Edward (Chamberlaine) Chamberlayn (bef. 1480 - 1543)

Born before 22 Dec 1480 in Weston, Oxfordshire, England

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Edward (Chamberlaine) Chamberlayn was born in Oxfordshire, England.

Biography

Sir Edward Chamberlayn was a courtier at the courts of Tudor Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII. He held the offices of Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire in 1505-6 and 1517-18 and was Esquire of the Body by 1509. ^[1]Keeper of the Forest of Woodstock, Oxfordshire in 1508, a position which he held jointly with his eldest son Leonard from 1532 until his death, he was Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire from 1509 to 1537, Commissioner for Subsidies in 1523 and 1524, and for Musters in 1539.

Birth and Parentage

Sir Edward Chamberlayn, ^[2]of Cotes, co. Northampton, & Shirburn co. Oxford, was born at Weston, Oxfordshire, England, in 1480, probably shortly before his christening date.

Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary [3]

He was the eldest son of Richard Chamberlain of Shirburn and his wife, Sibilla née Fowler, daughter of Sir Richard Fowler, sometime Chancellor of the Exchequer, Under-Treasurer of England, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and his wife, Cecily née Englefield.^[2]He was christened on 22 December 1480 in Weston-on-the-Green, Oxfordshire. Why he was born in Weston-on-the-Green is not certain, for at the end of the 15th century, the Chamberlains lived in Shirburn Castle. There was however, a connection between Shirburn and Weston-on-the-Green. ^[4]In the 1400s, a grant was made to the Black Austin Canons of Oseney Abbey of 2-parts of the Demesne Tithes of Shirburn; it was stated that they were de utraque curia de Shireburn.^[5] Edward's parents may have been guests of Oseney Abbey, whose bailiff ^[6]lived at the manor house of Weston on the Green, which had belonged to the Abbey since 1326, when Sir Richard d'Amorie had released it to the monks.^[7][8]

As Weston was one of the most valuable estates belonging to the abbot and convent of Oseney, that community early settled one of their principal bailiffs, who were usually gentlemen, in the manor house,...^[9]

This was the largest house in Weston-on-the-Green at the time, and the Chamberlains would either have stayed in what was the medieval moated house, or the new Tudor version, remodeled for the Bailiff at the end of the 15th century.^[10] It was close to Christmas, and at that time of year it would have been unlikely that a gentlewoman, soon to give birth to her first child, would be traveling. Weston-on-the-Green should not be confused with North Weston, a hamlet 17 miles SE of Weston-on-the-Green, where Edward's ancestors, the Quatermayns, had held a manor (Quatermayns) on which estate was their house called (Le) Hall Place, (also not to be confused with Le Hall/Halle Place in Adderbury, SE of Banbury, Oxon.)

According to Paul A. Fox, (2020) Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale: A History of the Canterbury Cloister, Constructed 1408-14, with Some Account of the Donors and their Coats of Arms,

the Chamberlaine family provides

a good example of heraldic calumny. In the 1574 visitation of Oxfordshire Richard Lee, Portcullis Pursuivant, attached their descendants to the family of Tancarville, hereditary chamberlains of Normandy. This bogus connection must have been made by an earlier herald, because already by the 1520s, Sir Edward Chamberlaine of Shirburn (d. 1543) had adopted the ancient arms of Tancarville, gules an escutcheon argent in orle of spur rowles or....the Tancarvilles were long extinguished by 1400...(by which time) the Chamberlaines had not yet adopted their arms.

An earlier visitation, that of 1566, carried out by William Harvey, Clarencieux, had also connected the Chamberlaines of Shirburn to the Tancarvilles. ^[11] The Tancarville arms, attached to William Harvey's Chamberlaine Pedigree, can be seen in Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica, here.

The following Inquisition Post Mortem, which mentions Edward's baptism, shows a glimpse of the Chamberlains' closely connected local family relationships.

EDWARD CHAMBERLEYN, son and heir of RICHARD CHAMBERLEYN, esquire.

Writ 17 March,

proof of age 19 March, 17 Henry VII.

