Richard was born before 1507, probably at Chiddingly or one of his father's other manors in Sussex, England. He was the son and heir of John Sackville of Chiddingly by his first wife Margaret Boleyn. He was described as being aged 50 years or more at his father's Inquisition Post Mortem in 1557, and his father's heir. [1]
The Sackville family were well connected through the English aristocratic families of the time.
His mother Margaret Boleyn was sister to Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl of Wiltshire and the father of Ann Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII. Thomas Boleyn's wife was Elizabeth Howard, sister to Thomas Howard the Duke of Norfolk.
Richard had at least two brothers - Christopher and John - and three sisters, all full siblings. His mother Margaret died before 1552, as in that year the Visitations of Essex shows that his father John had already remarried to Ann Torrell (or Alice as she is called in the Visitation). [2] The Visitations notes that Ann "ob. S.p." or died without children. [3] She was still alive in 1556 when John wrote his will. [1]
Sir Richard, as chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, was responsible for administering the former monastic estates, and in the process acquired great wealth and the sobriquet ‘fill-sack’.
He was appointed a privy councillor by Elizabeth.[4]
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