DORMER FAMILY
Born: ABT 1353, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
Married: Eleanor DORRE
Children:
Born: ABT 1385
Died: AFT 1412, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
Father: Geoffrey DORMER
Mother: Eleanor DORRE
Married: Isabel BALDINGTON
Children:
Born: ABT 1408, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
Father: Geoffrey DORMER
Mother: Isabel BALDINGTON
Married 1: Margaret LAUNCELYN (d. ABT 1454)
Children:
2. Michael DORMER (Sir Mayor of London)
Married 1: Ursula (Alice) COLLINRIDGE (b. ABT 1407) (dau. of Bartholomew Collinridge and Alice Fitzalan)
Children:
3. Alice DORMER
6. Agnes DORMER
7. Thomas DORMER
9. Constance DORMER
10. Geoffrey DORMER
Father: Geoffrey DORMER
Mother: Ursula (Alice) COLLINRIDGE
Married: Thomas CROKER
Children:
1. John CROKER (b. 1500)
Father: Geoffrey DORMER
Mother: Ursula (Alice) COLLINRIDGE
Married: Richard COWLEYBorn: ABT 1419
Died: 1464
Father: Geoffrey DORMER
Mother: Ursula (Alice) COLLINRIDGE
Married: John BALDWINChildren:
1. Sylvester BALDWIN
Father: Geoffrey DORMER
Mother: Ursula (Alice) COLLINRIDGE
Married: Catherine SAMPSON (b. 1496 - d. 9 Jan 1576) (m.2 Sir John Gresham)Children:
Born: 1528
Died: 1615Notes: John Gresham is buried in Sir Thomas Gresham's vault in St. Helen's Bishopgate. He lived in Bishopgate Street in 1562 and sold Mayfield to Sir Thomas Gresham, Knight. John was from North End, Fulham, Middlesex County, and Mayfield, County of Sussex. John was a Mercer in North End, Fulham, County of Middlesex. Member of Parliament for Horsham 1570. He married Elizabeth Dormer, dau. and heir of Edward Dormer, Esq. After the death of Elizabeth's father in 1539, her mother, Catherine Sampson, became the second wife of Elizabeth's father-in-law, Sir John Gresham, Knight of Titsey.
Father: Edward DORMER (Esq.)Mother: Catherine SAMPSON
Married: John GRESHAM (b. 14 Mar 1528) (son of Sir John Gresham and Mary Ipswell) 15 Jul 1553, St. Michael's, Bassiahaw, EnglandChildren:
1. Thomas GRESHAM (b. 1554)
2. William GRESHAM (b. ABT 1560)
3. Edmund GRESHAM (b. 1557)
Died: 1 Apr 1555, Newbottle Manor, Newbottle, Northamptonshire, England
Buried: Newbottle, Northamptonshire, England
Notes: Shipton, later Shipton Grange or Shipton Lee Manor, near Quainton, Buckinghamshire, before the Conquest was held by Boding the 'constable'; in 1086, when it was assessed at 7 hides, by Henry Ferrers. Later it was held as one knight's fee of the honour of Tutbury, which descended in the Ferrers, Earls of Derby, and in the duchy of Lancaster. The Ferrers' land in Shipton was given by William Fitz Otho before 1146 to Thame Abbey, his brother Everard being the first abbot. Shipton Lee remained with the abbey until its surrender in 1539, a lease for ninety-nine years having been granted in 1534 to Peter and Agnes Dormer.
Peter Dormer, successor to Sir Michael Dormer of Purston, who bought the advowson of the church and the rectorial tithes when Dunstable Priory was dissolved in the time of Henry VIII.
Monument at St James Church, Newbottle', Northants: There is a good sixteenth century brass in the north wall of the sanctuary to Peter Dormer and his 2 wives. He had 8 sons and 11 daughters.
