts and money which he owes me by bills, bonds or otherwise at the time of my death, namely one bond bearing date the 1st November, 1623 for £200, another dated 29th October, 1622 also for £200, another dated 23rd May 1620 for £50 and one other dated 21st February, 22 James, for £100 as bound to my daughter, Sara. All which bonds amounting to £550 shall be cancelled by my executors immediately after my decease and delivered to my son REYNOLD, and my daughter SARA shall challenge no interest in the said bond.

Moreover, I give to the said REYNOLD, £50.
To son HENRY if he come in a Master of Arts at the University of Cambridge, £40. Also I give him for his better preferment in the University of Cambridge, £100 to be paid to him at the age of 25.
To daughters Mrs. MARY KNATCHBULL and Mrs. CATHERINE BARHAM, £20 a year.
To EDWARD KNATCHBULL my godson £5 and to his sister MARY, £20, and to his brother JOHN APOSTHUMUS, £2.
To EDWARD BARHAM my godson, £5 and to his sister ELIZABETH, my wive's goddaughter £5.
To other my several grandchildren namely ROBERT BARHAM, THYOMAS, CHARLES, and RICHARD BARHAM, sons of my daughter BARHAM, each of them 40s.
To Dame ANN, wife of my son Sir ROBERT FILMER, £20 to buy her a ring.
To daughter SARA, £1000 whereof such sums of money as are put in her name for her benefit by bonds or otherwise shall be part thereof; to be paid within 6 months after my decease. To the said SARA, £500 to be paid within one year after her marriage.
I will that my executors shall pay yearly to my brother, HENRY FILMER, £10 during his natural life, over and above his annuity.
To DOROTHY FILMER, daughter of my brother ANTHONY FILMER, £10 at the age of 18 years.
To Dame ELIZABETH, my wife, £120 and the old gold that is in her possession amounting to £20 and upwards and all the chains and jewels which are in her custody of gold, pearl and precious stones and all my household stuff and utensils of the household remaining in the Colledge house of Maidstone where I late dwelt except the tapestry hanging in the great chamber. Also I give her a full third part in three equal parts to be divided of all my linen and silver. My lease of Rectory of East Sutton towards payment of my debts. The other two parts of linen and of all my silver and gilt plate and silver plate and vessels of silver whatsoever except the two great gilt (?) bowls with their cover which I give to EDWARD FILMER, my godson after my wife's decease.
I give my lease of the rectory of the parsonage of East Sutton and the term of years I have therein of all the glebe lands, tithes and hopgrounds and other profits whatsoever to my executors towards the payment of my debts, legacies and children's portions.
To son Sir ROBERT FILMER, the two other parts of all my silver plate and silver vessels whatsoever together with all my household stuff and utensils of household in my house of East Sutton with all my moneys, corn, cattle and chattle and other goods and debts whatsoever. Provided always that Dame ELIZABETH, my wife shall have the lease and term of years I have in certain houses in Knightrider Street in London, which was lately given me by my brother ROBERT FILMER, esq.,
Appoints wife, Dame ELIZABETH and son Sir ROBERT FILMER, executors.
Witnesses: WILLIAM DAVY, WILLIAM GREGORIE, RICHARD CLOUGH.

