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• Alternatieve namen: Richd. Weston, Sir Governor Richard Weston Knight Courtier to Henry VII Guernsey, Richard WestonSir Gov.of Guernsey, Privy Counciler to Henry VIII (ts) 15th ggf, Richard Weston, Sir Governor Richard Guernsey Knight Courtier to Henry VII (Sir Governor, Richard Guernsey Knight, Courtier to Henry VII ) ,Weston, Sir William Weston, Sir Richard Weston
• Roepnaam Sir Governor Richard Guernsey Knight Courtier to Henry VII Weston .
• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1465 in Isles, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1479 in Guernsey, Channel Islands, England.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1465 in Sutton, Surrey, England.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren rond 1471 in Lincolnshire, England.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1469 in Rosel Manor, Jersey, Channel Islands.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1479 in Guernsey, Channel Islands, Governor of Guernsey 1509-1522.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1479 in Guernsey, Channel Islands, Governor of Guernsey.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1471 in Feering, Essex, England.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren rond 1465 in Bryanston, Dorset, England.
• Hij is overleden op 7 augustus 1541 in Sutton Place, Surrey, England, hij was toen 76 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden rond 1593.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden op 7 augustus 1541 in Sutton, Surrey, England, hij was toen 76 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden op 7 mei 1540 in London, England, hij was toen 75 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden op 7 augustus 1542 in Sutton, Surrey, England, hij was toen 77 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden op 7 augustus 1542 in Sutton Place, Surrey, England, hij was toen 77 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden in het jaar 1504 in London, London, England, hij was toen 39 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden op 7 augustus 1541 in Sutton Place, Surrey, England, hij was toen 76 jaar oud.
• Een kind van John Weston en Lady Margaret of Molesdon Northumberland Mitford

Gezin van Sir Governor Richard Guernsey Knight Courtier to Henry VII Weston (Sir Governor Richard Guernsey Knight Courtier to Henry VII Weston ) Weston

Hij is getrouwd met Lady Anne Sandys (Lady in waiting to Catherine of Aragon) Sandys Weston.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1500 te Colchester, Essex, England, hij was toen 35 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Margaret Weston  1501-1540
2. Katherine Weston, Dame  1502-1580
3. Thomas Weston  1505-1596 
4. Sir Francis Weston "Gentleman of the Court of King Henry VIII of England"  1511-1536

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Sir Richard Weston, (representative image, not portrait) drawn by Sir Thomas Wriothesley in 1509, attending deathbed of King Henry VII. (Detail from: British Library Additional MS 45131, folio 54)

Arms of Weston: Ermine, on a chief azure five bezants

Sir Richard Weston at the deathbed of King Henry VII at Richmond Palace, 1509. He stands 5th at the King's left hand, his armorials above, quartering Camell of Shapwick, Dorset, with a crescent for difference of a second son
Sir Richard Weston (1465–1541), KB, of Sutton Place in Surrey, was a courtier and diplomat who served as Governor of Guernsey, Treasurer of Calais and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer during the reign of King Henry VIII.

Contents
1Origins
2Career
3Marriage & progeny
4Notes
5References
6External links
Origins
He was born about 1465/6, the eldest son of Edmund Weston of Boston in Lincolnshire by his wife Catherine Cammel, daughter and heiress of Robert Cammel of Fiddleford in Dorset.[1][2] He quartered the canting arms of Cammel, also of Shapwick, Dorset: Argent, three camels sable. His brother was Sir William Weston (died 1540), the last Prior of the Order of St John in England, deemed Premier Baron of England.

Career
Immediately after his accession on 22 May 1509, Henry VIII appointed Weston to several offices, including that of governor of Guernsey. In 1511, Weston served under Thomas, Lord Darcy, in the English contingent sent to assist King Ferdinand of Spain in his campaign against the Moors. Upon his return, Weston visited the court of Spain and received considerable honour. He was knighted by Henry VIII in 1514 and from 1516 was in personal attendance on the king as Knight of the Body. On 3 January 1518, he was dubbed Knight of the Bath. In 1519, he was one of the four "sad and ancient knights" who were "put into the king's privy chamber".[3] In 1520, he followed Henry to the Field of the Cloth of Gold. In 1521, he sat on the jury which tried and condemned Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.[4] The manor of Sutton was granted to him on the day of the Duke of Buckingham's execution (17 May 1521).[2]