Father: Geoffrey DORMER
Mother: Ursula (Alice) COLLINRIDGE
Married 1: Anne CRISPE
Children:
Married 2: Agnes COOPER (dau. of Thomas Cowper of Quainton)
Children:
2. Alice DORMER
3. John DORMER of Olney (dsp)
5. Jane DORMER
6. Gabriel DORMER of Lee Grange
Buried: Beoley, Worcestershire, England
Father: Peter DORMER of Lee Grange
Mother: Anne CRISPE
Married: John ALDERFORD
Children:
1. Eleanor ALDERFORD
2. Margaret ALDERFORD
Father: Peter DORMER of Lee Grange
Mother: Agnes COOPER
Married: Edmund OSBALDISTON
Father: Peter DORMER of Lee Grange
Mother: Agnes COOPER
Married: Christopher CRISPE (son of Richard Crispe of Copcott and Alice Lenthall)
Children:
1. Henry CRISPE
2. Peter CRISPE
3. Leonard CRISPE
5. Nicholas CRISPE
6. Michael CRISPE
7. Arthur CRISPE
8. Joseph CRISPE
9. Frances CRISPE
10. Anne CRISPE
Father: Peter DORMER of Lee Grange
Mother: Agnes COOPER
Married: Bridget LOVETT (dau. of Thomas Lovett and Elizabeth Butler) (m.2 John Hawtrey)
Children:
Father: Gabriel DORMER of Lee Grange
Mother: Bridget LOVETT
Married: Edward HAWTREY (b. 1545 - d. ABT 1592) (son of Ralph Hawtrey and Winifred ?)
Children:
1. Ralph HAWTREY (b. 1570 - d. 1638) (m. Mary Altman)
Father: Gabriel DORMER of Lee Grange
Mother: Bridget LOVETT
Married: Margaret FLEETWOOD (dau. of Thomas Fleetwood and Bridget Spring)
Children:
1. Fleetwood DORMER of Lee Grange (Sir)
Fleetwood DORMER of Lee Grange (Sir)
Buckinghamshire, England
Died: Feb 1639, Gloucestershire, England
Buried: Quainton, Buckinghamshire, England
Father: Peter DORMER of Lee Grange
Mother: Margaret FLEETWOOD
Married: Mary ISHAM (dau. of Sir Euseby Isham, Sheriff of Northamptonshire and Anne Borlase) (w. of Edward Reade)
Children:
1. Fleetwood DORMER of Arle Court (Sir) (b. 1604 - d. 1696)
2. Euseby DORMER
3. Peter DORMER
4. John DORMER of Lee Grange (MP) (b. 1612 - d. 1679) (m. Catherine Woodward)
5. Margaret DORMER
6. Dorothy DORMER
Michael DORMER (Sir Mayor of London)
Died: 20 Sep 1545
Notes: Mercer. Sheriff 1529-30. Mayor 1541/2. Knighted 2 Feb 1542; Auditor 1526-8; Master Mercers 1531, 1545; Will (PCC 38 Pynning) 17 Sep; proved 2 Oct.
Father: Geoffrey DORMER
Mother: Margaret LAUNCELYN
Married 1: Elizabeth DAVYE
Children:
1. John DORMER (Sir) (b. 1525 - d. 1610)
3. John DORMER
4. Joan DORMER
5. Geoffrey DORMER of Farthingoe
6. Ambrose DORMER of Great Milton
7. William DORMER of Long Crendon
8. Walter DORMER (Rector of North Crawley)
9. Margaret DORMER
Married 2: Catherine DALLAM
Father: Michael DORMER (Sir Mayor of London)
Mother: Elizabeth DAVYE
Married 1: James BOLNEY
Children:
1. Agnes BOLNEY
Married 2: Edward BORLASE
Children:
2. John BORLASE
Married 3: Anthony STAPLETON (MP)
Children:
3. Michael STAPLETON
4. Amyas STAPLETON
Ambrose DORMER of Great Milton
Died: 1556, Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England
Father: Michael DORMER (Sir Mayor of London)
Mother: Elizabeth DAVYE
Married: Jane BURY (dau. of James Bury and Amy Lovett) (m.2 William Hawtrey, MP)
Children:
2. Michael DORMER (Sir)
Died: ABT 1619
Father: Ambrose DORMER of Great Milton
Mother: Jane BURY
Married 1: William HAWTREY (Sir) (son of William Hawtrey and Anne ?)
