Biography of John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt 1480-1562
Paternal Family Tree: Mordaunt
1504 Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales
1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold
1536 Imprisonment and Trial of Anne Boleyn and her Co-Accused
Before 1475 [his father] John Mordaunt (age 19) and [his mother] Edith Latimer (age 24) were married. The date somewhat unreliable. Her first husband John Greene (age 29) is supposed to have died in 1483 which makes the date of her marriage to John Mordaunt (age 19) and the birth of her sons by him unreliable?
In 1480 John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt was born to John Mordaunt (age 24) and Edith Latimer (age 30) at Cople.
In 1503 John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 23) educated at Middle Temple.
On 18 Feb 1504 Henry VIII (age 12) was created Prince of Wales and 1st Earl Chester. John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 24) was created Knight of the Bath. Richard Empson (age 54) was knighted. 
On 01 Sep 1504 [his mother] Edith Latimer (age 54) died at Turvey. She was buried at All Saints Church, Turvey [Map].
On 11 Sep 1504 [his father] John Mordaunt (age 48) died at Turvey. He was buried at All Saints Church, Turvey [Map].
Before 1508 John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 28) and Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt were married.
In 1508 [his son] John Mordaunt 2nd Baron Mordaunt was born to John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 28) and [his wife] Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt.
In 1520 [his daughter] Elizabeth Mordaunt was born to John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 40) and [his wife] Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt.
Around 1520 [his daughter] Winifred Mordaunt was born to John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 40) and [his wife] Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt.
In Jun 1520 Henry VIII (age 28) hosted Field of the Cloth of Gold at Balinghem [Map].
Thomas Grey 2nd Marquess Dorset (age 42) carried the Sword of State.
Bishop John Stokesley (age 45) attended as Henry VIII's chaplain.
Edmund Braye 1st Baron Braye (age 36), Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Thomas Deheubarth (age 42), Anthony Poyntz (age 40), William Coffin (age 25), William "Great" Courtenay (age 43), Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex (age 37), William Paston (age 41), William Denys (age 50), Richard Cecil (age 25), William Parr 1st Baron Parr of Horton (age 37), Ralph Neville 4th Earl of Westmoreland (age 22), John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 40), Henry Guildford (age 31), Marmaduke Constable (age 40), William Compton (age 38), William Blount 4th Baron Mountjoy (age 42), Thomas Cheney (age 35), Henry Willoughby (age 69), John Rodney (age 59), John Marney 2nd Baron Marney (age 36), William Sidney (age 38), John de Vere 14th Earl of Oxford (age 20), John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford (age 49), Edmund Walsingham (age 40), William Skeffington (age 55) and Thomas West 8th Baron De La Warr 5th Baron West (age 63) attended.
William Carey (age 20) jousted.
William Sandys 1st Baron Sandys Vyne (age 50) organised.
Jane Parker Viscountess Rochford (age 15) attended.
Thomas Brooke 8th Baron Cobham (age 50), Robert Willoughby 2nd Baron Willoughby 10th Baron Latimer (age 48), Anthony Wingfield (age 33), William Scott (age 61), Thomas Wriothesley (age 32), Bishop Thomas Ruthall (age 48), Margaret Dymoke (age 20) and Edward Chamberlayne (age 36) were present.
In 1529 John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 49) was created 1st Baron Mordaunt. [his wife] Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt by marriage Baroness Mordaunt.
On 15 May 1536 Queen Anne Boleyn (age 35) tried at the King's Hall in the Tower of London [Map].
Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk (age 63) was appointed Lord High Steward and presided. Henry Howard (age 20) attended. Henry Pole 1st Baron Montagu (age 44) was one of the judges. Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester (age 34) was the principal witness.
The jurors were:
Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 52).
Edward Clinton 1st Earl Lincoln (age 24).
Thomas Fiennes 9th Baron Dacre Gilsland (age 21).
George Hastings 1st Earl Huntingdon (age 49).
Thomas Manners 1st Earl of Rutland (age 44).
John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 56).
Ralph Neville 4th Earl of Westmoreland (age 38).
Henry Parker 11th Baron Marshal 10th Baron Morley (age 55).
Edward Stanley 3rd Earl of Derby (age 27).
Thomas Stanley 2nd Baron Monteagle (age 28).
John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford (age 65).
Thomas Wentworth 1st Baron Wentworth (age 35).
Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester (age 40).
Henry Percy 5th Earl of Northumberland.
Thomas Burgh 7th Baron Cobham 5th Baron Strabolgi 1st Baron Burgh (age 48).
Henry Courtenay 1st Marquess Exeter (age 40).
William Fitzalan 18th Earl Arundel (age 60).
Henry Fitzalan 19th Earl Arundel (age 24).
Thomas Audley 1st Baron Audley Walden (age 48).
Edward Powers Lord Powers.
William Sandys 1st Baron Sandys Vyne (age 66).
Thomas Ware.
