Henry Cheney (1540 - 1587)

Born 31 May 1540 in Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England

Ancestors

Died 3 Sep 1587 at age 47 in Toddington, Bedfordshire, England

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Biography

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Birth

Henry Cheney was born in The Isle of Sheppy, Kent, England.

Henry Cheney was born 31 May 1540^[1]. He was the son of Sir Thomas Cheney from Shurland on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, by his second wife, Anne Broughton (d. 16 May 1562). Henry's mother was the daughter of John Broughton (d. 24 January 1517/18) of Toddington, Bedfordshire, England who owned Combs Manor, Suffolk, England. The entry in The Manors of Suffolk^[2] reads as:

In 1205 we find that John de Stanham held a free tenement here, and there was an assize of novel disseisin between Richard de Benges and himself as to this free tenement. By the time of Edward I, this free tenement had apparently developed into a manor. John de Stanham was succeeded by Robert Stonham, who married Katherine, daughter and coheir of Sir William Burgate, and died in 1397. The manor passed to his son and heir, Robert Stonham. A settlement was made of the manor in 1416, as we gather from the Feet of Fines this year. The fine was levied by this Robert Stonham and Mary his wife (daughter of Sir John and sister and coheir of Edmund Barnake), plaintiffs, against John Spenser and Katherine his wife deforciants, whereupon the said John and Katherine granted the manor to the said Robert and Mary and to the heirs of their bodies for ever, and in default after the decease of the said Robert and Mary to the heirs of the body of the said Robert for ever, and in default thereof to remain to Eleanor, wife of Robert Asshefield, sister of the said Robert Stonham, and to the heirs of her body for ever, and for default the said manor to remain wholly to the right heirs of the said Robert Stonham for ever. On the acknowledgment and fine the said Robert and Mary granted to the said John and Katherine 100 marks of silver. 3 On Robert Stonham's death the manor passed to his daughter and heir Elizabeth, married to John Broughton, who held the manor, then valued at 5 marks, of the Abbot of Bury by a service said to be unknown. He died 23rd July, 1489, when the manor passed in the same course as that of Denstons, in Risbridge Hundred to the time of John Broughton, who died in 1529.

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Cheney was trained in the law at Gray's Inn. He inherited his father's estates in Kent in 1558, and his mother's estates in Bedfordshire in 1562. He was elected knight of the shire (MP) for Kent from 1562 to 1567 and for Bedfordshire from 1572 until made Baron Cheney in May 1572. He was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire for 1565 and created Baron Cheney on 8 May 1572. He was one of the peers appointed to sit on the trial of Mary Queen of Scots^[1]. Henry Cheney was knighted at Toddington by Queen Elizabeth in 1563.

Marriage

Henry married^[1] Jane Wentworth from Nettlestead, Suffolk, England.

Now known as Sir Henry Cheney, 1st Baron Cheney (1540–1587) Henry was a Politician.

He was the ward for a few years of his Puritan uncle Sir Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford.

Death

He died September 1587 and was buried at Toddington on 3 September 1587. On his death, his title of 1st Baron Cheney became extinct as there was no male heir to pass it onto. His estates, however, were left to his widow, Jane (Wentworth) Cheney and she left the estates to her nephew Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Wikipedia contributors, "Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Wikipedia Entry (accessed January 10, 2024).
2. ↑ The Manors of Suffolk:
   The Manors of Suffolk : notes on their history and devolution by Copinger, Walter Arthur, 1847-1910 Manors of Suffolk accessed 10 January 2024