Tolleson family » Lord Chancellor Richard Rich 1st Baron of Leez (1496-1567)

Données personnelles Lord Chancellor Richard Rich 1st Baron of Leez 

• Il est né juillet 1496 dans Launceston St Mary Magdalene, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
• Il a été baptisé en l'an 1496 dans Launceston St Mary Magdalene, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
• Titre: 1st Baron of Leez
• Professions:
• en l'an 1516 entered the Middle Temple as a lawyer.
• en l'an 1516 He may have studied at Cambridge..
• de 1520 à 1525 He was a reader at the New Inn..
• en l'an 1533 knighted.
• le 19 avril 1536 He became the chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, established for the disposal of the monastic revenues. His own share of the spoil, acquired either by grant or purchase, included Leez (Leighs) Priory and about a hundred manors in Essex..
• le 9 June 1536 – 18-07-1536 Speaker of the House of Commons.
• janvier 1552 Lord Chancellor of England during the reign of King Edward VI.
• He became the Solicitor General for England and Wales in which capacity he was to act under Thomas Cromwell as a "lesser hammer" for the demolition of the monasteries, and to secure the operation of Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy. .
• Résidant: Westminister, Free State, South Africa.
• (Biography ) : He acquired —and destroyed— the real estate and holdings of the Priory of St Bartholomew-the-Great in Smithfield..
• (Biography ) : He played a major part in the fall of Cromwell..
• (Biography ) : According to some sources, Rich was born in the London parish of St Lawrence Jewry, the second son of Richard Rich by Joan Dingley. But according to Carter, he was born at Basingstoke, Hampshire, the son of John Rich (d. 1509?), of Penton Mewsey, Hampsh.
• (Biography ) : "The origin of the family of Lord Rich has been matter of some discussion...The first of the family of whom there is definite information was Richard Rich, a wealthy mercer of London and Sheriff of the City in 1441. The date of his death is given by Bu.
• (Biography ) : He had a share in the trials of Thomas More and Bishop John Fisher. In both cases his evidence against the prisoner included admissions made in friendly conversation, and in More's case the words were given a misconstruction that could hardly be other .
• (Biography ) : He was a beneficiary of suppression of the monasteries, and persecuted opponents of church and state. .
• (Biography ) : In spite of the share he had taken in the suppression of the monasteries, the prosecution of Thomas More and Bishop Fisher and of the part he was to play under Edward VI and Elizabeth, his religious beliefs remained nominally Roman Catholic..
• (Biography ) : He personally tortured the English writer, poet, and Protestant martyr Anne Askew. Both he and Chancellor Wriothesley turned the wheels of the rack to torture her with their own hands..
• (Biography ) : He was an assistant executor of the will of King Henry VIII, and received a grant of lands..
• (Biography ) en l'an 1564: He founded Felsted School with its associated alms houses in Essex..
• (Biography ) en l'an 1551: He was described in an official document as 'fifty-four years of age and more', and was therefore born about 1496 or earlier..
• (Biography ) en l'an 1536: He built the Tudor-style gatehouse still surviving in London as the upper portion of the Smithfield Gate..
• (Biography ) janvier 1536: As King's Solicitor, he travelled to Kimbolton Castle to take the inventory of the goods of Catherine of Aragon, and wrote to Henry advising how he might properly obtain her possessions..
• (Biography ) en l'an 1529: Thomas Audley succeeded in helping him get elected as an MP for Colchester..
• (Biography ) en l'an 1528: He was in search of a patron and wrote to Cardinal Wolsey..
• (Title of Nobility ) le 26 février 1547: He became the 1st Baron of Leez.
• Il est décédé le 12 juin 1567 dans Rochford, Essex, England, United Kingdom, il avait 70 ans.
• Il est enterré le 8 juillet 1567 dans Felsted, Essex, England, United Kingdom.
• Un enfant de Richard Rich et Joan Dingley
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 13 mai 2021.

Famille de Lord Chancellor Richard Rich 1st Baron of Leez

Il avait une relation avec Elizabeth Jenkes.

Enfant(s):

1. Margery Rich  1520-????
2. Elisabeth Rich  1525-1591
3. Mary Rich  1526-1598
4. Anne Rich  ± 1530-1600
5. Ethelreda Audrey Rich  ± 1533-1567
6. Winifred Rich  ± 1534-1578
7. Dorothie Rich  1534-????
8. Robert Rich  1537-1581 
9. Hugh Rich  1539-1554
10. Frances Rich  1539-1581
11. Thomas Rich  1540-1567
12. Richard Nicholas Rich  1541-1628
13. Barbara Rich  ± 1544-????
14. Lady Agnes Rich  1545-1591
15. Dudley RICH  1546-1648
16. Mary Elizabeth Rich  1547-1591
17. Sir Richard II Baron of Leighs Rich  1550-1598
18. Nathaniel Rich  ± 1550-± 1600

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