In 1523, Weston served under Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, in France; in 1525, he became Treasurer of Calais and, in 1528, under-treasurer of England.[2] He also served as knight of the shire for Berkshire in 1529.[1]

His main residences were Cranbourne Lodge, where he was the keeper, and Ufton Court, both in Berkshire, and then Sutton Place, Surrey, the last two being granted to him by the king.[1] In 1533, Henry VIII paid a state visit to Sutton. Thomas Cromwell was a guest there later.[2]

In 1539, Weston was appointed to meet Anne of Cleves on her arrival in England. He must then have been considerably over seventy years of age.[2] In 1542, he surrendered his post of sub-treasurer of England "ob senectutem debilitatam et continuam infirmitatem" (20 January) and died on 7 August. He was buried in his family chapel in Holy Trinity Church, Guildford.[2] His eldest son, Francis, predeceased him, so Francis's son, Henry Watson, succeeded at age six to his grandfather's estates.[5]

Frederic Harrison wrote:

There is hardly a single state ceremony or event during the eighth Henry's reign in which he is not recorded to have part. A bare list of the offices he held would fill some pages. He is a soldier, seaman, ambassador, governor, treasurer, privy councillor, judge of the Court of Wards.[5]

Marriage & progeny
He married Anne Sandys, a daughter of Oliver Sandys of Shere, and one of the Gentlewomen of Queen Catherine of Aragon, by whom he had a son and two daughters as follows:[6]

Sir Francis Weston (d.1536), only son and heir apparent, who was arrested as one of the alleged lovers of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII. His father is said to have offered all the family had to gain his son a pardon, but Sir Francis was executed in 1536.
Margaret Weston;
Katherine Weston.

ConstituencyDates
BERKSHIRE
1529
Family and Education
b. c.1465, 1st s. of Edmund Weston of Boston, Lincs. by Catherine, da. of Robert Cammel of Fiddleford, Dorset. m. by 1502, Anne, da. of Oliver Sandys of Shere, Surr., 1s. 2da. suc. fa. ?by 1505. Kntd. 3 Jan. 1518.1

Offices Held
Keeper, Sunninghill park, Berks, and forester, Windsor forest 1503-d.; groom, the chamber by 1505; keeper, Castle Cornet, Guernsey 1506; steward, manors of Bray and Cookham, Berks. 1507-d., Stratfield Mortimer, Berks. and lt. Windsor castle and forest 1508-d., other minor offices 1504-d.; esquire of the body 1509, knight 1518; gov. Guernsey and neighbouring islands 1509-d., jt. (with s.) 1533-6 j.p. Berks. 1510-d., Kent 1518, Surr. 1524-d.; keeper of swans on Thames 1517-d.; jt. master or surveyor of wards 1518-21, sole 1521-6; cup bearer, the Household 1521; commr. subsidy, Berks. 1523, 1524, tenths of spiritualities, Surr. 1535; other commissions, Berks., Calais, Kent, London and Surr. 1505-39; treasurer, Calais 1525-8; Councillor ‘for matter in law’ 1526; under treasurer, Exchequer 1528-d.; chief steward, Chertsey abbey by 1534-5.2

Biography
The Westons of Sutton first appear in the early 16th century. No relationship has been established between them and an old Surrey family of that name but they were kinsmen of the Westons of Prested Hall, Essex, a family which, on acquiring the earldom of Portland in 1632, would be provided with a pedigree reaching back to the reign of Henry I. Edmund Weston had been appointed joint captain, keeper and governor of Guernsey, of Castle Cornet and of the lesser Channel Islands, in 1485, while his younger brother, John, was prior of the Knights of St. John in England from 1476 to 1489. The elder Weston was probably dead by 1505, when his wife Catherine became the coheir of her brother William, the last of the Cammels of Shapwick in Dorset. It was the young Richard Weston who had made an agreement with William Cammel by which the Dorset manors of Kentleworth and West Parley were to come to him on the death of Cammel’s widow, although in 1547 West Parley was to be claimed from Weston’s widow by the descendant of a cousin of Cammel.3

