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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1501 in Plowland Manor, Thorpe, Yorkshire, England.

  Let op: Was ouder dan 65 jaar (67) toen kind (John "Jack" Wright) werd geboren (13 januari 1568).

  Let op: Was ouder dan 65 jaar (72) toen kind (Ursula Wright) werd geboren (??-??-1573).

  Let op: Was ouder dan 65 jaar (67) toen kind (Christopher Kit (Gunpowder Plot) Wright) werd geboren (13 januari 1568).

  Let op: Was ouder dan 65 jaar (76) toen kind (Martha Wright) werd geboren (??-??-1577).

• Hij is overleden op 18 juli 1594 in Thorpe Manor, Thorpe, Yorkshire, England, hij was toen 93 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Lord John Wright en Lady Alice Ryther

Gezin van Sir Robert Wright, Sheriff of Yorkshire

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Lady Ursula Rudston.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1523 te East Riding, Yorkshire, England, hij was toen 22 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Sir William Wright of Plowland Esq.  1523-1621 
2. Agnes Wright  1525-????
3. Alice Wright  1526-????
4. John Wright  1532-1564 
5. Ann Wright  1529-????
6. Martha Wright  1530-????
7. Agnes Wright  1530-????
8. William Wright  1540-> 1560
9. Thomas Wright  1548-1617
10. Sara Wright  1560-1607
11. Alice Wright  1565-????
12. John "Jack" Wright  1568-1605
13. Christopher Kit (Gunpowder Plot) Wright  1568-1605 
14. Ursula Wright  1573-1588
15. Martha Wright  1577-1620

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Anne Grimston.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1523 te Yorkshire, England, hij was toen 22 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. William Wright  1523-1621

Notities over Sir Robert Wright, Sheriff of Yorkshire

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Robert eventually became Sheriff of Yorkshire and was granted Arms by
patent under the hand and seal of William Flower, Norroy. He married
firstly Anne Grimston of Grimston Garth, the daughter of Thomas Grimston
and Ursula Podaton, and secondly Ursula Rudston[e] of Hayton about 1567.
Ursula was the daughter of Nicholas Rudston[e] and Jane Mallory.

By his first wife Anne, Robert had issue three children;

1. William Wright of Plowland in co. Eborum. (or York) was born in
Plowland, England, and died August 23, 1621. He married Ann Thornton, of
E. Newton, daughter of Robert Thornton and by her had issue:

Francis Wright of Sowerby in co. Ebor., (a quo Wright, of
Bolton-upon-Swale; see Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire in 1584/5 and
1612, p 98.) born in Sowerby, County of York, England; married into the
Markham family (cousins) of Yorkshire, England.

Robert Wright of Foston, b. 1572; d. 1620; married Ann Girlington of
Sandal and had issue:

Mary Wright who married Ralph Crathorne of Ness, and by him had a son
Thomas Crathorne

Anne Wright

William Wright, b. abt. 1560; d. 1648; m. Ann Mills

Nicholas Wright, b. abt. 1550; d. 1648.

John Wright

Anne Wright (Marked "o.s.p." on Visitation of Yorkshire in 1584/5 and
1612, pg. 145)

2. Martha Wright

3. Anne Wright

By his second wife, he had issue five children:

1. John Wright of Twigsmore, bapt. Jan. 16, 1568 d. Nov. 8 1605, Holbeche
House, Staffordshire, married Dorothy

2. Christopher Wright, b. 1570 d. Nov. 8 1605, Holbeche House,
Staffordshire, married Margaret Ward of Mulwith and had issue:

John Wright, b. abt. 1593, married Miss BUSFIELD of Lincolnshire and had
issue:

John Wright

3. Martha Wright, married the conspirator Thomas Percy, who was descended
from the Percys of Beverley (and kin to the Earl of Northumberland), and
had by him:

Robert Percy who married Emma Mead, 22 October 1615 in Wiveliscombe,
Somerset

"Daughter" Percy who married Robert Catesby, son of Robert Catesby the
conspirator

4. Ursula Wright, married Marmaduke Ward of the Wards of Mulwith, and by
him had a daughter

Mary Ward, b. 23 January 1585, d. 23 January 1645, Heworth, York

5. Alice Wright, of Plowland , secretly married William Readshaw of
Oulston in 1593 in the home of her sister Ursula Ward.