Andrew Windsor 1st Baron Windsor (age 69).
George Brooke 9th Baron Cobham (age 39).
She was found guilty and sentenced to be beheaded. John Spelman (age 56) signed the death warrant.
After Anne's trial her brother George Boleyn Viscount Rochford (age 33) was also tried and found guilty.
On 12 Nov 1537 Queen Jane Seymour (deceased) was buried in the Henry VIII Vault in St George's Chapel in Windsor [Map].
Queen Mary I of England and Ireland (age 21) was Chief Mourner.
Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde (age 60), Charles Brandon 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 53), John Gage (age 58), Henry Grey 1st Duke of Suffolk (age 20), Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk (age 64), Thomas Manners 1st Earl of Rutland (age 45), Ralph Neville 4th Earl of Westmoreland (age 39), Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex (age 54), John de Vere 15th Earl of Oxford (age 66), Bishop Robert Parfew aka Warton and Henry Courtenay 1st Marquess Exeter (age 41) attended.
John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 57) carried the banner.
Before 1538 [his son] John Mordaunt 2nd Baron Mordaunt (age 30) and [his daughter-in-law] Ellen Fitzlewis (age 15) were married.
In or before 1540 [his son-in-law] Sylvester Danvers (age 22) and [his daughter] Elizabeth Mordaunt (age 19) were married.
In or before 1540 [his son-in-law] John Cheney (age 25) and [his daughter] Winifred Mordaunt (age 19) were married.
After 1543 [his son] John Mordaunt 2nd Baron Mordaunt (age 35) and [his daughter-in-law] Joan Fermor (age 27) were married.
Before 1561 [his wife] Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt died.
On 08 Jul 1561 [his daughter] Elizabeth Mordaunt (age 41) died.
On 08 Jul 1561 [his daughter] Winifred Mordaunt (age 41) died.
On 18 Aug 1562 John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (age 82) died at Bedford [Map]. His son [his son] John Mordaunt 2nd Baron Mordaunt (age 54) succeeded 2nd Baron Mordaunt.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 03 Sep 1562. The sam tyme they be-gane to make for my lord Mordant (deceased) in Bedfordshyre furst a standard and a gret baner of armes, and (blank) banar-rolles and vj skochyons of armes of [silk,] and of bokeram (blank) dosen, and of paper (blank) dosen skochyons, and a targett, sword, helme, and crest, mantylls and (blank) dosen of sylke, and a cott armur, and grett skochyons of armes for the herse [of] past [paste] papur, and goodly bordurs rond abowt the herse.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 16 Sep 1562. The xvj day of September was bered my lady [Note. A mistake for Lord!] Mordantt (deceased) in the conte of Bedford [Map].
Note. P. 292. Funeral of lord (not lady) Mordaunt. John first lord Mordaunt, summoned to parliament in 1558, died 28 Aug. 1562, at Turvey, co. Bedford, where he was buried, and a sumptuous monument erected with effigies of himself and lady, of which there is an engraving in Halstead's Genealogies, fol. 1785, p 593.
On 16 Sep 1562 John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (deceased) was buried at All Saints Church, Turvey [Map].
A curious monument to John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt (deceased) and [his former wife] Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt with effigies that appear correct for the time of death, Elizabethan Period, whereas the surrounding monument appears a hundred years later. The carving of his head and torso also appear somewhat out of date. No explanation for his missing right foot. Sculpted by T Kirkby.
Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt: she was born to Henry Vere. Before 1508 John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt and she were married. In 1529 John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt was created 1st Baron Mordaunt. She by marriage Baroness Mordaunt. Before 1561 she died.
What appear to be Harpies supporting the monument.
The Mordaunt Crest has changed to a Blackamoor's Head.
[his daughter] Edith Mordaunt was born to John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt and Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt.
[his son] Edmund Mordaunt was born to John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt and Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt.
[his daughter] Anne Mordaunt was born to John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt and Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt.
Before 1479 John Greene and [his mother] Edith Latimer were married.
[his daughter] Dorothy Mordaunt was born to John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt and Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt.
[his son] William Mordaunt was born to John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt and Elizabeth Vere Baroness Mordaunt.
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 17 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 19 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 17 Grand Son of Maredudd ab Owain King Deheubarth King Powys King Gwynedd
Kings Franks: Great x 25 Grand Son of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Kings France: Great x 17 Grand Son of Robert "Pious" II King France
GrandFather: William Mordaunt
Father: John Mordaunt
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Peake
GrandMother: Margaret Peake
John Mordaunt 1st Baron Mordaunt
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Latimer
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Latimer
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Latimer
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Latimer
GrandFather: Nicholas Latimer
Mother: Edith Latimer
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Hody
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Hody
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Cole of Nitheway in Brixham
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Cole
GrandMother: Joan Hody
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Jewel of Whitfield, Wiveliscombe, Somerset
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Jewel
Great x 3 Grandfather: John de Pillesden of Pilsdon
Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice de Pillesden
