Paternal Family Tree: North
Maternal Family Tree: Alice Squier Baroness North -1560
Around 1527 [his father] Edward North 1st Baron North [aged 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 [aged 34] and Alice Squier Baroness North.
Before 1550 [his brother-in-law] William Somerset 3rd Earl of Worcester [aged 23] and [his sister] Christina North Countess of Worcester were married. She by marriage Countess Worcester. He the son of Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester [aged 47].
Around 1551 [his son] John North was born to Roger North 2nd Baron North [aged 21] in Kirtling.
In 1554 [his father] Edward North 1st Baron North [aged 58] was created 1st Baron North. [his mother] Alice Squier Baroness North by marriage Baroness North.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 27th October 1557. The xxvij day of October my lade was browth to the chyrche, with the byshope of London [aged 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 [aged 20], and my lord North [aged 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.)
Before 1558 [his brother-in-law] Henry Scrope 9th Baron Scrope of Bolton [aged 23] and [his sister] Christina North Countess of Worcester were married. She by marriage Baroness Scrope of Bolton.
Around 1558 [his sister] Christina North Countess of Worcester died.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 13th January 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 [aged 19],
John lord Sheffield [aged 21],
John lord Darcy of Chiche [aged 27],
Sir Robert Rich [aged 22],
Sir Roger North [aged 29],
Sir Nicholas Pointz [aged 31],
Sir John Berkeley,
Sir Edward Unton [aged 25],
Sir Henry Weston [aged 24],
Sir George Speke [aged 29],
See Anstis's History of the Order of the Bath, App. lxx.; and Nicolas, Appx. p. xiv.
Before 19th August 1560 [his mother] Alice Squier Baroness North died.
Around 1564 [his father] Edward North 1st Baron North [aged 68] died.
Around 1564 Roger North 2nd Baron North [aged 34] succeeded 2nd Baron North.
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On 21st September 1578 Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester [aged 46] and Lettice Knollys Countess Essex and Leicester [aged 34] were married secretly much to the anguish of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 45] who developed a deep hatred of Lettice Knollys Countess Essex and Leicester. She by marriage Countess of Leicester. Roger North 2nd Baron North [aged 48] was present. He the son of John Dudley 1st Duke Northumberland and Jane Guildford Duchess Northumberland. They were fifth cousins.
In 1596 Roger North 2nd Baron North [aged 66] was appointed Treasurer of the Household.
On 5th June 1597 [his son] John North [aged 46] died.
On 3rd December 1600 Roger North 2nd Baron North [aged 70] died. His grandson Dudley [aged 18] succeeded 3rd Baron North.
father: Edward North 1st Baron North
Grandfather: Oliver Squier of Southby in Hampshire
mother: Alice Squier Baroness North