In 1486 Ralph Warren was born to Thomas Warren of Feering in Essex.
In 1528 Ralph Warren [aged 42] was appointed Sheriff of London.
In 1536 Ralph Warren [aged 50] was elected Lord Mayor of London. He was knighted by King Henry VIII of England and Ireland [aged 44] the same year.
Around 1536 Ralph Warren [aged 50] lived at Fulham House.
In or before 1538 Ralph Warren [aged 51] and Joan Trelake were married.
Around 1538 [his son] Richard Warren was born to Ralph Warren [aged 52] and [his wife] Joan Trelake. He married before 21st July 1597 Elizabeth Hayward Baroness Knyvet, daughter of Rowland Hayward.
In 1543 Ralph Warren [aged 57] was elected Lord Mayor of London.
In 1545 [his daughter] Joan Warren was born to Ralph Warren [aged 59] and [his wife] Joan Trelake. She married 1562 Henry Cromwell aka Williams and had issue.
Henry Machyn's Diary. 6th June 1553. The same day, wyche was the xvj day of July, was Raff Warren [aged 67] knyght, mercer and alderman, and twysse [lord mayor of] London, and marchand of the stapull and marchand ven[turer, buried] with standard and v pennons of armes, a cott armur, ... a helmett, mantyll and crest, and sword, and a xij dosen of schochyons; and ther wher my lord mere morner .... berer, the iiij sqyre mornars, and mony aldermen at ys beryng; [there] wher mony mornars in blake, and in blake cotes, and ther wher L. gownes gyffyn unto L. men, of rats coler, of a m ... a yerd; and ther dynyd my lord mayre and mony aldermen, [and] ther wher a gret dener as I have sene.
Note. Funeral of alderman sir Ralph Warren. Son of [his father] Thomas Warren, fuller, son of William Warren of Fering in Essex; sheriff in 1528, mayor in 1537, and again in 1544 (in the place of sir William Bowyer). On a fair marble tomb in the chancel of St. Osythe's, alias St. Benet Sherehog: "Here lyeth buried the right worshipfull sir Ralph Warren knight, alderman and twice lord mayor of London, mercer, merchant of the staple at Callis; with his two wives, dame Christian and dame Joane, which said sir Ralph departed this life the 11. day of July, An. Dom. 1553." He was buried on the 16th. By his second wife Joan, daughter and coheir of John Lake, of London, sir Ralph left issue Richard Warren [aged 15] esquire, who married Elizabeth [aged 10], dau. of sir Roland Lee [Hayward?] knt. alderman and lord mayor, and Joan [aged 8], married to sir Henry Williams alias Cromwell [aged 18], by whom she had issue Oliver, Robert, Henry, Richard, and Johanna. "Lady Jone Waren, aforesaid, one of the doters and heyrs of John Lake, dysseassed at the howse of sir Henry Williams alias Cromwell knight, her son in lawe, called Hynchyngbroke, in the county of Huntyngton, on Wensday 8. of October, 1572, and the 14. yere of our most gracious soveraigne lady quene Elizabeth, and was beryed in the parish churche of St. Benedicke Sherehogge in London, on tewsday the . . . vember, in the yere aforesaid." Her second husband was sir Thomas White [aged 61], another lord mayor, and who is immortalized by his foundation of St. John's college, Oxford. Our diarist records their marriage, in p. 179.
A remarkable instance of the simplifying of arms is afforded by what was done in regard to sir Ralph Warren's monument at St. Osith's. It originally bore this crowded coat: Azure, on a chevron between three lozenges argent, three eagle's heads erased of the first, on a chief checky or and gules a greyhound courant ermine. "These armes were taken downe by his sonne Ric. Warren, and these sett upp in place thereof: Or, a chevron engrailed between three eagle's heads erased sable." Arms of the Lord Mayors, by William Smith, Rouge-dragon.
the iiij sqyre(s) attendant at the same funeral were the four esquires of the Lord Mayor's house, namely, the swordbearer, the common hunt, the common crier, and the water-bailiff.
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On 11th July 1553 Ralph Warren [aged 67] died. He was buried at St Benet Sherehog Cordwainer Ward.
On 25th November 1558 Thomas White [aged 66] and [his former wife] Joan Trelake were married.
On 8th October 1572 [his former wife] Joan Trelake died at Hinchinbrooke House [Map]. She was buried on 4th November 1573 at St Benet Sherehog Cordwainer Ward.