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Sir John Port (before 1510 – 6 June 1557) was an English landowner and Knight of the Order of the Bath who served occasionally in the House of Commons. He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1554. By his will, he founded Repton School and almshouses at Etwall. He also owned Caverswall Castle from 1531 after acquiring it through marriage to ...
John Perrot's name appears in the Inner Temple Register in an entry dated 5 June 1583: "John Perot, of Haryve, Co. Pembroke, 3rd son of John Perot, Knight". [22] Elizabeth, who married Hugh Butler of Pembroke, was the granddaughter of Sir Christopher Hatton, a favourite of Elizabeth I and enemy of Sir John (the source of their hostility being ...
Sir John Arundell (1474–1545) Knight Banneret, of Lanherne, St Mawgan-in-Pyder, Cornwall, was Receiver-General of the Duchy of Cornwall. [1] Called "the most important man in the county", Sir John's monumental brass in the church at St Columb Major in Cornwall was described by Dunkin (1882) as "perhaps the most elaborate and interesting brass ...
From the coronation of Henry IV in 1399, the full ceremonies were restricted to major royal occasions, such as coronations, investitures of the Prince of Wales or royal dukes, and royal weddings, [19] and the knights so created became known as Knights of the Bath. [16] Knights Bachelor continued to be created with the simpler form of ceremony ...
Sir John Shelton (1476/7 – 1539) of Shelton in Norfolk, England, was a courtier to King Henry VIII. Through his marriage to Anne Boleyn , a sister and co-heiress of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire of Blickling Hall in Norfolk, he became an uncle of Queen Anne Boleyn , the second wife of King Henry VIII.
He was the son of John Mordaunt of Turvey, Bedfordshire, who was a member of parliament and speaker of the House of Commons of England. He was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1503 to be trained as a barrister. [citation needed] He was made a Knight of the Bath when the future Henry VIII was created Prince of Wales on 18 February 1503.
Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath for applicable appointments after 1815. There are three categories for Knights of the (Order of the) Bath, Category:Knights of the Bath – These were special knighthoods conferred on important Royal occasions such as coronations, a practice which had died after the reign of Charles II. These ...
Paulet was summoned to Parliament on 5 May 1572 in his father's Barony of St John. [2] He succeeded his father as 3rd Marquess of Winchester on 4 November 1576. During October 1586, he was one of the judges at the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, later acting as Lord High Steward at her funeral on 1 August 1587.