George Talbot KG KB (1468 - 1538)

Born 1468 in Shifnal, Shropshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 26 Jul 1538 at about age 70 in Wingfield Manor, Derbyshire, England

Biography

George Talbot was a member of the aristocracy in England.

George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, K.G., K.B. (b. 1468 Shifnal, Salop, Shropshire, England), was the son of:^[1]

• John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury
• and Catherine Stafford.^[2]

Aged 5 years became Knight of Bath on 18 April 1475. He became Earl of Waterford.^[2] George Talbot, became the 4th Earl of Shrewsbury on the death of his father.

Marriage

Talbot was married to:

1. (bef. 27 Jun 1481) Anne Hastings (c. 1471–1520), lady in waiting to Katherine of Aragon, Queen Consort of Henry VIII. Issue: 11^[3]
2. Elizabeth (1491- Jul 1567), dau. of Sir Richard Walden. Issue: 2.

children

Anne Hastings is the mother of:

• Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury
• Richard (b. Chelsea - dsp).
• Henry (dvp).
• John, d. inf.
• John, d. inf.
• William (dsp).

• Marie, Countess Dowager of Northumberland (will 16 Apr 1572) m. Henry Algernon Percy, Earl of Northumberland (d. 29 Jun 1537 Hackney).^[4]
• Margaret
• Elizabeth (Baroness Gillesland)
• Dorothy Talbot
• Lucy

Elizabeth Walden is the mother of:

• Anne, Countess of Pembroke (18 Mar 1523 – 18 Jul 1588).

m.1 Peter Compton (d. 30 Jan 1544)

m.2 William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (d. 1570).^[5]

• John, d.y.

Property

King Henry VIII gave Coldeharbrough (Cold Harbour) a place in the city of London to the left of London Bridge, on the waterfront in front of the tower of the Church of All Hallows the Great^[6] to George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury.^[7] This residence has previously been used by the king's grandmother Margaret Beaufort, and had also been given to Elizabeth Denton on Margaret's death in July 1509. Elizabeth Denton was lady in waiting to the queen.

Events

• He carried the sword 'curtana' used at the coronation of King Henry VII on 30 October 1485 as well at at the coronation of King Henry VIII on 24 June 1509.^[2]
• 27 April 1488: installed Knight of the Garter
• 23 Dec 1488: made chief commissioner of musters in Staffordshire.^[2]
• He was godfather to Henry VII's second daughter Margaret Tudor.
• May 1513: Helped command an army of 14,000 men sent to Calais by Henry VIII.^[8]
• 1473 - 1638: hereditary Lord High Steward of Ireland.
• Under Henry VIII he was appointed Lord Steward of the King's household and Chamberlain of the Exchequer; Privy Counsellor in 1512.
• He supported the King's 'Great Matter' regarding the divorce to Catherine of Aragon, signing the letter to the Pope urging him to grant the divorce. In 1629 he also signed the articles against Cardinal Thomas Wolsey for treason.
• He was responsible for the building of Shrewsbury Chapel now an historic part of Sheffield Cathedral.

Death

He 'died on 26 July 1538 aged 70 at Wingfield Manor and his body was laid to rest in the Shrewsbury Chapel with his first wife Anne Hastings. His will directed that a tomb of marble should be set over his grave with three images thereon, namely one of himself in his mantle of the Garter, another of his deceased wife in her robes, and a third of his wife then living.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia: George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury
   Wikipedia: George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury#Marriage and issue
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Tudor place. http://tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/GeorgeTalbot(4EShrewsbury).htm ^{[citation needed]}
3. ↑ Wikipedia: Anne Hastings, Countess of Shrewsbury
   Wikipedia: Anne Hastings, Countess of Shrewsbury#Marriage and issue
4. ↑ Raine, J. (1860). "Testamentum Marie Comitissae Northumbriae," in Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham, II, p. Google Books.
5. ↑ Wikipedia: William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1570)
6. ↑ John Schofield, The building of London from the conquest to the Great Fire, British Museum, 1984, p 61 & 104.
7. ↑ Charles Lethbridge Kingsford (ed), A survey of London by John Stow, 1603, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1908, p 236-7
8. ↑ See profile of Henry VIII; Space: The_Publications_of_the_Surtees_Society. Publications of the Surtees Society (1860). Vol.38. pp.6. Google Books. See footnote for Marie Countes Dowager of Northumberland.

• Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 368

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