LANDS AND TENEMENTS in the County of Kent or elsewhere, I will that an indenture dated the 20th August, 1626 and made between me, Sir EDWARD FILMER, and EDWARD FILMER, my second son, for the assuring of a messuage and divers lands and woodlands called Nicholls in the parish of Chartham shall stand good according to the contents thereof and that 2 other indentures dated 10th April in the 3rd year of his majesty's reign between me, Sir EDWARD FILMER, and REYNOLD FILMER and HENRY FILMER for the assuring of 2 several annuities of £30 p.a. issuing out of my lands in Otterden, Chart-iuxta-Sutton Valence, Sutton Valence, Headcorn, Ulcombe and my lands in Romney Marsh at Newchurch for term of their several lives shall stand good according to the several contents of the same indentures.
To son JOHN FILMER, an annuity of £15 p.a. issuing out of my houses, lands and woodlands lying in the parish of Darenth for and during the term of his natural life half yearly to be paid by equal portions, the first payment to begin from and immediately after one of the 2 usual feasts of the Annunciation of St. Mary the Virgin or the feast of St. Michael whichever shall first happen after my wife's decease or within 10 days after. And for non-payment of the said annuity or part of it, it shall be lawful for JOHN to distrain on the several lands out of which the said annuity is granted. To son JOHN, all my houses and lands in the parish of Yalding and to the male heirs of his body and in default of such issue to eldest son, Sir ROBERT FILMER and male heirs of his body and for default of such issue to second son EDWARD FILMER and male heirs of his body and in default of such issue to fourth son REYNOLD FILMER and male heirs of his body and in default of such issue to fifth son HENRY and male heirs.
To son EDWARD and male heirs of his body, after my wife's decease, all my houses, lands and woodlands in the parish of Darenth near Dartford and in default of such issue to eldest son Sir ROBERT and male heirs of his body (and so on in order or birth).
To son HENRY and male heirs after my wife's decease, one messuage or tenement with all lands thereto belonging at Warren Street, Lenham parish also one tenement in Charing parish and in default of such issue to eldest son Sir ROBERT and male heirs (etc. as before).
To wife Dame ELIZABETH, during her natural life, all my houses and lands and woodlands in the said parish of Darenth and my houses and lands in Lenham, Charing and Sutton Valence lately purchased of THOMAS BILLS, and one piece of woodland called Horwash lying in the parishes of Boxley and Dettling and one tenement lying in the parish of Borden, some time JAMES FILMER's.
And after my wife's death I will that the said wood called Horwash and the lands bought of THOMAS HILLS in Sutton Valence shall be sold by my son Sir ROBERT if need shall require for payment of my debts and legacies. If it shall not so need then I give the said lands to my son Sir ROBERT and heirs. And my will further is that all such legacies are given by me, the particulars whereof are written on a piece of paper bearing date the day of this my will and superscribed with my name shall be paid to such person and persons immediately after my decease according to the contents thereof.
Witnesses. WILLIAM DAVIE, WILLIAM GREGORY, RICHARD CLOUGH.
Reference. Filmer Family MSS. U.120. T.200/10. Prerogative Court of Canterbury 110 Ridley.

A comprehensive copy of this will is held at Kent County Archives - T 200/10. The indentures mentioned were: one dated 20th August 1626 between Sir Edward Filmer and Edward Filmer, his second son, for the assuring of a messuage, lands and woodland called Nicholls in the parish of Chartham; another two dated 10th April 3 James I between Sir Edward Filmer, Reynold Filmer and Henry Filmer for the assuring of two several annuities of £30 per annum issuing out of lands in Otterden, Chart-iuxta-Sutton Valence, Sutton Valence, Headcorn, Ulcombe and lands at Romey Marsh at Newchurch. The tenement mentioned as being at Borden was one owned originally by his grandfather, James Filmer.

FILMER, EDWARD, Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 18) at CAIUS, Apr. 30, 1584. S. of Robert, Esq. B. at East Sutton, Kent. School, East Sutton. Knighted, July 23, 1603. Of East Sutton. Sherriff of Kent, 1614. Died 1629. Father of the next and of Robert (1604) and probably of Henry (1624), and Richard (1620), brother of Robert (1586). (Vis. Of Kent; Venn, I. 119.) It seems that John Argall, his brother-in-law, got heavily into debt around 1610. After a long period of negotiation he sold East Sutton manor to Edward. Thereafter it became the Filmer family home.

Sir Edward and Elizabeth had the remarkable number of eighteen children born between 1586 and 1608. In order of their birth, they are: Robert, Mary, Margaret, Edward, John, Elizabeth, Judith, Katherine, Reginald (Rainold), Thomas, Anna, Jane, Thomas, Susanna, Richard, Sara, Henry, and Augstin. An EDWARD FILMER of East Sutton, probably him, was paid £7 for farme due and owing to him, under the administration of JAMES FILMER of Otterden (the son of REGINALD FILMER and ANNIS ALLEN) dated 22/5/1597