Weston probably rose in the service of Henry VII’s queen, Elizabeth of York. A man of his name was paid £4 10s. in 1502 for buying ‘harnesses of girdles’ for her overseas, and the Mistress Anne Weston who was one of her gentlewomen may well have been the daughter of Oliver Sandys whom Weston married about this time. Sandys had a very distant connexion with Sir William Sandys, who in November 1506 joined Richard Weston in a recognizance for £100 to the King shortly before Weston was given the custody of Castle Cornet in succession to his father.4

Weston’s presence at the old King’s funeral, at the coronation, and thereafter at practically every great ceremony for the next 30 years, was accompanied by more substantial service. Already keeper of Cornet, in May 1509 Weston succeeded to the governorship of Guernsey and all the other posts held by his father and Thomas Martin, who was now also dead. At least two wardships were granted to him that summer and in August 1510 he received a two-year licence to ship merchandise free of customs on any vessel not exceeding 150 tons through the Straits of Gibraltar. Weston then went to fight the Moors with Thomas, Lord Darcy, but he was in Guernsey by May 1513 and in the following March he was granted for 40 years the alnage of woollen cloth at Presteigne, Radnorshire. Later in 1514 he attended the marriage of Henry VIII’s sister Mary to Louis XII, and in 1518 he formed part of an embassy to France to arrange the betrothal of the young Princess Mary to the Dauphin.5

In 1518 Weston was appointed to join the aged Sir Thomas Lovell I as master of the wards, at a time when the royal rights of wardship were being exploited more thoroughly than before. Weston soon took full charge and seems to have sought to control the indiscriminate sale of wardships and leasing of wards’ lands, while also strengthening the supervision of escheators. When Sir Edward Belknap succeeded Lovell in December 1520 a new patent described him and Weston not as ‘masters’ but as ‘surveyors, governors, keepers and sellers’ of wards, a title which brought more prestige to their office; at the same time, they were empowered to consult members of the Council on legal problems arising from their work. As a general surveyor of crown lands Belknap was experienced but preoccupied, so that Weston continued to exercise control both before and after his colleague’s death in March 1521. Success fed ambition, for in September 1525 Wolsey told the King that Weston had offered to surrender his post, or its annuity of £100, in return for the stewardship of the duchy of Lancaster. The cardinal supported this request, since the stewardship would be more suitable than the chancellorship of the duchy, but instead Weston succeeded Sir William Sandys, now Lord Sandys, as treasurer of Calais.6

Weston cannot be detected as a policy-maker at any stage of his long career and Wolsey’s letter of 1525 suggests that he was merely an able servant who deserved some reward. It is true that in May 1519 a reaction against the King’s young advisers had led to changes in the Household, whereupon Sir Thomas Boleyn reported Weston to be among the new men of influence, but the dubiousness of such advancement appears from Hall’s description of Weston and three other ‘sad and ancient knights’, appointed to the King’s chamber at the Council’s request, whose solemnity in dancing incurred the mockery of their master and of the younger courtiers. Ironically, if not altogether surprisingly, Weston’s only son Francis, who became a royal page in 1525, was to furnish a classic example of the attractive young courtier whose meteoric and undeserved rise ended in tragedy.7

At Calais, Weston seems at first to have co-operated with Sandys, who was now captain of Guisnes, in the thankless tasks of keeping the defences in order, supplying victuals and paying the garrisons, but in 1528 he withheld the wages of Sandys and his retinue and had to be ordered by Wolsey to allow for the money, which had already been spent on repairs. It was always difficult to raise revenue from the Company of the Staple, which was supposed to help bear the military expenses, and Weston complained to the government about this and the weight of Sandys’s demands. He did not neglect his own family, for on 12 Apr. he asked Wolsey to further the promotion of his younger brother Sir William Weston, then turcopolier, if the illness of the prior of the Knights of St. John proved fatal; the prior died and Sir William Weston duly became the last head of the order in England before the Dissolution. Weston himself was sometimes absent during his treasurership, and after becoming under treasurer at the Exchequer was for a time torn between London and Calais: in January 1529 he was at Calais but anxious to be gone ‘on account of the term’, but in April his absence from a commission for the repair of the defences deprived it of a quorum.8