Married 2: John PIGOTT (MP) (b. 1550 - d. 1624) (son of Francis Pigott of Stratton and Eleanor Enderby)
Children:
1. Catherine PIGOTT (b. ABT 1592 - d. 1640) (m. Robert Ward)
Born: 1506
Died: 1550, Burghfield, Berkshire, England
Father: Michael DORMER (Sir Mayor of London)
Mother: Elizabeth DAVYE
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Alice DORMER
Father: Thomas DORMER
Mother: ¿?
Married: John BROWNE of Willey
Children:
1. John BROWNE
Born: ABT 1520, Steeple-Barton, Oxford, England
Died: BET 1544 / 1630, Steeple-Barton, Oxford, England
Father: Michael DORMER (Sir Mayor of London)
Mother: Elizabeth DAVYE
Married: Elizabeth GODDARD (b. ABT 1527) 1546, Steeple-Barton, Oxford, England
Children:
2. Stephen DORMER
3. Mary DORMER
4. William DORMER
Born: ABT 1546, Steeple Barton, Oxford, England
Died: ABT 1594, Wolton, Isle Of Wight, Hampshire, EnglandFather: John DORMER
Mother: Elizabeth GODDARDMarried: Anthony LISLE (b. ABT 1540) (son of Thomas Lisle and Dau. Moore) ABT 1569, Wolton, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Children:1. William LISLE (b. 1569) (m.1 Bridget Hungerford - m.2 Elizabeth Searle - m.3 Grace Potnall)
2. Anne LISLE (m. Henry Leigh)
3. Eleanor LISLE (m. Thomas Peckham)
4. Edward LISLE
William DORMER of Long Crendon
Died: 1563
Father: Michael DORMER (Sir Mayor of London)
Mother: Elizabeth DAVYE
Married: Elizabeth SCRIVEN
Children:
2. William DORMER (Vicar of Olney)
Died: 10 Mar 1627, Buckinghamshire, England
Buried: Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, England
Father: William DORMER of Long Crendon
Mother: Elizabeth SCRIVEN
Married 1: Judith HUNGERFORD
Married 2: Jane GIFFARD (dau. of Sir John Giffard of Chillington y Joyce Levenson)
Children:
2. Robert DORMER of Ascot (Sir)
Married 3: Catherine BLOUNT
Died: 1649
Buried: Long Clendon, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Father: John DORMER (Sir)
Mother: Jane GIFFARD
Married: Mary READ (dau. of Sir Thomas Reade and Mary Brockett)
Children:
1. Robert DORMER
2. William "The Splendid" DORMER
3. Robert DORMER of Dorton and Long Crendon
Father: John DORMER (Sir)
Mother: Jane GIFFARD
Married 1: Robert SPILLER (Sir)
Children:
1. Jane SPILLER (m. James Herbert)
Married 2: John DYNHAM (Sir) (son of Sir John Dynham and Catherine Brome)
Born: ABT 1438, West Wycomb, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: BEF 22 Sep 1506, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
Father: Geoffrey DORMER
Mother: Margaret LAUNCELYN
Married: Agnes WOODVILLE
Children:
1. Robert DORMER of West Wycombe (Sir)
2. Agnes DORMER
3. Joan DORMER
7. Elizabeth DORMER
8. John DORMER
9. Lettice DORMER
Married 2: Jane LAUNCELYN
Born: 1482, Wycombe, Buckhamshire, England
Father: William DORMER
Mother: Agnes WOODVILLE
Married: John BALDWIN (b. 11 Aug 1470) Aston Clinton, Buckhamshire, England
Children:
1. Richard BALDWIN (b. 1505)
Born: ABT 1479
Died: 1550
Father: William DORMER
Mother: Agnes WOODVILLE
Married: William ALBURGH
Born: ABT 1480
Father: William DORMER
Mother: Agnes WOODVILLE
Married: Thomas DEANE
Children:
1. Henry DEANE
Born: ABT 1483, Wycombe, Buckhamshire, England
Father: William DORMER
Mother: Agnes WOODVILLE
Married: Son BRITTAYNE
Father: William DORMER
Mother: Agnes WOODVILLE
Married: John COLLINGBORNE
Robert DORMER of West Wycombe (Sir)
Died: 12 Jul 1552, Buckinghamshire, England
Notes: Had a grant of the manor Wenge, part of the possessions of the Abbey of St. Albans. High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Well connected at court by his relations with the Seymour family. Before her marriage with Henry VIII, Jane Seymour had been engaged to one of the Dormer family, perhaps William Dormer, Sir Robert's son.