After her death a magnificent brass was placed upon the floor of the North aisle of East Sutton Church by Sir Edward's son, Sir Robert Filmer. It forms one continuous plate, thus indicating foreign rather than English workmanship, 6 ft 8ins long by 3 ft. 6 ins wide. The knight and his lady are shown full length, ruffed and frilled, he in rich plated armour, booted, spurred and gartered, she in the graceful. folds of a Jacobean Court dress, and at their feet in double rows their eighteen children individually named, and a running scroll on the margin recording the deaths of Sir Edward and Dame Elizabeth. In the left corner appears the Filmer arms and in the opposite corner that of the Argalls (per fesse, argent and vert , a pale counterchanged, three lions' heads erased, gules), while in the centre between the two figures appear the arms of Filmer and Argall per pale. Although all the children are etched as fully grown it is thought only about ten actually came of age. The engraving was probably executed by Edward Marshall, the King's Mason. It seems likely that it was to her that Richard Lovelace wrote his epitaph beginning: "You that shall live awhile before Old Time tyr's, and is no more" (From Filmer Family Notes Part I, B. J. Filmer) Sir Edward Filmer and Lady Elizabeth Argall A.D. 1638 "This Brass.... the latest example of any importance in the seventeenth century, was executed between the years 1629 and 1638, and consists of a large sheet of metal upon which are engraven the figures of Sir Edward Filmer of East Sutton, knight, his wife, and their children. The workmanship in general, and the ornamentation in particular, is remarkably similar to the Brass of Archbishop Harsnett 1631, and, like that, is probably of foreign manufacture.

The Filmer family was originally seated at Herst, in the parish of Otterden, Kent, where Robert Filmer lived in the reign of Edward II. Sir Edward Filmer was eldest son of Robert Filmour, prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, who removed to the estate of Little Charleton, in East Sutton, which he had purchased, and died in 1585. Sir Edward increased this estate by purchasing from his brother-in-law John Argall, Esq., the manor of East Sutton; he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, and served the office of sheriff of Kent 13 James I. He is represented in a handsome suit of body armor, a large frill round his neck, trunk-breeches, and jack-boots. His wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Argall, esq., wears a cap, hood, ruff and short mantle; her dress opens in front and discovers a petticoat worked and fringed at the edge. Upon the death of this lady, Lovelace penned an elegant "Elegiacal epitaph," which concludes with these lines:- "Thus, although this marble must, as all things, must crumble into dust; and though you find this fair-built tomb Ashes as what lies in its womb; Yet her saint-like name shall shine A living glory in this shrine, And her eternal fame be read, When all but very virtue is dead." Robert, their oldest son, the first of the group below, employed his pen in defense of the crown, was knighted by Charles I., and suffered heavily in purse and person during the civil wars. The inscription round the verge of the plate shows that the monument was prepared in the life-time of the widow, the date of her death having been scratched upon the metal, subsequently to its being placed in the church: - c) Death record - 2 Nov 1629 - 4 ft by 10 ft brass engraving in floor of East Sutton church depicting Edward and Elizabeth Argall Filmer with 9 sons and 9 daughters - names Robert, John, Edward, Thomas, Reginald, Richard, Thomas, Henry, Augustin and daughters Mary, Elizabeth, Margaret, Judeth, Katherine, Jane, Anne, Susannah, and Sarah - "Under this rest in certain hope of the resurrection, the bodies of Sir Edward Filmer, Knight, and dame Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Richard Argall, Esquire. They lived together forty-four years and had issue eighteen children, Viz: nine sons and nine daughters. He departed this life on the second of November 1629 A. D. She the [9th of August] 16[38] A. D." Taken from Monumental Brasses from the 13th to the 16th century by John Green Waller & Lionel A. B. Waller, 1864. Reprinted 1975 by Cambridge University.

"Under this rest in certain hope of the resurrection the bodies of Sir Edward Filmer, Knight and dame Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Richard Argall, Esq they wed together 44 yrs and had issue 18 children, viz 9 sons and 9 daughters, Robert, Edward, John, Thomas, Reginald, Thomas, Richard, Henry, Augustin, and Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth, Judith, Katherine, Anne, Jane, Susannah, Sarah. He departed this life ye 2nd November, Ao. Di. 1629; she ye 9th August, Ao. Di. 1638."

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