On 12 July 1529 Weston joined the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk and others as witnesses against a dispensation exhibited by Queen Catherine; this and his past services made it likely that he would be a useful Member of Parliament, experienced and respected, yet pliable. Weston’s main property now lay in Surrey but he had sat on more commissions in Berkshire, where he also held most of his local offices, and it was for Berkshire that he was returned in 1529, perhaps not for the first time. His fellow-Member (who was also a relative) was another veteran, Sir William Essex, but one less cautious in his political friendships. The King is not known to have intervened in the election for Berkshire, but he was at Windsor when the writs for several other counties were sent for, so that both Essex and Weston were probably royal nominees.9

In 1530 Weston married his son to Anne Pickering, sole heir of Sir Christopher Pickering of Killington, Westmorland, who had been his ward for 11 years. Francis Weston was now outbidding his father as a recipient of royal gifts and in 1533, at the time of Anne Boleyn’s coronation, he too was knighted. His father played host to Henry VIII at Sutton Place, and later in the same year a new grant invested father and son with the governorship of Guernsey, but on 4 May 1536 the younger Weston was arrested on a charge of being the Queen’s lover and two weeks later he was beheaded, despite his family’s attempts to save him.10

The father’s fortunes were not affected by the tragedy. It is not known whether he sat in the Parliament which followed, in accordance with the King’s general request, but on the outbreak of the Lincolnshire rebellion he was included in a list of Surrey gentry who were to attend the King; his quota of 150 men was larger than that of any of his neighbours save Sir Nicholas Carew. He was also named to advise Queen Jane Seymour, and a year later he attended first the christening of Prince Edward and then the Queen’s funeral. After a gap of several years he resumed local duties in 1538 and he was asked to sit as a knight of the shire for Surrey in 1539. Sir William Fitzwilliam I, Earl of Southampton, on his way to arrange the elections in Hampshire and Sussex, wrote to Cromwell on 14 Mar. that he had stayed with Weston, who was very sick and had refused a seat in Parliament, although promising to further the return of the earl’s half-brother and Sir Matthew Browne. Weston was then expecting to die, but he was well enough to greet Anne of Cleves in January 1540.11

Weston’s first acquisition of land had been the Berkshire manor of Ufton Pole in 1510, but his chief possession and monument was Sutton Place, near Guildford. The manor of Sutton, previously joined with that of Woking, had been granted in fee to Weston in 1521. While in France from 1518 to 1519 Weston had journeyed down the Loire to see the Dauphin, and his travels bore fruit in the palatial home which he built a few years later by the River Wey, on the site of the ruined manor. The building, with its perpendicular forms overlaid with Italian ornament, bears little resemblance to any other courtier’s house of the 1520s, and it ranks with the vanished Nonsuch as a landmark in the introduction of renaissance ideas. Its nearness to several royal residences (and to Wolsey’s house at Esher) made it convenient for a rich courtier, while it was also hard by Clandon, where Weston had a house as early as 1516; in May 1530 he was licensed to empark lands at Clandon and Merrow, thereby creating Clandon park. Also at Merrow were three manors held by the Knights of St. John, and on the dissolution of the order in 1540 one of these, Temple Court, was granted to Weston. He had numerous sources of income from keeperships and stewardships, apart from his lands: as knight of the body he enjoyed £100 a year, and as master or surveyor of the wards he drew a further £100 as well as the yield of many lucrative wardships. An inventory of goods at Clandon and Sutton, drawn up by his executors, valued the plate at £144, while the sumptuous furnishings included a ‘great carpet to lay under the King’s feet’.12

Weston made a short will on 16 May and died on 7 Aug. 1541. He began with the traditional bequest of his soul to the Virgin Mary and the saints and did not refer to the royal supremacy. He asked to be laid in Holy Trinity church, Guildford, where in 1540 he had endowed a chantry for 20 years, but there is no trace of his tomb among those of his descendants. He named as executors his wife, the Earl of Southampton and the lord high admiral, Sir John Russell, Baron Russell, and as overseer (Sir) Christopher More. In accordance with the terms of an enfeoffment which he had made to More and others on 29 May 1536, soon after his son’s execution, he bequeathed his lands to Anne for life and then to his seven year-old grandson Henry Weston. His daughters Margaret and Catherine had married Sir Walter Denys and Sir John Rogers, and ‘for lack of the said Henry’, who was not restored in blood until 1549, the lands were to be divided equally between their eldest sons, Richard Denys and Richard Rogers†.13

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