Richard Newport (bef. 1511 - 1570)

Born before 1511 in High Ercall, Shropshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 12 Sep 1570 after age 59 in High Ercall, Shropshire, England

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Biography

Sir Richard Newport was a member of the aristocracy in England.

1511 Birth and Parents

Sir Richard Newport was born by 1511. He was the first son of Thomas Newport of High Ercall by Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Corbet of Moreton Corbet. ^[1]

He was educated at the Inner Temple, admitted 7 May 1525. ^[1]

Ancestry of Richard Newport

Richard Newport had a distinguished ancestry, presented below in an ahnentafel. ^[2]

1. Sir Richard Newport, 1511-1570

2. Thomas Newport, Sheriff, 1549.

3. Anne Corbet

4. John Newport, Sheriff, 1491, 1501, 1510

5. Alicia Swynnerton

6. Sir Robert Corbet (died 1513 of Moreton Corbet, Sheriff 1507

7. Elizabeth Vernon

8. William Newport of High Ercall, High Sheriff of Shropshire, 1473.

9. Elizabeth de Burgh

10. Sir John Swynnerton of Swynnereton and Hilton, Staffordshire.

12. Sir Richard Corbet (died 1493) of Moreton Corbet

13. Elizabeth Ferrers

14. Sir Henry (Harry) Vernon of Haddon and Tong, Treasurer to Arthur, Prince of Wales.

15. Anne Talbot

16. Thomas Newport of High Ercall, Shropshire.

17. Eleanor Grey, daughter of henry Grey, 3rd Baron Grey of Codnor

18. Sir John de Burgh of Dinas masddwy

19. Jane Clopton of Rdbrook, Gloucestershire.

24. Roger Corbet (died 1468) of Moreton Corbet

25. Elizabeth Hopton, heiress to her brother, Walter Hopton of Hopton Castle, Shropshire (remarried John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester)

26. Sir Walter Devereux, 7th Baron Ferrers of Chartley

27. Anne Ferrers, 7th Baroness Ferrers of Chartley

28. Sir William Vernon of Haddon and tong (1418-1467)

29. Margaret Pype or Swynfen of Pipe Ridward

30. John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbry (c. 1417-60)

31. Elizabeth Butler, daughter of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormonde

1545 Marriage

In 1545 he married Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Bromley I of Eyton-upon-Severn, Wroxeter and Shrewsbury ^[1]

He lived at High Ercall, Shropshire, England.

Family Connections

The family of Newport was one of the foremost in Shropshire. Richard Newport’s father, whom Cromwell had included among nominees for a vacant knighthood of the shire in the Parliament of 1529, married into the powerful Corbet family, which furnished three knights for Shropshire in a 20-year period; he also inherited property in Kent from Henry, 7th and last Lord Grey of Codnor. That it was not he but his son who was to sit in Edward VI’s first Parliament, despite the continuing activity which included his shrievalty in 1549-50, may have owed something to Richard Newport’s recent marriage to the heir of Sir Thomas Bromley, a member of the council of regency: Bromley had acquired much of the land of Shrewsbury abbey, including the abbot’s country house at Eyton-upon-Severn, and the marriage was to bring Newport lands in five western counties. ^[3]

1547 Public Service

In 1547 he represented Shropshire in Parliament^[1]

Nothing is known of Newport’s role in the House but in 1549 the Shrewsbury bailiffs’ account records the payment to him of 13d. ‘on his return from Norfolk’, presumably after taking part, with his fellow-knight Sir George Blount, in the suppression of Ket’s rebellion. Although his father held land in Warwickshire, it is more likely to have been his namesake of Hunningham, Warwickshire, a son-in-law of Sir Edward Ferrers and grandfather of Sir William Hatton (formerly Newport), who had earlier served in the French war and who held office in that shire. Newport himself was picked sheriff of Shropshire by each of Henry VIII’s children and like his father-in-law Bromley, who was made lord chief justice by Mary, seems to have acquiesced in their various changes of policy. As sheriff he took the lead in proclaiming Elizabeth in Shropshire. Two years later he was among the English captains ‘who best served in Scotland under [the 13th] Lord Grey of Wilton’ and was knighted by the 4th Duke of Norfolk at Berwick. In 1564 Bishop Bentham took his advice in drawing up the report to the Privy Council on the religious sympathies of the Shropshire gentry, and before his death he had become a member of the council in the marches of Wales. ^[4]

1550 Other Public Service

Commr. relief, Salop 1550, ^[1]

goods of churches and fraternities 1553; ^[1]

sheriff 1551-2, 1557-8, 1568-9; ^[1]

• j.p. 1554-?d.; ^[1]

• member, council in marches of Wales ^[1]

He held the office of Member of the Council of Welsh Marches of Wales.

