Paternal Family Tree: Southwell
In or before 1503 [his father] Francis Southwell [aged 26] and [his mother] Dorothy Tendering [aged 17] were married.
Around 1506 Robert Southwell was born to Francis Southwell [aged 30] and Dorothy Tendering [aged 21] at Windham Manor, Norfolk.
On 2nd September 1512 [his father] Francis Southwell [aged 36] died at Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk.
In 1520 [his mother] Dorothy Tendering [aged 35] died.
In or before 1524 [his son-in-law] Thomas Sydney [aged 23] and [his daughter] Mary Southwell were married.
In 1529 Robert Southwell [aged 23] was elected MP King's Lynn.
In 1531 Robert Southwell [aged 25] was obliged to pay £1,000 for a pardon for his involvement with his two brothers Robert Southwell and [his half-brother] Francis Southwell of Wymondham [aged 19] for the murder of Sir William Pennington. The pardon was later confirmed by Act of Parliament (25 Hen. VIII, c.32).
In 1534 Robert Southwell [aged 28] was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk and High Sheriff of Suffolk.
In 1536 Robert Southwell [aged 30] was elected MP King's Lynn.
In 1536 Robert Southwell [aged 30] was appointed Master of Requests.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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On 1st May 1536 Robert Southwell [aged 30] and Margaret Neville [aged 16] were married at Mereworth, Kent.
On 24th March 1537 [his son] Thomas Southwell was born to Robert Southwell [aged 31] and [his wife] Margaret Neville [aged 17] at Mereworth, Kent.
In 1538 [his daughter] Anne Southwell was born to Robert Southwell [aged 32] and [his wife] Margaret Neville [aged 18]. She married before 24th August 1585 Edmund Bedingfield.
In 1539 Robert Southwell [aged 33] was elected MP King's Lynn.
In 1539 Robert Southwell [aged 33] was appointed Commissioner for the Suppression of Monasteries.
On 16th January 1542 Robert Southwell [aged 36] was appointed Master of the Rolls which position he held until 1550.
Around 1552 [his daughter] Dorothy Elizabeth Southwell was born to Robert Southwell [aged 46] and [his wife] Margaret Neville [aged 32]. She married before 4th May 1589 Thomas Bedingfield and had issue.
In October 1553 Robert Southwell [aged 47] was elected MP Kent.
On 28th January 1554 the Battle of Hartley was fought at Hartley Sevenoaks, Kent between a rebel force of Wyatt's Rebellion led by Henry Isley [aged 54] and a loyal royalist force led by Henry Neville 6th and 4th Baron Abergavenny [aged 24] and Robert Southwell [aged 48]. The rebels were defeated. Rebel Anthony Knyvet [aged 37] fought and was captured.
In October 1555 Robert Southwell [aged 49] was elected MP Kent.
On 26th October 1559 Robert Southwell [aged 53] died at Mereworth, Kent.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 8th November 1559. [The viij day of November was buried in Kent] ser Robartt Sowthwell [deceased] knyght, sum-tyme master of the rolles, with a harold of armes, and a standard, a penon of armes, a cot armur, a target, a elmett, and a viij dosen skochyons of armes.
Note. P. 217. Funeral of sir Robert Southwell. Constituted master of the rolls July 1, 1542; resigned in 1550. He was brother to sir Richard Southwell [aged 56], a member of the privy council, and executor to Henry VIII. Sir Robert resided at Jotes Place in the parish of Mereworth, Kent. (Hasted, iii. 269.)
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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On 25th December 1575 [his former wife] Margaret Neville [aged 55] died.
[his daughter] Mary Southwell was born to Robert Southwell and Margaret Neville. She married (1) Thomas Sydney (2) in or before 1524 Thomas Sydney and had issue.
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Southwell of Felix Hall 
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Southwell
Grandfather: Richard Southwell
father: Francis Southwell
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Tendering
Grandfather: William Tendering
mother: Dorothy Tendering
Great x 1 Grandfather: William IV Sidney 
Grandmother: Thomasine Sidney