Biography of Roger North 2nd Baron North 1530-1600

Paternal Family Tree: North

Maternal Family Tree: Alice Squier Baroness North 1560

Around 1527 [his father] Edward North 1st Baron North (age 31) and [his mother] Alice Squier Baroness North were married.

Before 1528 Edward Maurfyn and [his mother] Alice Squier Baroness North were married.

In 1530 Roger North 2nd Baron North was born to Edward North 1st Baron North (age 34) and Alice Squier Baroness North.

Around 1551 [his son] John North was born to Roger North 2nd Baron North (age 21) in Kirtling.

In 1554 [his father] Edward North 1st Baron North (age 58) was created 1st Baron North. [his mother] Alice Squier Baroness North by marriage Baroness North.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 27 Oct 1557. The xxvij day of October my lade was browth to the chyrche, with the byshope of London (age 57) and Powlles qwyre and the master and clarkes of London, and then cam the corse with v baners of armes borne; then cam iiij harolds in ther cotes of armes, and bare iiij banars of emages at the iiij corners; and then cam the chyff mornars, my [his sister] lade of Wossetur, and my lade Lumley (age 20), and my lord North (age 27), and ser Antony Selenger. [Then came a hundred mourners of men, and after as many ladies and gentlemen, all in black; and a great many poor women in black and rails, and] xxiiij pore men in blake beyryng of torchys, and mony of her servandes in blake cotes beyryng of torchys.

Note. P. 155. Funeral of the countess of Arundel. A full account of this funeral is preserved in the College of Arms, I. 15, ff. 266 et seq. The lady was previously countess of Sussex, and a letter written under that signature in 1537 has been published in Miss Wood's Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies, vol. ii. p. 306. "This Mary, doter of sir John Arundell of the West [and widow of Robert earl of Sussex, who died in 1542,] departed this lyff on Wensday the 20. of October 1557, in the 4. and 5. yeres of king Phelyp and quene Mary in the said erl of Arundelles place in St. Clementes parishe called the Danes withowt temple barre in London, and was beryed the xxviij. of October next folowinge." (MS. Harl. 897, f. 79.) The same authority supplies the following record of the earl of Arundel's former wife: "The lady Kateren Maltravers, doter of the lord marquis Dorset, departed owt of this world the fyrst day of May in the xxiiijth. yere of H. 8, (1532,) and lyeth beryed at St. Bartylmewes the lyttell within sir Gyles Capell('s) chapell." (p. 13b.)

Coronation of Elizabeth I

Henry Machyn's Diary. 13 Jan 1559. The xiij day of January with-in the Towre the Quen mad Knyghtes of the Baythe x.

Note. P. 186. The Knights of the Bath made at the Coronation of queen Elizabeth were in number eleven, viz.:—

John lord Darcy of the North (age 19),

John lord Sheffield (age 21),

John lord Darcy of Chiche (age 27),

Sir Robert Rich (age 22),

Sir Roger North (age 29),

Sir John Zouch,

Sir Nicholas Pointz (age 31),

Sir John Berkeley,

Sir Edward Unton (age 25),

Sir Henry Weston (age 24),

Sir George Speke (age 29),

See Anstis's History of the Order of the Bath, App. lxx.; and Nicolas, Appx. p. xiv.

Before 19 Aug 1560 [his mother] Alice Squier Baroness North died.

Around 1564 [his father] Edward North 1st Baron North (age 68) died.

Around 1564 Roger North 2nd Baron North (age 34) succeeded 2nd Baron North.

On 21 Sep 1578 Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester (age 46) and Lettice Knollys Countess Essex (age 34) were married secretly much to the anguish of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (age 45) who developed a deep hatred of Lettice Knollys Countess Essex (age 34). She by marriage Countess of Leicester. Roger North 2nd Baron North (age 48) was present. He the son of John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland and Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland.

In 1596 Roger North 2nd Baron North (age 66) was appointed Treasurer of the Household.

On 05 Jun 1597 [his son] John North (age 46) died.

On 03 Dec 1600 Roger North 2nd Baron North (age 70) died. His grandson Dudley North 3rd Baron North (age 18) succeeded 3rd Baron North.

Ancestors of Roger North 2nd Baron North 1530-1600

Roger North 2nd Baron North

GrandFather: Oliver Squier of Southby in Hampshire

Mother: Alice Squier Baroness North