Robert initially increased the size of the family estates through the
purchase of the manor of Weeton from Robert Rudston[e] in 1555-56,
however, his eldest son William conveyed property in Weeton, probably
including the manor, to Richard Legard in 1579, as it is not included in
the list of properties conveyed to William on Robert's death. Robert was
buried 18 July, 1594, in Welwick, seised of the manor of Plowland and
lands in Weeton, and Pensthorpe.

Of Robert's younger brother John, we know that "John Wright was granted
lands by the crown in Sancton in 1553, also parts of the former Acaster
property in Selby".

A curious entry is noted in Catholic Recusancy in the City of York
1558-1791 by J.C.H.Aveling:

"f.6v 19 July Margaret, wife of Jn. Wright of York/suspected in
religion/she promised to go to church and was enjoined to do so and
certify; no bond".

This is almost certainly a reference to Robert's younger brother and his
wife. The entry occured along with entries regarding the arrest of Alice
Oldcorne, who we have noted below was imprisoned for recusancy between
1560 and 1580 along with John's sister-in-law. No further details of John
are available, but present research is attempting to determine if the
Wrights of Skelton, from whom the priests William Wright and his brother
Thomas Wright are descended, are descendants of either John or
Christopher, the younger brothers of Robert Wright of Plowland.

Robert Wright of Foston's daughter Mary married Ralph Crathorne of Ness
as we indicated in the tree above. The estates of the Wright family were
eventually devised by Francis Wright (son of Nicholas and great-grandson
of Robert) on his death in 1664, to his cousin Thomas Crathorne, and
hence passed out of the Wright family, curious indeed as there were
several potential male heirs through other lines. These properties
included Plowland Hall, the manor of Thorpe (purchased by William Wright
from Robert Thorpe in 1608), the manors of Pensthorpe, Welwick Thorpe and
Thorpe Garth (the original covenant of sale for these four properties was
dated 8 October 1607, but Robert Thorpe must have died soon after as the
sale was confirmed on 20 April 1608 by Robert's widow Frances Thorpe),
and the manor of Welwick Provost, which was sold in 1623 to John Wright
by William Whitmore and Edmund Sawyer, and the rectory estate of
Orwithfleet, purchased in 1637 by William Wright, from Francis Braddock
and Christopher Kingscote.

Faith and the Tainted Blood

The strength of the Wright's Catholic faith is well documented. Ursula
Wright, wife of Robert, was incarcerated for a total of 14 years, chiefly
in Hull prison with a number of other recusant wives including one of her
Babthorpe cousins, and Alice Oldcorne, a relative of the Jesuit Father
Edward Oldcorne. It is said that "the courage and cheerfulness of this
forceful old lady provided great moral uplift for the other prisoners".
William and his wife Ann were likewise attainted several times for
recusancy. An interesting anecdote from The Yorkshire Papists says Ann
was considered a "lunaticke person" and subsequently absented herself
from church. Whether she was indeed mentally unbalanced, or merely
employing thoughtful subterfuge against church services that were
contrary to her belief we cannot say, but given her previous record it is
not difficult to believe her maintaining some charade to avoid attending
church.

John and Christopher were related not only to the Wintour brothers of
Huddington through their Mallory grandmother, but also to the Rookwoods
and the Keyes' through their Babthorpe and Tyrwhitt connections. In fact,
John is occassionally referred to as "John Wright of Twigsmore", a
manorial estate in the parish of Manton, Lincolnshire, owned in the
latter part of the sixteenth century by the Tyrwhitt family. Ex-school
colleagues of Guy Fawkes and the priest Oswald Tesimond, and tied by
marriage through their sister to the Percys of Spofforth, this completes
the picture of these two young men and helps us in understanding how they
became involved in Catesby's plot to kill James I.

John Wright married Dorothy, perhaps a close family friend, and is said
to have had a family (Poulson's work The History and Antiquities of the
Seigniory of Holderness refers to him thus "John, an unfortunate victim
to the Gunpowder Plot, had issue, ut pater Welwick Register", but the
source for this entry is still being researched. His younger brother
Christopher married Margaret Ward, a sister of Marmaduke Ward, of the
Wards of Mulwith, and by her he had issue, a son, John (born abt. 1593),
who married into the Busfield family of Lincolnshire, and himself had a
son called John (Visitation of Yorkshire 1612). As a point of interest,
Christopher Wright's widow then married a noted papist, Sir Henry Curwen
of Northumberland (the marriage is reported in Cecil Papers 192/63 HMC
Vol. XIX accompanied by the date 8 January 1606). This would indicate
that Margaret Wright (nee Ward) remarried less than two months after her
first husband's death.

