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Personal data Sir William Cholmeley 


Household of Sir William Cholmeley

He is married to Catherine Pym.

They got married in the year 1596 at London, England, he was 22 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of William Cholmeley

Richard Cholmley
1488-1563
Dionisia Phillips
1502-1558
John Hand
1520-1606
Joan Chandler
1529-1601
Margaret Hand
1540-1607

William Cholmeley
1573-1643

1596

Catherine Pym
1577-????


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Historical events

Birthday January 18, 1573

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1573: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 28 » Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
    • July 6 » Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
    • July 6 » French Wars of Religion: Siege of La Rochelle ends.
    • July 13 » Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months.
    • September 10 » German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew beheaded in Hamburg .
    • October 8 » End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War.

Christening day January 21, 1572

  • Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
  • In the year 1572: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 1 » In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
    • July 9 » Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
    • August 23 » French Wars of Religion: Mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
    • October 20 » Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade through fifteen miles of water in one night to effect the relief of Goes.
    • November 11 » Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.
    • December 23 » Theologian Johann Sylvan is executed in Heidelberg for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs.

Day of death February 20, 1643

  • Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1643: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 14 » Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
    • May 19 » Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
    • July 1 » First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
    • July 13 » English Civil War: Battle of Roundway Down: In England, Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, commanding the Royalist forces, heavily defeats the Parliamentarian forces led by Sir William Waller.
    • August 24 » A Dutch fleet establishes a new colony in the ruins of Valdivia in southern Chile.
    • December 13 » English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.


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