The said Edward Chamburleyn, esquire, son and heir of Richard Chamburleyn, esquire, was born at Weston and baptized in the church there, 22 December, 20 Edward IV, as deposed to by

Nicholas Grene, aged 44 and more, because he was then living (manebat = staying) with Master Thomas Butlere, rector of Aseley (Great Haseley) ^[12], William Belson, aged 40 and more, because on 5 January following the first-born son of Master Barantyne was born, (probably William Barantyne - a contemporary of Edward's, born in Little Haseley, Oxon, and his 5th cousin once removed) who is twenty-one and more; Thomas Byrtte, aged 50 and more, because he paid his rent that day for a tenement in Sherborne to Master Katermayns (Edward's mother's great uncle); Henry Allnett, aged 50 and more, because he held a tenement in the town of Adwell; John Adam, aged 50 and more, because [whilst] he was ploughing in the fields John Dewys, servant of Dame Fowler (Edward's grandmother), told him of it; Thomas Hockley, aged 50 and more, because he was living (manebat) in Rycott with Mistress Sybella Katermayns (Edward's mother's great aunt); John Dewys, aged 48, because he went to Rycott to ask Master Thomas Fowler (Edward's great uncle) to be godfather, &c.

The lands &c. of his inheritance are in the custody of Sibilla Chamberleyn, widow, by the king’s grant. ^[13][14]

His siblings were Anne or Anna, William, John and Thomas.

• Anne Foulshurst b.1478 d. 25 Aug 1508

m. 1. Edward W Raleigh

m. 2. Ralph Foulshurst ^[15][16]Anne and Edward Walter Raleigh were Diana Frances (Spencer) Mountbatten-Windsor's 13th great grandparents.

• William Chamberlaine b. 1483 d. 1533. A friar in Greenwich^[15][16]
• John Chamberlaine b.1484 d. 1483 ^[15][16]
• Thomas Chamberlaine b.1486 d.1543 ^[15][16]

Life and Career

Edward was sixteen when his father Richard died on 28 August 1496, ^[13]leaving him, once his younger siblings were provided for, with an annual income of about £150. In 1500 this was roughly equivalent to nearly £100,000 a year. ^[17] Richard Chamberlayne Esq left lands and property in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, ^[18]Northamptonshire, property in London, as well as a disputed title to the manor of Penshurst^[19] and other lands in Kent.^[20]

Six years later, when he was twenty-two, on 21 March 1502, Edward was represented by escheators in Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and London, as well as the Mayor of London, Bartholomew Rede^[21], concerning his mother's dowry.^[22]

He was 27 when, at Michaelmas, 15 February 1507, ^[23]the 22nd year of Henry VII, his name was recorded on a Feet of Fines document as one of those who had bought property in Grays Inn, (which was perhaps his London residence, at least until 1516, ^[24]) situated in

the manor of Portpole, with appurtenances, in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, and the advowson of the chantry of the said manor

along with

Hugh Denys, esquire, Edmund Dudley, esquire, Roger Lupton, clerk], Godfrey Toppes, ... William Stafford, esquire, John Erneley, Thomas Pygot, Richard Brooke, William Tey, and Michael Fysshe, and Edmund Grey, Lord de Wilton, and Florence, his wife.^[25]

Marriage and Family

Before 1508, Edward Chamberlain married Cecilia Verney, daughter of Sir John Verney of Penley and his wife Margaret, née Whittingham.

Children of Edward and Cecilia Chamberlain

• Leonard Chamberlain b. by 1504 d. abt 1561, m. Dorothy Newdigate ^[26]
• Mary, m. Ralph/Rudolph Giffard^[27]
• Sibyll, m1. Philip Scudamore, m2. John Burley of Yangley in Wonersh, Surrey^[28]
• Margaret, m. Ralph Kingston^[29]
• Ralph Chamberlain, m. An unnamed daughter of Philip Scudamore^[28]
• Edward Chamberlain MP b. bef. 1509 d. 29 Oct 1557, m. Elizabeth Lawrence^[30]

Shirburn Castle[31]

Sybil Chamberlain, the widow of Richard Chamberlain and the daughter of chief executrix of Dame Jane Fowler, (who died in 1505), took possession of Shirburn manor, Oxon. in April 1505 as the debt was unpaid. Subsequently, in the following month, Edward's uncle Richard, by now knighted, leased the manor to his sister and her son for 60 years. ^[32]

Perhaps just before his 25 birthday, on 1 Dec 1505, Edward (Edward Chamberleyn, Esq.) was made Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire. ^[33] It was the start of his career as a public servant.

