BERTIE FAMILY
Born: 25 Dec 1516 Acceded: Lincoln Died: 9 Apr 1582 Buried: Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England Notes: Thomas Bertie began his professional life in 1532 earning 13 shillings and 4 pence per annum maintaining the fabric of Winchester Cathedral. He was a mason and this was a time when the building trade was flourishing, primarily because the dissolution of the monasteries released vast amounts of building materials for the "new men" to build the fine houses we now so readily associate with the late Tudor reigns. Then in 1539 Henry VIII decided to erect blockhouses for coastal defence and Thomas Bertie as "Mr Bert" was the master mason for the project. The rise of the Berties had begun, and in 1550 "Thomas Bartue" was designated as Captain of Hurst Castle when he received a grant of arms in which the text noted that he had "of long tyme used himself in feates of armes and good works" -Elizabethan hyperbole used when a man could afford to "bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall for money have a coat and arms bestowed upon him by the heralds" (who in the charter of the same do of custom pretend antiquity and service, and many gay things). |
The tomb of Catherine and Richard Bertie, at Spilsby |
Thomas sent his son Richard to read law at Oxford University, from which he entered the service of the Duchess of Suffolk as her gentleman usher. When he married the Duchess in 1552.
Father: Thomas BERTIE
Mother: ¿?
Married: Catherine WILLOUGHBY (B. Willoughby of Eresby/D. Suffolk) 1553
Children:
2. Peregrine BERTIE (1° B. Willoughby of Eresby)
Born: 1554
Died: AFT 1596
Notes: See her biography.
Father: Richard BERTIE (MP)
Mother: Catherine WILLOUGHBY (B. Willoughby of Eresby/D. Suffolk)
Married 1: Reynold GREY (5º E. Kent)
Married 2: John WINGFIELD (Sir) 1582
Children:
1. Peregrine WINGFIELD (b. ABT 1589)
2. Robert WINGFIELD (chr. 19 Jul 1591 - d. 18 Aug 1592)
Peregrine BERTIE (1° B. Willoughby of Eresby)
Born: 12 Oct 1555, Wesel, Cleves
Christened: 14 Oct 1555, St. Willibord, Wesel, Cleves
Acceded: 1580
Died: 25 Jun 1601, Berwick
Buried: Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
Notes: The Complete
Peerage vol.XIIpII,p.676-679. Followed Leicester as
commander of English troops, Governor of Geertruidenberg, Holland
Father: Richard BERTIE (MP)
Mother: Catherine WILLOUGHBY (B. Willoughby of Eresby/D. Suffolk)
Married: Mary De VERE (B. Willoughby of Eresby) 1577 SEPARATION 1600
Children:
1. Robert BERTIE (1° E. Lindsey)
3. Henry BERTIE
5. Vere BERTIE (b. 1581 - d. 13 Sep 1614)
6. Roger BERTIE (b. 1584 - d. 1611)
7. Ambrose BERTIE
Born: 16 Dec 1582, Oyford, Bulbeck, Sandford, & Badlesmere Acceded: 22 Nov 1626 Died: 23 Oct 1642 Notes: Knight of the Garter. The Complete Peerage vol.XIIpII,p.679. Died of wounds received at the battle of Edgehill. |
A Church glass that shows Robert Bertie, Captain Smythe and Samuel Saltonshall |
Father: Peregrine BERTIE (1° B. Willoughby of Eresby)
Mother: Mary De VERE (B. Willoughby of Eresby)
Married: Elizabeth MONTAGUE (C. Lindsey) ABT 1605, Boughton, Northamptonshire, England
Children:
1. Peregrine BERTIE (Sir)
2. Sophia BERTIE (m. Richard Chaworth)
3. Richard BERTIE
4. Montagu BERTIE (2° E. Lindsey) (b. BEF 1608)
5. Francis BERTIE
6. Robert BERTIE
7. Henry BERTIE
8. Vere BERTIE
9. Edward BERTIE
10. Catherine BERTIE
11. Elizabeth BERTIE
12. Anne BERTIE
13. Mary BERTIE
Born: ABT 1579, Berwick, Hampshire, England
Died: 15 Feb 1610/11
Buried: Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
Father: Peregrine BERTIE (1° B. Willoughby of Eresby)
Mother: Mary De VERE (B. Willoughby of Eresby)
Married: Lewis WATSON (1º B. Rockingham) (bapt. 14 Jul 1584 Rockingham - d. 5 Jan 1652) (son of Sir Edward Watson and Anne Digby) (m.2 Eleanor Manners) ABT 1595, Rockingham, Northampton, England
Born: ABT 1577, Berwick, Hampshire, England
Died: 21 Nov 1655
Buried: Edenham, Lincolnshire, England
Father: Peregrine BERTIE (1° B. Willoughby of Eresby)
Mother: Mary De VERE (B. Willoughby of Eresby)
Married: Dorothy CORBET ABT 1623
Children:
1. Jerome BERTIE
2. Henry BERTIE
3. Robert BERTIE
Born: 1575, Belleau, Lincolnshire, England
Buried: 13 Nov 1639, St. Giles-In-The-Fields, London, England
Father: Peregrine BERTIE (1° B. Willoughby of Eresby)
Mother: Mary De VERE (B. Willoughby of Eresby)
Married: Margaret SAUNDERSON (son of Nicholas Saunderson, 1º V. Castleton of Sandbeck and Mildred Elltoft) ABT 1624
Children:
1. Henry BERTIE
2. Roger BERTIE
3. Vere BERTIE
4. Robert BERTIE
5. Peregrine BERTIE
6. Mildred BERTIE
7. Elizabeth BERTIE
8. Nicholas BERTIE
9. Sophia BERTIE