The two brothers have variously been described as excellent swordsmen,
but hot-headed and often spoiling for a fight. Whether this is a legend
or merely propaganda to help explain their later actions is unsure, but
John Wright is described as one of the finest swordsmen of his day, and
is generally regarded as the first of Robert Catesby's recruits for the
Gunpowder Plot. John Wright's part in the Gunpowder Plot is somewhat
unclear, although his devotion to the cause was clear. He had formed part
of the entourage of the Earl of Essex along with his friend Catesby, and
after the aborted uprising in 1601, had spent time in solitary
confinement for his crime.

His younger brother Christopher (who was brought into the circle of the
conspirators along with John Grant and Robert Wintour in March 1605) was
selected by Catesby, Garnet, and several other discontented Catholics to
plead their case to the King of Spain in 1603 by means of the Jesuit
Joseph Creswell, and to proceed with the invasion of England that had
been negotiated by Thomas Wintour the previous year. Wright may have met
up with yet another old ally in Anthony Dutton, although Father Albert
Loomie, S.J., in his work Guy Fawkes in Spain : The Spanish Treason
argues that Anthony Dutton was merely an alias of Wrights, much like
Thomas Wintour had used the alias Timothy Browne. Unfortunately no
example of Christopher Wright's writing exists to prove either way.

Christopher Wright is also acknowledged as the first of the plotters to
learn of Fawkes' capture and the discovery of the gunpowder beneath the
Parliament building. Escaping from London early on the morning of Tuesday
5 November 1605, the band of conspirators rode north then north-west,
eventually arriving at Holbeche House in Staffordshire, where they
planned to make their final stand. On Friday 8 November, the Sheriff of
Warwick surrounded the house with the intention of arresting the men for
a theft of horses from Warwick Castle whilst fleeing, supposedly unaware
that within lay most of those who had plotted to blow up the King three
days before. After a series of brief skirmishes, the Wright brothers,
Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy lay dead. Today, no stone or plaque marks
the spot where these men died.

The Venerable Mary Ward

Ursula Wright, the eldest of Robert Wright's daughters by his second
marriage, first married John Constable of Hatfield. Secondly she married
Marmaduke Ward, Lord of Givendale, who was brother-in-law to her brother
Christopher, and they had a daughter, Mary Ward, who was born on 23
January 1585, and died on 23 January 1645 at Heworth, near York.

In 1590, Marmaduke Ward's house was raised by fire, and he took his
daughter to live with her grandmother at Plowland, before going on the
run to avoid capture by Henry Hastings who had sworn to rid Yorkshire of
all papists. Mary then went to live with her cousins, the Babthorpes, who
had a household of fifty-two, including two priests. She entered a
convent of Poor Clares at St. Omer as a lay sister in 1606 along with her
cousin Barbara Babthorpe. The following year she founded a house for
Englishwomen at Gravelines where she became a lady of fashion and society
and a harbourer of Jesuit priests. In 1609 she and her devotees
established themselves as a religious community at St.Omer called the
Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was based along the lines of
the Society of Jesus, and opened schools for rich and poor.

The venture was a success, but it was a novelty, and it called forth
censure and opposition as well as praise. Mary advocated things such as
freedom from enclosure, from the obligation of choir, from wearing a
religious habit, and from the jurisdiction of the diocesan. Moreover her
scheme was put forward at a time when there was much division amongst
English Catholics, and the fact that it borrowed so much from the Society
of Jesus increased the mistrust it inspired. Pope Pius V had declared
solemn vows and strict papal enclosure to be essential to all communities
of religious women, and this clearly went against what Mary was trying to
achieve. As her order gained ground in Flanders, Austria and Italy, she
received great praise for her work from a number of quarters, and was
allowed to plead her case for formal approbation in front of the
congregation of cardinals appointed by Pope Urban VIII. Unfortunately,
there was also much opposition to her schemes, and the order was
supressed in 1630.

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* The visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 by Flower,
William, ca. 1498-1588; Norcliffe, Charles Best; Harleian Society
Publication date 1881. Page 351link

In time, the order gained more momentum, and in 1703 was approved by Pope
Clement XI, and became an institute in 1877 under Pope Pius IX.

Mary eventually returned to England in 1639 with letters of introduction
from Pope Urban to Queen Henrietta Maria and established herself in
London, before moving north to Heworth near York in 1642, where she died.