Scene at the death of King Henry VII - 1509 [34]

Almost three years later, he was appointed keeper of Woodstock Park on 10 September 1508,^[35]a position which, as time would show, was held largely in absentia. ^[36]

As Edward's grandfather, Sir Richard Fowler had been Chancellor of the Exchequer, Under-Treasurer of England, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the reign of Edward IV, Edward was destined for a life at court, and his parents must have pulled strings to make sure that he got there. By 1509, he was an Esquire of the Body, with unique and privileged access to the king.

As defined in the Liber Niger (the manual of household management that structured royal organisation from the time of Edward IV through Henry VIII,) the job of Esquire of the Body was 'to be attendant on the king's person, to array and unray him and to watch day and night.' The Esquire was to be ready, at all times, day or night, and as the Liber Niger states, "no man else to set hands on the king."^[37]

On 23 December 1509, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire for the first time; subsequently on 24 August 1510, 5 February 1511, 26 June 1511, 17 February 1512, 14 November 1513, and 24 February 1514. ^[38]

In the summer of 1512 he led thirty men in Sir William Sandys’ company in the fruitless expedition led by Thomas, Marquis of Dorset, to Biscay, to aid King Ferdinand’s invasion of France. ^[39]

In the following spring, Chamberlayne was captain of the 80 gun galleon Henry Totehill, with 62 men under his command, in the fleet of Admiral Lord Edmund Howard in the naval war with France.^[40][41]

In May of that year, when Henry VIII in person invaded France, Edward Chamberlayne went in the retinue of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 1st Viscount Lisle, (Henry VIII's closest friend) who led the vanguard of the English army and distinguished himself at the Siege of Tounai, 'a large and beautiful city, the wealthiest in all Flanders, and the most populous of any on that side of Paris'^[42], which surrendered on 23 September.

Yesterday “this opulent, strong, and fair and extensive city of Tournai” surrendered. It might have been stormed, the English having battered down the castle, and forced one of the gates, of which they kept possession; but the King most graciously granted the abject and pitiful prayers of the besieged, who requested permission to surrender it to him and his heirs; and the Emperor renounced all his claims upon it, in favour of “our most Christian King” who is to enter the city in triumph on the morrow. After thanksgivings to God, justs (jousts) will be performed; the King receiving on his entry 100,000 ducats, besides a great many other presents derived from the spontaneous civility of the citizens. The King is also to receive 10,000 ducats annually, besides the royalties (reditus possessionis) belonging to the city.^[42]

He was probably the Rauf (Edward) Chamberlayn who was created Knight Bachelor two days later at Tounai cathedral on 25 September 1513

at Tournay, in the church after the King came from Mass, under his banner in the church.^[43]because when he was appointed Sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire again on 9 November 1517, his name was recorded as Edward Chamberleyn, Knt.^[33]

Field of the Cloth of Gold[44]

18 October 1514, as knight, he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire for the last time. ^[38]On 7 November 1515 he was appointed Sheriff of Oxfordshire Berkshire, along with Simon Harcourt, the great-grandfather of Chamberlayne's grandson Richard's wife Elizabeth Harcourt. ^[45]

He was appointed as sheriff for Oxfordshire on 9 November 1517.^[46]

Between 7 and 24 June 1520 he was at the ‘Field of the Cloth of Gold’,

the long-awaited meeting between two European giants, alike in dignity and ambition; it was the height of Tudor spectacle and pageantry, and it was the most expensive display of magnificence of which either king would ever conceive. It shines across five centuries as a stand-alone moment amid the turbulence of international politics, reformation and national redefinition.^[47]

Cecily did not accompany him. ^[48] His cousin, Sir William Barantyne of Little Haseley, Oxon, was present.^[48] They both attended upon Henry VIII and Queen Catherine of Aragon at the interview with the French king.^[49] Edward's name also appears alongside those of Oxfordshire noblemen Sir Adrian Fortescue, Sir William Rede, Walter Bulstrode, and Sir John Daunce.^[49]

Sir Edward, with one horse attendant and two on foot, was also at the subsequent meeting of Henry VIII and the Emperor Charles V at Gravelines. ^[50]

In December 1520, Edward and Ruff Fulhurst (Ralph Foulshurst), Edward's sister Anne's second husband, received liveries for the custody of the lands of the late Sir Edward Rawley's (Raleigh's), Anne's first husband. ^[51]

He accompanied Thomas, Earl of Surrey’s expedition, or rather raid, into Picardy in the war of 1522.

