William Sandys KG (1470 - aft. 1540)

Born 1470 in Sherborne St John, Hampshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died after 3 Dec 1540 after age 70 in Sherborne St John, Hampshire, England

Biography

William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (c1470- 4 December 1540) was the son of Sir William Sandys. He married Margaret Bray, daughter of Sir John Bray^[1][2], before 26 August 1496 and they had at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He was created 1st Baron Sandys, of the Vyne in the Peerage of England on 27 April 1523.^[3]

His children included:

• Thomas, married Elizabeth, daughter of George Manners
• Reginald, a priest
• John
• Mary, wife of Sir William Pelham and then Sir John Palmer
• Alice, wife of Walter, Lord Hungerford
• Elizabeth, wife of Sir Humphrey Foster
• Margaret, wife of Thomas Essex

William Sandys died after 3 and before 7 December 1540 at The Vyne, Hampshire. His will was dated 3 December 1540 and a letter by Marillac, the French Ambassador, dated 10 December stated that he had died four days previously. He was buried in the Chapel of the Holy Ghost, Basingstoke.^[4]

He was succeeded on his death by his son Thomas, who at the time of an Inquisition Post Mortem, held at Gloucester, on 29 Oct 1541, was aged 34 or more. ^[5]

Career

As a young man, he gained preferment at Court and was soon associated with the future King Henry VIII, assisting at his knighthood and at the reception of his future wife Catherine of Aragon. He was appointed as a Knight of the Body to Henry VIII, becoming a close companion to the King in the early years of his reign. In 1517 he was appointed Treasurer of Calais, a personal possession of the king. In 1530 he was made Henry's Lord Chamberlain and later that same year he was appointed Captain of Guines, a position he held until his death in 1540.

Sources

1. ↑ The visitations of the county of Sussex made and taken in the years 1530, Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux king of arms; and 1633-4 by John Philipot, Somerset herald, and George Owen, York herald, for Sir John Burroughs, Garter, and Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux: Benolt, Thomas, pg 20 Internet Archive accessed:15 December 2022
2. ↑ Letter of attorney by William Sandis, knight, Lord Sandis, and Dame Margery Sandis, his wife, kinswoman and heiress of Reginald Bray, knight, deceased, authorising Richard Clotton and Peter Swyfte, gentlemen, to receive seisin of the manor of Wandelesworthe (Wandsworth). 25 May, 30 Henry VIII. "Deeds: A.3901 - A.4000," in A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 3, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1900), 8-19. British History Online, accessed December 15, 2022, BHO
3. ↑ 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, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland: Shaw, William Arthur pg 21 Internet Archive accessed:15 December 2022
4. ↑ Cokayne, George E. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom : Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. London: St. Catherine Press, 1910, Vol. V, pp. 443-44.
5. ↑ IPM: "History of the family of Sandys of Cumberland" Sandys, Edward Seton,. History of the family of Sandys of Cumberland : afterwards of Furness in North Lancashire, and its branches in other parts of England and in Ireland. Barrow-in-Furness: Barrow Print. Co., 1930 pg 177 Note 26 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 28849 #9 (accessed 17 December 2022)

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