William Pelham (abt. 1530 - 1587)

Born about 1530 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Dorothy (Catesby) Dormer — married 1576 in Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, England

Descendants

Died 24 Nov 1587 at about age 57 in Eythrope, Buckinghamshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Sir William Pelham of Newstead and Brockleby, Lincolnshire (b. c. 1528/30 - d. 24 Nov 1587)

Sir William Pelham, Lord Justice, is the ancestor of the Pelhams of Brocklesby.

William was knighted by the Rt. Hon. Sir William Drurye, Lord Justice of Ireland, on 14 September 1579 in Ireland.^[1]

From the book Dromana: The Memoirs of an Irish Family:^[2]

• On the 10th of May, 1579, Sir William Pelham, the Lord Justice [of Ireland], called a general assembly of the Munster lords at Limerick. [Thomas, 10th Earl of] Ormond duly appeared, bringing with him White, the Masters of the Rolls; Lords Dunboyne and Power, and Sir James FitzGerald of Decies. Lord Roche and his son Maurice, and Sir Thomas of Desmond came from Cork, followed later by a few others. None of the Western chiefs came, and Pelham, seeing no hopes of more coming, conferred with those who were present. They swore to forego private quarrels, and to band against [Gerald, 15th Earl of] Desmond and his rebel followers.

Parents

• Father: Sir William Pelham
• Mary Sandys

Marriage

m.1 Eleanor Neville (d. 1574), dau. of Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland and Anne Manners.^[3] Issue:

• Sir William Pelham (b. abt 1568 London; age 14 in 1582)

m. Ann, dau. of Charles Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham

m.2 Dorothy Catesby, dau. of Anthony Catesby of Whiston, Northampton; and widow of Sir William? or Robert Dormer of Ascot, Bucks. Issue:

• Peregrine
• Ann

Occupation

• Master of the ordinance

• Remembered in Ireland for "Pelham's Pardon", the refusal to the right of surrender for any Irish rebel unless that rebel had killed another suspected rebel of higher rank. ^[4]

Death & Legacy

In his will dated 27 June 1586^[5] Sir William Pelham of Eythrope, Buckinghamshire, named his wife Dorothy and son William to be executors with the supervision of Sir Thomas Bromley, knight and Lord Chancellor of England, and Sir William Cecil Lord Burley, knight and Lord Treasurer of England. The will was proved on 28 February 1587[/8] in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, London.

Sources

1. ↑ Shaw, The Knights of England, vol. 2, p. 80, entry “William Pelham”; archive.org​/details​/knightsofengland02shawuoft​/page​/n89. (Bibliog.)
2. ↑ Dromana: The Memoirs of an Irish Family, by Therese Muir MacKenzie (Therese Villiers Stuart), published 1907 (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker), p.66:
   • https://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/thrse-mackenzie/dromana--the-memoirs-of-an-irish-family-ala.shtml
3. ↑ Wikipedia: Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland
4. ↑ Wikipedia : William Pelham
5. ↑ The last will and testament of “S^r William Pelham of Eythroppe in the Countie of Buck knight”, dated 27 June 1586, 28 Eliz., was witnessed by Nicholas Parker, Harman Harrison, and Roberte Gage. “Will of Sir William Pelham of Eythorpe, Buckinghamshire”, Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, PROB 11/72/232, register Rutland (1588), qr. 12, fols. 94v–96r; images 191–194 of 946, accessed 28 Aug. 2019, www.ancestry.com​/interactive​/5111​/40611_311339-00190. (Bibliog.)

Source List

• Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Records. Series PROB 11: Will Registers. The National Archives. Database with images. “England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384–1858.” Ancestry. search.ancestry.com​/search​/db.aspx?dbid=5111.
• Shaw, William A. The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of Knights Bachelors. 2 vols. London: Sherratt & Hughes, 1906.

• Collins, H.E. (1902). History of the Brocklesby Hounds, 1700-1901, pp. 16. S. Low Marston, Ltd. Google Books. pedigree.[1]

• Dunlop, R. (1895). Pelham, William (DNB00). WikiSource.org.[2]

• Greenwell, W. (1860). "Testamentum Henrici Comitis de Westermerland, Aug. 18 1563," Wills and Inventories from the Registry of Durham, pp. 5. The Publications of the Surtees Society. Google Books.[3]

• "The three Sir William Pelhams of Brocklesbury," (1866). Notes and Queries, pp. 21-24. Oxford University Press. Google Books.[4]

• Wikipedia: William Pelham (lord justice)

See also:

• Benolte, Thomas; Philipot, John; & Owen, George. The Visitations of the County of Sussex: 1530 and 1633-4. London: The Harleian Society, 1905. Vol LIII, p 21, Pelham.