A year later in August 1523, he was a Commissioner for raising taxes (subsidies) in Oxfordshire for the King's war against France. ^[52]That December he was charged with owing 146l. 13s. 4d. to the Crown. ^[53]

The biography of Sir Edward Chamberlayne in The History of Parliament states that in the spring of 1526, Sir Edward and George Carew of Mohans Ottery were refugees in France. That George Carew was in France on some escapade, for which he was later pardoned, is attested, but that Sir Edward was with him is doubtful. ^[54]

He sat as a MP for Wallingford in the parliament of 1529, agreeing to serve without pay, and he may have been nominated by the King himself, who came to visit Woodstock (where Edward was Keeper) on 25 August and 4 September, but his increasing financial struggles may have been the reason why he did not choose to sit in the House a second time. ^[20]

The sixteenth century was a period of population rise and price inflation. The social pressure on those with wealth to display it was considerable. Fortunes were poured into building grand houses and providing lavish hospitality. Expenditure on litigation among the upper classes was also high because the land law regarding the descent of property was going through a period of uncertainty. Landowners were also always in debt. Not because they were suffering from serious financial problems but because their rental income varied and they often need to borrow large sums to fund expensive projects such as house building.^[55]

Edward had been left a substantial inheritance, but, like many of his contemporaries, he fell into debt, which may have been the reason why he was later accused in the Star Chamber of embezzlement and extortion in his office as Keeper of Woodstock Park. Neither the suitor's name, nor the result of the case are known, but Edward

mingled assertions of the customs of the manor with denials and complaints of vagueness and countered the charges of distortion by declaring that several people had given him money of their own free will when he went to serve the king overseas. Like many others Chamberlain may never have recovered from the extravagant opening years of Henry VIII; what use, if any, he made of protection from creditors afforded by his Membership (of Parliament) is not known.^[20]

As early as 1519 he was feeling the pinch when Edward, Duke of Buckingham wrote to him, saying that he had caused an investigation to be made into Sir Edward's claim to Penshurst Place, Kent, which had been inherited from Margaret née Lovaine by Edward's grandfather Richard, Richard's brother John, and their two half brothers. (One of the half brothers, John Seyntclere, had sold the house and advowson to the Duke of Bedford, and it eventually passed to the Buckinghams). The Duke wished to offer Edward some recompense,

not so much from a doubt as to his title, as from a desire to benefit a friend.^[19]

Sir Edward's debts eventually necessitated the sale of his ancestral lands in North Reston, Lincolnshire, to Thomas Heneage for £397 in February 1525. North Reston had been in the Chamberlayne family since 1160, when his 7th great grandfather, Lord William of North Reston, had held the manor. This must have been a sore blow,^[20]but these were not the only assets he had to part with.

He was over forty when his mother died that year (Inq. Post Mortem, 16 Henry VIII, No.167), leaving him Shirburn, and in 1527 Edward obtained full rights over Shirburn by giving his uncle Sir Richard Fowler 'the Spendthrift', Tilsworth and Stanbridge manors (Bedfordshire) in exchange, lands which had been passed down through the family since 1327. He also sold Stanton St John ^[56]to Sir Robert Dormer in 1526. ^[20]

Financial worries compounded with the estrangement between Edward and his eldest son Leonard, who went to the extraordinary lengths of suing his own father in Chancery, accusing him of having wasted the woods at Shirburn,

'of his covetous mind intending utterly to decay the said manor' after the estate had been entailed on Leonard in 1528. ^[20]

Leonard and his father were eventually reconciled and in 1532 the joint keepership of Woodstock was, on 10 April 1532, renewed to them both in survivorship (Privy Seal, 23 Henry VIII).^[35]