Father: William DORMER
Mother: Agnes WOODVILLE
Married: Jane NEWDIGATE
Children:
1. William DORMER (Sir Knight)
Born: 1503, Eythorpe, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: 17 May 1575, Wenge, Buckinghamshire, England
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Robert DORMER of West Wycombe (Sir)
Mother: Jane NEWDIGATE
Married 1: Mary SIDNEY
Children:
2. Anne DORMER
Married 2: Dorothy CATESBY ABT 1552
Children:
3. Catherine DORMER (B. St. John of Bletsoe)
4. Mary DORMER
5. Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)
7. Richard DORMER
8. Francis DORMER
9. Anne DORMER
10. Peregrine DORMER
Born: 1525, Ascot, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: 1603, Louvain
Notes: In 1568 Hungerford sued his wife for divorce, alleging that she attempts to poison him in 1564 and had committed adultery between 1560 and 1568 with William Darrell of Littlecote and that she had had a child by him. 'Will Darrell' was a notorious loose-liver, and surviving letters from Anne Hungerford to her 'good Will' suggest that Hungerford's accusations of adultery and attempted poisoning were not unfounded. Nevertheless, two years later Sir Francis Englefield was able to report that 'my lady Hungerford's great suit has ended by sentence to her sufficient purgation, though neither sufficient for her recompense nor his punishment'.
Hungerford spent three years in the fleet prison, refusing to support his wife in separation or to pay the 250 pounds awarded her as costs in the suit, though willing, he afterwards asserted, to take her back. She eventually left England under a license obtained for her by the Earl of Leicester to visit her dying grandmother at Louvain. In Aug 1571 the Duchess of Feria wrote to ask that the license be extended from six months to two years, partly to allow Lady Hungerford to keep a safe distance from her husband. Anne took over her grandmother's household in Louvain after Lady Dormer's death and remained there. In 1573, she was granted a pension of 1,100 livres a year by the King of Spain and in 1583 he granted her a further pension of fifty escudos a month. Anne became friends with Margaret of Parma as well as with the other English exiles living in Flanders. After her only son died (the date of his death varies, depending on the source, from 1583 to 1587), Anne claimed that Hungerford was attempting to defraud their daughters of their portion. In his 1595 will, Hungerford left two farms to Margery Bright, his mistress for some years and the mother of four children by him, the last born after Hungerford's death. Upon hearing a rumor that Anne was dead, Hungerford married Margery shortly before he died with the result that both Anne and Margery sued to establish the right to inherit as Hungerford's widow. There was never any question but that the victory would go to Anne. During that same period, Anne involved herself in politics in Flanders, urging her sister, the widowed duchess of Feria, to leave Spain and travel to Brussels. She wrote a number of letters on the subject and seems to have been convinced that the duchess's journey would alarm Queen Elizabeth and turn the tide in King Felipe's favor in the ongoing war in the Netherlands. Anne's nephew, Don Lorenzo, 2nd duke of Feria, took steps to thwart this intrigue and Anne seems to have given up the plan around 1599. There is no record that she returned to England before her death in 1603 at Louvain.
