Biography of Robert Heneage 1500-1556

Paternal Family Tree: Heneage

Around 1500 Robert Heneage was born to John Heneage (age 48).

Around 1511 Robert Heneage (age 11) and Anne Capell (age 9) were married. This marriage may have never taken place, or have been annulled, since she lived to 1587 whereas he married twice later around 1530 and 1548.

Around 1530 Robert Heneage (age 30) and Lucy Buckton were married.

On 31 May 1530 [his father] John Heneage (age 78) died.

In 1532 [his son] Thomas Heneage was born to Robert Heneage (age 32) and [his wife] Lucy Buckton at Copt Hall Epping.

In 1539 [his future brother-in-law] Richard Manners (age 30) and Margaret Dymoke (age 39) were married. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward III of England.

Around 1548 Robert Heneage (age 48) and Margaret Manners were married. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

On 09 Feb 1551 [his brother-in-law] Richard Manners (age 42) died.

In 1554 [his son] Thomas Heneage (age 22) and [his daughter-in-law] Anne Poyntz (age 20) were married.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 27 Jul 1556. The xxvij day of July was bered Thomas Lune grocer in sant Mare Mawdlyn in Mylke-strett, with ij whytt branchys and xviij stayffes torchys and iiij grett tapurs; and alle thay had mantyll fryse gownes, and dyvers women had lyke gownes, pore men and women; and mony morners in blake, and dyver althermen with gren stayffes; and the masturs of the hospetalle with gren stayffes; .... and vj long torchys and vj tapurs of iijli a [peice] and iiij grett tapurs with armes, and the cherche hangyd with blake a-for-none; and mony mornars and mony prestes and clarkes, [and so] home to dener; and a vj dosen of skochyons, and the powre.... The sam day was bered at saynt Katheryn ... cherche master Thomas Henege [Note. Probably Robert Heneage (age 56)], with a penon and a harold bayring his cott armur, and ij whyt branchys, and a dosen stayffes [torches, .. ] tapurs and a v. dosen of skochyons; and the cherche hangyd with blake; and after to the hosse to dener.

Note. P. 111. Funeral of (Robert) Heneage esquire. Machyn was wrong in the christian name, giving, as in some other cases, the name of the son to the father. This was Robert Heneage esquire, auditor of the duchy of Lancaster, and surveyor of the queen's woods beyond Trent; and father of sir Thomas Heneage, afterwards chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, and a privy councillor to queen Elizabeth. Though Stowe does not mention his monument at St. Katharine Creechurch, Collins (in Peerage, tit. Finch earl of Winchelsea) states that effigies in brass of Robert Heneage and his wife, who was Margaret sister to Thomas earl of Rutland, remained in that church, but the inscription was effaced.

On 27 Jul 1556 Robert Heneage (age 56) died.

In 1587 [his former wife] Anne Capell (age 85) died.

Henry Strangeways and Margaret Manners were married. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

Royal Descendants of Robert Heneage 1500-1556

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom x 1

Diana Spencer Princess Wales x 2