Holderness

Holderness was a wapentake and seigniory, over which the family of
Constable have resided as lords and chief bailiffs. It was divided into
three divisions or chief constableries, middle, north, and south, each of
which may be considered as separate wapentakes, and contained the
following number of townships, parishes, &c. viz. Middle Division, 36
townships, 15 of which are parishes, 11,942 inhabitants. North Division,
30 townships, 18 of which are parishes, 7577 inhabitants. South Division,
22 townships, 14 of which are parishes, including Sunk Island, 7,007
inhabitants.

"Holderness is bounded on the east by the German ocean, on the south, by
the Humber; on the west, by the divisions of Hunsley and Bainton-Beacon;
and on the north, by the wapentake of Dickering. Although the general
surface of this district, viewed from the Wolds, appears low and flat;
when examined upon the spot, it is found to possess a surface capable of
being made dry, and every part of it adapted to the purposes of
cultivation. The drainages in this district since the year 1762 have been
very extensive, and though effected at an immense expense, not less than
190,000L. have proved very beneficial to the country. The seigniory of
Holderness was given by William the Conqueror to Drew de Bruerer, a
Fleming, on whom William bestowed his niece in marriage; it was
afterwards given to Ode de Campania, who had married the King's sister;
at his death it devolved upon his son Stephen, whom the King created Earl
of Albermarle and Holderness; and after passing through various hands, we
find it, in 1682, in the family of the Coniers, Lord Darcy and Coniers,
created Earl of Holderness by King Charles II.; in that family it
continued many years, and now belongs to Sir Thomas Constable, Bart. for
whom the town of Hedon is obliged to find a prison for such malefactors
as are taken in this liberty, till they can be sent to the castle of
York; and an hall to hold therein a court, called the wapentake court for
the trial of actions under 40s. (Source: Magna Brit)

Robert Wright, (b abt 1501-d July 1594- buried 18 Jul 1594 in Welwick),
John Wright's son, succeeded as the owner of Plowland (or Plewland).
Robert eventually became Sheriff of Yorkshire and was granted Arms by
patent under the hand and seal of William Flower, Norroy. Robert
initially increased the size of the family estates through the purchase
of the manor of Weeton from Robert Rudston[e] in 1555-56, however, his
eldest son William conveyed property in Weeton, probably including the
manor, to Richard Legard in 1579, as it is not included in the list of
properties conveyed to William on Robert's death. Robert was buried 18
July, 1594, in Welwick, seised of the manor of Plowland and lands in
Weeton, and Pensthorpe.

Robert married firstly Anne Grimston of Grimston Garth, the daughter of
Thomas Grimston, about 1526 in Yorkshire. Anne's ancestry is listed in
Collins's Peerage of England, and states of Anne’s
father: THOMAS GRIMSTON, Esq. of Grimston, who married the daughter of
Nicholas Girlington of Harkfurth, and had (with two daughters, Ann,
married to Robert Wright, Esq. of Plowland, county York; and Maud,
married to John Thwenge, Esq. of Upper Helmesley) many sons, of whom John
was ancestor of the Grimston's of Neswick. His eldest son was another
Thomas Grimston. This family is denominated from its possessions in the
county of York, and descended from Sylvester de Grimston of Grimston, who
attended William, duke of Normandy, in his expedition to England as
standard-bearer, and in that station valiantly fought at the battle of
Hastings, where the kingdom proved the reward of their victory over
Harold, who then possessed the throne; and the year following, on the
Conqueror's settling his household, he was appointed his chamberlain, and
did homage for Grimston, Hoxton, Tonsted, and other lands, which he held
of the Lord Roos, as of his honour of Roos in Holdernesse, Yorkshire.

Robert and Anne (our direct ancestors) had three children:

1) William (see below) born about 1526, died Dec 1616 at Ploughland,
Welwick, Yorkshire.

2) Anne

3) Martha

Robert married second Ursula Rudston, whose family had been lords of
Hayton, near Pocklington, from the days of King John. Robert and Ursula
were staunch Catholics, Ursula Wright, wife of Robert, was incarcerated
for a total of 14 years, chiefly in Hull prison with a number of other
recusant wives including one of her Babthorpe cousins, and Alice
Oldcorne, a relative of the Jesuit Father Edward Oldcorne. It is said
that "the courage and cheerfulness of this forceful old lady provided
great moral uplift for the other prisoners". Ursula Wright was akin to
the Mallory (or Mallorie) family, of Studley Royal, Ripon, and so a
cousin in some degree to most of the grand old Yorkshire gentry, such as
the Ingleby family, of Ripley Castle and of Harewell Hall, Dacre, near
Brimham Rocks, in Nidderdale, and the Markenfields, of Markenfield Hall,
near Ripon, to mention others beside." Ursula was the daughter of
Nicholas Rudston and Jane Mallory, daughter of Sir William Mallory, of
Studley Royal, near Ripon.

