Williams - Richards Family Tree » John Drake (1591-1636)
Personal data John Drake
- He was born in the year 1591 in Ashe, Devon, England.
- He died on August 25, 1636 in Ashe, Devon, England, he was 45 years old.
- A child of John Drake and Dorothy Button
Household of John Drake
He is married to Helen Boteler.
They got married on May 18, 1616 at St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, England, he was 25 years old.
Notes about John Drake
== Biography ==Sir John Drake married Hon. Eleanor Boteler, daughter of John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield and Elizabeth Villiers, on 18 May 1616.
==Sources==
*The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910.), 8:491
*Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley (London: Robson & Sons, 1878.), 1:145
*Dictionary of National Biography (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885-1900. FHL BRITISH Fiche #6,051,261.), 4:342
*Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, etc. (London: Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1887-1890.), 4:115
*The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Herald's Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620 (Exeter: H.S. Eland, 1895.), p. 297
*The Early Churchills (London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1959.), p. xiv
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Historical events
Day of marriage May 18, 1616
- Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- In the year 1616: Source: Wikipedia
- February 26 » Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
- March 5 » Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
- March 20 » Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
- May 3 » Treaty of Loudun ends French civil war.
- July 11 » Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec.
- October 25 » Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
Day of death August 25, 1636
- 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 1636: Source: Wikipedia
- March 26 » Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
- April 30 » Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
- October 4 » Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
- October 28 » The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.
- December 13 » The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the National Guard of the United States.
Same birth/death day
- 1592 » William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (b. 1532)
- 1603 » Ahmad al-Mansur, Sultan of the Saadi dynasty (b. 1549)
- 1631 » Nicholas Hyde, Lord Chief Justice of England (b.c. 1572)
- 1632 » Thomas Dekker, English author and playwright (b. 1572)
- 1688 » Henry Morgan, Welsh admiral and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (b. 1635)
- 1699 » Christian V of Denmark (b. 1646)
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