Williams - Richards Family Tree » Amy Grenville (± 1513-1578)
Personal data Amy Grenville
- She was born about 1513.
- She died on February 18, 1578 in Musbury, Devon, England.
- A child of Roger Grenville and Margaret Whitleigh
Household of Amy Grenville
She is married to John Drake.
They got married in the year 1535 at Devon, England.
Child(ren):
- Robert Drake ± 1528-± 1600
- Richard Drake 1535-1603
Notes about Amy Grenville
== Biography ==Daughter of [[Grenville-7|Sir Roger Grenville]] and his wife [[Whitleigh-3|Margaret Whitleigh]].
Died 18 Feb 1578, memorial in parish church of Musbury, Devon.The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Herald's Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620 (Exeter: H.S. Eland, 1895.), p. 293
Will of Amy Drake, Widow of Musbury, Devon, proved 9 Feb 1579.Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury PROB 11/61/92 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D963578
== Sources ==*The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 (5th ed., Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1999.), pp. 22-14,*The Visitations of Cornwall: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620 (Exeter: Pollard, 1887.), p. 191
* https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000022879026858* Weis, Rev. Frederick Lewis. ''Descent of Captain William Pole of Taunton, Mass., From King Edward I.'', [[Space:TAG|The American Genealogist]] (1955) Vol. 31, [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/11830/171/0 Page 171]. "Her sister Alice m., as his second wife, Walter Raleigh, father of Sir Walter Raleigh, the navigator."
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Day of death February 18, 1578
- Graaf Filips III (Oostenrijks Huis) was from 1555 till 1581 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Graafschap Holland)
- In the year 1578: Source: Wikipedia
- January 31 » Eighty Years' War and Anglo-Spanish War: The Battle of Gembloux is a victory for Spanish forces led by Don John of Austria over a rebel army of Dutch, Flemish, English, Scottish, German, French and Walloons.
- April 27 » Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favourites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
- May 31 » King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
- August 4 » Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir: The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
- September 29 » Tegucigalpa, capital city of Honduras, is claimed by the Spaniards.
Same birth/death day
- 1502 » Hedwig Jagiellon, duchess of Bavaria (b. 1457)
- 1535 » Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German magician, astrologer, and theologian (b. 1486)
- 1546 » Martin Luther, German priest and theologian, leader of the Protestant Reformation (b. 1483)
- 1564 » Michelangelo, Italian sculptor and painter (b. 1475)
- 1654 » Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French author (b. 1594)
- 1658 » John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck, English courtier (b. c. 1591)
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