John Bulmer Kt
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John Bulmer Kt (1491 - 1537)

Sir John Bulmer Kt
Born in Kirkleatham, Yorkshire, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of — married before 1536 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 46 in Tyburn, Westminster, Middlesex, Englandmap
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Biography

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John Bulmer Kt was born in Kirkleathan, Yorkshire, England.

Birth

John Bulmer was born in 1491 in Kirkleatham, Yorkshire, England, son of William Bulmer (1465–1531) and Margery Conyers (1469–1524). William Bulmer was a hero of the Battle of Flodden and was High Sherif of Yorkshire. Some history of the Bulmer Family is found on Wikipedia[1]. Further detail of the genealogy is presented in the Visitation to Yorshire of Robert Glover[2]

Robert Glover's Visitation to Yorshire - Bulmer Family Detail.

John had siblings:

Sir Ralph married Ann Aske
Sir William married Elizabeth Elmeden
Margaret married George Salveyn

Sir John Bulmer was, as landed proprietor, a neighbour of the Wilberfosse family[3], for he too had lands in Nesbet and Egglyston in Co Durham.

Marriage

John married Anne Bigod (born in 1483 in Settrington, Yorkshire); daughter of Sir Ralph Bigod and Margery (Constable) Bigod about 1500.

Their children were:

Elizabeth Bulmer (~1514 - wife of Henry Newton)
Mary Bulmer (born ~1520) [uncertain].
Anne Bulmer (born~1505)
Agnes Bulmer (born ~1518 - maried Lancelot Layton)
William Bulmer (~1508 to 1555 - married Joan Acworth)
Sir Ralph Bulmer (~1510 to 1558 - married Ann Tempest)

Note that birth dates required confirmation. Ann is thought to have died in 1531.

John (44) bought and lived with his former mistress Margaret Stafford (24) (born in 1511 in Cleveland, Yorkshire; daughter of Edward Stafford KG) in 1536. There are conflicting notes here. Thomas Wriothhesley[4] reports his mistress as Margaret Cheney. An interesting relationship given his strong catholic leanings and his objections to the death of Anne Boleyne.

The children of John Bulmer and Elizabeth Cheney (Stafford), born either while John was still married to Ann Bigod or after her death were:

Rebellions against Cromwell's dissolution of the Monastries

The Pilgrimage of Grace

First, there was the trouble in Lincoln. This came to little and the rebellion known as The Pilgrimage of Grace[5] began. The Pilgrimage of Grace was a massive rebellion against the policies of the Crown and those closely identified with Thomas Cromwell and the execution of Anne Boleyn. The movement broke out on 13 October 1536, immediately following the failure of the Lincolnshire Rising. Only then was the term 'Pilgrimage of Grace' used. Robert Aske led the rebellion which was quite successful to begin with. In early December 1536, the Pilgrimage of Grace gathered at Pontefract Castle to draft a petition to be presented to King Henry VIII with a list of their demands. Negotiations followed and Aske accepted the promises, and dismissed his followers and the pilgrimage disbanded, but....

The promises were not kept and a new rebellion ensued in 1637.

Bigod's Rebellion

Bigod's Rebellion[6] began in January 1637 and was an armed rebellion by English Roman Catholics in Cumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire against King Henry VIII of England and the English Parliament. It was led by Sir Francis Bigod, of Settrington in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Arthur Aske was against this rebellion believing that it compromised the peace deal he had reached with Henry VIII that ended the Pilgrimage of Grace.

Bigod, fearing repression by the King, launched his uprising on 16 January 1537, in concert with his tenant, John Hallam, a yeoman of Watton. His efforts to promulgate his platform attracted little support, either from the aristocracy or the commons. His plan to have George Lumley seize Scarborough Castle and Hallam Hall on 16 January failed utterly, and his own assault on Kingston upon Hull on 19 January was forestalled by the capture of almost his entire force in a dawn raid at Beverley, Yorkshire. He escaped to Mulgrave, and from thence to Cumberland, where he was captured on 10 February, and sent to Carlisle Castle.

Death

Also the 16 day of May [1537] there were arraigned at Westminster afore the King's Commissioners, the Lord Chancellor that day being the chief, these persons following: Sir Robert Constable, knight; Sir Thomas Percy, knight, and brother to the Earl of Northumberland; Sir John Bulmer, knight, and Ralph Bulmer, his son and heir; Sir Francis Bigod, knight; Margaret Cheney, after Lady Bulmer by untrue matrimony; George Lumley, esquire; Robert Aske, gentleman, that was captain in the insurrection of the Northern men; and one Hamerton, esquire, all which persons were indicted of high treason against the King, and that day condemned by a jury of knights and esquires for the same, whereupon they had sentence to be drawn, hanged and quartered, but Ralph Bulmer, the son of John Bulmer, was reprieved and had no sentence.

The Tyburn Tree

And on the 25 day of May[4], being the Friday in Whitsun week, Sir John Bulmer, Sir Stephen Hamerton, knights, were hanged and headed; Nicholas Tempest, esquire; Doctor Cockerell, priest; Abbot quondam of Fountains; and Doctor Pickering, friar, were drawn from the Tower of London to Tyburn, and there hanged, bowelled and quartered, and their heads set on London Bridge and divers gates in London.

And the same day Margaret Cheney, 'other wife to Bulmer called', was drawn after them from the Tower of London into Smithfield, and there burned according to her judgment, God pardon her soul, being the Friday in Whitsun week; she was a very fair creature, and a beautiful.


Research Notes

Besides being neighbours it is likely that the Bulmer and Wilberfosse Families were connected before the marriage of William Bulmer to Joan Acworth, for it appears (see Common Rolls No. 70, Hil., 19 Henry VIII) that Sir Ralph Bulmer, Knt., and Sir William Bulmer, Ktd., jun., were two of the trustees for Margaret Acworth's estates[3].

Sources

  1. Bulmer Family:
    Wikipedia contributors, "Bulmer family," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, [[1]] (accessed December 27, 2023)
  2. Visitation to Yorkshire by Robert Glover Visitation to Yorkshire 1544 to 1586 by Robert Glover [[2]]
  3. 3.0 3.1 Acworth Family Pedigree:
    Green, W.A. and G. Brindley Acworth. Pedigree of Acworth of Bedfordshire, Etc.: Together with some notes on the genealogy. London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1905. FamilySearch. See also this space page: Acworth Pedigree
  4. 4.0 4.1 Wriothley's Cronicles:
    A Cronicle of England during the reigns of the Tudors - from 1485 to 1559 by Charles Wriothesley - Windsor Herald. Published by the Camden Society [[3]] and edited by William Douglas Hamilton in 1875
  5. Pilgrimage of Grace:
    Wikipedia contributors, "Pilgrimage of Grace," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, [[4]] (accessed December 27, 2023).
  6. Bigod's Rebellion:
    Bigod's Rebellion led by Sir Francis Bigod, Wikipedia contributors, "Bigod's rebellion," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, [[5]] (accessed December 28, 2023).




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