John Salusbury (1566 - 1612)

Born 1566 in Lleweni, Denbighshire, Wales

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Died 24 Jul 1612 at about age 46 in Lleweni, Denbighshire, Wales

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Biography

Sir John Salusbury was born in 1566, the 2nd s. of John Salusbury of Lleweni and Katherine da. and h. of Tudor ap Robert of Berrain. He m. Ursula Stanley, the illegitimate daughter of Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby and Jane Halsall, in 1586.^[1] Their first child, Jane, was born a year later. The couple went on to have ten children, of which five survived to adulthood; four daughters and one son, Henry Salusbury, who succeeded him and was created 1st Baronet Salusbury.

Children:

1. Sir Henry Salusbury
2. Capt. John Salusbury dsp at the siege of Prague.
3. William Salusbury dsp. at Lleweny
4. Ferdinando Salusbury d. at Lleweny on return from the war in the Palatinate
5. Arabella m. John Johnes of Halkyn
6. Uriana m. John Barry of Twisack
7. Jane m. Thomas Price of Plas-Yollen

Career

In 1595, he became an esquire of the body to Queen Elizabeth I, who in June 1601, knighted him in recognition of his part in quelling the revolt of Robert Devereux as part of the Essex Rebellion.

John Salusbury, like his predecessors, was an avid supporter of the Welsh poetic tradition, and together with Sir Henry Salusbury (1589–1632) and Thomas Salusbury (1612–1643) they created the main body of the book known as The Salusburies of Lleweni Manuscript in the first half of the 17th century.^[2]

Sources

• SALUSBURY, Sir John (c.1565-1612), of Lleweni, Denb.
• wikipedia:John Salusbury (poet)
• John Klause, "The Phoenix and the Turtle in its Time", in Gwynne Blakemore Evans (ed), In the Company of Shakespeare: Essays on English Renaissance Literature, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2002, p.206-227.
• James P. Bednarz, Shakespeare and the Truth of Love: The Mystery of "The Phoenix and Turtle", p.66.
• Roberts, Enid Pierce. "Salusbury, Salisbury, Salesbury family, of Lleweni and Bachygraig". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 November 2008. https://biography.wales/article/s-SALU-LLE-1250
• G. Blakemore Evans, The Poems of Robert Parry, Tempe, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005, pp.10-22.
• William Empson, Essays on Shakespeare, Cambridge University Press, 1986, p27.
• E. A. J. Honigmann, Shakespeare: The Lost Years, Manchester University Press, 1998, p.93
• Another possibility is that Marston was the person who brought the others together. Cathcart, Charles, Marston, Rivalry, Rapprochement, and Jonson, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008, p.20.

1. ↑ The Salusburies of Lleweni Manuscript. National Library of Wales Reference: NLW MS 5390D: https://www.library.wales/discover/digital-gallery/manuscripts/early-modern-period/salusbury#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=194%2C213%2C2654%2C2257
2. ↑ The Salusburies of Lleweni Manuscript. National Library of Wales Reference: NLW MS 5390D: https://www.library.wales/discover/digital-gallery/manuscripts/early-modern-period/salusbury#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=194%2C213%2C2654%2C2257