1551 Succeeded Father

He succeeded his father in 1551 ^[1]

1560 Knighted

He was knighted 21 July 1560. ^[1]

1570 Death

Newport died on 12 Sept. 1570, having made his will on the previous day.

• He named as executors his wife and his 13 year-old heir Francis and as supervisors his ‘cousins’ George and Thomas Bromley II;
• in the following year the wardship of the heir was granted to the widow and George Bromley.
• Of Newport’s daughters, Elizabeth had already made the first of her two marriages into the Lawley family and Isabel was married to a son of Charles Foxe, secretary of the council in the marches.
• Magdalen Newport, then ‘of tender years’, was later to marry Richard Herbert† of Montgomery Castle and become the mother of Edward Herbert†, Lord Herbert of Chirbury. Edward Herbert may have inherited some of his historical interests from his grandfather Newport who owned a copy of the chronicle written by Edward Hall I, a Member for two Shropshire boroughs and perhaps a native of Kinnersley, near High Ercall. ^[5]

Newport was buried, as he had asked to be, in Wroxeter church near his father-in-law. The Shrewsbury chronicle described him as ‘a valiant knight of Shropshire and of a princely personage ... for whose death there was much moan made in Shrewsbury’. ^[5]

Issue

They had four sons including Andrew and Francis, and four daughters. ^[1]

Sir Richard Newport and Margaret Bromley had four sons, including the heir, Francis Newport (died 1623), and four daughters.

1. Sir Francis Newport+ d. 15 Mar 1622, fist son and heir married Beatrix Lacon. Their son and heir was Richard Newport, 1st Baron Newport,
2. Andrew Newport, the fourth son, was MP for Shrewsbury
3. Mary Newport, married William Gratwood or Gratewood, nephew of Rowland Hill, the first Protestant Lord Mayor of London
4. Isabel Newport married Sir Charles Foxe, son of Charles Fox MP for Ludlow and Much Wenlock.
5. Elizabeth Newport married two cousins (1) Francis Lawley, ancestor of the Lawley baronets. and (2) Thomas Lawley.
6. Magdalen Newport, married Richard Herbert (d.1597), and was mother of the poet George Herbert.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11} History of Parliament. Sir Richard Newport Ref Volumes: 1509-1558; Author: Alan Harding. Accessed June 3, 2017 [[Day-1904}jhd]]
2. ↑ Wiiipedia. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Newport_(died_1570) Richard Newport (died 1570). Accessed June 3, 2017 jhd
3. ↑ CP, vi. 132-3; LP Hen. VIII, vii. 56 citing SP1/82, ff. 59-62; H. Owen and J. B. Blakeway, Shrewsbury, i. 287. Cited by History of Parliament.Sir Richard Newport Ref Volumes: 1509-1558; Author: Alan Harding. Accessed June 3, 2017 [[Day-1904}jhd]]
4. ↑ Owen and Blakeway, i. 342; PCC 15, 29 Bucke; Leland, Itin. ed. Smith, iii. 66; LP Hen. VIII, xixi; VCH Warws. vi. 118; Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 203; Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 1), vi. 111; Cam. Misc. ix(3), 44. Cited by History of Parliament.Sir Richard Newport Ref Volumes: 1509-1558; Author: Alan Harding. Accessed June 3, 2017 [[Day-1904}jhd]]
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Wards 7/13/70; PCC 39 Holney; CPR, 1569-72, p. 269; Add. 10128; A. B. Grosart, Works of George Herbert, i. p. xxvii; Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 1), iii. 269; Pevsner, Salop, 328. Cited by History of Parliament.Sir Richard Newport Ref Volumes: 1509-1558; Author: Alan Harding. Accessed June 3, 2017 [[Day-1904}jhd]]

• wikipedia:Richard Newport (died 1570)
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p14913.htm#i149123
• The Visitation of Shropshire taken in the year 1623. Grazebrook, G., Rylands, J.P. eds. London: 1889. archive.org