Anne & Nicholas
Terracotta portrait busts, accompanied by another of Francis as a young boy, are in Gorhambury House, St Albans, home of the Earl of Verulam. They date from the 1560s and were possibly sculpted by an unknown Italian artist.
Sir Nicholas Bacon 1510 – 1579 Lord Keeper of the Great Seal & 2nd wife Anne Cooke
Sir Nicholas was the 2nd son of Robert Bacon 1548 & Eleanor / Isabel daughter of John Cage / Gage of Drinkstone & Margaret Wayte
He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1527,and after a period in Paris, he entered Gray's Inn, being called to the bar in 1533. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII gave him a grant of the manors of Redgrave, Botesdale, Gislingham, and Gorhambury, the latter which had belonged to St Albans Abbey was where he built a house
In 1545 he became a MP for Dartmouth. In 1546 he was made Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries, a prestigious and lucrative post, and by 1552 he had risen to become treasurer of Gray's Inn.
As a Protestant, he lost preferment under catholic Queen Mary, however on the accession of protestant Elizabeth l in 1558 he was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, largely owing to the influence of his brother-in-law William Cecil and was shortly afterwards knighted.
Dying at Gorhambury Hall, he was buried in old St. Paul's Cathedral, his blackened effigy survived flic.kr/p/GLyPYL
He m1 Jane dc 1552 daughter of William Fernley / Ferneley
Children
1. Nicholas c. 1540–1624 m Anne flic.kr/p/rRc9yd daughter of Edmund Butts of Thornage son of Sir William Butts physician to Henry Vlll, and Anne www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/69gREp
co-heiress of Henry Bures flic.kr/p/7JHcwk inheriting half the Bures and all the Butts fortunes.
2. Nathaniel (c. 1550–1622 of Stiffkey flic.kr/p/i8nuab m1 1569 Anne 1594 illegitimate daughter of Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange, by Anne Dutton, m2 1597 Dorothy d1629 widow of William Smith of Burgh Castle & daughter of Arthur Hopton
3 Edward m Helen daughter of Sir Thomas Little of Bray by Elizabeth daughter of Sir Robert Lytton of Knebworth (Helen was the Great x 2 grand daughter of Robert Lytton c1483 of Knebworth & Tideswell flic.kr/p/dB7KjK
4. John died an infant
1. Elizabeth m1 Sir Robert Doyley, m2 Sir Henry Neville m3 ((3rd wife) Sir William Peryam / Periman www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11669251276/
2. Anne m Sir Henry Woodhouse d.1624
3. Elizabeth m judge Francis Wyndham dsp1592 flic.kr/p/usBNft son of Sir Edmund Wyndham
4. Jane
He m2 1553 Anne 1528–1610 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/n8nAY1 daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, tutor to Edward Vl , by Anne Fitzwilliam www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/835MB4
Children
1. Anthony Bacon 1558–1601 died unmarried
2. Francis Bacon 1561–1626 flic.kr/p/ee2fAz Lord Chancellor , 1st Viscount St Albans m Alice Barnham, the 14-year-old daughter of Benedict Barnham & Dorothy daughter of Ambrose Smith, Silk merchant
3. Edmund
1. Mary
2. Susan
Lady in waiting to the queen, like all her siblings Anne was highly educated , aged 22 she translated and published Barnardine Ochyne of Siena's work Ochines Sermons from the Italian. Her translation from the Latin into English of Bishop John Jewel's work of 1564 Apology for the Church of England was a significant step in the intellectual justification of Protestantism in England. Strongly Puritan and she called for the eradication of all Popery in the Church of England but remained a member all her life.
Anne & Nicholas
Terracotta portrait busts, accompanied by another of Francis as a young boy, are in Gorhambury House, St Albans, home of the Earl of Verulam. They date from the 1560s and were possibly sculpted by an unknown Italian artist.
Sir Nicholas Bacon 1510 – 1579 Lord Keeper of the Great Seal & 2nd wife Anne Cooke
Sir Nicholas was the 2nd son of Robert Bacon 1548 & Eleanor / Isabel daughter of John Cage / Gage of Drinkstone & Margaret Wayte
He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1527,and after a period in Paris, he entered Gray's Inn, being called to the bar in 1533. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII gave him a grant of the manors of Redgrave, Botesdale, Gislingham, and Gorhambury, the latter which had belonged to St Albans Abbey was where he built a house
In 1545 he became a MP for Dartmouth. In 1546 he was made Attorney of the Court of Wards and Liveries, a prestigious and lucrative post, and by 1552 he had risen to become treasurer of Gray's Inn.
As a Protestant, he lost preferment under catholic Queen Mary, however on the accession of protestant Elizabeth l in 1558 he was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, largely owing to the influence of his brother-in-law William Cecil and was shortly afterwards knighted.
Dying at Gorhambury Hall, he was buried in old St. Paul's Cathedral, his blackened effigy survived flic.kr/p/GLyPYL
He m1 Jane dc 1552 daughter of William Fernley / Ferneley
Children
1. Nicholas c. 1540–1624 m Anne flic.kr/p/rRc9yd daughter of Edmund Butts of Thornage son of Sir William Butts physician to Henry Vlll, and Anne www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/69gREp
co-heiress of Henry Bures flic.kr/p/7JHcwk inheriting half the Bures and all the Butts fortunes.
2. Nathaniel (c. 1550–1622 of Stiffkey flic.kr/p/i8nuab m1 1569 Anne 1594 illegitimate daughter of Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange, by Anne Dutton, m2 1597 Dorothy d1629 widow of William Smith of Burgh Castle & daughter of Arthur Hopton
3 Edward m Helen daughter of Sir Thomas Little of Bray by Elizabeth daughter of Sir Robert Lytton of Knebworth (Helen was the Great x 2 grand daughter of Robert Lytton c1483 of Knebworth & Tideswell flic.kr/p/dB7KjK
4. John died an infant
1. Elizabeth m1 Sir Robert Doyley, m2 Sir Henry Neville m3 ((3rd wife) Sir William Peryam / Periman www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/11669251276/
2. Anne m Sir Henry Woodhouse d.1624
3. Elizabeth m judge Francis Wyndham dsp1592 flic.kr/p/usBNft son of Sir Edmund Wyndham
4. Jane
He m2 1553 Anne 1528–1610 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/n8nAY1 daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, tutor to Edward Vl , by Anne Fitzwilliam www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/835MB4
Children
1. Anthony Bacon 1558–1601 died unmarried
2. Francis Bacon 1561–1626 flic.kr/p/ee2fAz Lord Chancellor , 1st Viscount St Albans m Alice Barnham, the 14-year-old daughter of Benedict Barnham & Dorothy daughter of Ambrose Smith, Silk merchant
3. Edmund
1. Mary
2. Susan
Lady in waiting to the queen, like all her siblings Anne was highly educated , aged 22 she translated and published Barnardine Ochyne of Siena's work Ochines Sermons from the Italian. Her translation from the Latin into English of Bishop John Jewel's work of 1564 Apology for the Church of England was a significant step in the intellectual justification of Protestantism in England. Strongly Puritan and she called for the eradication of all Popery in the Church of England but remained a member all her life.