Father: William DORMER (Sir Knight)
Mother: Mary SIDNEY
Married: Walter HUNGERFORD of Farleigh (Sir Knight) 1558, Suffolk, England
Children:
1. Susan HUNGERFORD
2. Edmund HUNGERFORD
3. Jane HUNGERFORD
4. Lucy HUNGERFORD
Associated with: William DARRELL of Littlecote
Children:
5. William DARRELL
Born: 6 Jan 1538, Hayle, Buckinghamshire, England Died: 13 Jan 1612, Madrid, Spain Notes: half-sister of the Catholic former Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, had been the loyal companion of Mary Tudor; after Mary's death, she led several Tudor noblewomen into Catholic exile in Spain. Jane’s hand in marriage was sought by the Earl of Devon, the Duke of Norfolk, and Charles Howard, later earl of Nottingham, but she accepted the proposal of Don Gomez Suarez de Figueroa of Cordova, Duke of Feria, Felipe II's former representative in England. Raised broadly outside the influence of the Sidneys from the death of her mother in 1542, she spent her youth not only in the household of her paternal grandmother but also as a playmate of the young Edward VI who was very fond of the young Jane and is reported to have said after having beaten her at cards "now your king is gone Jane I shall be good enough for you" (by extension Jane would have been acquainted with Elizabeth I when she lodged with her half brother). Jane herself had been ill in Oct of 1558 but she returned to her dying mistress’s bedside in November and was entrusted with the errand of journeying to Hatfield to deliver Mary’s jewels to her sister and heir, Elizabeth Tudor. After Mary’s death, Jane lived with her grandmother, Jane Newdigate, Lady Dormer (d. 7 Jul 1571) at the Savoy Palace. Jane Dormer married the count of Feria on 29 Dec and left England in Jul 1559. Her party included her grandmother and six gentlewomen. Feria was quick to perceive how Elizabeth's accession would change the religious tide in England and, despite his formal role as Spanish ambassador, refused to attend Elizabeth's coronation in a public rejection of expected Protestant elements in the service. Jane’s son Lorenzo was born at Mechlin, at the court of Margaret of Parma. At Amboise, France the following spring, Jane began a friendship with Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, that lasted until the Queen’s execution. Upon reaching Spain, Feria and Jane settled at Zafra in Estremadura and Feria was created duke of Feria in 1567. Jane's interest in the cause of Catholicism in England did not cause her to cease a correspondence with Elizabeth but she also received letters from four Popes and numerous other contacts. Within Spain she was a champion of exiled English fallen on hard times. Jane proved so adept at running his estates after Feria’s death on 7 Sep 1571 that Felipe II considered naming her Regent of the Netherlands in 1592. In 1603, an Englishman named Henry Clifford entered her service and wrote her biography, possibly from her dictation, but it was not published until 1887. Her health never recovered from an accident in 1609 and she was bedridden from the start of 1611 - planning ahead she had already prepared a coffin she kept in the house. At her death on 1612, she was attended by seven priests. She was buried in the habit of a Franciscan tertiary. |
Father: William DORMER (Sir Knight)
Mother: Mary SIDNEY
Married: Don GOMEZ SUAREZ De FIGUEROA (1° D. Feria)
Children:
1. Lorenzo SUAREZ De FIGUEROA (2° D. Feria) (b. 28 Sep 1559 - d. 1607)
Catherine DORMER (B. St. John of Bletsoe)
Born: ABT 1549
Died: 23 Mar 1615
Buried: Westminster Abbey, London, England
Father: William DORMER (Sir Knight)
Mother: Dorothy CATESBY
Married: John St. JOHN (2° B. St. John of Bletsoe) AFT 28 Feb 1574/5, Bedfordshire, England
Children:
1. Anne St. JOHN (B. Howard of Effingham)
Died: 1637
Buried: Midhurst, Sussex, England
Notes: third dau.