The Chamberlayne debts must have continued to pile up, because eventually, all the rights to lands in Penshurst, as well as the manors of Hawden, (alias Havendencourt), Cepham and Yensfeld (alias Ensfeld) with messuages, lands and rents in Penshurst, Hawden, Yensfeld, Chiddingston, Leigh, Bidborough, Tunbridge, Speldhurst, Cepham and Cowden, were acquired by Sir William Sidney when he made a fine with Sir Edward's sons Leonard, Ralph and Edward in 1553. ^[19]

Kimbolton

There is some dispute as to the identity of the Sir Edward Chamberlain^[57] who guarded Queen Catherine of Aragón at Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire, for about one and a half years between 14 May 1534 and 7 January 1536. It is the writer's contention that it was this Sir Edward Chamberlain, and not Sir Edward Chamberlain of Gedding for the following reasons:

1. It is unlikely that the son of a man who had been executed for High Treason (1491-2) would be asked to guard Catherine. After the Act of Succession, anyone claiming her entitlement to being Queen would be himself guilty of High Treason.
2. For the same reason, it is less than likely that this Sir Edward would have accepted the position.
3. Sir Edward of Shirburn who was 53 years old in 1534, 11 years younger than Sir Edward of Gedding, was a trusted courtier, Esquire of the Body, Keeper of Woodstock, attendant on the King at the Field of Cloth of Gold, as well as holding various responsible positions in military action. He would have been the ideal person to whom to entrust the guardianship of Catherine.
4. Sir Edward of Shirburn's grandfather Sir Richard Fowler, had also been a trusted courtier - Chancellor of the Exchequer, Under-Treasurer of England, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, as well as owner of Rycote, one of Oxfordshire's most splendid Tudor mansions, which the Royals had visited.
5. Sir Edward of Shirburn's cousin, Edward Fowler, had entertained Queen Catherine at his house in Buckingham in 1513, when the news of the English victory at Flodden arrived, so the Queen knew the family.

On 13 January 1536, a week after Catherine's death, Sir Edward Chamberlain had other concerns and wrote from Kymbolton to Cromwell with the news that the prior of Ixford, Suffolk., of which house he (Chamberlain) was patron, had recently died. A successor had to be elected and Edward sought the consent of Cromwell, who was visitor-general of monasteries.^[58][59]

Death and Burial

Four years before Henry VIII’s death (r. 1509-1547), aged 63, Sir Edward Chamberlain died on 10 September 1543, was buried at Woodstock church, and commemorated by a (now lost) brass,

formerly in the chancel, depicting Edward Chamberlain (d. 1543), his wife, and six sons and six daughters... ^[60]

Edwardus Chamberleynus jacet ecce sepultus

Ordinis aurati ad sydera notus eques

Annis claras erat, virtutis clarior, ubi

Antistes morum et nobilitatis honos

Non tantam verbis vitam laudavit honestam

Sed laus in factis integritatis erat

Pre cunctis leges justi servabat et equi

Et coluit para relligione Deum

At quod divitias nunquam congestit egenus

In causâ fuerat mors inimica bonis

Scilicet hic mos est fortunae semper iniquae

Parcius ut daret maxima pro meritis,

Insoper et sortis contemptu muncra prudens

Quod dixit remoras ad pictatis opes

Hostibus hic nunquam vitiis nec victas ab ullis

Succubuit tandem mon violenta sibi

Heu quod pellendae morti non sufficiebat,

Ars que tam multis profuit ante viris,

Heu quod non licuit natis superesse nepotum

Et valde annosi nomen habere secus

Sed quando cunctis mors est communis, et ipsum

Extinctum lachrymis non revocare potes,

Fas non lagere est Edwardi funera nobis,

Sed pro illo preculas fundere quemque decet

Orandum exutus mortali ut corpore dignam

Inter caelicolas possit habere locum^[61]

On his death, he was succeeded by his eldest son, Leonard, who added to the Shirburn property by buying land from Ambrose Dormer, and the rectory and advowson from the Crown.

Research Notes

• Sir Ric. Chamberlayn: for the repairs of the lodge in the New Forest beside Woodstock: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol3/pp1539-1543#highlight-first

• Regnal Years of English Monarchs: http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/cal/reg20.htm

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