Robert and Ursula had at least 5 children. This is as far as I have taken
their descendants:

1) John WRIGHT (of "The Gunpowder Plot") (b.13 Jan 1568-probably at
Ploughland Hall,parish of Welwick,Yorkshire d.8 Nov 1605-Holbeche
House,Staffordshire; killed after the Gunpowder Plot was exposed)

| sp: Dorothy

| +- a) (a daughter) WRIGHT

2) Christopher WRIGHT (of "The Gunpowder Plot") (b.1570-Ploughland
Hall,Welwick,Yorkshire d.8 Nov 1605-Holbeche House,Staffordshire,killed
after the Gunpowder Plot was exposed)

| sp: Margaret WARD

| | a) Edward WRIGHT (a.6 Oct 1589)

| |- b) John WRIGHT (b.Abt 1593)

| | sp: (Miss) BUSFIELD

| | +- i) John WRIGHT

| |- c) Eliza WRIGHT (a.23 Jul 1594)

| |- d) Francis WRIGHT (a.12 Jul 1596) (possibly buried at Welwick?)

| +-e) Marmaduke WRIGHT (a.3 Feb 1601)

3) Ursula WRIGHT (b.Abt 1571 d.1588)

| sp: John CONSTABLE (b.Abt 1554 d.1581)

| sp: Marmaduke WARD (2nd husband)

| |- a) John WARD (d./from wounds received in a duel)

| |- b) "The Venerable" Mary WARD (b.23 Jan 1585 d.23 Jan 1645-Heworth,near York) (another interesting descendant!)

| |- c) Barbara WARD (b.1586)

| +-d) George WARD

4) Martha WRIGHT (b.Abt 1577)

| sp: Thomas PERCY - Gentleman, the Gunpowder Plot conspirator. (b.1560 d.9 Nov 1605-Holbeach House, Staffordshire)

| |- a) Robert PERCY

| | sp: Emma MEAD (m.22 Oct 1615)

| +-b) (daughter) PERCY

| sp: Robert CATESBY (son of Robert Catesby the conspirator)

5) Alice WRIGHT

sp: William READSHAW (m.1593)

John and Christopher Wright are well-known instigators of the infamous
Gunpowder Plot, now commemorated every year on Guy Fawkes Day in England.
The book The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter gives
fascinating details about the entire plot and its consequences.

John and Christopher Wright were schoolfellows of Guy Fawkes. John was
the third to be initiated into the Gunpowder Plot, some time in May 1604.
Their intentions were to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The plan, of
course, failed. Dictionary of National Biography states:
“He took an active part in all the operations of the
conspirators, and on the eve of the actual discovery of the plot (on the
afternoon of 4 Nov.) he fled from London with Catesby. At Holbeche on the
morning of the 8th, when an accident took place with some gunpowder, he
wished in his despair to ignite the rest so as to blow up the house and
all. In the fight which followed with Sir Richard Walsh's men, he and his
brother fell mortally wounded. Sir Thomas Lawley, who was in this affair
assisting the sheriff of Worcester, wrote to Salisbury: "I hasted to
revive Catesby and Percy and the two Wrights, who lay deadly wounded on
the ground, thinking by the recovery of these to have done unto his
majesty better service than by suffering them to die," but the people
standing by roughly stripped the bodies naked, and no surgeon being at
hand, they soon died." After the capture and imprisonment of the
conspirators, the bodies of those who had died at Holbeche were exhumed,
and the heads removed for display at Westminster Palace. One quote says
he was "shot, buried, dug up, beheaded, and head hung on gates of London."

Christopher Wright married Margaret Ward, a sister of Marmaduke Ward, of
the Wards of Mulwith, and by her he had issue, a son, John (born abt.
1593), who married into the Busfield family of Lincolnshire, and himself
had a son called John (Visitation of Yorkshire 1612). As a point of
interest, Christopher Wright's widow then married a noted papist, Sir
Henry Curwen of Northumberland (8 January 1606). This would indicate that
Margaret Wright (nee Ward) remarried less than two months after her first
husband's death.” Much more can be found online about
Christopher, who shared his brother’s fate.

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