Father: William DORMER (Sir Knight)
Mother: Dorothy CATESBY
Married 1: Anthony BROWNE (Sir) ABT 1569
Children:
1. Anthony Maria BROWNE (2º V. Montague)
3. Jane BROWNE
5. George BROWNE
6. John BROWNE
Married 2: Edmund UVEDALE (Sir) (See his Biography) AFT Jun 1592
Married 3: Thomas GERARD (Sir) AFT Apr 1606
Married 4: William PELHAM
Born: 1553, Eythorpe, Buckinghamshire, England Died: 26 Apr 1637 Notes: a notable recusant who spent time in prison in 1592. She raised her children as pious Roman Catholics. Father: William DORMER (Sir Knight) Mother: Dorothy CATESBY Married: Henry CONSTABLE of Burton Constable (Sir) ABT 1575 |
Margaret Dormer by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger |
Children:
2. Henry CONSTABLE (1° V. Dunbar)
6. John CONSTABLE (b. ABT 1584)
Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)
Born: 26 Jan 1551, Eythorpe, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: 8 Nov 1616, Wing, Buckinghamshire, England
Buried: 19 Nov 1616, Wing, Buckinghamshire, England
Notes: Letters of Sir Francis Englefield to Duchess of Feria in 1570 show plainly how Sir Robert Dormer, in his "old age" was in danger of falling away from the Roman Catholic interest. He was said to be beset by heretics (such as the Earl of Bedford) so that one letter quoted "he breathes their spirit" and "the use of ill company and all lack of good occasions of reviving a man's slow devotion to good things, in time corrupts the mind, affection and soul". It was hoped at the same time that his son's marriage with a daughter of Lord Montague would make him a "pillar to that family that shall succeed in that realm". This marriage did not make Sir Robert an open recusant but it kept him within the old circle and all his children married into Roman Catholic families. Between 1577 and 1586 there was an increase in recusants throughout the country due largely to the activities of Jesuits and seminary priests. In 1585 Sir Robert as High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire was ordered to draw up a list of recusants for the shire "that they may be compelled to pay their fines and provide horses for the queen's service". 22 names were included representing 15 families. Created a Bart. 10 Jun 1615. Baron Dormer of Wing 1615.
Father: William DORMER (Sir Knight)
Mother: Mary SIDNEY
Married: Elizabeth BROWNE ABT 1580
Children:
2. Anthony DORMER of Grove Park
Father: Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)
Mother: Elizabeth BROWNE
Married: Margaret TERRINGHAM (dau. of Henry Terringham) Warwickshire, England
Father: Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)
Mother: Elizabeth BROWNE
Married: Mary BANNISTER (dau. of Edward Bannister)
Born: 1577 Father: Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing) Mother: Elizabeth BROWNE Married: Henry HUDDLESTON (Esq.) |
Dorothy Dormer Formerly attributed to Nicholas Hilliard |
Father: Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)
Mother: Elizabeth BROWNE
Married: John CURZON
Born: ABT 1585, Warblington, Sussex, England
Father: Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)
Mother: Elizabeth BROWNE
Married: John CARYLL (b. 1564) (son of John Carryll and Mary Cotton) 1602, Warnham, Sussex, England
Children:
1. Anne Elizabeth CARRYLL (b. 1603)
2. John CARRYLL (b. 1603) (m. Catherine Petre)
Died: BEF 1592
Father: Robert DORMER (1º B. Dormer of Wing)
Mother: Elizabeth BROWNE
Married: Alice MOLYNEUX
Children:
1.
Elizabeth DORMER
2.
Robert DORMER (1° E. Carnarvon)
Died: 31 May 1635, Worcester House
Buried: Raglan
Father: William DORMER (Sir)
Mother: Alice MOLYNEUX
Married: Edward SOMERSET (2° M. Worcester) 1628
Children:
1. Henry SOMERSET (1° D. Beaufort)
2. Anne SOMERSET (D. Norfolk)
3. Elizabeth SOMERSET (M. Powis) (b. ABT 1634 - d. 11 May 1691, St.Germain-en-Laye - bur. St.Germain-en-Laye) (m. William Herbert, 1° M. Powis, Jul 1654 London)
Born: ABT 1550, Eythorpe, Waddeston, Buckinghamshire, England
Married: George THROCKMORTON ABT 1570
Children:
1. Henry THROCKMORTON